Education leaders expressed concern about arrests and revocations that could lead to a drop in international education in the United States.

They’re framing this as a non-optimal policy for long-term enrollment, like Trump may have just made a mistake and needs to be informed, not an attack on education, freedom of expression, and multiculturalism from the playbook of fascists.

I live on an island covered in military bases and have been on them both locally and elsewhere for various reasons. It’s not all MAGA, but it’s also not an environment of woke resistors. Those high skilled people ready to refuse are the exception, not the norm, and they’re not the people a declaration of martial law would rely on.

A martial law order isn’t going to look like “go shoot some hippies”, it’s going to be seizing and holding important infrastructure, setting up checkpoints, and enforcing a curfew. That stuff can all be military-speak formatted to look like just perfectly fine orders under exigent circumstances. If violence happens it will be plausibly framed as defending those “legitimate” orders, and it will likely be performed by people who are loyalists. The rest will just be there to support and protect them.

Their colonies is a much longer list with a lot of nations with good reason to hate them. These are the ones where the colonizers maintained majorities over the indigenous peoples. They never even rejected the monarchy.

A lot of them are in because it can offer an escape from poverty, and training involves hammering home that they have to just follow orders. They’re going to go along like everyone else because defying orders is a big personal risk for people who are not in a position to just lose everything.

GWB + Trump judges in the majority, Clinton judge opposed.

The Fediverse is a specific thing. And even if it were just referring to any federated social network, it’s very questionable whether Bluesky really can have independent instances.

Because this is not c/maybefederatedsocialnetworks, it’s c/fediverse, which is a specific thing.

That just a function of it being a long-term and established community. And likely a bit of agreement with your broad cultural and political views. Right now Reddit is more likely to have information on a random video game than Lemmy, but that doesn’t mean their structure is inherently good for producing information.

A federated system where you federate with everyone without limit is a good way to get a lot of bad shit, but that’s not how the Fediverse actually works. Instances defederate from other instances that are dragging down the quality of their social network. Most importantly, if your admins go bad and decide they want to not pursue truth but instead craft a narrative, you can move instances to one that has the standards you want while only losing the content that was actually on the now-bad instance.

Read on to literally the next paragraph, which says Diaspora is the only still developed platform that matches the original definition and does not use ActivityPub, or to the section that explicitly calls ATProto a Fediverse alternative.

The first paragraph is descriptive of the Fediverse, not a test for whether something is part of it. The Internet is a collection of computers communicating via TCP/IP. That doesn’t mean any two computers communicating over TCP/IP are now part of the Internet.

That’s present in any user editable platform. Wikipedia’s consensus doesn’t mean it’s actually representing broad universal truth. That why everything gets cited and the talk and history pages are public to the readers, so they can judge the reliability themselves. If you stumble on a less visited page, that consensus group gets smaller and smaller and the likelihood of it being essentially a pretty fiefdom increases.

Even printed encyclopedias had no such claim. If someone is putting out a instance that’s too highly biased to be useful, defederate.

Neither this community’s sidebar nor Wikipedia agree with your definition.

ATProto is not the Fediverse. Is there something in this blog you think should be discussed in the context of the Fediverse?

He at least managed to not vote for a Republican nominee for once. Maybe some small part of his pre-stroke brain is able to recognize at least one Republican he thinks is not fit for greater power. All it took was the Republican being the actual guy he built his career through opposing.

therefore I’ve always taken anyone who says,“I’m not antisemetic, I just think Israel shouldn’t exist (IE, anti-zionist)” is a closet antisemite at best.

There are whole sects of Judaism that are anti-Zionist. Zionism/Israel are not synonymous with Judaism or Jewishness in any way and there are both secular and religious anti-Zionist Jewish organizations.

People who are anti-zionist seem to only have a selective and limited knowledge of a few thousand years of the history of the area.

Yes, tell us more about people with a selective and limited knowledge of the history or the area.

I have some really bad news for you about the Governor of Texas.

That’s making a lot of assumptions about someone solely citing Israeli papers and not claiming to have any direct sources in Gaza. What makes you think this particular woman has in any way corroborated them? She’s not saying she has an anonymous source and putting her reputation on the line, she’s openly citing other journalists.

Is she in some way a particularly reputable journalist who would be inherently careful about Israeli propaganda or having some inherent objectivity? All I see from her regarding Gaza is things boosting the Israeli government’s narrative, including a “one year later” piece criticizing anti-Israeli currents in the left, talking about how she went to that music festival years earlier, and called herself as a Zionist.

Frederica Matteoni (writing in German for Berliner Zeitung) probably has checked her sources.

Second paragraph in the piece:

“Oday Nasser Al Rabay’s body was dumped outside his family’s home over the weekend, report Times of Israel and other Israeli media, citing statements from relatives.”

Yeah, the whole thing is a just an embarrassing demonstration of how it’s just a big social club rather than a relationship where they should be naturally antagonistic.

Plenty of other journalists posting anti Trump content without problem. If you’re too scared to use words to mildly criticize power, you shouldn’t be a journalist in the first place. They didn’t become cowards due to Trump’s new hyper fascism, they’ve been like that the whole time.

Looks like they updated the title: “Vance accuses Denmark of not keeping Greenland safe from Russia, China”

But really, journalists don’t need to pretend any of this is legitimate. Add a “dubiously” in there. This is obviously not a sincere complaint. Stop assuming good faith just because he’s got an official title.