Just the mention of third parties will make liberals seethe and already blame you for the next lost election.

It’s a shame Usenet has become fully paid. It’s what ultimately pushed me into torrents. And the fact that small communities don’t have all the content out there for you to download via Usenet.

Yeah no was refering to the Meanwhileonthegrad or whatever it’s properly called. Not a fan of such far right communities being normalized.

Why would you link a post to such a vile community?

More of a “the bottom of the glass has cracks and is gonna leak any moment” person.

A first step would be to make a basis for your study an ideological interpretation of democracy.

You can quickly see if such studies are burger-eagle institute studies by looking at a few key examples. Compare Switzerland and Cuba. Some of the most democratic nations to have ever existed. Yet Cuba is always rated far worse because it’s in opposition to the cultural hegemony of the west. I.e. then a study uses a western definition of democracy that skews heavily in favour of some statistics while completely ignoring others. For example how democratic an economy is run is almost never any observed factor for democracy indexes. Then other things are weighted out of ideological bias, for example more parties = more democracy. Completely ignoring that party democracies are not the only form of democracy.

“Violence is wrong” mfers when the state executes someone. “Their violence is justified”

Take it with a pinch of salt.

It’s a politically biased study, not a neutral scientific study (Unscientific in its parameters for what constitutes a democracy). It’s another case of a burger-eagle institute study.

That is not to say that democracy is on a global decline. The study captures that but still it’s baseline is flawed.

At least they’re being honest for once.

I hate how so many countries call it minister and ministry of defence when they only use it for offensive wars, not defending their country.

2. Ist getting likelier by the decade.

Which country are Kagi servers hosted in?

Keep winning

Oh I meant specifically troll / disinformation bots in comments. Not automatic news posts or something.

And I guess it depends on what you define as a bot. Is a 50 cent army guy a bot if it’s still a human copy-pasting and writing disinformation?

Nah Lemmy has got bots too. I’m sure there’s instances without. But any general instance with any communities around news or politics will have bots.

Wait it actually runs that much better on Linux? Is that because of missing DRM or something?

The “we fool you” category is no longer mostly clergy, but mainly mass media nowadays.

Surely that means they’ll allow more apps onto their own app store with that, right? Right?

They’re not unblockable.

Every now and then Twitch wastes money on circumventing adblockers, but a few weeks later ublock filters will be updated to block that again. I’m currently watching without any ads or third party add-ons besides regular uBlock.

The seriously damaging part of capitalism is capitalism.