I know everyone is raring to minecraft AOC right now but can someone explain go me why the CHP would go do the bidding of the Capitol Police for a congresswoman uninanimously hated by law enforcement over a tweet she probably didn't read? I don't doubt the experience was terrifying for @queeralamode but when I read this I'm feeling like something is missing.
Yeah i feels its more just about it beig pro palestine than anti AOC.
Because people see something they want to believe and stop thinking about it. Leftists are no more immune to confirmation bias than anyone else.
Twitter really needs to go away. Reddit isn't immune to this either, but at least the length of the post that you would need to make to get this level of attention makes it easier to poke holes.
We have been so ready to cancel AOC (I know she has done bad stuff) that we are saying stuff that makes us sound insane to anyone that isn't a hyper-online communist.
We're a little less prone imo but still have a healthy serving.
And it's usually pretty :LIB:
Oh I fully believe the cops would come harass this person. I don't really know who they are but they'll fuck with a random person for little to no reason as it is, so that all tracks. I just don't see her directing that, despite Max Blumenthal's assertion that she asked her supporters to report critics to social media censors.
When we give more to the people enforcing a police state than several nations give to their entire military this is the inevitable outcome.
AOC sending jack-booted thugs to socialists to harass, bully, and intimidate them because of thought crime is the most predictable part of 2021
Daring the feds to come visit me in the middle of bumfuck nowhere outside of the USA.
But stuff like this is seriously messed up
I guess us non-American posters just have to wait until relations to the US deteriorate so much that they start droning their allies.
Oh wait, they're already doing that in Pakistan.
Sometimes I wish I anonimized myself before starting to post "Death To America" cuz maybe I would like to visit Yellowstone someday.
They aren't gonna check your fucking chapo account lol, gonna look at your ID and be like "are you areenAyi on the bear website?" They prob will check your bird site of that's connected at all.
Then what the fuck do they expect? People called "Muhjaideen 'The Yank Bomber' Chavez" to apply for a visa?
Idk I'm trapped in the shithole country idk what they ask to get in. I'm pretty sure it's like a fee and a background check.
Yeah well if I was the person doing the background check I'd check all my browser data and accounts diligently provided by Google and my internet provider.
Also, if those fuckers don't grant you the visa, they keep the money. Also you need to have bought a plane ticket in order for them to maybe grant you the visa.
Yeah the fee and the money(and keeping brown people out) are what they care about. People granting visas prob aren't given access to the super egregious NSA/Google collab shit.
I've been mostly talking out of my ass too so yeah.
"giant government of babies" is the correct response yes, this is definitely about israel if it even happened. "AOC sent jackbooted thugs to intimidate/silence critics!!" is....not it, lol. take a walk.
Seems weird and unlikely to actually be about AOC, assuming it happened.
"I credulously believe every bit of text I read on social media" is my favorite brand of chapo post
When I first saw this my first thought was that it was some kind of half-baked op by the Capitol Police (as an extension of the general hostility cops have against her) to get her supporters to turn on her.
Because like the poster pointed out, they literally didn't do shit. Like think of all the usual death threats and dumb shit AOC gets sent to her why would she focus specifically on this one person who didn't even post anything that bad or critical of her
The post was literally "I disagree with Ms. AOC, very disappointing"
Assuming the visit happened, I would would interpret the AOC reference is a cover and possibly right wing humor ("ha ha AOC sent us") and the intel community is involved. Because they do this kind of thing and the pretext rarely makes sense.
Idk, this still doesn't change my stance on her (ergo: glad she's in her position but not worshipping her as a hero of the revolution)
The most maddening part about the AOC discourse is that even if there were a hundred AOCs in government rn it still wouldn't lead to a revolution of any kind because you need actual movements of people to push forward the goals of some kind of socialist project. And that involves stuff like mutual aid and breaking down theory into more digestible forms for people who aren't weirdo academics or sicko book-readers. Yknow, talking to people
The word: critical support comes to mind a lot with AOC but if people disagree that's fine and I'm glad we're in a space where it can be discussed from a leftist PoV and not the usual chud-lib axis where its either playing defensive for bad policy or trashing the opponent.
Sure but I'm not really talking about whether AOC is good...
Okay but this is a tweet about (supposedly) the California Highway Patrol harassing someone because the Capital Hill Police, who famously do their best to protect AOC by fucking off on Jan 6 lol, told them to, because it a tweet that nobody could interpret as a threat.
VPN won’t save you if Twitter is connected to your phone number.
why tf would you give police and the government the benefit of the doubt :galaxy-brain:
We don't even know if the cops are involved in the first place is the thing
It's just a DNS server usually run on a raspberry pi that blocks advertising and tracking requests. I use one (though I use the Adguard home software, not Pi-hole), and it's pretty cool. I think it blocks between 60-80% of all my DNS requests.
Bold of you to assume I understand anything you said. I need a tutorial on what to install and use.
A DNS server converts hostnames/web addresses to IP addresses. With a Pi-hole, you use blocklists, that contain the hostnames/web addresses of ads and tracking domains. When the Pi-hole is asked to access those domains, it simply tells your computer that they do not exist.
https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html
https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Getting-Started
https://pi-hole.net/
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/#one-step-automated-install
DNS is how you computer turns your favorite website's domain name, www.dailykos.com, into an actual IP address for your own network to talk to. A DNS provider is a server that does this for you. It's normally configured to be an IP address run by your internet provider, though sometimes people set it to a Google, Cloudflare, or Mozilla server or actually run their own entire server.
The adblocker in your browser blocks domains associated with ads and junk when your browser asks for them. PiHole sits between your network and the outside world, doing basically the same thing but for all network traffic before it could get to any browser. It's adblock for your whole network. It does this by acting as a DNS provider itself, where it's really just blocking certain domains and forwarding non-blocked ones to a typical DNS provider.
