Free Radical

Free Radical

@freeradical7.bsky.social

He/Him Software engineer (.NET/SQL/React). AV hobbyist. Live events solutions specialist. Unapologetically leftist.

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We need to setup some sort of internet innoculation from this pattern. *Posts something.* *5 people disagree.* "I AM BEING ATTACKED!" RSD and terminal posting syndrome is a recipe for madness.

I've decided to start walking up to random Nigerians and screaming at them that the Asaba massacre of 1967 was horrible. I'm normal but I have a fetish for being extremely annoying.

I think a fundamental truth about social media that really needs to be more centralized when it comes to understanding people's behavior online is that most people's caveman brains cannot differentiate a handful of people yelling at them online from their village/tribe forming a mob against them.

There are many people that cannot handle one person disagreeing with them about which drawer the utensils go in just wondering out online and doing the equivalent of standing on a table in a bar shouting their political opinions because they view social media as a personal blog.

I've seen this in real time. Journalists receiving two "hostile" replies and then passive aggressively whining about it for hours. Perspective is lost. Instant exposure to even hundreds of anonymous individuals is not what we're wired for. Social media is causing a society wide meltdown.

Working through some c# code some contractors wrote because we were seeing some weird caching behavior. Instead of mapping a domain entity to the front end model like a normal person, they had AI whip up a "universal," reflection-based mapping function. Just... why?

It seems like it would be easy for Dems to do combos such as, "Your healthcare costs twice as much because Present kiddie diddler wanted to spend that money giving racist domestic abusers the once in a lifetime opportunity to go be Nazis in American cities."

Instead we get weird shit like, "Donald Trump kidnapped the leader of a foreign nation and this is a distraction from kitchen table issues the American people care about." If you said that to someone in person they'd wonder if you'd had a stroke.

Going beyond voting for the first politician that says they'll prosecute this entire admin and arriving at voting for the first politician that says they'll issue blanket pardons to anyone that wants to deal these people personally.

This. This shit exactly. Reps built a multi-media propaganda machine and the left just hopes now captured institutional media will carry their water.

Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community

Since Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidates and "dark money" groups have raised more money than Republicans--often doubling them. So much of the Dem money is wasted. Publishing a piece on this Sunday explaining these graphs and much more. I need your help to make the piece viral. Thanks!

Nazis often make it a point to try to say the right things in order to secure positions of power, but often give themselves away with dog whistles. Let's support that guy who has had a hidde. nazi tattoo this whole time that is saying all the right things. What could go wrong?

Okay. This is like the first big sportsball season after this place blew up and all these politics reporters need to remember their vague OMGWTFBBQSAUCE commentary on the games they're watching is making me have big feels.

Dems didn't fold on shutdowns before because they correctly calculated that most people aren't a fan of shutting down the entire government so Reps could get rid of healthcare. I don't think Reps are running that same math, and if they did, they aren't liking the outcome, hence the screeching.

On occasion, I see people go in on Bernie, the DSA, and other progressive left operations because their supporters/members are mostly white, yet I've never read any actual reasons/explanations. Does anyone have anything of substance on this subject?

Chuck Schumer's next take will be that we'll just need to wait until the midterms after Trump openly defies the Supreme Court. He'll then say we have to wait until the 2028 general after Trump defies Congress. After that, it won't matter, and he'll probably be in a camp somewhere in South America.

Countries around the world who claim to believe in liberal democracy really should start being as aggressive in interfering in the affairs of the US as its enemies are. Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, etc. All of them should be treating the American right like they would Russia.

There's a handful of popular block lists on here that are represented as being for Trump supporters, centrists, abusers, etc. that are so arbitrary in their criteria for inclusion that they're functionally useless due to the number of decent, left wing people just thrown in there. Be mindful.

A shining example of what happens when people forget all history around certain subjects. We're going to have to invent new words to describe already known or understood concepts because humanity has the collective memory of goldfish.

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People who credulously bleat on about how there's nothing Democrats can possibly do because they're not the ones in power would gladly walk into death camps if the authorities directed them to. They can't imagine resistance outside of whatever "the people in charge" allow.

Hey, there's this government email address for people to report infractions against the anti-DEIA initiatives taking place within the government right now. Please report all violations to: DEIAtruth@opm.gov They really need to hear about what's going on, so they can address it immediately.

Understand that from the perspective of someone that wants to see a particular party win, you'll never go anywhere by blaming the voters. Think about it like sales. If you can't get people to buy your product, that's a you problem.

Loving how the TikTok crowd is migrating to RedNote, a full blown Chinese communist moderated app that will ban your face for even alluding to the Tiananmen Square massacre. I'd love to know how the baby brained members of congress are handling this right now.

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It's disheartening how often you see calls for organizing, networking within your community, and creating support systems, but so rarely do you see any specifics or guides on what that means/looks like. It comes across as sharing empty platitudes rather than anything actionable.

These people are pathologically unable to talk about Trump as he is, so instead they reimagine Trump like a comic book character instead. NPR: Picture this: Trump, but instead, a tragic backstory and he shoots lasers from his eyes.

NPR@npr.org

The president-elect's undiplomatic talk in recent days of reclaiming the Panama Canal — and annexing Greenland and even Canada — have some experts comparing his strategy to Nixon's "Madman Theory."

If someone on here skeets an absolutely bullshit, heinous, troll job of a take and then dips, we tell them to fuck off and block them. If it's the NYT though, you'll give them clicks and engagement, and you won't even question it. Hell, you might even give them money. Anyone want to explain?

I wonder if the Trump administration is going to drop the reclassification of weed to schedule 3 that the Biden admin started in May 2024, and then use that to target people it deems "enemies."