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Schildi Chat is probably the best client I have spotted, full voice and video chat functionality in browser. People do way less hemming and hawing about downloading an app if they’ve already been able to try it out in web - just like discord

that’s not a low amount for activitypub active users. there are thousands of these things

Was reading from this cute paper RAND just wrote about the possibility of US national renewal to my buddy on the phone last night it’s a real nice chaser to explaining the key reasons the USSR was crushed when it still had the potential to “muddy along” for years, which still held the possibility of a political and economic renewal. Like a lot of spooky writing it’s a smooth mix of valuable or pertinent information, blatant lies, and misrepresentation that borders on self parody and projection.

It does not in fact reckon with the reason the USSR and the British empire both fell apart, the damn United States lol

Folks I don’t think we’re getting real industrial policy. We’re getting more of the fourth reich. Easy bet I know

I think it’s cute that Ken Klippenstein has such a reaction to the statement that came out of the Iranians post Soleimani’s assassination, that the west has no heroes, only cartoon characters. He cannot help but compare the dead Iranian president to Wily [sic] Coyote. Of course they’re wrong, we have sports champions and movie stars as well. And when they die in a helicopter or car crash it is absolutely not like Wily [sic] Coyote, no matter their personal statements or beliefs.

In what way? I am trying to start a discussion both about why you believe this man’s death should be celebrated, the premises of what you think about the government in iran, and what the reality of a collapsing state looks like, what kind of world we would really live in if mccain’s dream of nuking iran were realized, the intersection of the president’s death with geopolitics, the western instrumentalization of orgs like HRW to go soft on israel and hard on targets we want to exploit & enclose or push out of competition, regional politics

you are free to step out and come back later but it’s clear you don’t want to talk about the differences between this guy, bin laden, and hitler. it’s actually far more interesting than “bad man die is good. me very smart no explain”

Sorry am I making up that you compared the Iranian President to Bin Laden AND Hitler, and said his death should be celebrated? Was that a dream? Are we going into conniptions?

Because internet commentators want to pass off their uninformed xenophobia as advocacy for democracy and the people of countries they despise and want to undermine the national interest of. For instance Ken Klippenstein referred to the Iranian President as an authoritarian dictator.

Because you started a discussion with other people and made unfounded claims, you should anticipate a response. You shouldn’t just misapply made up debate rules to act smug without backing up anything you said. This is assuming you’re interested in exchanging information with other people and learning. 🤠

You too. While you’re out there, don’t go implying people who aren’t cheering on an elected leader’s death are opposed to reform of the system that elected them, implicitly. Especially when that leader has done more than you ever will for Palestine.

See, and there you go acting cute about it. We all know what you’re implying in this discussion of the guy dying in a fireball. Get outta here

Why are you incapable of actually arguing about these points? Can you do anything other than this metatextual shit about how people are misreading you? How about actually discuss Iran or geopolitics?

and here you see the bailey of the motte and bailey strategy to defend regime change talking points. he’s no longer a leader he’s an “authoritarian dictator” a completely meaningless term which is only used to paint targets on the enemies of the west

you are just playing the good cop.

How’s the anti-terrorist operation in Donbas going, champ? Oh, half the Ukrainian army left to fight for the RuZZian terrorists?! Yikes, better call Lindsay Graham, Amy Klobuchar, John McCain, and Victoria Nuland, the real architects of the plan. I’m sure the West’s limitless arsenal and money will be able to support Ukraine against those dirty bydlo vatniks, heh heh. After all, haven’t you seen all those videos on reddit of their crazy shit falling apart? This is gonna be a piece of cake.

you didn’t even know this guy was elected, did you?

gotta make the phone less resilient to snapping for some fucking reason

I’m not super up to the minute on Iranian politics but this is not something to mindlessly celebrate because “dead billionaire lol” when Iran is in the midst of getting closer to Saudi Arabia and peeling them away from normalization with Israel in the process

he was a democratic strongman warlord

we’ve already been fed the “secret service agent’s gun just went off lol and they blamed a guy because lolz”-style explanation in “sanctions killed him the heli parts sucked lolz”

i totally understand that maybe limiting production of military helicopters but it seems kind of far fetched it would result in poor maintenance on the heli carrying state leaders 🤔

hitler and raeisi and bin laden are so different they would make good candidates for some kind of tripartite “types of loamy soil” diagram. you’re making a horrible analogy and you should feel bad