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I'm not 100% off Reddit, I still venture over there for my WarHammer faction updates. But holy shit, I dipped my toe outside that circle recently and it's a cesspool of anger.

Can confirm. I was able to replicate the behavior. Cheers

What reason would there be to enable notifications?

Weird, my Pixel 6a currently doesn't have a persistent notification when I use Proton. Is this a GrapheneOS thing? Just curious.

Same as in 5e, so it makes sense.

It depends on if I want the higher speeds or if I'm in a part of my house that doesn't have perfect coverage (and suspect speeds as well)

Strangely enough, all of my devices lack an ethernet port so I have a few USB to Ethernet adapters around my house.

It depends. I do it from time to time whenever my internet connection is faster than my mobile data or I want to avoid hitting my data limit needlessly when I have a cord already in the room.

Lmao, I'm a public servant and a developer. I make that choice every year.

Absolutely not.

True, but to my limited recollection it's the right losing their minds more frequently. See Gamergate .

To be fair, Apple Watches work the same way too, right?

When I was in the Apple camp Apple Care just replaced the watch over fixing the component. I may be wrong however. Dear reader, please correct me.

And I totally agree. Like, for example Jon Stewart has military-industrial complex folk on his show all the time. I won't call him a war hawk or a war profiteer, or whatever. The difference is he also pushes back pretty hard on his guests as well. However, if Jon Stewart were to have supremacist after supremacist appear on his show, not address their stances, and say "They make really good stuff you should check them out" it will start to get suspicious.

Once you start listening to the content of his show he does the lovely "I'm not racist/anti-semetic, but [insert some of the most racist shit you've ever heard]" or frames his narratives around white christendom needing to be perpetually in fear and how the white empire is under attack. His shtick around the "globalist" is a just a rehash of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion with a modern coat of paint. Heck, in less savory circles of the internet "globalists" is often surrounded by three parentheticals and is short-hand for Jewish people, and Jones doesn't seem to care about the similarity. He'll use points from Race Realism or Great Replacement. Jones won't say he's a supremacist, because that gives up the game and he'd rather operate by winking-and-nodding, however he has no issue platforming them and aping their talking points at an extremely high clip. Like, I could lay out a list of his guests, but that seems really tedious for the both of us — but I could if you want. Now, I'm no mind reader, so I can't say with 100% certainty that he is one or not, but he operates not too indifferently from one. He advances their narratives and pushes them to his audience.

I've listened to hundreds of hours of this weird dude over the years, and I hate to say this because it comes off as "just trust me bro," but between the viral moments of the show the day-in-and-day-out is this pretty boring broadcast where uncharismatic anti-semites, racists, or sumpremacists toe the line of saying dogwhistles over what their positions are in other spaces (like their books, weird blogs, or organisations they're a member of) just long enough to get through the interview. And only if they step over that line Jones gently pushes back as reminder of "please don't say the quiet part loud here" but never directly condemns their position.

And, look, we may disagree and that's fine. I'm comfortable in the thought we won't change each other's minds.

There's no need to be condescending

No, from what understand about Joe's brand is he platforms unpopular ideas. He let's them say their thing and goes on. It can include supremacists, and pseudoscientist. Or fun guests people want to hear from. I say, let him do his thing. Like you, and other people said in the comments section have said, most of these people hang themselves on their own statments. But there's a worry in the back of my head of pushing traffic towards these people -- that's here nor there in our discussion. I took umbridge with the statement that supremacists don't appear on Joe's which Alex is one.

Jones even had David Duke appear on his show. He had a pretty groveling debate with him, but you can look into that if you want. He repetitively has supremacist guests on show -- I don't know what to tell you. It's pretty slanted.

He's had both of them on his show, and didn't push back on either of them.

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And you're right, not every conspiracist is a supremacist, but Jones had supremacists on regularly throughout his career and didn't address their position.