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Aria ,

VPNs are not illegal in China, Russia, UAE, or the DPRK. That’s 4 out of 5 where you didn’t research it properly. In China, VPN use is legal, setting up your own VPN for domestic use is legal, but renting nodes to foreign companies is illegal unless you can document what the nodes are being used for which VPN providers can’t. In Russia, VPN use is legal, but VPN providers must comply with censorship laws and deny access to their blacklist. In the UAE, VPN use is legal, but using a VPN while committing a crime is illegal (So you get a stricter sentence than if you had just committed the crime). In the DPRK, VPN use is legal, but kinda pointless since they have a nation-wide intranet. If you want to access the internet, you use the PUST-run VPN. If you’re a tourist, you can use it to connect to your home or work VPN.

Aria ,

You’re propagating the misinformation. You should try to verify things before repeating them. The tweet didn’t provide sources and isn’t made by someone with credentials.

Aria ,

Your article even says it’s legal. The problem with this as a source is that their sources are two different CIA fronts. China Digital Times and Radio Free Asia. As it always is whenever it’s one of these news stories. RFA just makes up things wholesale but CDT posts bad faith readings of social media posts. For example the user in question was getting mocked and called a liar by everyone in the comments but the CDT article neglected to mention that. For the time being, it’s just some rando trying to stirr outrage to get out of a fine. Yes the police report correctly documented that he used a VPN, but that’s not why he’s being fined.

Here is a list of CIA fronts provided by the CIA. www.ned.org/regions/

Aria ,

That’s not what a ban is. A ban is when you aren’t allowed to do something. This is just regular regulation, and not particularly strict. Except in the case of the DPRK where it’s not regulated but simply unavailable.

Aria ,

Honey I literally provided a first hand source. www.ned.org/regions/
But fine, let’s do liberal sources.
Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Digital_Times#Staff_a…

China Digital Times has been a recipient of funding from the National Endowment for Democracy.[15] The Translations Editor is Anne Henochowicz, an alumna of the Penn Kemble Democracy Forum Fellowship at the National Endowment for Democracy. She has written for other publications including Foreign Policy, The China Beat, and the Cairo Review of Global Affairs.[13]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia

Based on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and preceded by the CIA-operated Radio Free Asia (Committee for a Free Asia), it was established by the US International Broadcasting Act of 1994 with the stated aim of “promoting democratic values and human rights”, and countering the narratives and monopoly on information distribution of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as providing media reports about the North Korean government.[12][page needed] It is funded and supervised by the U.S. Agency for Global Media[13] (formerly Broadcasting Board of Governors), an independent agency of the United States government.

Aria ,

New level of terror? Is it? Or do you only care when the level of terror becomes slightly more symmetrical?

Aria ,

It has only gone to worse countries.

Aria ,

So any of those 1.5+ milliard people? Literally 20% of the world’s population.

Aria ,

The west’s own savage actions so massively dwarf anything Saudi has done in this period that it’s a pretty silly guilt by association point.

Aria ,

Saudi-led Opec Plus cartel decided to cut production by 2m barrels a day – the opposite of what Biden administration officials had pleaded with the Saudis to do. After the shock of that embarrassing announcement, which threatened to raise gas prices around the US midterm elections, Biden vowed: “There’s going to be some consequences for what they’ve done.”

I thought you liked the free market?

Aria ,

See the problem with this logic is that you’re weighing the west’s real actions at best, or probably their white washed actions against fairytale versions of their adversaries who only exist in the west’s propaganda. It’s not hard to be better than someone written to be a caricature of evil.

Aria ,

China ended absolute poverty within their borders. That’s 800 million people in a 40 year period.

Aria ,

Here are some of my sources.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…/1467-8489.12353
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0264837721001411
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S019739752200128X
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/…/13892240601062488

Please provide your sources for starving homeless legions.

Aria ,

Can you draw this?

Aria ,

When you download Vicuna or Stable Diffusion XL, they’re a handful of gigabytes. But when you go download LAION-5B, it’s 240TB. So where did that data go if it’s being copy/pasted and regurgitated in its entirety?

Aria ,

You’re mystifying and mythologising humans too much. The learning process is very equivalent.

Aria ,

store.steampowered.com/app/698670/Scorn/

Aria ,

Bluetooth is 1.4Mb/s. At 74 minutes, the recommended length of a CD per the standard, you will have transferred 777MB, or more than fits on a CD. Even ignoring all the massive advancements in audio compression, and massive advancements in computational power afforded to decompression hardware (thus allowing better compression to be used), you will have more bandwidth, or “quality” in a Bluetooth stream than a CD-player compatible CD.

Aria ,

“We have here in the chamber today [a] Ukrainian Canadian world [war] veteran from the second world war who fought [for] the Ukrainian Independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops today even at his age of 98.” The Canadian Prime Minister heard this man was a Nazi and then started clapping. I don’t understand how much more black and white this could be.

Aria ,

But don’t you know, talking about this is Russian propaganda. Look, listen to Trudeau, he says you shouldn’t talk about this and instead fight back against Russian propaganda without missing a beat in the same sentence as he’s apologising. youtu.be/ApEx_UOwJR8

Aria ,

Yes let everyone, despite everything else going on at the time, pause in the moment to recall the finer points of WW2 geopolitics because everyone obviously has all those facts at the forefront of their mind at all times.

Bruv, bruv, this is the bare minimum, I swear. If you cannot recall that WWII was Nazi Germany vs the Soviet Union, you aren’t prepared enough to have opinions on the modern conflict or any aspect of geopolitics. This isn’t the finer points.

List of people who clapped: literally everyone.

Mhm.

Aria ,

Don’t be a partisan hack.

If the ‘Mhm’ didn’t make it clear, I’m not excusing people from any party. Every single person who clapped should be stripped of power and be given the choice of exile or execution. They’re either a Nazi sympathiser or conman. There is no third option. Either they are profoundly uninformed and therefore scamming the Canadian public and should be treated as traitors, or they are willing to clap for Nazis and should be treated as traitors. I appreciate that not everyone is an expert on WWII, but this doesn’t require expertise or subject knowledge. This is the most basic and important bit of information for modern geopolitics. It’s such a simple thing that I’m baffled to be talking to someone trying to imply there is any possibility that someone would not know and be able to recall at a moment’s notice.

Aria ,

Completely unhinged statement, according to [email protected]: Nazis should not be in charge of Canada.

Aria ,

What do you feel the implication is when he says it’s important to push back against Russian propaganda when asked about applauding Nazis?

Aria ,

Alright great, so you’ll have no problem with getting rid of all the people who clapped, and the guy they clapped for. Then we’re in complete agreement.

Aria ,

Sounds like what I said. “Stop talking about this, it’s helping the enemy. Did you forget how bad the enemy is? We’re not bad, the enemy is bad” and so on. He was introduced as a Nazi, of course they knew, how could they not.

If they really felt sorry they’d make it known and clearly signal that Nazis aren’t tolerated, not try to minimise reporting.

Aria ,

Do you expect the prime Minister of a country not to know basic facts about the largest war of the last century?

Two comments above someone called it “the finer points of WW2”…

Aria ,

He was not introduced as a Nazi, but as a WW2 veteran that fought against Russia.

??? Is this an especially poor attempt at ‘Never Play Defence’ alt-right play book stuff? That’s the same sentence twice with some words changed. It’s not sneaky and it doesn’t go unnoticed. This isn’t euphemism with plausible deniability. “I didn’t paint my house a dark colour, I painted it a black colour.”

You mean like this:

Okay, so in this article, there’s a short explanation of the situation. They explain that a Jewish rights group wants an apology, which means it’s not necessarily also a demand from everyone else in the country and the publication. Then there explicitly is not an apology. “I have subsequently become aware of more information which causes me to regret my decision,” This means he does not apologise. This is not an apology, profuse or otherwise. This is a justification and deflection. This is a bold faced lie designed to construct the narrative that this situation was not deliberate, and that the media is misreporting it. Which is also what you did. This man was intentionally brought out because he was a Nazi and honoured because he was a Nazi. This deflection does not apologise for honouring Nazis. Then somewhere later he apologises, using the words “deepest apologies”, but without the connecting tissue present, we can assume it came right after the deflection, voiding the apology, because he has not acknowledged his mistake. “My deepest apologies that you felt that way.” “My deepest apologies that I am being misrepresented”, “My deepest apologies that I was unwittingly part of a misstep.”

Then the article goes on to quote a special interest group, which means it’s not necessarily also the opinion of everyone else in the country and the publication. Then that group says they’re willing to accept an explanation that diverts guilt if adequate, softening their language.

Afterwards, they quote the Russian embassy to strengthen the connection with the news story, even though this really should be treated as a domestic story. The rest of the article is basically saying Russia is doing war and that’s bad and that should be the focus, not the thing the article is about.

So let’s look at the other article. Oh wait, this is DW. Now this is different, because DW actually has to take an anti-Nazi stand because their readers are often vocal in their criticism of Nazi ideology. But let’s see if they try to soften it anyway. They’re incentivised to soften it, because they are German propaganda in the literal sense, their job is to spread the world-view of the German government, and Canada is a German ally. But surely there’s no way to report this in a way that is sufficiently anti-Nazi without painting their ally in a bad light, unless the Canadian government really properly apologised. So they must’ve apologised profusely like you said. Let’s read.

Immediately it says he apologised, that’s good. But I’ve heard one of his apologies, and he didn’t apologise, he just went through the motions and then blamed Russian disinformation. DW isn’t quoting him. Is this because they want to imply he apologised when he really hasn’t?

“Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian World War II veteran, received two standing ovations. However, it emerged later that Hunka had served in the Waffen-SS Galicia Division,”

Look at this wording. It emerged later that he served in the Waffen-SS. This is true, this is information that was given to the MPs after they clapped. But it sorta sounds a lot like “It emerged later that he was a Nazi”. So they’re using factual reporting to imply something extremely misleading which would completely change the story. This story completely hides the actual fact that he was introduced as a Nazi. Wow, now that’s some proper misinformation propaganda!

Then they quote some lines from the apology. These are good lines, they sound like a proper apology. Though what I notice is that they’re still mostly worried about optics, even in this choice quote. But let’s keep reading. Oh wait, now he’s deflecting responsibility. “even though we did so unaware of the context”. Well that didn’t last long. But there’s no way the informed DW reader would accept that apology! What gives? Right, and this is why they had the wording they did earlier, specifically so that the DW reader isn’t informed. This article is a deliberate misinformation cover piece designed to give the false sense of being informed to readers so that they don’t need to research more, and reading only this, it sounds like a blunder was made and apologised for sufficiently for something that was a small misunderstanding or something else that could possibly not be deliberate. And then it ends with Trudeau saying “Stop talking about this” or “If you hear a different version of events, that’s Russian misinformation”.

how profusely they apologised after they found out he was a Nazi

They did nothing of the sort and these two articles point to nothing of the sort. Not even a little bit. No one single person was jailed. Not one single person was executed. Not one single person was exiled. They didn’t even fire the cabinet. Nobody even acknowledged their actual wrongdoing. These are not apologies. Nothing happened. One rich guy retired.

Russia is a much bigger threat to western freedom at the moment than Fascism.
Fascism isn’t tolerated in Canada and the rest of the west.

This is not true. Especially for the indigenous population but also for settlers, the primary threat has been and remains fascisms. globalnews.ca/…/food-insecurity-poverty-report-ca…
Even if Russia was a substantial threat to people living in Canada, that shouldn’t have any bearing on this story or it’s coverage. Replace the government first, then go back to publishing stories about the need to stay vigilant against Russia. A society unfriendly to Nazis who have been properly informed about what happened would have no problem coming together in a time of crisis like this and help organise and vote in a new government.

Aria ,

So basically nobody meets these requirements, right? Practically no one has a sound card, and even the storage requirement is pretty steep. The Steam deck for example only has 64 total, and if you have one of the more expensive ones with more space, what are the chances that you still have 85GB free? My games drive on my very high end PC currently has less, and I also don’t have a PCI sound card.

Aria ,

Another thing that makes it a bad decision/situation is that CS is one of those games that players want to keep installed. It’s not a single player story where you finish it, then you free that space back up for the next game. And it’s also not a MS Flight Sim or The Sims where it’s the only game you play every day. CS you come back to regularly, but never value that strongly. It should load quick and be free to keep installed.

Aria ,

The country with legal slavery is acting on rumours that foreign countries aren’t enforcing their own laws well enough? Feels like there’s some ulterior motif, hard to put my finger on what though.

Aria ,

Those dirty brown people can’t be bothered to look up from the wads of blood money for two seconds to actually care about their peers. The only country that cares about muslims is the one that purposefully killed millions of civilian muslims over the last two decades in an effort to put pressure on their enemies to surrender. Enemies that we’re told don’t value human life.

Aria ,

What happens to it under communism?

Aria ,

He’s at the bottom end of ‘knows just enough to be dangerous’, and people make fun of people in that range. The vast majority of gamers and Windows users fall well outside that narrow band. The average Windows user who is scared of the terminal wouldn’t ignore several warnings and type in confirmation phrases. They wouldn’t have even gotten to that point because to get there you need to copy/paste things from a website without understanding what it does.

Aria ,

Probably because it’s less fuel than video would be.

Aria ,

Meme upvotes are determined by bot armies. Memes are created and curated by rich people regularly as a way for them to speak in the voice of poor people. Scab memes if you’d like.

Aria ,

You individually are allowed to own the means of your production if you don’t exploit other people. Everyone who works at the farm owns the farm.

Aria ,

Person who hasn’t read a single book on communist theory explaining to the communists how they misunderstood what communism is.

Ukraine expands conscription, removes medical exemptions for HIV, hepatitis, mental disorders and more (archive.ph)

Now, the words and figures “with the exception of articles 2-c, 4-c, 5-c, 12-c, 13-c, 14-c, 17-c, 21-c and 22-c” have been removed from the Regulation, i.e. everyone will be recognised as fit under the “controversial” articles:...

Aria ,

Maybe they just want to get rid of them. The west seems to mind Nazis a lot less than losers.

Aria ,

The problem with the RFA source is the CIA funding, not that it’s in English. It’s pretty disingenuous to try to imply Newizu is pro-Putin or anti-imperialist, or anti-west or anything else that would qualify as a separate bias or agenda.

Aria ,

Extreme violence is still violence. Industrial violence on a massive scale is still violence. You are advocating for violence, terrible violence, and then getting upset someone else advocated for comparatively mild violence.

Aria ,

Perhaps you haven’t heard of the war and only noticed a lot of mentions of Ukraine recently. Actually, that’s because there’s a war there, that’s why people keep bringing up Ukraine or showing their support for Ukraine, alternatively for Russia. The war is about USA imperialism, where the USA wants to do imperialism towards Russia and Russia is stopping them. So that’s how those things are related. Ukraine is the battleground, and the USA is using Ukrainian humans as weapons. It’s a very horrible situation.

Aria ,

The vast majority of (Let’s use Vietnam as an example) is proletariat. So the vast majority of people are dictating terms to a small subset with different class interests. It’s nothing like the dictatorship in, let’s say the Netherlands, where a small group of capitalists dictate terms to the large body of proletariat, and the bourgeois political apparatus mediates in favour of bourgeoisie class interests. There’s no corruption taking place, just the necessities of market economics.

This dictatorship will naturally “dissolve” when there are no more other classes (bourgeoisie et all) to oppress, since it will no longer serve the proletariat’s interests.

Aria ,

state capitalism with red paint (CCP)

You know so much about them you haven’t even seen their name written out in English once.

Aria ,

That’s a cute Grievous

Aria ,

Holy shit my opinion is literally earth shattering?? https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/e264d081-480d-4e02-94c4-23083cb49aa3.png

Aria ,

If you’re an obnoxious foreigner who only wants to talk about Hitler in Germany, you’ll get similar responses. Or I know you said stop using USA a comparison, but in this case it’s a very easy and apt one. If you only want to talk about how the WTC attack was an inside job in the USA as a foreigner, you’ll get similar responses. It doesn’t mean they accept your version of events, just that it’s awkward to talk to you about it. Or I guess a similar one but back to Germany. If you’re a yank who wants to commiserate about how fucked the GDR was with someone who lived in the GDR, they’ll give you one half-arsed rebuttal then ask to change topic.

Aria ,

So exactly the same then. Sep 11 conspiracy theorists also believe the attack happened. They just don’t attribute it to terrorists but the local government. Which is exactly what June 4th conspiracy theorists believe. And from experience, obnoxious foreigners are usually June 4th conspiracy theorists, because those conspiracy theories are pushed by western propaganda outlets like Radio Free Asia and BBC. They sometimes also believe they drove over people with tanks and shot people in the square. Same with Uighurs. Maybe you just wanted to talk about Uighurs or Xinjiang, but the conspiracy theorists believe Uighurs are being oppressed, and obnoxious foreigners are more likely to be conspiracy theorists. Even if you aren’t a conspiracy theorists, obnoxious foreigners usually are so at a certain point people just stop engaging.

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