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This is pretty mild compared to what the future holds if things remain unchanged. Billions haven't been displaced/killed yet.

Just wait til you see whatever they have planned for the West Bank. One thing at a time, after all.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was the whole idea. They don't want an EPA. It's going to take most of a century for climate change to really fuck shit up, and that's a long enough time that they don't care. If they even believe in it in the first place, and don't ascribe to more biblical interpretations anyway.

Colloquially, in English, "I can tell that..." directly translates to "I can discern/detect that...". An example would be in a game of poker, "I can tell that you're bluffing".

The ability or desire to communicate what you have become aware of is irrelevant.

Same. Every time I see someone complaining about the all feed I wonder if they came from 4chan's b board or something.

How many places on the internet expect you to regularly use some sort of all feed? 9gag maybe? Did people regularly use reddit's all feed, despite it being crammed full of garbage and vote farming? I think I used it for like 5 seconds when I first started there before I gave up in disgust and started picking communities intentionally.

Do you set up your newsreader with all of everything? You want all the sports, all the pop culture, all the tech, etc etc?

I just don't get it. All is always going to be garbage on every service just because the world is a big place, and that's fine.

Now, rant aside, I did actually find his idea of an all feed where local instance voting is all that gets counted kinda neat. I don't have any problems with that being an available option if someone wanted to work on it.

Other people being violent towards you does not make your actions violent. Also, there's actually been many general strikes that were not attacked by state forces at least. There have probably been hundreds of general strikes through history. They're common enough that they're not really covered in history classes past a sentence or two, if at all. It was actually a general strike that staved off the first coup against the German civilian govt post-WW1.

Organizing, I'm not sure.

A general strike (which is a peaceful method) beats martial law, not the other way around. Not easy to organize by any stretch, but historically effective.

Thank you for relating your personal experiences. I feel like a lot of people don't really have a good sense for how the authoritarian playbook works in the modern day.

If anyone wants a more professional analysis, Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a historian with a background in Italian fascism, and specializes in modern authoritarianism.

Whatever you decide, I wouldn't stress about it too much.

Part of the advantage of the Fediverse is that it does not have or benefit from any one moderation policy, but has many different moderation policies that can appeal to many different types of people.

Regarding this individual case, I would make sure you look at the context and spirit of that users actions. On one extreme, they could be throwing abuse at fellow users and being intentionally destructive in an unsuitable place.

On the other extreme, they could be participating in a shitpost community and speaking more sarcastically, just going for shock value.

There's a whole range between these two extremes. Where you end up drawing the line is entirely up to you and what sort of instance you want to run.

It's all just noise to distract from something else he doesn't want too much attention on. Probably the personnel shakeups.

It's like a pickpocket bumping into you in a crowd. He bumps into you and apologizes, something he planned to do the entire time. While he was distracting you with this, he stole your wallet.

Trump does this often, Steve Bannon calls the strategy "flooding the zone" if I remember right.

Just remember, if we lose then things get worse, so maybe don't execute before you've laid some proper groundwork. I'm sorry, but in real life, we don't always emerge victorious.