50501.chat is apparently a thing, and you just need a "valid" email to register (no admin approval).
It makes me laugh because these are the Reddit liberals that decry an authoritarian, totalitarian, dictator who uses covert tactics to manipulate places like Reddit against the freedoms and ideas they hold so dear. A dictator who fears their freedom of thought and freedom of speech, their freedom to choose their associations. They believe they are being manipulated by an army of subservient shills and bots who shape narratives and spread bad ideas through the subtle manipulation of algorithms. So when it comes time to break free from these "oppressive structures", they end up building the exact kind of imagined oppressive structure they rail against. Meanwhile, Lemmy admins twittle their thumbs, unable to even edit a community on the instances they control unless someone appoints them as a moderator of that community. They can't even appoint themselves as moderators of another community; it has to be another administrator who does it.
lol I'm glad I disabled their feed. How embarrassing.
50501.chat is apparently a thing, and you just need a "valid" email to register (no admin approval).
Lets get those numbers up! New libRP server unlocked.
What part of "Nature is man’s inorganic body – nature, that is, insofar as it is not itself human body. Man lives on nature – means that nature is his body, with which he must remain in continuous interchange if he is not to die. That man’s physical and spiritual life is linked to nature means simply that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature." Do these people not understand?
I'm not even a practicing vegan, but I understand how animal liberation exists as a link in the chain of all human activity that impacts nature.
I really should give this a read soon.
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/11767
On Nov. 28 following a call by the grassroots union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), Italian workers held a 24-hour general strike that limited airline flights and train travel within Italy and disrupted work. The next day many strikers joined the mass demonstration in Rome for the International Day of . . .
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"Leftism begins with a rejection of capitalism" I have to make a note of that one.
Piefed is also full of admin level manipulation controls that allow the admin to shadow ban you, make your votes have less weight. They can perform the same level of vote manipulation on a per instance bases. They can boost their friends while making those critical of them get no votes from users. You can't view any of this with out an admin account either. I think they can even make you subbed or unsubbed to a comm without your consent. It has automaton to auto hide your comments if you're not conforming to the group think. They can make your account flagged for all users with a warning simply based on your over all score in the community.
My Costco is selling prebuilt computers, how much money could you make buying it and reselling the RAM and Video Card I wonder.
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Platner 20 Points Ahead of Mills in Maine Senate Race as Critics Spotlight Her Anti-Worker Veto Record
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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/11460
It's been more than a month since a media firestorm over old Reddit posts and a tattoo thrust US Senate candidate Graham Platner into the national spotlight, just as Maine Gov. Janet Mills was entering the Democratic primary race in hopes of challenging Republican Sen. Susan Collins—a controversy that did not appear at the time to make a dent in political newcomer Platner's chances in the election.
On Wednesday, the latest polling showed that the progressive combat veteran and oyster farmer has maintained the lead that was reported in a number of surveys just after the national media descended on the New England state to report on his past online comments and a tattoo that some said resembled a Nazi symbol, which he subsequently had covered up.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), which endorsed Platner on Wednesday, commissioned the new poll, which showed him polling at 58% compared to Mills' 38%.
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Nancy Zdunkewicz, a pollster with Z to A Polling, which conducted the survey on behalf of the PCCC, said the poll represented "really impressive early consolidation" for Platner, with the primary election still six months away.
“Platner isn’t just leading in the Democratic primary. He’s leading by a lot, 20 points—58% are supporting him,” Zdunkewicz told Zeteo. “Only 38% are supporting Mills. There are very few undecided voters or weak supporters for Mills to win over at this point in the race."
Platner has consistently spoken to packed rooms across Maine since launching his campaign in August, promoting a platform that is unapologetically focused on delivering affordability and a better quality of life for Mainers.
He supports expanding the popular Medicare program to all Americans; drew raucous applause at an early rally by declaring, “Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza"; and has spoken in support of breaking up tech giants and a federal war crimes investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean.
Mills entered the race after Democratic leaders including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) urged her to. She garnered national attention earlier this year for standing up to President Donald Trump when he threatened federal funding for Maine over the state's policy of allowing students to play on school athletic teams that correspond with their gender.
But the PCCC survey found that when respondents learned details about each candidate, negative critiques of Mills were more damaging to her than Platner's old Reddit posts and tattoo.
Zdunkewicz disclosed Platner's recent controversy to the voters she surveyed, as well as his statements about how his views have shifted in recent years, and found that 21% of voters were more likely to back him after learning about his background. Thirty-nine percent said they were less likely to support him.
The pollster also talked to respondents about the fact that establishment Democrats pushed Mills, who is 77, to enter the race, and about a number of bills she has vetoed as governor, including a tax on the wealthy, a bill to set up a tracking system forremoved kits, two bills to reduce prescription drug costs, and several bills promoting workers' rights.
Only 14% of Mainers said they were more likely to vote for Mills after learning those details, while 50% said they were less likely to support her.
At The Lever, Luke Goldstein on Wednesday reported that Mills' vetoes have left many with the "perception that she’s mostly concerned with business interests," as former Democratic Maine state lawmaker Andy O'Brien said. Corporate interests gave more than $200,000 to Mills' two gubernatorial campaigns.
Earlier this year, Mills struck down a labor-backed bill to allow farm workers to discuss their pay with one another without fear of retaliation. Last year, she blocked a bill to set a minimum wage for farm laborers, opposing a provision that would have allowed workers to sue their employers.
She also vetoed a bill banning noncompete agreements and one that would have banned anti-union tactics by corporations.
"In previous years," Goldstein reported, "she blocked efforts to stop employers from punishing employees who took state-guaranteed paid time off, killed a permitting reform bill to streamline offshore wind developments because it included a provision mandating union jobs, and vetoed a modest labor bill that would have required the state government to merely study the issue of paper mill workers being forced to work overtime without adequate compensation."
Speaking to PCCC supporters on Wednesday, Platner suggested the new polling shows that many Mainers agree with the central argument of his campaign: "We need to build power again for working people, both in Maine and nationally.”
The survey, he said, “lays clear what our theory is, which is that we are not going to defeat Susan Collins running the same exact kind of playbook that we’ve run in the past—which is an establishment politician supported by the power structures, supported by Washington, DC, coming up to Maine and trying to run a kind of standard race... We are really trying to build a grassroots movement up here."
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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/11477
Fred Hampton Sr. This Dec. 4, 2025, will mark the 56th anniversary of the assassination of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton. The following article last appeared online Dec. 4, 2024, and has been updated. Fred Hampton, the official chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and . . .
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Every Friday in my town there are still a handful of people hanging out and waving flags near the center of town. It's showed down since it got cold. But no, not really.