@cjd @sean Indeed, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and as far as I can tell there isn't even ordinary evidence that it was a deliberate attempt at genocide.

@cjd @sean Also Nancy Reagan's War on People Who Use Certain Kinds of Drugs.

Not that this is just a Republican problem; Clinton brought us mandatory minimums.

@cjd @sean 16 countries have recognized the Holodomor as genocide.

Doing some further searching, I have discovered that apparently Scotland had the blight far worse than Ireland yet suffered far fewer deaths. The Irish appear to have been neglected because they were Irish and Catholic.

But if we're going to call that a genocide I think there's a lot more we should be calling genocide. Like the US's mass imprisonment of Black people.

@cjd Trump has kept in touch with exactly one foreign leader since leaving office: Kim Jong Un. He is unequivocally a monster.

@cjd He also used legislation as a weapon against states that didn't support him. And he contested the results of the 2020 election with no evidence and caused a huge riot at the capitol that got a bunch of people killed, then never took responsibility for it. He's unequivocally a monster.

@cjd Trump left Puerto Rico out in the cold because they're brown. I don't have mixed feelings about him.

@cjd Trump sees rule of law as a threat. He wants to throw it out and return us to rule of men, like China and Russia.

While Bush, Clinton, and Reagan were certainly responsible for many evil things, trying to end democracy was not among their crimes.

@sean I have never read anything that said the government was doing any mining, but it's pretty much impossible to distinguish between government and private industry in China since they're so firmly in bed with one another.

All cryptocurrency transactions are supposedly illegal in China. But MicroBT makes ASIC miners in Shenzhen and sells them for Bitcoin. So what’s happening to that Bitcoin? Do they get special dispensation as long as they sell it outside China? Are they selling it to the government for Renminbi?

@lanodan @r3vlibre Surprise, surprise, someone with political views that shit all over an oppressed minority and regularly engages in gaslighting turns out to be a piece of shit all the way around. Who could have predicted?

@lanodan @r3vlibre Perhaps it's time to auto-block all Pleroma instances since the remaining devs and every user are people who are OK with Gleason being a maintainer and therefore maybe don't belong in the decent parts of the Fediverse.

@Hyolobrika @lanodan @r3vlibre I haven't really decided yet. It seems to me that there are enough open source developers and projects out there that we don't have to accept shitty developers. And exercising one's freedom of association is a time honored method of dealing with shitty people.

@cidney @sean "Somewhat."

@clacke And then you can never clean it off and they keep carrying you back there until you actually do die.

Archive 81 was awesome. For the story, not just for the '90s tech. But it even has a PXL-2000, a camcorder Fisher Price started selling for kids in 1987 that recorded black and white video on audio cassettes.

@clacke @jasper @tedu This is certainly an argument I've heard capitalists make; my response (as someone who is also essentially a capitalist) is that there is no fundamental right to a business model, particularly one that you haven't already been using for a long time.

@tedu Looks like a tax on stupidity to me. I'm in favor.

@jasper @tedu Why does the company have the ability to remove the free one? Is it private land?

Lotteries are somewhat problematic because they tend to be largely patronized by lower income folks, while I doubt that would be the case with something like this.