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TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Post by deaux »

gcanyon wrote: post #584
Jcampuzano2 wrote: post #574

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Theres a reason 99% of actions taken by democrats are just "strongly worded letters" and how they consistently come up with the exact small number of Democrats needed to push legislation and bills that the party proposes to be against. Most Democratic politicians are in on the game too. Its all just political theater and their in-group rotates out who gets to be the bad guys. Yes Democrats clean-up by not breaking no…

I think this take is on the cynical side. A more charitable interpretation would be what they say (but maybe I'm being naive): that they don't want to break the rules to fix what someone else broke by breaking the rules. I'm not sure what you mean by "they consistently come up with the exact small number of Democrats needed to push legislation and bills that the party proposes to be against" -- if you mean the Republ…

You're not just being naive, you're ignoring the blatant reality. 2016 DNC is enough evidence that yes, the core of the party is very much in on it.

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Post by deaux »

gcanyon wrote: post #542
iugtmkbdfil834 wrote: post #126

Allow me to offer some words of wisdom. If you help building weapons to be used against $currently_designated_bad_people, you can rest assured that given enough time, those weapons will be used against you. I am watching all this with a mild sense of bemusement.

The problem I was listening to a historian discuss the other day is that we're stuck in a cycle of: 1. Republican breaks norms/laws 2. Democrat cleans up after, but by *not* breaking norms, doesn't go far enough to actually undo all the damage 3. We end up with a more broken governmental configuration, and head back to (1) They said this pattern goes back to Nixon.

One willing to break the norms and campaigning on this in Trump-like weasel words would landslide the next election. Not a chance in hell that'd be allowed to happen though, as big tech, the DNC, and the rest of the capital class would put a stop to their platform long before.

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Post by honzabe »

I-M-S wrote: post #796
TheAlchemist wrote: post #786

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I'm contemplating it, but I'm not that old yet ! Of course there was always a bit, sometimes a lot, of propaganda everywhere. But at least it was (mostly) for the right causes and ideals. Right now, US is being governed by what I see as the worst possible people, with 0 morals.

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> The story of the United States is one of genocide, racism, imperialism, and oppression of the working class.

I do not think it is. The story of the US contains all those things. And just as the story of the US contains Abu Ghraib, it also contains functioning courts sending Abu Ghraib perpetrators to jail. You can call it the permanent struggle between good and evil. There is no country in the world without evil. But there is a difference between evil being present and evil dominating. When functioning courts are dismantled, the perpetrators rewarded, you are forbidden to even talk about it, and there is no recourse left, it will be different. People who have not lived through a totalitarian regime sometimes miss that distinction. I also grew up in a communist Czechoslovakia, and I did not idolize the US because I was blind to the bad parts. I idolized it because you had evil, but not evil fully controlling the game. Even now, you can still simply move out of the US. Sure, there might be some bureaucratic hurdles, but you can fly away on a plane - your only way out is not to try to crawl under barbed wire and risk getting shot.

I will be honest - when people say something like “it’s all the same, Russia, the US, all are bad”, I think to myself... óóóh, you have no idea what you are talking about. Unfortunately, the current US is going in that direction, so you might find out. Not that I wish that on anyone.

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Post by arw0n »

jamwil wrote: post #761
direwolf20 wrote: post #758

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On all matters reality decides which is which. None of us have a psychic link to God (anyone who thinks he does, does not, and should be institutionalised), but there are many good heuristics for what is true, and we do not have to abandon the concept of truth.

I think we agree but those heuristics… That is the scientific method. That’s all we got.

That's a bit reductive I think, there's at least deductive reasoning (mathematics, logics, analytics), hermeneutics (understanding meaning in human communication), and phenomenology (understanding human experience through first person accounts). If we want to do a study on the impact of compliments by strangers on self-worth, a combination of all of these techniques of knowledge generation would be needed.

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seanieb wrote: post #43

Anecdotal: uploading a video of original songs with political/protest lyrics will have random background noises added to the audio track, making the songs audio seem amateurish. Edit: here’s a link to an example https://bsky.app/profile/seaniebyrne.bsky.social/post/3mby7j...

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Post by SilverBirch »

imgabe wrote: post #831
SilverBirch wrote: post #336

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No, they also access information through Facebook owned by Trump ally Zuckerberg, X owned by Trump doner and DOGE former official Musk, or via media organisations like CBS who have recently had their editorial standards changed to be more friendly to the regime. It's fine though people can here about the regime through neutral pundits like Jimmy Kimmel, who definitely hasn't come under any pressure to comply with the…

100,000 protestors and not a single one can upload a video to a CDN and throw up a static page with an HTML5 player? Sucks to suck, I guess.

A CDN, a static HTML5 player and a very good lawyer for when the DOJ comes knocking, like they did with Hannah Natanson, Jacob Frey and Tim Walz.

You'd do that I guess, right, if you saw something happening you thought was bad - you'd run straight into a legal fight that could bankrupt you? Nah, you're a tough guy on the internet! Nothing scares you!

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Post by aa-jv »

elbci wrote: post #754
TheAlchemist wrote: post #695

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As a fellow Eastern European of similar age, I suddenly feel quite nostalgic. I really wonder how my life would be different if someone told be that the US, which for me was as close to a paradise as it gets, will go down the same road in the future - I think it would shatter quite a lot of my dreams of a better life. US is nowhere near as bad as it was on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, but it's on a fast track…

maybe it's not too late to find out that US was always like this and the fairy tale our parents listened on CIA's RadioFreeEurope was just - a fairy tale for gullible grown-ups ;)

All you had to do to see this for yourself was look under a bridge in any major American city.

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Post by aa-jv »

IIAOPSW wrote: post #439
js8 wrote: post #133

When I was 11, on 17th Nov 1989, in Czechoslovakia, my father was watching the evening news on our (black and white) TV, as usual. There was a protest and the state media was reporting on it. When the reporter said, "our camera broke down and we can only show black and white pictures", my father IMMEDIATELY jumped up and angrily said, "that's bs, you don't want to show how they [the protesting students] got beaten up…

Dare I say, the Revolution will not be Televised.

The revolution has been tokenized.

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Post by tomhow »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #906
tomhow wrote: post #893

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Please don't comment like this here. HN is for curious conversation, not this kind belligerence. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Is the issue that I said he knew it was bullshit? Or is there a substantial issue with what the Twitter files were?

The guidelines apply regardless of the topic or side, and our role is to uphold the guidelines, nothing more. We don't care (and often don't even know) what side or position you're arguing for. It's irrelevant, and we just don't even have time to get into it.

The paragraph ”You can repeat that all you like. Wikipedia is bullshit on that and you know it.” is plainly not consistent with curious conversation.

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Post by direwolf20 »

lovich wrote: post #855
goatlover wrote: post #573

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There's going to be a lot of pressure on Democrats from their base to hold people accountable for what happens during Trump's 2nd term. And there is going to be some new blood that runs on that. You have state governors like Newsom, Pritizker and Waltz documenting abuses with future accountability in mind. What baffles me is how conservatives supporting the current government overreach aren't worried about the coming…

They’re ruling like they don’t think they’ll ever be out of power again, which is why people are scared about future elections being fair and free

They've also shown plans to sabotage or cancel the next two major elections.
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