Fellas, is it woke for YouTube to funnel viewers towards pro-fascist videos?

Unfortunately:

However, her veto is only symbolic as the prime minister’s Georgian Dream party has enough members in parliament to override it by holding another vote.

Personally, I’ve yet to see a single American successfully use guns to protect any other constitutional right from government infringement.

The Battle of Athens is probably the most uniquely clear-cut example of what you’re asking for, unless we count the American Revolutionary War itself.

Other successful examples mostly involve activists using non-violent protest to push for change, while using firearms to protect themselves from violent reactionaries that would otherwise murder them. Notably, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. For a modern example, there’s various “John Brown Gun Clubs” and other community defense organizations providing security at LGBTQ events against fascist groups that seek to terrorize event-goers.

It’s also worth noting that resistance is often worthwhile even if it doesn’t result in unqualified victory. For example, the Black Panthers’ armed cop-watching activities saved a lot of Black folks from brutal beatings at the hands of the police, even if the organization was eventually crushed by the federal government.

I have seen lots of examples like Waco and Ruby Ridge, where the government should have tried harder to deescalate, but in the end, everyone died. The closest example I can think of where the government did backoff was the Bundy standoff and all those guys were “defending” was their ability to let their cattle graze illegally on federal land because they didn’t want to pay for access like everyone else.

It sounds like you might be in a bit of a filter-bubble. I don’t mean any offense by this, it’s a normal thing that tends to happen to people. If the news sources you read and the people you talk to don’t mention these things because it doesn’t mesh with their worldview, how would you hear about them?

Strong gun control requires a police state, and it’s advocates are okay with this. Some of them (mostly suburbanites and the like) just imagine that that police state will never be directed against them.

Others are capitalists that actively want to inflict a police state on the rest of us, for their own benefit. It’s a lot easier to break strikes and enforce “work discipline” when the working class is disarmed.

Food Courts Martial

I think it’s actually a pretty old term. Definitely useful for the internet era though, now that we end up coming into contact with many more “interesting” characters than in the old days. xD

Possibly. I’ve seen comments from them here and there in various places, but it’s true that I haven’t had the responsibility of moderating them like you have.

HardlightCereal seemed more like a crank than a troll, to me. Cranks are by definition at least somewhat annoying, and tend to get mistaken for and treated as trolls. They’re not malicious the way trolls are though, and can be a positive influence. I think them drawing attention to this particular issue was a good thing, at least.

Ancaps: Government is bad because tyranny, we should get rid of it.

Also Ancaps: Here’s how we can still enforce copyright, abortion bans, and racial segregation without a government! 🥰

I love these memes that turn into threads full of vim tips. You really can do anything within vim. You can even exit vim!: !killall vim

Huh, I’m going to have to try that at some point. It’s even got nim support.

Link for the lazy

Oh wow, I guess it doesn’t take too much. I copied your survey post over to r/nim with a “cross-posted from nim@programming.dev” link, and also invited the author of Enu to post here. I’ll keep at it.

Alright, not a bad idea.

Least active communities

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I haven’t been working on my nim project lately, so I haven’t had much to say. I’ve been missing using the language, though.

I resubscribed to r/nim on reddit just now, so if I see anything particularly interesting there I’ll cross-post it.

Interesting. I was thinking more of gray area stuff than outright lying, like playing up the importance of facts that support one’s position and downplaying those that don’t.

I read somewhere a while back that it’s supposedly an evolutionary thing. In a social competition for resource allocation, confidently arguing your position regardless of its correctness is more beneficial than admitting you may be wrong.

It’s probably exacerbated by the internet, where the relative anonymity and psychological disconnection further reduces any benefits to admitting to an error.

Alright, fair.

Typical tankie response.

I dunno, seems kinda bourgeois? Leftist mostly clean their own toilets. They also want to eliminate class stratification, even for those that had conservative parents.

Fair enough. Thank you for the transparency and for resolving it quickly.