is this undercover chad?

But then They couldn’t troll for a response.

From what I know of him, Quill is being sincere, and I do believe that it happened. But as I said my money is on it being a troll account.

His main account is now @UniversalMonk@anarchist.nexus and he also uses @UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com afaik.

Hmm, how sure are you that it was UM, and not one of the (many) troll impersonation accounts over the past few years? He responded to your comment but since you have him blocked I’ll repost it below, since I think you would want to see it:

Never once have I ever told anyone to kill themselves. Not on Lemmy. Not on Reddit. Not in real life. Ever. In college I worked suicide hotline for 2 hours every single night for minimum wage, after my regular job. So what you are saying is so far outside my personality set, that I can only think you must have some ulterior motive by saying this.

You are straight outright lying. Please provide proof. Many hate for for shit that I actually do, there is no reason to lie about what I do. You are straight up lying right now. I’ve never even implied anyone to kill themselves.

I’m not suggesting UM is some sort of angel, but a lot of impersonation accounts were spun up to get him banned from LW since he was advocating for third party in the last US election. The libs were losing their mind over it at the time. I’d be quite surprised if it was from one of his real accounts.

Lol good catch.

True. And the BBC paid for it with taxpayer dollars anyway, so arguably it belongs to the public.

My only point has been that many people believed that the Democratic candidate for president would have been less likely - not even unlikely, just less - to be involved in the kinds of war crimes Trump has been.

That’s not your only point. But regardless, that’s nothing more than conjecture. I don’t think they’d have stopped providing cash or weapons to Israel. Germany hasn’t either. Would Harris have abducted Maduro or bombed Iran? I have no idea, but probably not. Wouldn’t surprise me if she bombed some other country though, and we might be at war with Russia by now instead of Iran. So it’s pretty hard to form an opinion either way on which foreign policy would have been worse.

And vilifying those people for choosing to vote and continuing to believe in the righteousness of that vote is a position of shameless moral superiority that is antithetical to socialist goals, as it places the onus on the rest of your class bretheren who tried their best in a shitty situation, instead of on the actual electoralists.

I really feel like every accusation is a confession with you. Leftists are constantly being excoriated by Dems for not cheerleading for law-and-order-corporate-stooge Harris, though I’d be astounded if leftists didn’t vote for her in significant numbers, despite the fact they had to hold their noses while doing so. The fact is the Dems have slowly destroyed their mainstream base by putting profits before people far too many times.

And to be clear, I don’t, as a rule, vilify people who vote. I see no harm in it. Go for it. Whatever. I vote too.

And to compare Obama’s administration to Trump’s is a joke, honestly disgusting. You cannot honestly be trying to say that what we’re seeing with ICE is not 1000x worse. You’re also falling for a well understood trap in this dataset: Bush put in place the systems that ran wild without oversight during Obama’s first term, which were then addressed (and why it went down in his second term), and the Obama administration changed how deportations were defined so as not to hide the actual numbers - they increased transparency and stopped using bullshit terms like voluntary returns to the hide the numbers. So yeah, the numbers went up when he literally exposed the problem of misreporting and then went on to make it better in his second term.

Your argument doesn’t hold any water. Obama’s numbers kept going up every single year under his first term. He had 4 years to turn that situation around. It’s simply too convenient to suggest that it took 4 years before he could make any changes, and then it was thanks to Obama that deportations under Trump actually went down? What is this, topsy turvy land?

Perhaps Obama was too busy making sure he authorized more bombings and targeted assassinations than any other president in history? Or was that Bush’s fault too?

26,171 bombs were dropped in 2016 alone across Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.

Edit: No, he didn’t even have that excuse, because he ramped up the bombing in his second term.

It’s a rite of passage for any leftist.

Nothing worse than a herniated baguette.

I see PJ is still pretending to be “vaguely” leftist by banning every marxist and anarchist he can find that hasn’t blocked him yet.

And banning someone for agreeing with your position is about as PTB as it’s possible to get. What’s he going to do next, call for trans unity and then ban anyone who’s not part of his approved genders list?

But please don’t pretend like all socialists, as a rule, reject the idea of elections, or that even most socialists are anarchists. It’s just lying with extra steps.

You seem confused. Electoralism and elections are two entirely different concepts.

Most leftists are against electoralism in general, because it only provides the illusion of democracy and hoodwinks the population into believing they live in a democracy, when in fact, the same rich assholes run the country no matter who is elected. That’s we push back against folks who seem to believe blaming leftists for the abject campaign/policy failures of the Dems is the best way to win an election. They literally lost to a pedophile rapist. That should tell you how popular their policies are.

The vast majority of leftists DO vote, but we are much more realistic about the likelihood of our votes bringing about any meaningful change to the status quo. But we 100% don’t want to be lectured by the electoralist Dems about how somehow it’s our fault Trump won, just because we aren’t on the bandwagon cheerleading for pro-genocide prosecutor Harris instead of pro-genocide Trump.

If they ever gave us a candidate who actually stands for the people, and not for CEOs, then leftists might warm to the Dems again. But the sad truth is the Dems are more unpopular then ever, because they have learned nothing from their own abject failures.

Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to have negative feelings about their own party. This largely accounts for the more negative views of the Democratic Party among the overall public.

• Two-thirds of Democrats say they are frustrated with the Democratic Party. Fewer than half of Republicans (40%) say the same of the GOP.
• Three-in-ten Democrats also say their own party makes them feel angry. Just 19% of Republicans say the same of their own party.

Source

What people want is real change. All the Dems are offering is a return to the status quo. E.g., Did you know that more people were rounded up and deported under Obama’s first administration than under Trump?

Obama’s First Administration (2009-2012)

• FY 2009: 389,834 deportations (1,068/day).
• FY 2010: 392,862 deportations (1,076/day).
• FY 2011: 396,906 deportations (1,087/day).
• FY 2012: 409,849 deportations (1,123/day).

Trump’s Second Administration (January-June 2025)

• January 2025 (January 20-31): 12,094 deportations (1,008/day over 12 days).
• February 2025 (complete): 21,441 deportations (766/day over 28 days).
• March 2025 (complete): 21,913 deportations (707/day over 31 days).
• April 2025 (complete): 22,355 deportations (745/day over 30 days).
• May 2025 (complete): 27,853 deportations (898/day over 31 days).
• June 2025 (June 1-26): 22,383 deportations (861/day over 26 days).

I’d say PTB if the instance ban isn’t reversed.

For context: https://kyivindependent.com/czech-drone-facility-making-weapons-for-ukraine-set-on-fire-investigation-underway/

The facility belongs to Czech defense firm LPP Holding, which manufactures drones used on the battlefield in Ukraine.

[…]

“No Israeli drones have ever been manufactured at our facility,” the company said.

The firm said that previously announced plans to partner with Israeli company Elbit Systems on drone production were never implemented.

So it does indeed look like this is Russian disinformation to deflect blame for the attack.

You are misgendering the mod here, please correct.

Here another option using wireguard with protonvpn and a docker extension to update the proton port forwarding port.

You would just need to update the volume mounts per your system.

# docker-compose.yml

  gluetun:
    image: qmcgaw/gluetun:latest
    container_name: gluetun
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    environment:
      - PUID=${PUID}
      - PGID=${PGID}
      - TZ=${TZ}
      - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=protonvpn
      - SERVER_COUNTRIES=Canada
      - VPN_TYPE=wireguard
      - WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY=${WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY}
      - VPN_PORT_FORWARDING=on
      - PORT_FORWARD_ONLY=on
    ports:
      - 8888:8888 # Gluetun HTTP proxy port
      - 8000:8000 # Gluetun HTTP control server
      - 8080:8080 # qBittorrent WebUI port
    volumes:
      - /docker/appdata/gluetun:/config  
      - /docker/appdata/gluetun/config.toml:/gluetun/auth/config.toml
    restart: unless-stopped

  qbittorrent:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest
    container_name: qbittorrent
    environment:
      - PUID=${PUID}
      - PGID=${PGID}
      - TZ=${TZ}
      - WEBUI_PORT=8080
      - DOCKER_MODS=ghcr.io/t-anc/gsp-qbittorent-gluetun-sync-port-mod:main|ghcr.io/vuetorrent/vuetorrent-lsio-mod:latest
      - GSP_GTN_API_KEY=YOUR_DOCKERMOD_APIKEY
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "curl", "--fail", "--silent", "http://localhost:8080/"]
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 5
    depends_on:
      gluetun:
        condition: service_healthy # Wait for VPN to be up first
    volumes:
      - /docker/appdata/qbittorrent:/config
      - ${DATA_PATH}:/data
    restart: unless-stopped  
    network_mode: service:gluetun

# config.toml for docker extension

[[roles]]
name = "t-anc/GSP-Qbittorent-Gluetun-sync-port-mod"
routes = ["GET /v1/portforward"]
auth = "apikey"
apikey = "YOUR_DOCKERMOD_APIKEY"

This setup works flawlessly for me, even with Proton switching ports each time I reconnect.

There is no US policy stating “Gaza? Pfffft… kill 'em all.”

But that is exactly what US policy is, in effect. By refusing to hold Israel accountable, by continuing to supply arms and political cover, and by joining hands with Israel to attack Iran, the US government (both parties) has repeatedly endorsed, aided and abetted the genocidal government of Israel. The stain of that genocide can’t be washed away so easily, simply by you naively claiming US politicians thought Israel would use such support purely for self defence. Nobody is buying the obvious bullshit you are selling. US politicians want Israel to be a US stronghold in the region, no matter what. The whole world thinks the US is culpable, because we have eyes and ears.

What do Israelis want?

It’s to be able to commit genocide in peace.

Who posted the article?

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.