admin 1y ago • 80%
Thank you for your work !
admin 1y ago • 100%
Well thank you for the thoughtful, respectful and engaging response.
I do not advocate for the state surrendering its authority, far from it. The problem lies, to my mind, within some very abuse prone legal frameworks that are currently being put into place. For example, in France, local "préfets" (which are unelected officials that act as local governors) have been steadily gaining more and more powers that cannot be democratically countermended, or at great expense: they can limit people's movements, forbid demonstrations, etc.
That could be seen as a necessary measure against the rising polarization you talk about (a point on which we agree btw, 100%), but then again whenever the far right happens to be the one doing the agitating, the préfets are suspiciously slow to act.
For example, in Paris, the prefet did not forbid a neo Nazi march ending in an Aryan rock concert whereas a week before that he had forbidden multiple démonstrations against Macron's pension reforms. And the list goes on. Our minister of the interior refused yesterday to condemn a police union campaign labelling rioters in Parisian suburbs as "pests to be eradicated". This is not moderate.
Macron is not really a moderate. He acts like one and manages to feel like one from abroad perhaps. But here he is more and more leaning towards the exact type of authoritarian doctrin a moderate should, as you do, strive to impede. And the thing is, his actions, and the general apathy of many towards them, are reinforcing Le Pen's chances come 2027. And that scares me.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Our ranking is unfortunately not getting any better, just look at what is currently happening with Les soulèvements de la terre.
I understand Le Pen would be worse, I truly do. I actually voted against her in the last two elections. But imagine Le Pen in power, which is very likely to happen soon, with all those legal framework already in place. She is going to have the mother of all field days.
You absolutely can find my view to be an exaggeration. Some part of me hope it is. But I'm quite worried about our future as a country right now.
admin 1y ago • 88%
Whataboutism is a hell of a drug. I'm afraid people in many countries are so used to not having those freedoms that they look at us weird for trying to keep them.
admin 1y ago • 100%
I always expected someone to coin the term pornporn to describe the excess of pornographic images. Alas, it was not to be.
admin 1y ago • 96%
I live in France. The government here is using every single tool they have to prosecute radical leftists and environmentalists while ignoring the fact that more than 60 % of the police force has fascist adjacent ideals. I do not want these people spying on me, period. This is not some libertarian horseshit, trust me.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Preach. The shitshow is only getting started.
admin 1y ago • 100%
No approval is needed to launch a service in Europe. Them not launching simply means they know it is not regulation compliant.
admin 1y ago • 100%
T his is not new. He just stopped giving a shit about hiding it.
admin 1y ago • 100%
He is not going to stop, people outside France need to understand this. This man, despite his mild mannered centrist exterior, is an authoritarian. He will stop at nothing short of full tilt censorship. Environmental and political activists are being jailed for no reason while fascist groups run amok. This is bad.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Well, they do intend to federate...
admin 1y ago • 100%
Same. The AI truly are taking over, but instead of skynet we are going to be eradicated by meme bots.
admin 1y ago • 100%
This guys are litterally pissing on the captain while the Titanic sinks. Quite the move.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Fuck this is depressing.
admin 1y ago • 100%
He never gave a shit.
admin 1y ago • 100%
I was replying to the part where you said that "You can spin up your own email server tomorrow and start communicating with the world through the email protocol standards". While I agree that this is technically possible, it has become increasingly difficult (see this blog post for example).
admin 1y ago • 77%
Well they do have their hats.
admin 1y ago • 85%
This is true but if you were to do that most people would simply not receive your emails. The fight against spam has effectively turned email into an oligopoly.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Systemic racism and a president basically giving cops licence to beat up, torture and murder. Elle est belle la république bordel.
admin 1y ago • 100%
So it's not the rampant misery of the world he helped create and run that is keeping him awake at night, but the fear of the unwashed masses stringing him up for it.
I'd love for this kind of person to spontaneously combust during a bout of explosive diarrhea.
Apologies if that's already been asked, but since moving my instance 0.18 I can't seem to federate with kbin magazines any more. I just get empty feeds whenever I access them. Is this expected behaviour ? Thanks again to the Dev for their insane work lately.