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Sure but she didn't, she's not in the meme I'm critiqueing. I wouldn't have that complaint about that situation. I'd have other complaints, if I wasn't completely drowned in a bottle or something

George Floyd and Trayvon Martin were ordinary citizens living their lives, whose deaths were linked to (and probably caused by) oppression and racism. They never wanted national attention, certainly not for this.

Kirk was a propagandist whose speech contributed to the environment of political divisiveness, bigotry and intolerance. He was a public figure who thrived on the controversy caused by his hateful speech.

I can't upvote this meme, it feels like false equivalence (I agree with the sentiment, though, it just... they don't care if they're being hypocritical. That's their game).

You responded to someone pointing out there is no evidence provided for the image in the OP (saying he is a groyper) with more non-evidence. That's why I replied to you. You're not really on-topic in the context of that conversation. I've done that before, tbh.

I read all of your comment, none of it was relevant tbh. Yes, I did pick out the most outrageous thing you said. It was outrageous after all. I could have picked apart every sentence, but I didn't want to do that, and nobody wants their words dissected like that. Its not nice.

Your larger opinions on the Utah area do not change what this guy actually believes. You might be right. You might be wrong. All of this is speculation. That's my point, and that's the point of the person you are originally replying to.

I never said posting from ML was good or bad, just pointing out they are leftist, as am I. I'm not interested in debating the goodness/badness/whatever of Lemmy.ml, I'm just stating facts.

Anyway, I hope your day is going well.

The kid was born in crackerstan. Non-Republican’s there are about as common as non-whites.

this is demographics, not evidence.

He’s the result of a long-term breeding experiment that investigates what would happen if you concentrated all the most gullible/ignorant people into a single space.

???

Rest of post is a screed about how you don't like Utah. Not evidence.

I have seen no evidence either way this guy was a leftist, or a groyper, or anything. People out there WISH he was something so they can wrap this whole thing up and explain it away, without acknowledging that people with fulfilling lives and hopeful futures don't do things like this.

His whole family are sympathizers for the fascists

So are mine, and here I am, posting on lemmy.ml

Slow your roll. Post evidence or stop muddying the waters.

They acknowledged that the campaign of destruction included the destruction or damage of 92 percent of housing units, 94 percent of the enclave's hospitals, 92 percent of schools and university buildings, and 86 percent of water and sanitation facilities.

I'm trying not to be a pessimist about this, but if only we had senators willing to call this genocide before so much destruction has already been done. So many of us are unwilling to call something a genocide until hundreds of thousands have died.

This report might be entirely ignored since these are Democratic senators.

Large USA media outlets are too focused on the death of a hatemongering podcaster to even report on this. I tried looking for articles from larger media outlets, and I only found an article from The Guardian (UK) and an MSN article... really wasn't expecting to see an MSN result.

Focusing on the death of one hatemongerer while our government supports genocide... we do live in a violent society.

If you wanted to know if this was a shitpost or not, it looks real enough to me.

Here's the link in her bluesky post:

Link to Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative website

Here is the bluesky post

the only good Adam Sandler movie is uncut gems

its a good movie, he is cast perfectly, and he gets punched in the face

He named his technology company after a wizard pondering orb wiretapped by LOTR-satan.

Im sure theres some great jokes here but I don't have anything snarky to say about it, I'm just tired.

Tbh I'm not even sure the app is breaking any laws at all. Reporting on the presence of law enforcement is (not always but sometimes) protected speech here. I don't use the app, and I haven't heard that they are trying to arrest anyone in regards to it.

Honestly though... Have you thought through everything you're saying? Sheltering Jewish people during the holocaust was illegal in Germany.

Anyway, have a nice day, those are my thoughts.

I don't want to drag this conversation into American politics, but I will say ICE has been doing things against USA law. Things are not great here. Even noncitizens have rights that need to be respected, and ICE is failing to do that. They have also arrested lawful residents, citizens too, in their sweeps.

The ICE tracker app is a protest app/ direct action sort of thing, not a tool for criminality. Surely you can see the value of being able to use technology to resist a tyrannical government?

By the way, do you want the USA government to potentially control which software can be installed on your phone? Google is an American company. USA courts could decide (international company) is violating (American IP law or something else) and instruct Google to disallow their app from being installed entirely.

They can pull apps off the app store now, and they do that, but currently you can still side load stuff.

I think that other guy's comment about the ICE tracker app really highlights the most important problem: If only signed apps can run, governments can pressure companies to remove access to certain apps. Even if Google allowed posting the app, the author would have to de-anonymize himself, and Google would have to comply with the law if they were subpoenaed. They would definitely give up the author's name. It is an issue of freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to do with your device what you choose to do with it. You might not have a use for it (right now) but it's not necessarily something you'd want to give up.

And, honestly, I would personally be affected by this, eventually. I use an app called NewPipe to watch youtube. It already isn't available on the app store (violates google's ToS), and I doubt they'd let people install this even if the author properly identified themselves, because I use it to avoid watching adds and to be able to "subscribe" to channels without an account. I could just borrow my husband's premium subscription, I guess, but I really only use NewPipe to watch certain things, and it lacks the algorithmically driven feed (which I am actively avoiding, Google tends to suggest things that make you angry for clicks).