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85 karma · joined August 28, 2020

Rate-limited flame warrior

Practice vigilance.

Be on the lookout for enemy propaganda. Stick to reliable news sources sanctioned by the Ministry of Truth. Report and downvote suspicious content.

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propagandist··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
Why spread disinformation?

https://www.gl-inet.com/en-us/pages/about-us

propagandist··on Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech
Counterpoint: https://youtube.com/shorts/3jdONbR7rcI

If you want to know how we got where we are, look up Tantura.

propagandist··on I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
Were those upright people abducted by aliens when you started working with Palantir and the "DoW"?
propagandist··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
The comment above is perfectly clear, and if you have been living under a rock since the Reagan years, that's on you.

See Elon talking about Tesla finally joining the S&P 500 so index funds would finally have to buy its shares. See a hundred examples where socialism is reserved for the few, the jungle and legal constraints for the rest of us.

propagandist··on Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
Thank you for the important work you do.
propagandist··on Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
"We will build an ethnostate and if you don't like that, you're a Nazi."
propagandist··on Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
Citation needed.
propagandist··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
So they get to decide when a transaction is in their national interest and do business on that basis?

That sounds like "sovereignty" to me. You don't need to be fully protectionist to be sovereign.

If you have an ax to grind with Lula, just say so.

propagandist··on Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai
The Hague Invasion Act takes care of that.
propagandist··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
There have been so many crimes and zero accountability. I frankly wouldn't know where to start, but maybe a good example is "collateral murder", which Assange has been persecuted for revealing for the better part of the past two decades.

At least we're not pretending anymore.

propagandist··on Artemis II Launch Day Updates
No, we're referring to the piece that was posted here on the previous day. You can search for Artemis on this site and read that piece.
propagandist··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
Thank you for expressing your humanistic thoughts, but do consider the history of the institution and the government.

What's different this time is that they haven't bothered with the PR.

propagandist··on Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates
Some people are great at self promotion.
propagandist··on [dead]
Spine is not the only issue. Most of the other states are led by people who are at best indifferent, at worst supportive of the acts being committed.
propagandist··on Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026
Gas is $4 a gallon?

We have discovered aliens!

propagandist··on I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now
As much a republic as Rome was under Caligula.
propagandist··on U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
Not visibly as gruesome, but here's something worse: https://youtu.be/KP1OAD9jSaI
propagandist··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
They're interchangeable the USA and Israel, especially at this time.

Of course I mean at the state level. Individuals is a very different story.

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Fair enough. I let the current situation cloud my vision, but I genuinely mean they're interchangeable. You can look up the involvement of people like Kushner, Witkoff, Barak with Israel and see where they sit in our government. Leaving aside the major donors.

If you listen to statements made by the USG spokespeople, they literally throw US servicemen under the bus to shield the IDF. That goes both for this admin and the last.

In the previous admin, it was Biden and Blinken that made a break impossible, despite landing on different political sides from Netanyahu. Another president would have cut them off at some point.

Obama was the only one who charted an independent path in recent years (post Bush. Sr.)

propagandist··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Sure, it's the activists' fault. Not the people who committed this genocide in our government.
propagandist··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/09/israel-bombed-qatar-to-assass...

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ali-shamkhani-iranian-neg...

Not a slight against you personally, but it's genuinely frustrating discussing this with people who don't actually follow the conflict. Thank you for probing in an inquisitive manner, but please question the state propaganda, which I'm sad to say includes just about every mainstream outlet.

propagandist··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
I'd say being an apartheid state and conducting a live-streamed genocide could possibly be a minor issue. Just a PR issue mind, Lord knows we've given up on our souls long ago.
propagandist··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Yeah, Iran is not negotiating in good faith.

Not the other side that literally assassinates the negotiators in the most dishonorable treachery.

Not the other side that had agreed on the attacks weeks ago, but carried on with the sham negotiations so this attack would coincide with Purim.

And I must add, not the side that violates every ceasefire agreement. Zero honor, zero shame, only bloodlust.

propagandist··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
You're a good person and I feel similarly. We live under the Fourth Reich.

I do not think ceasing work is the right move, but definitely get involved politically and don't equivocate when you condemn our elected "representatives".

It might also soothe your soul to be in the company of like-minded individuals. A Quaker prayer is a sure place to find many.

propagandist··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
That's precisely how I read it. They're weasel words delivered by the master weasel himself.
propagandist··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
Human responsibility is not the same as human decision making.

And they are crossing the picket line, which honestly I was sure they would do, though I did expect it to take a bit longer.

This is too transparent even for sama.

propagandist··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
That means autonomous killbots are a-ok. Human responsibility is not the same as human decision-making.

The president or anybody at DoD can be "responsible", and we know there will be zero accountability. The courts defer to the executive, and Congress is all-too-happy for the executive to take the flak for their wars.

propagandist··on We Will Not Be Divided
Yeah, it's a nice gesture, but having watched Google handle the protests in recent years and their culture inching a step closer to Amazon, I do not foresee their leadership being swayed by employee resistance. They'll either quietly sign an agreement and discreetly implement it, or they will go scorched earth on their employees again.
propagandist··on Altman says OpenAI agrees with Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon dispute
He'll bank the goodwill and take his time then quietly sign the deal the administration wants.
propagandist··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
They have not been living just fine, and Israel calls them a "demographic time bomb".
propagandist··on The Pentagon threatens Anthropic
If the killbots are ok for the periphery, surveillance will surely be arriving for the metropole's inhabitants.
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