Historically newspapers were not stolid registers of factual happenings. That’s a modern invention. The press was an essential venue for advocacy in the American Revolution and papers were where political viewpoints were expressed.

If you report a scandal as just facts because of some imagined role of journalists as simple archivists of events, the general public is unlikely to recognize it as a scandal.

As a thing that is wrong and dangerous or just an event that happened today?

This whole fucking story is about a law on record. They’re not talking about just taking Adams out back for a summary execution.

It’s not software engineers that say that. All these shitty business bros like to pretend they’re techies when their only role in technology is lying about it to scam funding.

At that point it will be “too close to the election, so ruling on it would be improperly prejudicial”.

She was the ultimate DEI hire.

DEI is something leftists use as an epithet. You’re definitely here to advance leftism.

Your actions are indistinguishable from someone trying to suppress progressive action. You call for something no one is going to do (take up arms) and make moronic absolutist statements to drive rancor within progressive action.

You don’t need someone to give you coordinates or get you a gun. You could do that yourself. If you’re serious, just go do it, and mention Lemmy so we all get to say we interacted with the guy online. You don’t need our help or approval if you think that’s the next step. But you’re not going to do anything, just bitch about everyone else doing things you say are pointless. You’re just here to talk a big game and criticize everyone else to kill any sort of organizing or solidarity.

I think Kamala was an embarrassment that deserved to be called out, Biden is evil, and the establishment often cares more about suppressing progressives than beating Republicans, but I absolutely downvoted that dumb as shit comment.

The Democrats can be responsible for failing to defeat fascism, complicit in genocide and the backsliding of civil rights, and a problem in need of active and forceful change without saying stupid things like they’re just as bad as the guy empowering Nazis, destroying the civil service, and persecuting trans people with deadly results.

That’s fucking stupid online edgelord politics.

That’s still not being a scientist. Might as well induct Steve Jobs or the Sacklers.

I think you’d need a little more than that to make sure the restriction isn’t used defensively by harassers (one of the reasons people ask for this is to show others bad behavior in their replies). But it does feel like a solvable problem.

And Mastodon having more active moderation (since you can proactively look for an instance that meets your moderation expectations) also means the stuff that can’t be handled mechanically can be managed.

WHY DO THEY HAVE CLASSIFIED DATA?

That’s not something you just give access to because someone says they want it and they’re high up in the command structure.