Endorsing a libertarian for president seems to be a contradictory statement, if it implies that a libertarian tries to run for president.

I mean, ok, there is a loophole in beliefs so to say, that non-libertarian politics may not be just or obligatory or possess that legal sacredness non-libertarians attribute them, but participating in those is not contradictory to being a libertarian. Even running for president still calling yourself a libertarian.

I suppose in USA the last pic is true. In Russia libertarians are mostly teenagers and adults of teenager mentality, and also the only real category of lone gloomy types not interested in activism and such.

Just that I haven’t heard of it being as praised as Signal, and since it appears to be intended for chat rooms more than for privacy, there’s natural suspicion that something is missed there.

Yes.

You think she did what she did with a guy 3 times her age because he was charismatic? It’s because he was the president.

Generally you would be right, but it seems Clinton really did have the kind of charisma to attract women almost unnaturally, long before he became the guy 3 times her age and a president.

I feel like I’m rambling but there’s so many obvious ways this was problematic, and you’re still just fucking ok with it?

No, just everything is relative, and some bad things are solved at the expense of other bad things.

But the big deal was Bill lying under oath to Congress about it, and Dem politicians and voters closed ranks and said it didn’t matter.

That’s what I said.

There’s not really an excuse to not learn about it now, political literacy literally saves lives. We need more informed voters.

LOL, I live in a country where most of the populace doesn’t understand what was wrong with mass repressions. They think some bad rich people were the majority of victims, and not typical Ukrainian and Siberian farmers. And of course they don’t understand that the government is not the property of its employees and politicians in power.

You have a long way to fall to reach that. But all those idiots were sufficiently informed. They chose to believe something worse.

I agree about that.

but describe what you see as specifically wrong with Matrix, please.

Federated with huge load on servers. I’d prefer something like old Skype with auth servers part interacting via activitypub or something like that.

OK, humans err. And also make mistakes, like being so confident on something they don’t know for sure.

If it’s specifically disallowed, then some people should be locked up.

a president lying about sexually taking advantage of interns in the oval office

I think the intern was willing and the problem was with lies.

Anyway, sometimes you have to release the steam even in the oval office.

Clinton is an unpleasant person (being best buddies with the current president before the latter’s brain rot due to neurosyphilis became irreversible, for example), but why the hell fscking someone there is a bigger deal than, for example, just ordering murders overseas or legally starting this whole mass surveillance thing?

There’s been a few articles recently about Session authors starting with Signal protocol, and then continuing without clear understanding what they do, thus that Session shouldn’t be used.

Matrix is a compromise, it’s not as much about security as it is about just modern FOSS chat.

They accidentally added a random guy to a Signal group. Not quite the same as classified documents on a self-hosted email server. I’ve heard US military uses Signal quite officially.

This should, of course, raise concerns that if they like Signal - they might want to self-host it, the client and the server are FOSS. They might even consider paying Signal the company to help them.

If could go off the Internet, I’d probably do that, but the hope of finding something good, sometimes delivered upon, and the few good people bring me back to the good and the bad parts.

I don’t think you know what depression is. Little correlation with outside circumstances is one of the traits.

We ever evolved? It’s just one case where you see it.

Russia fights for domestic political reasons.

Wha-ha-ha? I live in Russia, I promise you nobody will demand continuation if they say on TV that Putin got assfucked by Ukrainians and we lost. I also don’t notice anybody speaking about that war much. If by domestic political reasons you mean that independent and well-existing Ukraine is a threat to the regime - then surely. Except not anymore, after what’s already happened it will take a lot of time to rebuild.

Ukrainians fight to avoid annihilation.

No, annihilation is what’s happening in Latakia, done by a former branch of ISIS which is suddenly good and accepted for the West, done in their “Syrian army” uniforms, and their commanders record videos with speeches like “do whatever you want, just don’t record it”, but there already are plenty of videos with empty streets with corpses of civilians lying around, people executed in all manners possible, families murdered together, and all such shit which I avoid since 2 days ago.

Ukrainians fight to avoid something that almost every people on the globe has experienced, they would of course have former servicemen and especially officers jailed and possibly killed, politicians, activists, whoever not, but that’s not the same as genocide.

Next for your tangent, that’s a gold medal performance in metal gymnastics to get where you got.

This sentence looks like an attempt at irony, except it’s just stupid.

First, we’re talking geopolitics here. There is no single “good” side and no single “evil” side. All sides will do things judged by others as evil. Second, to suggest russia is virtuous even by itself, is insultingly silly.

You have to pick one. Also there are good and evil deeds, of course you’ll get the impression there’s no such if you listen to what people say.

And compared to the rest of course Russia is virtuous, at some point (being a kid) my opinion of all those sides was that some are evil, but competent and thus make consistent things which eventually combine into something good, while Russia is both evil and incompetent, thus just shitting around. I no longer think so. I prefer incompetent Russia. Except nobody should rely upon it for security.

Because right now it’s still spending enormous resources at trying to defeat its strongest former ally, while the rest of its former allies are somewhere between battered and dead.

My whole theory is that maybe Russian leadership has learned something, had some internal changes, so that now they may be looking for an opening to stop the war and start rebuilding the rest of what they failed to keep operational.

Because Russia needs a ceasefire “saving face” for its “elite”, in fact it’s, of course, not about saving face, their face is covered with piss, but about persuading themselves. I don’t think there are many war goals to be reached with further fighting. Russian and Ukrainian militaries now have something resembling parity in terms of professionalism and processes. Basically a huge polygon to train two armies. It just doesn’t make sense for them to fight each other IMHO.

Anyway, with what Western-supported jihadist government is now doing in Syria (literally massacring Alawites and Christians on the coast, the EU has literally condemned Alawites for “rebelling”, accused them of massacring themselves and called them Assad supporters, Russia has released something meaningless, France and Greece some good words, but without actions, there’s been a UNSC meeting which ended with nothing ; there are a few thousands of people hiding on the Russian base, but Russia doesn’t have a good history at delivering on at least such expectations ; the last numbers of the dead I’ve seen were 7k-10k, 2 days ago, but nothing has stopped, apparently, and since Syria’s “new authorities” are already trying to persuade those refugees to leave the base, it appears they’ve killed much more), it’s the first time since 2022 that I started doubting that Russia is the bad boy here. Maybe those in Kremlin knew something I didn’t, having intelligence services and all that.

Maybe the West is evil and Russia is virtuous for the sole reason it’s not part of the West.

#2, in my language they are spelled the sameway

You should pass the dendropithecus level in this game before giving FYIs.

Hyperbola is a thing in texts.

Why? I think an Ukrainian would be even more keen on that. Ukrainians bear the main cost of war. It would make sense for the majority of them to wish for a ceasefire even more than for Trump. Bear in mind that many Ukrainians in the Web are refugees elsewhere, so they might seem very emotional and aggressive and irresponsible, it’s very easy to call for total war over the Web from another country.

but wants the man fighting for them to step down

Leader worship is not wise. Also Zelensky pressed out Zaluzhny.

And no, I think they really want a ceasefire, not a surrender. On terms good enough for the US, but maybe Ukraine would hope for better terms. Ukraine right now appears less dependent on foreign military assistance than in 2022, so it can “negotiate” this way a bit.

Of course they want a compliant puppet, that’s not in question. Just - the Ukrainian war seems stabilized. Russia has seen the limits of its abilities, and there seems to be an opportunity for ceasefire and negotiations. Trying to return all the occupied territory for Ukraine is the perfect which is the enemy of the good.

It’s more common.