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I’d expect a Russian hosting site to probably offer it to them at a cut price, if not for free.

Perhaps. Browser only given the app store bans

simpsons got it right again

I am concerned that the assault on the Capitol is only the start of a series of ever escalating confrontations between the swivel-eyed right wing and the rest of the world.
The Tea Party morphed to the Birthers to MAGA to Q. Momentum is building and the response needs to be met directly. You can’t extend an olive branch to an ideology that isn’t grounded in reality. You can’t compromise with fascism. These populist movements bring nothing to the table that could benefit society, so they have to be stopped...but how?
When their belief is based on fantasy, debunking the myths just entrenches their position. How do we offer an attractive alternative that they can get behind without turning the planet into the hand maids tale/mad max?

No idea. But it's interesting to compare and contrast with Islamic extremism.

Also it isn't having flawed beliefs that is inherently dangerous - look at people here who used to believe (and propagate) the myth that fillet brazed frames were less stiff than lugged, or people who still buy Ti stems.

question for velocio, if the powers that be took down lfgss.com for all it's anti rollerblader comments how would he get the thing back up and running without mainstream media corp ?

just interested to see how easy it would be

and now that amazon has taken down the q-anoners and parlers, wonder how many right wingers will stop using amazon, i'm pretty sure they're shopping takes priority over their principles, much like many people who use amazon

Yeah I agree there are parallels
Have you seen the Adam Curtis Documentary “the power of nightmares”
It draws that direct comparison even drilling down on the architects of Neo-Conservatism and Islamic Extremism to the same event at the same college. (If I remember rightly)

But yeah both sides are fuelled by misinformation and hold patriarchal fascist beliefs

It's the agitatiors that are the issue. Some people have blind faith in things and they look up to more successful / famous people (in thier opinion) thinking they what they say is Gospel.

I saw an article on the female from the Madalorin quoting the Princess Bride on Instagram. It just fuel for the flames when that shit is happening.

Rings a bell.

But then can anyone ever really remember which Adam Curtis doc is which, or even if they actually saw it or just dreamt it.

I was also thinking wider - ie in terms of the policy response of the dominant powers or calls for action by media. Haven't yet heard calls for moderate conservatives to apologise on behalf of these extremists and take steps to tackle the issues in their communities.

I wonder if Dreamhost will terminate their domain for AUP breach?

Also, using DreamHost's servers or network to conspire to commit or support the commission of illegal activities is forbidden as well.

Agreed... but... it does depend on majority. So one easy way to combat it is to establish a society in which the majority of both sides of the political divide can at least have trust or basic belief. Then myth builders and dragon slayers are marginalised in general dialogue and the danger remains fringe. It's still a danger but it's not a civil war. The real threat is when ideologies become amplified by the perception of security being utterly undermined right?

I think we're reaping what we sowed by establishing a very fragile veil over these insecurities in an unjust and unfair capitalist society? But the best solution to what is currently still a fairly manic (but growing) unease is to give stability back.

It all just shows what a house of cards it all is and why states like Russia find it so easy to sow discord with basic interference doesn't it.

Microcosm is a single binary self hosted thing that has no dependencies on major providers and can run on any Linux server and is horizontally scalable. We don't have apps on an app store, we're just a website. It's highly performant and can take a DDoS attack, and a lot of the underlying infra isn't even American... I.e. we have a .sm top level domain for the backend and are hosted in Europe.

The thing that could be taken down is the domain name, so I'd change it and would bring it up fast. Then I'd make the first resolver a proxy and would hide where the site was actually hosted.

I'm paranoid as hell so the site was designed with the experience of being sued by the BNP member and trying to ensure a future site would be hard to knock offline.

Parler were idiots, I am not.

^^ And @edscoble - if you 'Parklife' me for this I swear to God I'll steal your lectern.

Pompeo makes friends with Taiwan in an obvious move to antagonise China and make things difficult for Biden. Guess we’ll see more shenanigans over the coming week.

I'm imagining Donald every few minutes thinking 'I'll tweet about that' then remembering he's banned and getting ever more angry.

Of course the guy who stole the lectern whilst protesting a stolen election had not been registered to vote since 2008

I'm paranoid as hell so the site was designed with the experience of being sued by the BNP member

WTF!

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-capitol-riots-nancy-pelosi-lectern-man-arrested-b1784892.html%3famp

Mr Johnson is married to a physician and has five children, Florida’s WFLA News Channel 8 reports. The man is a registered voter with no party affiliation, but he has voted in the general elections from 2004 to 2020. He has previously faced charges of possession of marijuana and violation of probation, The Bradenton Herald reports.

Five kids. No wonder he spends so long on 8Chan.

Is he related to Boris?

After the fact, the White House very quickly found itself in a
supercharged version of the situation that Cruz and Hawley are also
in. They presumed they could cynically ride this movement for their
own ends. They gleefully lit match after match, and eventually to
their horror they managed to set themselves on fire along with
everyone else. They clearly incited these events. They saw them spin
rapidly out of control. They ended Wednesday afternoon with five
people dead, the Capitol defiled, and the country stunned.

From here: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2021/01/08/what-happened/

We’ll they’re both doing alright for themselves but operate on the basic presumption that there are some bits of privilege as yet unavailable to them and their friends so they’re prepared to act like proper dumbasses in order to grab what they can despite the fact they’ve been winning all along... so yeah - in a manner of speaking he is.

He's probably hoping for 10 years....

So what is their next step?

I see they're still active, just can't download and therefore no new users. But they have a very large and active base all encouraging each other to do something stupid.

Alex Jones is now shitting on Qanon. That is going to cause confusion.

https://mobile.twitter.com/raaleh/status/1348027106396151810