glad i got off of windows 10 before windows got worse. now i’m just sitting here laughing but also disappointed that people have to put up with let alone use this shit because it’s the mainstream os
Remember the statements the IDF and Israeli media put out when the Al-Ahli hospital was bombed? first they said it was a Hamas rocket, and after that was debunked they say that the hospital was a Hamas base/bunker, without providing any evidence.
Sure sounds like propaganda, conspiracy theories and one-sided reporting to me.
USA sends on average 3.8 billion a year in aid to Israel. Israel also has a lobbying system in the US to skew public opinion in favor of Israel (the most prominent groups are CUFI and AIPAC), where in certain divisions, Mossad bots spew Israeli propaganda on fake accounts (much like the Kremlin bots).
The government always touts Israel as “our best ally”. Not to mention that USA always has unequivocal support to Israel, even if they might criticise them for a couple things. Funny how they support the oppressed while also supporting the aggressor.
If you take a look at Israeli and Russian media, you’ll find out that they pretty use the same methods of propaganda (and sure some things are different, but the general census is the same).
Dehumanizing the enemy, and lumping all of its people together, meanwhile trying to justify their actions with the victim approach. “oh please help i’m getting attacked, i have done nothing wrong, those guys over there are terrorists/nazis, we’re only liberating it from the horrible terrorists/nazis who keep bombing this place! we’re doing this for peace!”
Also, why do you think the “terrorists” are doing this? Surely it wouldn’t be because of the illegal occupation of Palestine that Israel has been doing since 1948, with the Nakba (where various militant groups such as Irgun and Lehi did a massacre on Palestinian people, the looting of Palestinian homes, and evasion tactics such as planting trees to hide the fact that this was once Palestinian land being a huge part of it). IDF also play a major role in the occupation, as they very much want their presence known.
IDF raid houses for the purpose of taking picture of all the family members in the house to use as data for BlueWolf (which is basically a profile of Palestinians so that Israel’s surveillance cameras can easily recognize their faces). They can also do a “house search” where they knock everything over and then come up empty-handed because they don’t know what they’re searching for. They can also use the house that they just raided as a sort of military base.
Their most recent crime is the killing of a journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. They then lied through their teeth while Israeli bots posted misinformation say that “the terrorists fired on her”, which was quickly debunked. They call that a “PR blitz”. Also, for them, bombing hospitals (such as the al-Shifa hospital), schools, media towers (Al-Jalaa building being one example), apartment buildings (such as Hamadi tower), and if that isn’t enough, the al-Shati refugee camp is known as “mowing the lawn”.
So of course the Palestinians have every right to fight back, just like the Ukrainians do. I don’t agree with every method (just as i don’t agree with every method the Ukrainians use),. That being said, they are being occupied by a country who’s raiding and demolishing homes, doing random assassinations, and to top it all off, throwing tear gas into mosques and hospitals because that’s what the most moral army in the world does. No surprise that they fight back. They aren’t just going to surrender their land to the occupiers.
One side that’s literally bombing hospitals and media towers, storming into mosques and hospitals to throw tear gas at people, and invading people’s home so they can either do a “search” where they leave the house in disarray, or wake up all the family members at 12am to photograph them using an app called BlueWolf (it basically puts the Palestinians into a database where IDF/Police can scrutinise them), and assassinate random people on the street, as well as the dozens of cameras and microphones on surveillance poles, watch towers, and illegally installed on some people’s roofs for good measure. They also killed a journalist (Shireen Abu Akleh), and the Israeli propaganda machine instantly went into overdrive, trying to say that it was Hamas, but was quickly debunked. (he war criminals didn’t get shit because it’s Israel).
A whole army that’s designed to intimidate and dehumanise another group, with the ideology that the Palestinians are sub-humans/terrorists, which is propagated by Israeli media, which Russia is now using that formula in their propaganda to report on the war in Ukraine, yeah that definitely sounds “complicated”.
One of the factors in making your view on Ukraine different is that Russia doesn’t have a lobbying system like Israel does. Israel has a huge lobbying system (mostly in the USA but there’s also ones in Canada) where they basically spew out Israeli propaganda and control the media to influence public opinion to have a positive view on Israel. They even have war rooms where Mossad bots on fake accounts endlessly spew Israeli talking points, much like the Kremlin bots. Russia wishes they could have a lobbying system like that.
To see the propaganda for yourself, just compare when Israel gets striked by Hamas rockets and the media (especially Israeli media) is blaring the red alarm, to Russian media reporting on Ukrainian drone strikes in Russia. You’ll find out that they basically use the same format. Over-exaggerate the bad guys, call everyone who’s in that country a catch-all term, and have the country who’s attacked seem like they have done absolutely nothing wrong to deserve this, they’re always a victim.
I do support the Ukrainian people. Just putting that out there. I think both the invasion of Ukraine and occupation of Palestine is illegal. Are there shades of gray? There are, but only focusing on that stuff distracts you from the bigger picture.
Having double standards like this isn’t okay. You say you’re all for justice but then one conflict comes up where it couldn’t be any clearer on who the aggressor is, but because of Israeli propaganda influencing the media, it’s just too complicated to wrap your head around.
yeah i wonder as well. always a russian missile until people take a look at it and it’s radio silence from there lol.
funny how russia always gets clowned on for their false flags (they’re laughably bad anyways) but when ukraine does it (and a decent job at one too) the ukraine supporters always do whataboutism.
always at strangely convenient times too.
i’m all for support for ukraine (it’s people anyways). going to the equivalent of a vatnik doesn’t help anyone.
Going with your example here, try to highlight Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, and how there’s lobbies for Israel that are basically worldwide (it’s most prevalent in USA, AIPAC and CUFI being the big 2) spreading Pro-Israel propaganda. Israel’s propaganda machine also has bot farms (called war rooms) distributing propaganda just like the Kremlin bots.
Try pointing all of that out, then see what happens then in the very country that touts its freedom of speech. (Hint: You get put on a list and you’re smeared so bad your job is in jeopardy).
I suggest you read up on this, it’s interesting. Here’s a link for some reading.
Generally, pointing something out that a state doesn’t want to be pointed out will involve the state cracking down on you, it’s just state policy. Shouldn’t be but it is. I support all dissidence.
This being said, have you tried doing what I said? Answer me clearly. Go to Red Square, protest against the occupation of Ukraine.
Well in Russia’s case, they just arrest everyone and put them in jail for 5-15 years and make up laws saying that you can’t criticise the army/government or protest. So people stop protesting because they don’t want to go to the shithole that is Russian jail, or even worse like in one case with a schoolgirl doing a non-approved drawing, the father being subject to CIA torture methods (i recall one of them he had the russian anthem blasted at him at ear-damaging volume, which is what the CIA done in Guantanamo bay).
Also, the elections are rigged in Russia (just so you know that information).
Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview on Tuesday, without citing evidence, that Western powers had installed Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is of Jewish heritage, as president of Ukraine to cover up the glorification of Nazism....
I heard in the campaign for the COD MW (2019), the devs put the Highway of Death in the game (which is an American war crime) but in the story they depicted it as something Russia did. This obviously sparked some outrage, as people read this as the game dismissing American war crimes.
Seems pretty deceptive to me.
If there’s other games (and maybe some probably much to the equivalent of America’s Army to Russia) that water down Russian war crimes, then that’s just as deceptive.
I think all propaganda is equally bad. Putting certain ones on pedestals because “At least it isn’t XYZ” doesn’t jive with me, and it distracts from the real issue.
Yeah I think they do that for movies as well. If directors want the real thing (because who doesn’t like practical effects and having the real thing in shot?), they’ll have to contact the DoD.
The DoD reviews the script for the movie, and they just water it down to absolute propaganda (they even say it out loud, they don’t hide it). US is always good, enemy always bad, US wins and saves the day. If there’s any criticism of the army, it’s usually brief and with a very weak point.
Full Metal Jacket isn’t approved by the DoD. Says everything you need to know about the, imo.
And when they laid off their QA team with the testing lab of thousands of unique computers, they replaced it with VMs and AI. Because VMs are a totally good way to troubleshoot very specific bugs. The AI part is used to supposedly figure out when you’re “idle” so what Windows can update.
US when Russia invades Ukraine: They got invaded, we’re sending weapons! Fuck off, Russia, we ain’t negotiating with an invader. We’re helping Ukraine get their land back.
US when Israel’s occupying Palestine: We need to negotiate this with peace. Sure, Israel occupies the land, but it’s to prevent terrorism! Don’t you see the the rockets that are sent into Israel? Think of the civilians in Israel who are being killed by Hamas rockets. We need to de-militarise before we can bring peace.
The suits at Washington speaking on anything dealing with Israel seem very similar to the likes of Russian propaganda being spewed about on RT. Just replace Donbass with Israel, and Azov and Banderites with Hamas and Palestinians. Aside from a few talking points, i just get that vibe.
Before anyone goes all keyboard warrior, I think the invasion of Ukraine and occupation of Palestine are both illegal and unjustified.
True I fucking hate how the US wants to be buddy buddy with us when they’re actually fucking us over. I mean we have some of their worst traits here (especially one of them being the lobbying of a certain US “ally” influencing public opinion on it so that it’s always seen as a good guy and a victim).
I just wish we could get rid of all of that and just let us be us.
back in the day i used to play cracked left 4 dead online using garena (it was basically a game server software where users could join rooms and they would have servers. i mostly remember there being south americans/slavic people on there. was quite interesting. afaik it would use steam group servers to connect (which may could be a lan type thing but idk).
idk how it works now but i’d imagine it would be tougher now with current games acting more like a live service. if you get bored of playing with slavs every time then it’s time to buy the game.
2 wrongs don’t make a right. This will only end up with more duds scattered across the land.
They’re free to use them but they’ll have to clean up quickly and efficiently, and even then I think there will still be the odd dud. I’m sure civilians will be thankful that there’s an eye for an eye.
Those polls you got your source from are actually polls done by state-run polling facilities. of course poeple are going to say what the state wants to hear. here’s a video on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQCNjIHeqU
Btw, by saying that “80% of Russians support this war”, you’re spreading Russian state propaganda.
And of course protests in Russia died down, people get jailed for like 10-15 years in prison if they protest, so by fear of getting jailed, protestors stop. it isn’t pretty but it’s how the system works.
He’s parroting Russian state-led polls, which many people in Russia either just hang up because they just don’t want to answer, or say what the state wants to hear. You can see how lopsided this becomes, with many people just saying yes because they don’t want to be jailed for opposing the government. Even if some people do have the guts to say no, the votes saying yes will overshadow them massively.
And ironically by that guy spreading that poll and notion around, he’s spreading Russian propaganda.
ye first time i heard about brave was in a sponsor segment on a youtube video, my first thoughts were “lol another chromium browser? rewards? bar? ok this seems shady as hell” and sure enough it is indeed shady af. the Tor mode had DNS leaks way back (besides who in their right mind would even use tor in a chromium browser), URL injections, brave not giving out BAT, also them spam mailing Brave pamphlets to customers (physical mail too, it was through i think UPS, which idk if that’s technically considered a privacy violation, but to me, mailing someone a pamphlet out of the blue when you use their browser without your consent is quite literally a privacy violation, no matter where you got the data from or how you mailed it).
been gladly using firefox ever since version 3, best browser of all time.
singlelogin.me and all custom URL seem to be taken down by the FBI. I haven’t read anything about the new bust, but also not anything about new URLs or anything like that. Does anyone have any information?
Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself (www.theverge.com)
This is why we need to fight for Ad-blocks harder than ever.
reuters.com/…/graphic-pro-israel-ads-make-their-w…...
Israeli Targets Journalists, Kills their Families as Big Tech and Biden Admin Silence Palestinians (thegrayzone.com)
Cigarette Burns, Beatings, Attempted Sexual Assault: Settlers and Soldiers Abused Palestinians (www.haaretz.com)
Middle East Eye article covering the same event...
Western sponsored Israeli regime announces ‘total’ blockade on Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
Israel-Palestine escalation live: Strikes hit Gaza after Hamas offensive (www.aljazeera.com)
'Gay furry hackers' claim second NATO cyber-break-in (www.theregister.com)
Russia-Ukraine war: at least 51 people killed in Russian strike on village food shop (www.theguardian.com)
Five years after killing a journalist in cold blood, Saudi Arabia is stronger than ever (www.theguardian.com)
To Train Ukrainian Troops, the Danish Military Had To Borrow Leopard 1 Tanks From Three Museums (www.forbes.com)
The US-led Military Buildup in Australia Is Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before (www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au)
Putin: West put ethnic Jew to rule in Ukraine to 'cover glorification of Nazism' (www.unionleader.com)
Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview on Tuesday, without citing evidence, that Western powers had installed Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is of Jewish heritage, as president of Ukraine to cover up the glorification of Nazism....
Sources reveal Israeli shipments to Myanmar military after coup (www.frontiermyanmar.net)
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Demanding selfie to unsibscribe (lemm.ee)
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Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc (arstechnica.com)
UK ‘seeking to block ICJ ruling’ on Israeli occupation of Palestine (www.theguardian.com)
Australia is becoming America’s military launch-pad into Asia. Are Australian voters ready for the costs of great-power rivalry in the Indo-Pacific? (www.economist.com)
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Russian soldier admits proudly his comrades were killing POWs (euromaidanpress.com)
Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans (www.newsweek.com)
Petition: restoration of access to Z-Library and the cessation of illegal criminal prosecution @ change.org (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Possibly really dumb question: can you do multiplayer on pirated games?
My buddy wants to play Baldur’s Gate 3 but I don’t feel like paying for it.
Ukraine: The Latest - Kyiv deploys cluster munitions "to great effect" (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Russia halts wartime deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain. It’s a blow to global food security (apnews.com)
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)
Anna’s Archive (annas-archive.org)
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Z Library down again - gone for good?
singlelogin.me and all custom URL seem to be taken down by the FBI. I haven’t read anything about the new bust, but also not anything about new URLs or anything like that. Does anyone have any information?