all those people that say Mastodon is hard must have some severe learning disability.
This kind of take is one of many reasons why activitypub protocols are not more widely adopted. You practically need to work in tech to understand half of what’s going on. I don’t think it’s appropriate to say people must have a severe learning disability if they’re struggling with understanding or if they simply don’t want to spend the time to learn when they run into people sharing takes like this.
As far as I’m concerned, they still have. As a non-Twitter user, not only have I already decided the platform wasn’t for me, now it’s a question mark whether Musk will wake up tomorrow and turn off access again. The simplest solution is to double down on continuing to ignore Twitter.
The crazy thing is that governments would be much better served if they would run government Mastodon instances for government employees and enforce their own policies on them, than using a private company with its own agenda.
Article seems super right wing. Maybe just stop the right from stealing from the people. I applaud them for saying hell no to BS reforms and pressures to impoverish the populous. I’m cheering for the kids with the jerry cans.
BBC is generally centre leaning left. But I see where you are coming from. I think this article does provide balance to the many articles talking about police brutality by showing what these riots, which were not about reforms, can do to a community.
You’ll also note the the journalist does not really spin anything here: they use the verbs “to say” and “to tell” when giving quotes. There are no opinions provided by the journalist. It does not sensationalise anything. If I wanted to spin this story, I would have worded the lede like this:
Zartoshte Bakhtiari hasn’t slept more than three hours a night since the violent riots erupted in France a week ago.
I think if anything there is a tiny note of French-bashing here, for lack of a better term. It really shows that they shot themselves in the foot and now mayors are petitioning for heightened security.
I think now is a good time for a friendly reminder; political left & right can vary drastically by nation, they can be similar but don’t expect labels to line up perfectly (confederative is a good example of a changing definition across nations). When it comes to the tone of the article though, I think you hit the nail on the head. In my experience, the BBC has some bias when reporting on other nations, especially if they were once a British colony (seriously yikes). I’m not surprised they’re doing a little French bashing, it’s kind of an old habit for the British lol.
None of the “kids with the jerry cans” are doing any of this because of reforms. The riots have very real consequences for already neglected communities seeing their libraries, schools and local businesses burning down. Are you confusing the riots with the protests earlier this year about the pension system reforms?
At what point do nations start treating these attacks as terrorism? Attacking vital infrastructure in this way should be more than a few years in pristine of caught.
the war on drugs shit that’s also part of this system is dumb, but helping local police by picking out the most honest cops to fight animal poaching and human trafficking isn’t the most egregious thing ever
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