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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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Re: Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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dionian wrote: post #45
amelius wrote: post #44

> If the American press had given me 20 minutes of airtime I could have convinced everyone they don’t want to get involved with Greenland. We’re not tough enough as a people to survive in Greenland, much less “take it over”. Greenlandic people shrug off horrific injuries hundreds of kilometers from medical help with a smile. I watched a Greenlandic toddler munch meat from the spine of a seal with its head very much i…

The US has long since wanted to purchase Greenland, not "fight" them, for strategic reasons. I'm not sure why there is this fantasy that the US is going to fight the Greenland people? Honestly.

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Re: Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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Post by dathinab »

AreShoesFeet000 wrote: post #22

> If the American press had given me 20 minutes of airtime I could have convinced everyone they don’t want to get involved with Greenland. On one hand the author recognizes the scope of the “protocol wars” as a rational thing being irrelevant in the actually relevant time span. On the other hand, the author swears that they can bring rationality to a deeply emotional matter through discourse.

you are aware that he doesn't actually believe that he "[...] could have convinced [..]"

it's a manner of speech

a instrument of telling a story

a way to express how completely absurd "US getting involved into Greenland" is for anyone who understands the land (geography/weather) and people even unrelated to geopolitical aspects like alienating allies

Re: Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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Post by jfengel »

dionian wrote: post #45
amelius wrote: post #44

> If the American press had given me 20 minutes of airtime I could have convinced everyone they don’t want to get involved with Greenland. We’re not tough enough as a people to survive in Greenland, much less “take it over”. Greenlandic people shrug off horrific injuries hundreds of kilometers from medical help with a smile. I watched a Greenlandic toddler munch meat from the spine of a seal with its head very much i…

The US has long since wanted to purchase Greenland, not "fight" them, for strategic reasons. I'm not sure why there is this fantasy that the US is going to fight the Greenland people? Honestly.

“But we need it really for international, for world security, and I think we’re going to get it. One way or the other, we’re going to get it,”

-- Donald Trump, March 4, 2025

Re: Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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Post by jfengel »

amelius wrote: post #44

> If the American press had given me 20 minutes of airtime I could have convinced everyone they don’t want to get involved with Greenland. We’re not tough enough as a people to survive in Greenland, much less “take it over”. Greenlandic people shrug off horrific injuries hundreds of kilometers from medical help with a smile. I watched a Greenlandic toddler munch meat from the spine of a seal with its head very much i…

Like anyone is going to listen to anything for 20 minutes.

Re: Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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Post by idiotsecant »

darqis wrote: post #33

The Fediverse has one problem, concentration of users on few instances, mastodon.social being the largest. And cancel culture. Highly politically motivated cancel culture. What right do they believe to have to dictate to their users what the can and can't read? That should be solely in the user's hand. The irony of writing this in HN is ... whatever the right word is Also, fragmentation and visibility. It's neigh imp…

'cancel culture' is when you decline to federate content users don't want, I guess?

Re: Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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Post by buster »

dionian wrote: post #45
amelius wrote: post #44

> If the American press had given me 20 minutes of airtime I could have convinced everyone they don’t want to get involved with Greenland. We’re not tough enough as a people to survive in Greenland, much less “take it over”. Greenlandic people shrug off horrific injuries hundreds of kilometers from medical help with a smile. I watched a Greenlandic toddler munch meat from the spine of a seal with its head very much i…

The US has long since wanted to purchase Greenland, not "fight" them, for strategic reasons. I'm not sure why there is this fantasy that the US is going to fight the Greenland people? Honestly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyg1jg8xkmo

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/10/politics/us-will-take-gre...

Re: Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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Post by Finnucane »

darqis wrote: post #33

The Fediverse has one problem, concentration of users on few instances, mastodon.social being the largest. And cancel culture. Highly politically motivated cancel culture. What right do they believe to have to dictate to their users what the can and can't read? That should be solely in the user's hand. The irony of writing this in HN is ... whatever the right word is Also, fragmentation and visibility. It's neigh imp…

Instances often block users or other instances because their users have asked them to do that. They often have posted guidelines about what they will or won't allow. Users will hold them to it. Users can and do block other users on an individual basis. If a lot of people are blocking you, the problem might not be them.

Re: Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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Post by jfengel »

jonathanstrange wrote: post #24

This is nicely written but I found some of the views strange. The most disturbing one to me is that the author wants news from social media and claims they have troubles getting news (e.g. criticizing the Washington Post). Not only is it obviously problematic to attempt to get news from social media and everybody knows that, it's also very bold to insinuate that there is lack of access to news. Maybe US citizens get…

The wire services are the source of practically all news. There are vanishingly few other actual news-gathering organizations. (One fewer with the Washington Post deciding that they don't want to be one, either.)

That's the news. Everything else is repackaging.

The actual truth (or as close to it as can exist) has been out there and readily accessible this whole time. People choose to get it through pre-digested outlets instead, and then get outraged that everyone else is ignoring "the" truth.

Re: Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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Post by jfengel »

Synaesthesia wrote: post #37
nailer wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to know exactly how far the Iranians have gotten against the IGRC in the last 24 hours. I subscribe to WSJ but they don’t have that details. X and Reddit do, with some obvious caveats (I do find Community Notes on X very good though).

Iranians are not rebelling against the IRGC because why would they? Generally an outside attack makes the government more popular, not less.

They're not popular, but going outside in a flurry of missiles isn't good for your health. It's not like the US has coordinated with anyone on the ground to plan a revolt. They seem to have just imagined one will materialize.

They still don't love the regime but today they share a common enemy.

Re: Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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Post by grosswait »

DeathArrow wrote: post #6

Why would I be interested in random people's opinions on various things? I wasted a few minutes of my life reading this rant. It was a total loss. I haven't been entertained by it and I couldn't find anything useful in it. Just the ramblings of a bitter person with which the Internet is filled.

“So when Twitter was accidentally purchased by a fascist high on ketamine” was enough to predict the rest of
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