The darkly funny thing about this, is that he’s probably saying this because there’s an election coming up.
Clearly thinks this’ll be a vote winner with their electorate.
The nasty party never really changes does it?
It’s obvious everywhere. If anything it’s often worse in the fediverse, because communities are smaller and extremists are more able to dominate the discussion.
There may not be a lemmy rule against it, but damaging someone’s reputation with false accusations is libel.
All quite implausible, but why any mod would take the risk when a generic reason will suffice or simple insult would suffice is beyond me.
It’s similar amateur hour shit here on kbin. You can ask to have your account deleted, but it won’t happen. If I was a dickhead, I could file a GDPR complaint. You only need to rub one arsehole the wrong way, to open yourself up to a whole load of entirely unnecessary bullshit.
Here’s the thing: no one’s going to do anything about it, but technically this may amount to libel.
On reddit you’re banned via private message, so no one knows why you’d been banned, even if the reason is bogus. If someone accuses you of something in a comment, you can defend yourself. You have the right to reply. But in the fediverse you’re banned and if the mod does it for a made-up reason, that false reason is publicly viewable in the modlog without you being able to do anything about it. They’ve maliciously damaged your reputation without any recourse, right to defend yourself / right of reply.
Now imagine at one point OP’s username is linked to their actual name. An employer does a google, finds they’ve been banned for homophobia. Some arsehole doxxes OP, and sends a picture of their being banned for homophobia to their employer. They’re fired for allegedly being homophobic on social media. At that point, a good lawyer could potentially prove libel and damages caused. OP’s clearly annoyed by all this. Now imagine someone with too much time and money on their hands.
It’s real amateur hour shit. Sure being sued for libel is incredibly unlikely, but there are only downsides to not erring on the side of caution with stuff like this. Want to ban someone? Make up a generic or non-defamatory reason, or simply call them a dickhead, and go on with your day.
Stuff like this, the failure to respect GDPR/Privacy and NetzDG laws, a failure to properly deal with CSAM material… it’s a ticking time bomb under the whole fediverse.
It’s not The Wire or The Sopranoes.
It is genuinely fun and bingeable.
Too much military industrial complex money in politics.
It’s shocking to realise how much of capitalism is just irrational bullshit tulip mania nonsense.
Sure, AI’s going to change the world, but some of the valuations are absurd.
How many succesful zombie invasions has the US suffered?
Oh, you want to pretend I said bombing an embassy is ok, so you can entertain yourself arguing against that.
On the one hand, scary.
On the other hand, it’s a military’s job to prepare for all potential conflicts.
Hell, there’s also this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONOP_8888
Or this:
Do you disagree that bombing an embassy is bad?
Did you like Israel before they bombed this embassy?
Israel has nuclear weapons. Iran doesn’t. Israel can get away with strikes like this. Iran uses proxies to do similar but deny involvement. Their proxy Hezbollah has obviously been busy since October, and the commanders killed were involved with that. Or maybe it’s a response to October 7th. Iran themselves have claimed that October 7th was retaliation for the killing of Soleimani:
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/12/27/iran-hamas-clash-motive-oct-7-massacre/
They have since retracted that statement and Hamas has always denied it, but yeah.
Obviously, bombing an embassy is bad, but it’s not as if they’re going to convince their detractors anyway, so why would they care about people who were going to hate them anyway hating them some more?
A bit like how Iran gets away with funding terrorists who target civilians, because anyone who hates Israel isn’t suddenly going to hate Israel any less because of it.
Things are escalating towards a larger war.
Like China, but don’t like China.
Vietnam is a unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic, one of the two communist states (the other being Laos) in Southeast Asia. Although Vietnam remains officially committed to socialism as its defining creed, its economic policies have grown increasingly capitalist, with The Economist characterising its leadership as “ardently capitalist communists”. Under the constitution, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) asserts their role in all branches of the country’s politics and society. The president is the elected head of state and the commander-in-chief of the military, serving as the chairman of the Council of Supreme Defence and Security, and holds the second highest office in Vietnam as well as performing executive functions and state appointments and setting policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam#Government_and_politics
It really says something that a country like Vietnam, which was carpet bombed by the US and suffered abhorrent atrocities at the hands of Americans, would still rather have close ties with the US in large part because they’re worried about China.
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