Roundcat

Roundcat , 10 months ago to technology in AI is being used to give dead, missing kids a voice they didn’t ask for

This is some radicalizing shit right here.

Roundcat , 10 months ago to memes in What HASN'T happened in Florida?

It's UNFAIR!

Roundcat , 10 months ago to memes in A quick death

Help! It's taking over...

Roundcat , 10 months ago to memes in It gets really good after the first 31 episodes

Same here. I like the more OG feel the first and second season have, and some of the characters that are only there for those seasons. RIP Tasha Yar 😥

Roundcat , 10 months ago to memes in It gets really good after the first 31 episodes

I was sold the moment bug aliens took over Starfleet, and Picard and Riker blew Commander Remmik the fuck up!

Roundcat , 10 months ago to internetfuneral in a promise

Wholesome weeb moment.

Roundcat , 10 months ago to memes in I think its over guys

I just go back for my splatoon sub to lurk, but considering how awful splatfest has been recently, I think I'm done anyway.

Roundcat , 10 months ago to memes in I found my Halloween costume

I have no kids. Where's my all of that?

Roundcat , 10 months ago to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

Gotcha. I don't want to get you in trouble, so no need to say anymore if you don't want.

I used to be very patriotic myself, but America's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq began to change that for me. I was told it was to defend our way of life, and to bring democracy and freedom to a hostile land. The reality was we were in there for territorial control, to support Saudi-Arabia's regime, for Oil and other resources, and to support an overgrown military industrial complex that demands that we remain in conflict to justify our existence. I went from believing America was the best country in the world to being disillusioned.

I don't know much about you, but I can kinda understand that love for one's country. It's where you were born afterall, where your family and friends are, and it's the cultural background you call home. That's what I still love about my country, and even my region of the US despite everything. I have lived in Japan for the last 7 years, but I will still always see the American south as my home, and I will always have a fondness for it.

I kinda see patriotism as being a parent. Like a child, you want the best for your country, but you don't want it to go down a bad path, get in trouble, or do something regrettable. My country has done a lot unfortunately, but that's why I'm critical of it. I want my country to do better. Believe it or not, I actually like Russia a lot too. It's culture and food is very interesting to me, and most Russians I have met have been very friendly. This is part of the reason this war in Ukraine has been very excruciating to me. I hate seeing what Russia is doing to Ukraine, yet at the same time, I hate what is happening to the Russians as well. Many of them don't want to fight. Many of them have fled the country or gone into hiding, and many who were not so lucky are dying in Ukraine. I'm relieved you don't want to fight there, but I don't want you too be arrested either. I just hope you stay safe.

Roundcat , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

I assuming you mean the post was written from a right wing perspective correct?(that's what I got from your post at least)

I think it's written more from a well meaning liberal perspective. Probably doesn't understand the labels they're using, or at the very least oversimplifying people so that they crunch into the parameters they have created.

A They probably do mean tanky, and I myself have made this association in error. After all "Tanky" in the way it is used now is not as well known as the word communist, and many people who are tankies do describe themselves as communists.

B I've met people like these myself. One of my friends was in this camp until recently. Many of these people still look at Ukraine as it was pre Maidan, and don't realize the majority of people within the country don't support the fascist elements within. Plus there is Russian prop specifically aimed at hitting antifascists. They sold the initial invasion as a "denazification". If you are just listening to the words spoken by the leaders, and not seeing the atrocities the Russians are committing in Ukraine, I can see how one could fall for it.

C Describes a lot of the people in my part of the US actually, though, not all of them support Russia fighting in Ukraine. Rather they are more of a combination of this and E, where they want to get back to admiring Russia without dealing with the cognitive dissonance of Russia committing warcrimes in Ukraine, and also getting their ass handed to them.

D This used to be me until maybe 2014, and God knows where I would be today if I still acted this way. Basically anything that was considered "bad" of "forbidden", I wanted in. The upside is this is what led me into reading the Communist Manifesto, the Quran, and other "forbidden" materials that led me out of my close minded conservatism, but on the otherhand, I also read Mein Kampf, gave the BotD to many fascist and conferderate leaning people, and followed a lot of Russian news uncritically, and even had a Soviet idolization phase of my own. A lot of my mindset at the time was this really weird form of libertarianism combined with unbridled contrarianism.

E I feel this can include a lot of people from any perspective. Leftists who think appose NATO more than Russia's imperialism, Rightist who see the writing on the wall, and think the war should end while Russia is still ahead, to people who associate the increase in costs of living with the war, and simply want it to end no matter what ASAP for their own sake. I feel this could be expanded into several catagories, but then again, everything here is a severe oversimplification.

So are there flaws with this post: absolutely, but I don't think it was written in bad faith.

Roundcat , 10 months ago to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

Why exactly? I'm not here to attack you, just understand, and possibly change your mind if you're willing? I noticed from your previous posts that you speak Russian, so I'm assuming you are Russian correct? I'm more curious your perspective than anything, and what you've been hearing about the war. We can carry this to dms if you're more discussing there.

Roundcat , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

It's been bizarre some of my interactions with group A and B. I've been active in leftist circles for most of my time on the internet. I definitely get and agree with a lot of the criticisms with the US, NATO, and the EU, but I don't get how so many people think the Russian or Chinese government are any more righteous, especially considering the human rights violations and encroachments on sovereignty we've seen from both countries. Not just in their past either, but within the last decade!

The situation kinda feels like how Japan justified its imperialism to the outside world during the Invasion of China, South Asia, and the Pacific. Their official stance was they were aiming to rid Asia of Western imperialism and replace it with a sphere of co-prosperity, Despite this message however, they were absolutely brutal to the lands they occupied. The murdered and raped indiscriminately, and those they kept alive they enslaved and worked to death in brutal conditions. No sane person today who knows the extent of their harm would ever defend them as a power, even if their supposed message was "anti-imperialism."

You can oppose western imperialism, US hegemony, and capitalism without siding with other imperialists, fascists, and psuedo-communists. The actions of a country should speak for them, not the messages their propaganda tries to make you believe. Considering what I know from Russia's Soviet legacy with Eastern Europe, the actions they took against Chechnya and Georgia, their local treatment of dissidents, the brutal persecution of queer people that makes Florida look tame, the war crimes and human rights violations committed in Syria and Africa by Wagner, and the bombing, killing, raping, and kidnapping of civilians in Ukraine. I don't see how anyone could defend them or their actions. I know the US is guilty most of it through out its history too, but you shouldn't oppose a monster by supporting another monster.

Roundcat , 10 months ago to fediverse in How to Move Your Instagram Feed to Pixelfed, the Photo App That Doesn't Track Your Every Move

I already registered, you don't have to sell it to me!

Roundcat OP , 10 months ago to memes in Post a meme on lemmy, upvote on kbin, boost on mastodon, comment on firefish, feature on pixelfed, reply to a comment on...

Saw your post about the grad users basically entertaining the idea of bot spamming lemmy users. That's pretty sick if they're doing it.

Roundcat OP , 10 months ago to memes in Post a meme on lemmy, upvote on kbin, boost on mastodon, comment on firefish, feature on pixelfed, reply to a comment on...

From what I've seen from experimenting, the only accounts that seem to have weight on each other on lemmy are my lemmy and kbin accounts. There is definitely room for abuse if I were to make many lemmy accounts accross different instances, which I have seen people abuse, especially on lemmy's version of r/place.

I get maybe 2 upvotes at most, and even then I don't usually upvote my own content because it's unsatisfactory. Upvotes tell me people are engaging with my content and like what they see. It does me no good if I know it's just me. The only time I've ever upvoted my own content is on very small communities where no one on would ever see the content otherwise.

I try to be ethical with my interactions with fediverse, but I definitely see the room for abuse.