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  • It really doesn’t play out like that though.

    Blaming the voter base will never work, and just serves the interest of the right wing steer.

    You must hold the dems accountable, and primary them for sure.

    But both sides ARE terrible and the dems are highly complicit, it’s not about people ‘buying’ anything, it’s about not rewarding people who happily increase funding to ICE under the current scenario.

    You can’t expect fundamentally disenfranchised people to play in a game that’s rigged against good without inspiring them with hope.

    Look at Mamdani, there were no candidates in the 2024 election like that. Why? Simple… THERE WAS NO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.

    BLAME THE PARTY, who forced this upon us! They lost an easily winnable election, no-one else is half as culpable.


  • (Thanks for answering and bear in mind I forgot the context of me asking you to explain before replying so don’t take it too personally 😅)

    Except if you don’t prosecute them they get more bold and brazen. You can’t really be advocating for some of the worst criminals in history to face no accountability.

    Look what’s happening right now in the US, if Biden had properly held Trump accountable we wouldn’t be in this situation.

    Where was the peaceful transfer of power?

    Seems to me like you just want to excuse insurrection, fraud, pardoning of hundreds of violent criminals and rape of underage girls…

    It really doesn’t reduce polarisation, it emboldens the evil perpatrators and has a cooling effect on your support, as seen in the 2024 election.



  • Aye yeah that’s fair, in that case i’d recommend PeaZip, it’s what I use on my CachyOS setup since 7zip is just cli on Unix. PeaZip has a nice file manager UI.

    In terms of yt-dlp it really depends how you installed it…

    Assuming you’re in the folder where yt-dlp is:

    1. Make it executable

    chmod +x yt-dlp

    2. Run it directly from the current folder

    ./yt-dlp --version

    If that works, then the binary is fine and it’s just a PATH thing.

    I’d recommend just installing it through Homebrew personally, it will sort out the PATH for you automatically.

    install Homebrew if you don’t have it (from brew.sh)

    then:

    brew install yt-dlp

    yt-dlp --version

    Otherwise if you want to make the binary work (if you already have the file or want to download it manually)

    Open the folder in terminal and then

    move it somewhere on PATH

    sudo mv yt-dlp /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

    make sure it’s executable

    sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

    Now whichever way you choose, you should be able to just do:

    yt-dlp https://example.com/video --write-auto-subs

    Along with whatever other commands you want to use!


  • Idk bout ur whole argument of russian propaganda but

    “Y’all are too stupid to understand first past the post or the spoiler effect or the way the two party system means you have to vote for the lesser of two evils or you are explicitly condoning the greater evil.”

    Is both seemingly valid and entirely a crock of shit that will result in ratcheting towards fascism every single time.








  • Nah, distinguish yourself and I’ll give you grace.

    I literally only said that because after establishing that my first reaction to noticing an American is ‘fuck them’ but realised that doesn’t hold because there are plenty of good Americans.

    You guys are just way too willing to put up with evil nonsense despite being ‘free’ and you having legal guns?

    I’d be far more forgiving if every default American didn’t have the most rancid vibes. As they speak I can ease up if what comes out isn’t atrocious.

    I’m just describing that Americans are the pariah now I guess… You always treat other countries as fully responsible for their leaders despite you guys having far more claim of individual liberty and armory to brandish, but wishing we would treat you all as powerless?


  • Right but is that ‘horse shoe theory’ because it just sounds like there are multiple reasons to support things.

    Horse shoe theory is nonsense.

    I dislike NATO since its a US protection racket and I dislike EU because they’re forcing chat control and cowtowing to the US.

    I dont want the ‘west to fall’, I want to be free and sovereign from the US’ war machine.

    I don’t believe we’ll naturally rise above if things collapse, but I do believe we’ll be dead before too long if the US continues forward with its acts.

    Being pincered by Russia on the east and the US on the west is a pretty terrifying concept - if only China would save us.



  • Well technically Reddits API is open to third party clients, it just became prohibitively expensive around the exodus…

    Does the new ruling include provisions for where the API has been made functionally unusable? It definitely could, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they missed that.



  • That does sound like a decent idea, that way the content being mirrored would be only that that genuine users accessed.

    Perhaps immediately mirroring the content as the browser itself reads it, preventing additional requests that could be flagged.

    Only issues are:

    • some people don’t use reddit whatsover anymore
    • many people only browse reddit on mobile
    • a browser extension might require too much trust and involvement to generate much output considering the development involved.

    Though this does answer some issues and have some clear use cases.

    Cheers for the suggestion!



  • Koarnine@pawb.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.worldwe need more users
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    22 days ago

    Posted as a reply because this will certainly upset many but…

    On the instance wars:

    I constantly see nonsense about the horrors of the ‘.ML’ instance, and ‘hexbear’, primarily from ‘Lemmy.world’ users, but I have never once actually come across these horrors.

    Hexbear is just a troll instance, ala ‘cumtown’.

    To an outside observer, ‘.world’ users seem to be US propagandists intent on wrecking the platform. “Tankies this, cowbee that”, when I’ve never seen a cowbee post that wasn’t entirely reasonable.

    And the vast majority of ‘tankies’ are just people who criticise the US rightfully while not sharing the same breathe to criticize China. Ngl, fuck Russia, the US and Russia are the greatest evils. China is not anywhere near the same level. You can praise elements of a foreign state without being a ‘tankie’.

    It’s the same thought terminating cliche cult bullshit that all right wingers do. And it seems to come from Americans being upset their myopic views aren’t babied by people who literally specifically went to an instance to avoid them?

    Idk I’m not a user of any of the three, but I’ve only ever had an issue with lemmy.world users in the past, as a UK citizen who is far from a tankie.