surfrock66

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  • I think your definition of actively supporting a genocide is absolutely insane and counterproductive. I think the fact that you are all up in arms about gaza but aren’t saying anything about the other crises in the world right now, like what’s happening in Myanmar or what’s happening in Darfur, means that you’re just hopping on a hate bandwagon from Twitch streamers. There are so many things going on wrong with the world that if you take a hard moral line against everything you can take a nuanced position on, you would literally live in a bubble of one.

    If I took every argument that is important to me, including those about tech sovereignty and the environment and labor rights, I wouldn’t be able to participate in any form of the internet.

    I definitely don’t agree with Ethan on everything, but overall I like the show and I like having a group of people who I’ve built a rapport listening to. I think having family from Israel and having lived in Israel gives someone a perspective and a position that I don’t have to fully agree with but can understand why it is different than mine. I can listen to them without having to agree to every little thing they say or do. I would think a rational person that doesn’t like the show could just choose to not pay attention to it. Instead, you come in here and post a bunch of nonsense from an incredibly biased and unrealistic, skewed perspective. Think about what you posting a comment did for the people of Gaza.

    I’m willing to bet that you and I agree on more than we disagree about. I think what’s happening in Gaza is a genocide, and I think the government of Israel needs to be held accountable. I think US foreign policy is way too invested on positions in the Middle East that are allowing us to look past things and we need to reduce our dependence on places that can have unpredictable governments. I think a massive investment in renewable technology, and particularly things like fusion research, would help to change the geopolitics of much of the world. And until then, we need to focus on environmental issues because things like water politics and oil are actually causing a lot of the conflicts we are dealing with because environmental crises are causing migrations which are causing other geopolitically destabilizing events. I think the importance of big tech in our lives has meant that these mega corporations have more influence than governments with less accountability and we need a huge movement of internet sovereignty to get us away from these mega corporations.

    It’s crazy to me that you come into a place making a scene about enemies when we could probably find a lot more reasons to be allies. Making people who actually do disagree with you feel like they are being yelled at for just enjoying a podcast probably does wonders for getting people to consider your side on other positions.


  • Are you an American? If so, have you exercised your 2nd amendment right against the tyrannical government, and do you pay taxes? If not, then you are also complicit and fail your own purity test.

    That’s the problem with a purity test, purity is a sliding scale. No realistic politician passes the purity test on this issue, effectively meaning people recuse themselves from civil political discourse, enabling it to get worse. You harm your own cause by being so unrealistically black and white on the issue. Don’t let the streamer beef color your politics… This story of interpersonal betrayal isn’t international policy, and you are a rube for letting them tell you who is intolerable.








  • surfrock66toFediverseIs the amount of Lemmy activity declining?
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    Yea, if people get too annoyed seeing the same story in 4 communities, I think eventually they consolidate down to one, and the fracturing reduces engagement across ALL the communities; a couple become ghost towns, etc. It’s a different sense of engagement to see 4 threads with 2-4 comments instead of seeing 1 with 20.


  • I think Lemmy needs a better way to federate communities, so if you sub to say a “Star Trek” community on 3 instances, you don’t get the same post 3 times, but instead it’s somehow linked and content federates; this would be at the community and not instance level, so there’s more community self-governance, and communities can migrate instances without so much intervention from instance admins. I think that will really help growth and decentralization.




  • It’s pretty well laid out; he CIVILLY went after 3 people who directly vocalized that people should watch the content nuke through their channels to deny Ethan money. He laid a trap by registering the copyright first, and since it’s civil, there’s no entrapment, it’s 100% valid. He’s definitely doing this out of vengeance for the reaction Hasan’s community has had to him; his position is slightly more forgiving to the people of Israel on October 7 (while denouncing Netanyahu, describing it as a genocide, denouncing West Bank settlers, donating money to Palestine, etc), and as a result Hasan’s community has used every chance to paint him as a far-right Zionist and have low-key encouraged people to harass Ethan, including things that have victimized his kids. He’s out for blood and to be honest I don’t know if I would do it differently in his shoes.