If there can be a catchy way to make it happen, maybe “Uses a terrible source” could be paired with “Uses a source terribly.” The thing where they cite a real source while insisting it says the opposite of what it says is really notable when it happens.

https://lemmy.ml/search?q=natopedia&type=Comments&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=New&titleOnly=false

Having an objective source of truth undoes their way of doing things, so they have to dismiss anything from Wikipedia out of hand. As is tradition, their way of doing that is to assign it an insulting nickname so that anyone who brings it up is subject to bullying.

Other suggestions:

• Before we talk you have to watch this YouTube video
• You’re a transphobe!
• “already been debunked”
• You just hate leftism!
• “NATOpedia”
• Bad sourcing (in particular citing a source that says the opposite of what they say it says)
• Ignoring inconvenient questions
• Controlling the conversation (ex. insisting that a counterpoint is “not what we’re talking about” so refusing to address it)
• Changing the subject

I literally picked up one of the oldest of the old school oscilloscopes from a clearing-out-the-lab table and had it in my closet for years. Never did a thing with it. But it’s an oscilloscope! Badass.

Read the link. Pretty much every example where FDTD was used as a guidebook, the ruling regime had even more of an open violence policy even than the modern US (although, we’re catching up fast).

The idea that the secret police might be shooting people in the streets or throwing them in prison for trying to change the system isn’t new for fascist systems or a sudden and unique problem we’re facing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy

TL;DR A livable society needs an active, engaged citizenry fighting for good things to happen. When a dictatorship arrives, that society has a lot of tools they can use to resist, for the simple fact that any dictatorship is basically just a handful of people at the top who are dependent on everyone else doing what they say. They’re a lot more fragile than they seem.

What once protected the child becomes exhaustion in the adult. Anxiety is not a brokenness. It is adaptation. It is the nervous system saying, I learned this to keep you safe. Healing does not come from fighting the system, but from slowly teaching it that survival is no longer required. This is why the 30-day healing journey exists, not to fix you, but to gently guide the body out of constant alertness, one day at a time.

I mean, aside from the “30-day healing journey” this sounds pretty genuine. Although, I think it is probably slop-ified from Thich Nhat Hanh.

Oh… seems like so yeah. That is disappointing.

Why, what did he do?

Generally true, but also, this was testimony from 7 years ago.

It seems a little bit unlikely that Russia would be in favor of this Venezuela thing (simply because they like Maduro), and also, Putin was making performative gestures of support for Maduro up until the invasion (not that it did either of them any good).

Also:

Trump’s actions in Venezuela make it harder for Kyiv’s allies to condemn Russia’s designs on Ukraine as “illegitimate” because “we’ve just had a situation where the U.S. has taken over — or at least decapitated the government of another country — using fiction,” Hill told AP.

I honestly don’t think there is any danger that this will set a precedent of any kind of legitimacy. I think it’s more likely to galvanize opposition to this kind of land-grab than it is to get people to regard it as normal.

There is a crack

In everything

That’s how the light gets in.

-LC

I don’t think the dog bit the cop because the cop was being the aggressor. Dogs are fine with being aggressors or “their people” being aggressors, it’s the whole job of police dogs and they love the fuck out of it. I think probably the cop was being an asshole and the other guy was not, and also, it’s a dog, and so doesn’t completely know what’s going on but knows that its job is to bite people. And so, here’s an asshole! I’ll bite him, that’s my job.

(K9 handlers are supposed to prevent this type of thing, but the world is not a perfect place in execution)

You just gotta scroll up a bit. Nicaragua and Guatemala were in the 80s, absolutely the stuff of nightmares ten times worse than what Trump is doing. We almost certainly sponsored an attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in the early 2000s, and a successful one in Honduras under Obama.

You’re not wrong that Trump is a horrifying new chapter. It is testament to the semblance of humanity that the US State Department slowly developed post-2000 that, yes, Trump is a return to a much more barbaric and brazen time of US foreign policy, with worse surely on the horizon. But we never really stopped being the bad guys, we just got a little more subtle and less overtly violent about it, until now.

I am curious who are the people upvoting this

I suspect that this is such a cavalcade of bullshit of different types that he’s deliberately baiting people to become unable to even begin to come to grips with everything that is wrong with it. And thus, in internet-troll-logic, it means he wins.

Yeah, true that.

On the other hand, the AI tool is presumably pulling from the exact same primary sources which may or may not show a full picture of what happened…

Like?

Resisting arrest, I think. “You’re under arrest, come out of the house” “No” is literally what it means to resist arrest (without violence). Coming out later doesn’t absolve you of it any more than slowing down absolves you for speeding earlier.

And how does this support your argument? She was talked out of the protection of her home.

Have you been checked for short term memory loss? It’s like you forgot the first part of my sentence by the time you got to the second part. Staying in the protection of her home would have just gotten her home busted up once they secured the warrant.

IDK, dude. I was just trying to send you a video to help you understand, but you’re clearly not into it. I remember now why I stopped talking to you back before when we talked about this.

Honestly, the right answer at this point in technology is just to let the bodycam be the police report.

We used to need police reports so there was a solid written record of what (supposedly) happened. It was a pain in the ass writing them, but it had to happen. But now, what’s the point? Surely, the answer is to let cops write a three-sentence report about the broadest possible strokes of who was involved and what was the final outcome, and then “* see bodycam” for the details. Then, if it comes to some sort of proceeding where people have to dig into the nitty gritty details of what happened, they just pull the video, and see for themselves.

Everyone wins. Right?

There are a couple more I happened to run across, this one just seemed really on the nose about what generally will happen if you try to hide in your house. It reminded me of our conversation.

In another of them, the girl had a warrant and tried to refuse to come out of her house so she wouldn’t have to stay in jail for the weekend. Long story short, she got arrested and more charges. That one, they didn’t have the ability to enter the house without a warrant, they just had the arrest warrant for her specifically, so they were waiting for a judge to sign off on a warrant but were able to talk her into coming out before the warrant came through.

There was another where the guy was hiding in a closet inside the house. They didn’t have a warrant, but they did have probable cause to enter the place, so long story short he got arrested even with the hiding in the closet part.

Your summary of how it works, way way above, was actually pretty accurate (warrant or emergency being the two main exceptions to the general rule that they can’t come in your house). The thing is that about 90% of the situations where they’re coming to the door and are planning to arrest you will fall into one or the other of those categories. You gain nothing in the “they just want to talk” situation, and you gain nothing in the “they want to arrest you” situation. These are just some examples of people who tried to solve the problem by not interacting physically with the cops, and then it not working to accomplish anything positive.

(Again, this is only for local law enforcement, and only if they are generally aboveboard. For ICE or federal law enforcement, or if you’re not sure, I think not answering the door is probably smarter at this point.)