This was an extremely informative read. It answered a number of questions I've had rattling in my brain that I just never dug around enough to get good information on. Thank you for these comments.

Seriously. It's the only reason I ever would have clicked the link. I feel bamboozled.

I get what you're saying, everything the article is hand-wringing about is in reality extremely good and necessary, so any thinking person's reaction is "wait, you're saying that's bad?" But the author's perspective was clear from the get-go with lines like "Forget saving the planet - now she wants to save Palestine" You can just feel the smug eyeroll. And referring to activists as "climate zealots" in the byline. You can easily tell that Brenden feels revulsion for the people who feel revulsion for the capitalism that is so dear to his precious little heart.

I'm kind of pissed that thread got locked. I get that sometimes "struggle session" threads need to get shut down because they just devolve into drama. But sometimes these things really need to be hashed out. Especially when there are so many upvotes for the liberals who think supporting Hamas is bad because bad optics. I honestly would not have guessed so many on this website would agree with the OP who was openly fed-jacketing the protest organizers for daring to say something that is true and correct, and that those organizers "ambushed" OP and their friends.

It's not obvious? Because white males as a demographic are the most privileged people on the planet and not coincidentally also the ones most prone to petty, oblivious arrogance, tantrum-throwing, and egotistical man-splaining. The latter was demonstrated by the one in this NASA scientist's anecdote.

I am totally with you in the broad sentiment you're expressing, but almost everything you said is ultimately just bandaids that still don't address the real deep, systemic problem, and this mode of production that will always reward greed. You were most onto something towards the end. But rather than a new French Revolution, which just sets things up for this to happen all over again, how about a new Bolshevik Revolution that aims not just to try to do capitalism more fairly, but reorganizes society in such a way as to eliminate poverty and all need in what is already a post-scarcity human epoch.

We the people have the power to seize the means of production. We the people can set society on the road to the complete abolition of class.

If only there was another country to blame it on

Russian disinformation and meddling is driving innocent Americans to suicide.

Unfortunately, this is all about drugs and won't effect the pedos. CSAM is as available on the DN as regular porn is on the regular net and doesn't require the apparatus that DNMs need in order to trade a physical product through the physical mail.

Yep, ALWAYS encrypt your messages yourself (pgp) and don't rely on the site's encryption. Ever. This isn't just opsec 101, but absolutely basic practice for anyone using DNMs. Literally the only downside of doing that is that it's slightly less convenient while the upsides can't be counted but include making it impossible for the market/site admins to extort you like this. Any buyer should know this but it's understandable that some people just need to get their meds as easily as possible and let the opsec slide where they shouldn't. But vendors?? Not using PGP to talk to people you're selling drugs to is just astoundingly short sighted. The whole purpose of DNMs is that anonymity is maintained to an extent that this kind of thing isn't possible.

Also, too bad this place isn't moderated, getting hard to choose between it and Reddit

Then go back to reddit then and spare us your concern troll moaning in support of a genocidal ethnostate. Any violence done by Palestinians is self defense at this point.

Also, this place is heavily moderated, it's just not an echo chamber where you're going to see nothing but opinions identical to your own (dogshit) worldview. Yes, your first comment was removed, as well it should have been.

Acknowledging that they're supporting Nazis creates cognitive dissonance that leads them to lash out like children.

Or just straight up deciding that Nazis aren't that bad after all. "If I'm supporting Nazis, and I know that I'm cool and good, then Nazis must not actually be that bad either."

No, we want Ukraine to stop trying to ethnically cleanse the Donbas and give the people there self determination. And we want the Ukrainian government to stop forcibly conscripting people to go die needlessly on the front in a clearly losing war. We want NATO to stop enabling all of that (it literally wouldn't be happening if they weren't demanding that it continue). That's what it is to be a peace activist. And I'm fairly sure I can speak for all of us, we are not pacifists, lol. But we are advocates for peace and the end to the horrible and needless loss of life.

Nice try to completely twist reality, and completely misrepresent us, as you war mongering dronies always do.

Edit: We actually give a shit about all the Ukrainian people being thrown into a fucking meat grinder. We care about their lives. The people who just say "more weapons to Ukraine!" do not give a shit about the lives of the people there. They're happy to just let the war keep dragging on until the last capable Ukrainian is dead. An example of how WE feel about the tragedy of the situation: https://hexbear.net/post/503747 (hexbear link to a lemmygrad news post)