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ManyRoads

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opa, professional genealogist, avid reader, technologist (Linux), historian... banner image from chatGPT
"Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere." ~ Elie Wiesel

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@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

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It's utterly absurd to imply I'm advocating for violence given the sheer amount of time I spend making sure I'm precisely NOT doing that.

What I'm talking about is a popular uprising consisting of enough people to shut down the accumulation of capital and the function of governance. And because I'm not here to lie to my people, I'm warning them that when we do that, the state WILL start shooting, and we'd better have a plan for that.

That is not as of yet, illegal.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites People who don't follow the law (like the admin) don't need the law. They act as they wish, regardless of law.

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Davriellelouna Luckily POTUS left quickly to go start a new war...

@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange avatar kevinrothrock , to random

even with godly powers, it would be hard to manufacture more evidence of Western double standards than Israel and Russia have supplied in the last couple of years

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@kevinrothrock Lucky everyone is deaf...

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

We saw the storm brewing a mile away.

A tweet from Side-Eye Pinkie Pie Read Pr... (@NYPoliticalMom ) reads: "YES. I read Project 2025." It quotes a tweet from Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated ) posted 1 day ago: "Be honest. Did you expect the U.S. to become an authoritarian state this quickly?" The profile image for Side-Eye Pinkie Pie shows a person with red hair holding a tumbler, and Claude Taylor's profile image shows a person with glasses.
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@georgetakei and for those naive children out there... you ain't seen nothing yet. I'd say pay attention next time... but there's a decent likelihood there will be no next time for this country.

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The only consistent thing about the right is projection.
If they accuse someone of it, they’re doing it.
If they say it’s you, it’s them.
If they fear it, they’re planning it.

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@Daojoan Here's a picture of the type of people the right fears...

https://mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum/114321812747066631

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Tonight's book makes me want to vomit. But I think, especially today when Nazis seem to be taking power in the US (have taken power), it's important.

bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

Cover of The Nazis Next Door: How America Became A Safe Haven For Hitler's Men by Eric Lichtblau. Cover has a picture of a man in Nazi uniform in black and white. Title is in red.
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@CindySue bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group Why, these are the President and his cabinet. People here elected these monsters.

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Remarkable... duh....

"Silicon Valley's gamble on Trump isn't paying off
Tech stocks have tumbled since Trump took office. More about the mindset that led much of the Valley to support him in the first place."

https://www.natesilver.net/p/silicon-valleys-gamble-on-trump-isnt

@itsfoss@mastodon.social avatar itsfoss , to random

Seven Linux terminals that are from the future.

https://itsfoss.com/modern-linux-terminals/

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@itsfoss I still like st....

@indivisibleteam@mastodon.social avatar indivisibleteam , to random

Fascists want normal people to feel alone. They want us all to feel at their mercy. But what Hands Off! demonstrated is that we are not mere victims of political events. Democracy is a participatory sport, and we are active participants.

video/mp4

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@indivisibleteam May I suggest the following to those interested?

https://eirenicon.org/peaceful-to-perilous/

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

"Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs."

Screenshot of Samuel L Jackson playing Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction staring into the camera with a mix of confusion and anger. The screen caption says "stares mutherfuckerly."
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@AnarchoNinaWrites The tariffs must be giving owies to their wallets...

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

the conservative mind is a fortress. impenetrable. beautiful. inside it, a lone man screams at a genderless microwave for 8 hours straight because it won’t salute the flag

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@Daojoan As a conservative person (not one to be confused with any manner of MAGA fascist) I think the characterization is unfair... But then like the flag, has stolen the moniker and redefined what conservative once meant which was to preserve values, the constitution and person freedomsand like everything the crowd touches they turn it to sh1t.

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The only people worse than Trump are his lackeys and apologists.

Tweet by Arieh Kovler mocking reactions to Trump's tariff plans. It summarizes Trump openly supporting massive tariffs, Harris warning they’ll harm the economy, and Bill Ackman later claiming no one could have foreseen them. Included is Ackman’s tweet expressing disappointment and calling the tariffs unforeseeable.
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@georgetakei Ackman = Oligarch = Liar = Self-serving

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

If your definition of “freedom” includes letting Nazis say slurs but not letting teachers say “welcome” we have fundamentally different dictionaries

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@Daojoan Arguing over words that already have definition in a language, one that is clear, distinct and understood, only serves to focus on redefinition. Bending/ redefining words to their advantage is the work of all good fascists. Rather, focus on the wrong. Engaging with Fascists in discussion is to acknowledge their argument and promote their cause.

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NYT - The DoJ prosecutor who questioned the Trump administration’s decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador is now on indefinite paid leave for a “failure to zealously advocate” for the department. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/justice-dept-immigration-lawyer-leave.html?smid=url-share

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@w7voa Why should an attorney plead in favor of law??? Really how un-Republican of them.

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"Trump Text Fiasco Suddenly Worsens as MAGA Knives Come Out for
As Trump allies begin turning on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid the darkening war-text scandal, Jennifer Rubin of The Contrarian explains why this will grow politically untenable for and the ."

#NationalSecurity

https://newrepublic.com/article/193359/trump-text-fiasco-suddenly-worsens-maga-knives-come-hegseth

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Pete may be gay, but he’s a straight talker.

A tweet from a user named Annie (@AnnieForTruth) reads, "Sad but true. 😢" and includes an image of Pete Buttigieg speaking at a podium. The image has a quote attributed to him that states: "Today, our country is demonstrably less free, less secure, less democratic — and less prosperous — than it was just ten weeks ago."
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@georgetakei Pete loves HIS family. Can Trump say the same? 'nuff said.

@ManyRoads@mstdn.social avatar ManyRoads , to random

Just in case those opposed to Trump think there have been in the US... here's an image of what tiny Serbia is able to do. Compare that today's and yesterday's paltry efforts in the US. Serbia today has had over 100,000- the US several thousand.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/15/mass-protest-in-belgrade-against-president-vucics-government

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Get out your violins... the littlest ones

"DOGE chief Elon Musk says he’s running businesses ‘with great difficulty’ as Tesla shares tank"

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/10/musk-tesla-doge-stock-market.html

@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , (edited ) to random

We’re not going to get out of this simply by voting with our wallets, but still, we might at least try and hurt the fuckers in the only place they feel any pain…

https://www.buy-european-made.eu

(And don’t get me started on “European Values”. No, we don’t get a gold star while letting refugees drown off our coasts and being complicit in the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. We’re just not fully fascist yet and might just avoid it… maybe. It’s a pretty fucking low bar.)

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@aral Sad but true... the AfD, Law & Justice, Fico, Orban, LePen, Farage... among dozens of others. The world is under threat. Send this around to any who want to see how this played out in earlier years. Oh and welcome to Peace in our time... 24 Sept 1938...

https://www.many-roads.com/help/fascism-nazism-and-neo-nazism/

@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange avatar kevinrothrock , to random

Trump declares that Zelensky is “not ready for peace,” accuses him of trying to prolong the war using U.S. leverage, and says he’s not welcome back at the White House “until he’s ready for peace.”

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@kevinrothrock Quite the negotiator and deal maker the orange boy is...

@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange avatar kevinrothrock , to random

Same as it ever was.

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@kevinrothrock It means you're fV(ked It means Donald Neville Chamberlain Trump has a plan... and if you think that's...

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social avatar ErikJonker , to geopolitics group

If true , truly a big scandal and an illustration what the USA has become...
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Message that Zelensky was asked to sign an agreement for 50% of his mineral reserves
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@ErikJonker geopolitics@a.gup.pe icon geopolitics group People the world over just need to recognize what a pariah Trump and his government are. The US is going to need to take a beating on the world stage. The sooner the better...

FWIW this is an old US Constitutionalist speaking. The nation has already flushed that away. So I'm just old.

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Kaja Kallas said earlier today that Europe will support Ukrainian “resistance” to a U.S.-Russian peace deal that doesn’t satisfy Brussels or Kyiv. To my knowledge, Trump has never even publicly acknowledged Kallas’s existence, so I wonder how he views this kind of rhetoric.

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@kevinrothrock You go girl!!!!

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@kevinrothrock I'm glad I left..

@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com avatar lilithsaintcrow , to random

"When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure."
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/billionaires-should-not-exist

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@lilithsaintcrow Sadly, life is NOT fair. There is no way to make it fair. Ask the food chain.

I agree it is unfortunate the super wealthy have too much power, influence. But it has always been so. Who wielded power in Egypt, Assyria, Rome? The rich, the politically influential, the elite. That remains.

As for the contribution to society by the rich, they should contribute more in every way, even in taxes. But based on the last election, it looks like my opinion is in the minority.

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@JessTheUnstill @elCelio @lilithsaintcrow Sadly it is not likely during the next 4 years... things will probably go in the other direction

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@elCelio @JessTheUnstill @lilithsaintcrow US anti-trust has been on a rocky road since the mid 1800s. This is yet another bump in the road. The biggest shift toward reasonableness was, to my mind, right after the great depression. It began rolling back after the early 1950s. It's pretty bad again (okay it's awful).

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@JessTheUnstill @elCelio @lilithsaintcrow I'm of mixed opinion on whether the key problem is wealth accumulation or unfair taxation or growth of monopolies or environmenal destruction or war. Somethings are broken more than others, I'm certain. I just don't what's worst.

Nonetheless I doubt much of it is going to be fixed anywhere in the near term.

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Ancient humans ate a wide variety of plants, study shows, debunking the efficacy of the paleo diet. @ScienceAlert has more:

https://flip.it/E9G7I7

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@ScienceDesk @ScienceAlert Oh NO! People lied!?!? In this world of truth and honor, how could that be?!?!

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As bird flu concerns grow, scientists race to develop new vaccines.

From NBC News: "The [U.S.] Department of Health and Human Services on Friday awarded $590 million in funding to Moderna in part to fast-track the development of an mRNA bird flu vaccine."

https://flip.it/-SKIuf

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@ScienceDesk Too bad the Trump admin will not bother making them available...

@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange avatar kevinrothrock , to random

I know Substack has generated some toxicity among the WOKE MOB, so I thought I’d ask you, dear readers: What are Enlightened Newsletter Writers using these days to fill people’s spam folders with secret knowledge and insights?

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@kevinrothrock I guess people need to just keep speaking out in whatever way they are able/ comfortable until "the Reich" comes to take us away....which they will.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

So based on pirated football streams, it would appear that the winger/fascist propaganda line on the California fires is "climate change isn't the problem, those people shouldn't have been living there because it catches on fire spontaneously."

No, really...

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@AnarchoNinaWrites So I wonder why it is fascists never spontaneously combust???

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The change has been drastic. 🥹

In the photo for “Me starting to use Linux with Ubuntu”, the person in seen happy. In the photo for “Me 3 years later with Arch Linux”, the person looks dead inside.
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@itsfoss Imagine how much worse you would look if you were still using *buntu, Windows or Apple. 😜

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404 - “The complete failure of Meta’s AI profiles shows what we already know: People do not come to social networks to interact with bots, but Meta is obsessed with algorithmically shoving such content down people’s throats regardless.” https://www.404media.co/metas-ai-profiles-are-indistinguishable-from-terrible-spam-that-took-over-facebook/

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@w7voa The big problem with meta is that no matter how many times you tell the bots to be quite on a topic or that it doesn't fit your interests ... or even ban it via Facebook Purity it keeps coming back. The good news is that ublock origin seems to largely stop their ads.

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American admiral and computer scientist, (designed COBOL) Grace Hopper was born in 1906.

She created the first compiler, the A-0 System, in 1952. She was also one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. Hopper popularized the term "debugging" in computing after discovering an actual moth causing a malfunction in the Mark II computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

Log book showing the "bug" found caught in a Mark II relay Courtesy of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA., 1988. - U.S. Naval Historical Center Online Library
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@gutenberg_org I had the great and memorable pleasure of meeting her back in the early 1980s.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

Someone on reddit pointed out that he’s trying to make an X with his body and it’s the most embarrassing thing I have ever seen

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@Daojoan at least his zipper is up...

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Naw, I'm serious here even if you may not understand what I'm saying. At least five times a day out here I see people talking about the Good ThingsTm they wanna vote for like Good ThingsTm ever gonna be on the ballot. They ain't. This isn't your country, your state, you don't own it, it's not here to serve you - it's here to control you and turn you into a commodity for the genocidal bastards that do own it. Waiting around to "vote for" liberation, equality, and humanity is a sucker's game.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites Royalty, slavery, colonialism, Marxism, Fascism, Religiosity and a bunch of other human control & degradtion models have helped along the way, as well. They (and their descendants) all move in and out of 'vogue' from time to time.

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Don't like the polls? Yeah, me neither; but I did in fact warn you that courting cracker suburbanite fascists wasn't much of an election strategy and was risking actually losing to Downmarket Mussolini.

Once again bougie lanyard libs knew better... why any of you people are still confident enough to show your ass like this after running this same script in 2016 is fucking beyond me.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites I'm pretty certain you already noticed that stupid is unfixable... ignorance though can 'sometimes' be remedied with education.

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AI in the future be like 🤖

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@itsfoss and if you think social media has made the world stupid, wait until you see what AI does for humanity.😜

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I am live momentarily on ABC News 24 in Australia to discuss the latest assassination attempt on former President Trump. https://iview.abc.net.au/show/abc-news-24

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@w7voa Remember Aesop's Fable : "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".

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NORAD reports that for the second consecutive day it detected and tracked two Russian IL-38 military aircraft operating in the Alaska ADIZ.

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@w7voa I'll be right back, I have to run and hide right now.

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Two-thirds of the $310 million that Kamala Harris raised last month came from first-time donors, according to the campaign.

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@w7voa This poll may count for something...

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The 2024 US presidential election is now "a toss-up in the states that are most likely to decide the election," according to prominent statistician Nate Silver. https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model

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@w7voa These numbers seem consistent with most of the polls, 'all' seem to indicate an 'early change' in direction away from Trump. I think there is reason to expect a further shift to Kamala in the next two weeks once Harris announces her VP... and through the rest of August assuming the DNC is able to provide a bump. As for the accuracy of polls, we'll know after 5 Nov. for certain.

In the meantime, I assume the Harris campaign is feeling upbeat and cautiously optimist these days.

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Lawyer Igor Slabykh notes that 5 high-profile Russian prisoners in the U.S. (hackers, money launderers, arms traffickers) have disappeared from the Federal Bureau of Prisons database: V. Klyushin, A. Vinnik, M. Marchenko, V. Konoshchenok, & R. Seleznyov. https://t.me/uslegalnews/5593

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@kevinrothrock I think they may be working at Walmart in St. Louis.

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Politico -Benjamin Netanyahu is requesting a meeting with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump while the Israeli prime minister is in the US this week. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/22/netanyahu-trump-meeting-florida-00170382

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@w7voa The government (Biden) should reject the audience between Netanyahu and ...

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For those seeking a Harris for President png file... enjoy

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"The Great Lou Dobbs has just passed away — A friend, and truly incredible Journalist, Reporter, and Talent." -- Donald Trump says in a Truth Social posting

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@w7voa I'm certain people mourn him...