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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

Right wing "activists"

Don't you mean "terrorists?"

[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Unpopular opinion, most of your social media should be done anonymously with privacy tools.

But also not blaming these people for exposing their identity, and being against fascism.

[–] snackzilla@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Where can someone learn about this? Specifically Facebook

[–] TeenieBopper@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Pretty sure the answer here is "don't use Facebook."

[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

If you absolutely must use Facebook anonymously here's a Reddit comment that is more likely to work than using Tor/VPN for setup. However you'd also need to not friend anyone you know... Definitely curious what your use case is.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/eqzr0v/comment/fezxlrr/

I recently tried this. My finding was not to use all those anonymizing techniques. I tried them and had the exact same result as you. Then I tried the following: look as "normal" to the Facebook algorithms as possible. So, I found a cafe that used a regular residential style internet service provider, instead of some place like Starbucks or McDonald's which use commercial providers tailored for corporate use. Then I used an old smart phone I had and factory restored it on the cafe wifi. When installing and setting up Android I was able to get a gmail account much easier than getting one from my desktop PC - no request for phone number, etc. Then I made up a profile using fake info. I grabbed a photo online and modified it to remove any watermarks and changed it with a filter. I checked it against Tineye to make sure it wasn't available anywhere else. Then I downloaded the Facebook app on the phone and signed up for an account while connected to the cafe WiFi. You could use phone service provided internet, but I only registered for a non-data prepaid phone plan to save on cost. It was straight forward and I just verified the account through the phone (i.e. sms). The account was setup without any of the "warnings" and then I added a few details to the account (i.e. current location, hometown, education, etc.). I did a bit of searching for other users, nothing too extreme and then let the account age for a few days before using it regularly. I use it regularly now through a VPN and used it for an Instagram account as well. The key was looking as "normal" to Facebook as possible. I never use it from my home WiFi because I figure it'll just connect the two IP addresses somewhere in their databases. This was really just an experiment, more than anything. I don't use Facebook, but wanted an account for the odd time I needed to search Facebook for someone. My conclusion was that Facebook, Instagram, gmail, Snapchat, etc. are much more "lenient" when signing up for an account from a phone/Android then from a PC w/Windows/Linux/MacOS. Hope it helps.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 days ago

How dare you call us violent?!? We'll kill you for that

So, does laughing at the Kool Aid Fountain his neck turned into count? How about creating a playlist called In Memory of Charlie Kirk that starts with Hey Man, Nice Shot, and Bye Bye Bye?

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

Activists lol yeah activists for themselves.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Feral maga is turning on itself and it’s pedo king. Soon they won’t have time to worry about us laughing because they’ll be busy trying not to get shot by their own guys

[–] pozzy77@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Someone should setup a fake reporting site and then dig in on anyone that reports and send any political incorrect posts they said back to them and there Empolyer

[–] ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

Oh! My feelings!

Fucking cowards

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Let em. Do they want my address? I would love to kick the shit out of some dick less wonders.

[–] TeenieBopper@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The amount of the population I fear in a fist fight is well less than 1%. These pussies bring guns tho.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago
[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There is a really funny video of a proud boy showing up at someone's house to threaten them, but he's very timid and the guy just rips into him and he nopes off. But in reality, a coward with a gun an your address can be a real problem, not that I personally doubt your confidence, I'm also not scared of people knowing where I live, it takes two hours from the middle of nowhere to get to where I live, and it's one of the most hostile ecological areas on the planet, so. Come at me bro!

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Same. I'm not the tallest but I have been told I'm intimidating several times. I have boxed and I have been in actual fights. I would not call myself a Mike Tyson by any stretch of the imagination. But it's a very small percentage of the population that actually pipes up when I tell people to shut the fuck up. Which I have.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

People who say these things never post their address.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

People that say this don't really understand that we are being sarcastic. They are such little bitches they will do some dumb shit like put cat shit on my porch.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sarcastic? Who was being sarcastic?

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I would imagine whatever I respond with you is going to be much like a mental chess match with a special ed kid. So, kindly go eat a piece of lead.

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure the Trump regime's FBI will be right on top of that.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

They gotta recruit from somewhere, right?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Does this mean lemmy will get a bunch of new Republican signups?

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have been seeing posts from /c/conservative@lemmy.world on my All feed the last few days for the first time.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What filter do you use on your all feed?

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Raw dogging Lemmy, nice.

That's what I do too.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Sorry I should have said “sort by”

What “sort by” value(s) do you use?

I do top 1 hour, top 6 hours and scaled. And I haven’t seen any of these conservative subs in my all feed.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Either active or scaled

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

Wherever the killer (is it a done deal btw? He confessed?) falls politically, my net reaction is positive. There, I'm in the screenshot too.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 115 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"I'm so disgusted by political violence than I'm going to visit it upon everyone who celebrates it!"

We're clearly dealing with Nobel Prize winners here. /s

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

These are the same Einsteins that voted for Taco just so he could be their "retribution" - meaning, visit political violence on everyone they don't like.

But yeah, they abhor political violence. 🙄

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

What they abhor is their chickens coming home to roost.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"No, not like that! It was only supposed to happen to brown people!"

(And the gays, transsexuals, liberals, artists and other degenerate dissidents like that)

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 days ago

Might as well add "people not far right enough" because that's who's getting targeted.

[–] ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

So, just the Nazi playbook

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Hey, be careful now.

Every person in that pic would be more than happy to take a bunch of guns...

and give them to some sub-70 IQ inbred redneck with Christian psychosis to go fight their battles for them while they live in extreme luxury.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Musks shorthand version of this comic is especially telling.

“Let us torture you in peace or we’ll do it even harder.”

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[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump is a pedophile and that’s what they’re protecting

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The Confederates: people that cry about so-called "cancel culture" and say they are "free speech absolutists" now are sending death threats to people that allegedly celebrated this.

Oh, and people have already lost their jobs over their reactions to Kirk...

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"Allegedly"...

I haven't stopped celebrating for two days.

It wasn't RIGHT for him to be killed like that, but I believed the world would be better without him a week ago, and that opinion hasn't changed now that he's gone.

[–] Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

Every time I see his dumb (dead) face I'm like:

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But but but ...free speech

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