Just remember that the vast majority of those users are in their mid-late 30s or even early 40s. Zoomers and even younger millennials never gave a shit about 4chan.
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I don't even know what would be "best" for Kilmar considering he came to America to flee gang violence in El Salvador so....
On the one hand: It is very probable that they just don't have any records. And it is finding one guy based on a photo of him from a month or two back in a giant mass of "hispanic men". So it is going "block" by "block" to line everyone up and compare them to a photo. Keeping in mind that his appearance has likely changed due to having his head shaved, stress/terror and, likely, violence.
And the other is that he is probably dead. Because he was thrown in a "maximum security" concentration camp with many of the gangs he fled from.
A bunch of chuds got angry that they were banned because they went brigading against LGBTQ+ folk.
This was the end result
The counter argument that picking and choosing creates a sense of priority and "missing out". Because even if you didn't actually want the canned peaches (NOBODY wants canned peaches), you are worried that the person ahead of you got it. Which tends to lead toward discontent or outright discouragement amongst those who "don't really need it and are doing fine".
Whereas the box of food set aside by the volunteers? Half of you got canned peaches and the other half canned beets. While people are annoyed they got the god awful peaches, they at least feel better because "everyone is in this together" and so forth.
Charity is a shockingly hard problem because so many people will insist they don't actually need any help and so many things can create a barrier to make them decide it isn't worth their time or the hit to their pride. And different models tend to appeal to different people. But, from talking to some of the organizers at a food bank I used to volunteer at a couple years ago, the "take what you need" model tends to pull in more "dumpster diving college kids" rather than "actual people in need". But I suspect a lot of that is also a function of it having been in a college town.
- Because, even in a world where you can buy assault rifles at the mall, it is generally only the upper middle class who are able to afford to arm themselves
- The idea of "Everywhere I go it is high noon at the o-k corral and I need to be ready to quickdraw on a toddler at a moment's notice" is a decidedly White American mentality
- People are generally either getting rounded up at border control (where you can't have a gun because other countries are sane), at work during a raid, or getting head bagged off the street. None of which are situations where pulling your EDC glock with one in the chamber is going to do much because they have body armor and assault rifles
We THINK they are based in the Netherlands. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't (VPNs and shell corporations are a thing). Either way, we don't know if they'll insist that Netherlands/EU law will protect them or if they'll just hand over everything the moment they see the kind of headache they don't want to deal with.
Again, OPSEC.
Friendly reminder that we are looking at a government that is likely going to imprison political dissidents and you do not know who the admins of lemmy.world are or what they will and won't turn over before and after getting a call from the secret police.
Just like the rest of us don't know who you are and don't know if you are that "protester" with a very visible body armor and gun bulge under your shirt.
The Internet is a beautiful thing to make disseminating information and organizing protests MUCH easier. But it is also a great way to release insane amounts of personal information to bad actors. Practice good OPSEC and understand who you are communicating with AND who is listening.
trump led a violent insurrection to lynch his vice president and many other horrific things to congress. He experienced no consequences and has since pardoned his army.
So no, being a politician isn't protection and pretending it is is just self delusion.
What is the Supreme Court going to do? Even if Sotomayor whipped out a baton, marched down to the oval office herself, and took him into custody, what would happen?
Let alone him having permission FROM THE SUPREME COURT to do whatever the fuck he wants.
There are two ways to really interpret that:
- What was previously at the discretion of different orgs (with a strong suggestion to use burners) is now official policy.
- This now applies to personal devices
I used to do some work for the US government and even going to the frigging UK we would always have a "private meeting to go over logistics" a week or two before going over where we would be told that we need to request and use a burner phone and laptop. Never in writing because the UK was our closest ally but anyone who tried to bring their "real" work devices would rapidly be told that something went wrong with their paperwork and they can't go on that trip anymore.
It is important to question what you think a boycott will do.
Do you think you are going to make a giant movement that changes the world? If so... you should stop eating those lead paint chips. Consumers, historically, will only engage in a boycott if there are alternatives. Shop at Walmart instead of Target. VERY short term you might get someone to boycott Amazon for a few days but... just check "leftist" forums like resetera for everyone immediately losing their shit over how a few older activision games they will never play are on sale.
Video games, contrary to what people will say, don't really have alternatives. We'll joke that The Last Descendent was "waifu frame" but the people who love Warframe very much have reasons for not wanting to play TLD and vice versa. Let alone games like Call of Duty where there really is nothing close to an alternative.
So "boycott to fix the world" (and I am gonna expand on what THAT would be shortly...) ain't a thing.
So... now it is up to why? Personally, I "boycott" Ubisoft and have for the better part of a decade at this point. I think the last game I bought "from them" was GR Breakpoint and I got that years after the game was basically dead and on a hefty discount (see: lack of alternatives). I am under no illusion that my wallet is going to lead to yves et al leaving their own company out of shame for their role in enabling a culture of sexual harassment (and allegedly more). But I do know that I feel a lot better when I look at myself in the mirror and most games I am interested in DO have alternatives.
So do you think you are going to change the world? Cue Nelson Muntz. Do you just not want to contribute to the culture of loot boxes personally? Go for it. And it doesn't matter what people on not-reddit tell you.
As for what you think will happen: I think we can all agree that Nintendo upping the... Err, let me rephrase that. I think we can all agree that any company other than Nintendo upping the base price of a game to 80 USD (pre-tariffs...) is REALLY bad for the industry. But... inflation IS a thing and while game sales have skyrocketed... game dev has too. Money has to come from somewhere. And RMTs (lootboxes, cosmetics, etc) and constant flows of DLC have actually been great for the industry. It, for two decades or so, stopped the endless "ramp up, ramp down" model where people would be hired to work on a game, fired when it went gold, and then hired again 6 months down the line if it got green lit for an expansion. Get rid of RMTs and we go back to that for all but the largest studios because you don't need artists when you are fixing a bug in Batman's cape and so forth.
So, personally? I buy and play games that I like. And a lot of that does have to do with the monetization model. Something like Warframe is RMT based and has some sketchy purchases but also is (mostly) playable as a free game and is built around "free" content. Whereas something like Genshin Impact is marketed as "you never have to spend a dime" but... yeah. So the games that "do it wrong"? I am... kind of already "boycotting" them because I am just not interested in them.
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Oh incels are a massive problem. But younger millenials and genz and the like got radicalized by reddit and twitter and the like, not 4chan. And then they just went straight to 8chan if they left their festering grounds at all.