[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev -4 points 2 days ago

That's a pretty blatant misrepresentation of what happened though. This makes it sound like the rioters started the violence on June 2nd forcing a government response, but that's not the case. The CCP had already declared martial law on May 20th and had mobilised 30 divisions. The PLA was first sent in at that time, but because the protestors blocked them they couldn't advance into the city and were ordered to wait on the 24th.

On the 1st of June, two individual reports (the Li Peng report and the MMS report) were published within the Politburo, decrying US influences and advocating direct military action. The CCP decided that day that military action would be used against the protestors.

June 2nd saw an incident with a PAP jeep that inflamed tensions. But I can't personally find a source claiming firebombings and lynchings at this time. The jeep incident was the trigger that made the students believe military action was at hand though. Only on June 3rd did tensions escalate further, when the PLA advanced into the city and clashed with protestors trying to repel them. This is when I can first find the protestors using molotov cocktails and trying to beat soldiers to death, but at the same time the PLA had opened fire with live, expanding ammunition on the protestors (so they certainly weren't 'unarmed'). From there it only escalated further of course. So the protestors were fighting in response to the PLA advancing into the city to break up the protest, not the other way around.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 0 points 5 days ago

Afghanistan's suicide rate is 1.84. Palestine is at 0.77, Syria at 0.94. These places must be heaven on Earth then!

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 82 points 1 year ago

Trying to shift further right won't work. You can't do "what the other party does" because they already do it and they do it better.

Find original messaging, take back the narrative. Then you get to tell the story you're good at.

Trump does this exceptionally well. By spouting all kinds of shocking horseshit, the media doesn't stop talking about him. This lets him dominate the narrative. You could see them panic when Kamala was nominated, because suddenly the DNC controlled the narrative for a bit, and polling showed Kamala taking the lead. That advantage evaporated as Trump seized control of the front pages again.

This doesn't just happen in the US. Here in the Netherlands, the campaign was not initially but later on dominated by talk on migration from the PVV. Of course other parties tried to respond by talking about migration, which only helped to legitimise the PVVs talking points.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 83 points 1 year ago

You'd be surprised how functional the illiterate can be.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 89 points 1 year ago

Either:

  • The report incriminates him, and Johnson is defending a paedophile.
  • The report exonerates him, and Johnson is actively preventing Gaetz' exoneration.

Both options make Johnson a shitstain.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 89 points 2 years ago

Plenty of fun to be had with LLMs.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 77 points 2 years ago

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 92 points 2 years ago

If Microsoft is unable to verify ownership of the account, they shouldn't take ownership of your files.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 88 points 2 years ago

It's only an Oxford comma if it's from the region of Oxford. Otherwise it's just sparkling interpunction.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 79 points 2 years ago

I don't think about them at all to be honest. Total disinterest.

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