DIdn’t know Indie Beat TV was a thing

I’ve seen a mix of them admiring countries enacting reactionary policies or being “orderly” (tends to be connected with religion to an extent) and dissing countries that do the opposite or for holding different religious values, but they seem to think that the US needs to have homogeneous values/demographics “like other countries do”. Israel may fall under the “holding different religious values” category in their book (depends on how MAGA they are), and Palestine does a lot more so.

https://old.lemmy.world/

Only a gaming PC? I’m bringing my entire homelab

MAGA is an “America first” movement, so the opposition to Israel is probably a combination of it not being “America first” and Christian nationalist ideologies, so I have no idea why they would ever support Palestine instead.

Ok then let’s dissect your statement.

Short term gain.

Not a complete sentence so not even sure what this means. But when taking it into the context of my statement that you replied to (which was about the effectiveness of the protests), I assume you’re saying that I was focusing on short-term gain in contrast to focusing on the long term when determining the effectiveness of the protests. Which hints that I should be taking different aspects into consideration and arguing differently. Which is a position, which I then assume you intend to defend.

If the topic wasn’t about the effectiveness, which was the primary topic of the comment you replied to, that should have been clarified.

It’s more about long term awareness.

Based on what’s inferred from the previous statement, this further validates its intent. It also brings up what specifically should be considered when arguing differently, which is “awareness”.

It is unfortunate for those now. But

“Some of what you said is correct, but…” Argumentative-style writing, reinforcing the intent stated earlier.

it’s not something that changes overnight.

Based on the context of the previous statements, reiterates that the effectiveness is determined by the long term, specifically “awareness”, as opposed to how I measured it.

So it seems like you were trying to justify something.

The way you initially commented made it seem like you were arguing that long-term awareness justifies its classification as “very” effective and I’m arguing that it doesn’t. And now you’re saying that you’re arguing the same thing I am, so I can’t even tell what your stance is at this point or why you brought it up.

But you crap on mine for understanding that I don’t have any better ideas too, but am aware of what protests do in terms of change? Got it.

What’s wrong with that? The title of this post was that protests are “very” effective. I’m arguing that they’re not, and apparently so are you.

With the peaceful protests I’ve been to or that have happened at my university, most of the time they haven’t tried to stop anything aside from cops being stationed waiting for it to deescalate, then the protest eventually fizzles out and people forget it happened. There are a couple exceptions to these though:

1. One protest happened at the same time as a bunch of other protests on different campuses, and a large number of troopers and other law enforcement with weapons shut it down and arrested dozens of people for refusing to leave an area. There was a lot of shady (and illegal) actions happening between the university admin and Texas government, where even Zionist Reddit shitlibs thought it was extreme. There was an investigation going on led by a student-run newspaper since then, not sure if it’s still happening. As far as why they did this, my guess is: (1) fear of property damage based on actions in other protests and (2) governor Abbott wanting to put on a political show by exercising his power, but I highly doubt it was because it posed a real threat to their power.

2. The official student newspaper reporting on pro-Palestine topics painting the university in a negative light, eventually leading the university to fire the entire newspaper. Probably due to a fear of reputational damage so they wanted to impose additional obstacles (which of course backfired).

Overall these didn’t result in any actual policy changes so there wasn’t much of an outcome. It did cause some reputational damage, where even FIRE thought our admin was too fascist and ranked us almost last. It’s probably impacting their enrollment and hiring faculty at least a little bit (but there are a lot of other factors negatively impacting this as well). Also resulted in more financial burdens for the protesters involving bail fees and needing to fund their new independent newspaper in different ways.

There was another (non-peaceful) protest I heard of in the area involving an ICE agent being hospitalized and protestors facing terrorism charges. This also didn’t result in any policy changes, but did have some real-world harm to fascists and threat to their security, but also larger financial burdens and a lot more difficult to build popular support over.

I’m not saying I have better ideas, but if it doesn’t fix anything until it’s too late, “very” is not a good word to describe its effectiveness

ok so it will get fixed after the damage has already been done, got it

What is awareness going to do? People are already plenty aware of what’s going on, this was one of the first genocides to be livestreamed.

I’m pretty sure HDMI out through USB is still not supported also

I used Rust with Deepseek for a small project for copying and pasting snippets and it went pretty well, but I wouldn’t trust it to work with and debug a codebase on its own, especially not an OS

Thanks to the protests being effective, Palestine is no longer being genocided, immigrants aren’t being sent to concentration camps, and the US is not threatening random countries… oh wait

Is that a new feature? I was looking for it a couple years ago when moving from Proton to a different service and didn’t think it was an option.

Or web applications, Firefox/Chrome uses like 32 GB RAM and constantly crashes my computer because of it

For algorithmic discovery, I use Spotube with the Listenbrainz library backend using their discover playlists. Sometimes I listen to playlists associated with communities I’m in, which are on Spotify so I also use Spotube. For offline listening I use Qobuz, although their DRM has broken it occasionally when I needed it so I want to switch that to Spotube as well once they improve their offline functionality and fix related bugs, or set up Navidrome.

Spotube works now