To setup this thread for his alt account, obviously.

This feels like a reference to a streamer video I’ve never seen

For anyone curious as I was: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KP7yXRkqaOc

Hitler snipe is at 11:13. Content warning: lotsa fuckwords.

In the Information Age, the poor and uneducated rapidly gained access to the rest of the world and its knowledge, yet couldn’t tell what was true.

Those in power regarded these new cohorts opportunistically, as fertile soil and pliable tools, but the most cynical considered them weapons and cultivated their fear.

In the chaos that ensued, we sought to curtail their influence by censure, but the cynical were happy to amplify their voice. We attempted remediation with facts, but the cynical knew they preferred lies. So the conflict was recast as a war over culture and values, a profitable diversion for many.

We always dismissed the most obvious solution, addressing their fears, because these mostly boiled down to simple economic insecurity, and solving that has little short-term profit potential for those who have the most.

Edit: preemptive “no you”lol

To be understood, I’d probably just say projection, but if you need to emphasize a specific aspect of the behavior, we could break it down as:

1. an existing insecurity or shame that
2. prompts momentary social anxiety
3. evidenced by a defensive impulse
4. to preemptively introject

Explanation: introjection refers to a mirroring behavior, the kind often seen in children. In this case, the accuser anticipates an accusation from you which threatens or hurts them. To defend themselves, they hurl the accusation right back at you. But of course the first accusation only happened in their head, so all we witness is someone wildly accusing someone else of having their own flaw without any justification.

Bringing extra meshtastic nodes to a protest could be really helpful. Extra nodes would allow information to more easily find a clear path out of a hot zone to routers in safer locations, and it’d do so without using any telecom infrastructure. The encryption’s pretty good too.

Also the bulk of them these days are some kind of scam. A lot of people worldwide have access to US citizens’ voter data. During the last election cycle, Democratic voters were beleaguered by a massive surge in spam messages claiming to be from the DNC, for a variety of scams including simple interception of funds.

Now that our own government is selling our data directly to international interests, and consumer protection agencies are being defunded, it seems unlikely to get better. Responding to, clicking on, or donating to any text claiming to be from DNC affiliates is probably a mistake.

The bigger mistake though is rewarding the DNC for their incompetence and corruption with your donation. Only AOC and Sanders’ group of progressives have demonstrated unwavering integrity and follow-through, so their donations should be made directly rather than through the DNC.