“And I have another message for you: it will not happen. A Palestinian state will not be established west of the Jordan River.”

Okay, now that he says this in English to our faces, can we stop talking about Israel’s cooperation in a two-state solution?

Depression when? FDR2 can’t come soon enough.

Dear trans comrades from the US, arm yourselves and organize if you have the means to. I’d say get out of there but that’s probably much more difficult. 😔

This is generally what economists would call ‘a bad sign’.

Bad sign you say, time to cancel Jon Stewart!

“We’ve been there during the war when it came to aluminum, we’ve been there during the war when it came to steel,” Champagne told reporters including CBC News.

“Obviously when someone turns its back, you have to find ways to strengthen the Canadian economy and look at new markets, look at new industries.”

Hoekstra fired back saying using such language is “a dangerous place to go.”

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Haha no, they didn’t purge shit. I’m referring for example to the Russian Communist Party of the USSR killing people. And I’m not attaching a moral value on the methods, just looking at it as objective removal of fascist people and then observing modern day Russia. I think there are other similar examples. I imagine Hungary also purged any fascist they could smell ubder the commie rule, haven’t checked, and yet here we are today.

Even if they were to use a single cloud for the managed instances, this is not at all like the centralization of platform ownership. Here’s the critical difference.

If something happens to Twitter, say a methhead buys it and turns it into a propaganda machine, its users can only stop using it and/or move elsewhere. For this to have a significant effect, the a large part of the network of people has to move. Every individual has to do non-trivial amount of labour to do so. That’s hard.

If something happens to the cloud provider hosting some sizeable Mastodon server, the owner of the server can migrate (copy) the instance to another cloud provider, or their own hardware, switch the DNS records and shutdown the old one. Their users would only notice a brief interruptin. There’s no significant labour needed by the users, apart from perhaps logging in again. Only a much smaller amount of labour by the instance owner, compared to the labour needed for mass user migration performed by individual users.

And that’s the major difference that fundamentally changes the dynamics.

Mastodon has already been exploring this solution ahead of today’s launch by partnering with clients like the European Commission, the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, the city of Blois in France, and AltStore, a software company making an alternative app store.

Great idea!

There are reports of people noticing it two years ago.

Is this the sound of a bunch of chickens, coming home to roost?

What you’re describing here is the process that will drive the change parent speaks of. The dispossesion you’re pointing out is what will make people come together against the dispossessors.

Brave to assume YouTube won’t censor him. This may go down to Peertube hosted in Europe real fast.

Well instead of dealing with their fascist problem after WWII, they decided to repress (and sometimes kill) the most reliable antifascists - the leftists.

That said some countries that objectively did purge their fasists seem to still have that problem today. Perhaps the theory that capitalism creates fascism as it declines predicts this.

They better make it stick.

Now that everyone has recent memory of the relationship between low interest rates and high inflation, I bet corporations are going to use an interest rate cut as a smokescreen to increase prices.

The oligarch propaganda machine is preparing to shift into high gear. Larry’s son bought CBS and is slated to install Bari Weiss as their news boss. Saw a headline about him also eyeing a purchase of CNN. Keep all of this in mind in the months and years to come when you see material from these sources.

Frankly at this point I think I would rather have China have control over the data and algorithm than Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz.

Ars Technica’s comment section is getting radicalized.

And the neoliberal train continues on its way to Fascism station.

I think this goes even further back to the second or even the first red scare.

Must be the stroke.