Commiunism

I look up the game on cs rin ru and check the comments on the game topic, and see if anyone reputable enough dropped a link. Granted, it might not always be a torrent.

Download from trusted sources (if it’s video games I recommend using cs rin ru forums since they have good resources on which sites to avoid for instance and repackers post there under game threads), that’s probably the biggest piece of advice.

If you want to be extra safe and don’t mind learning something more advanced than just double clicking .exe, look into sandboxing and apps like sandboxie-plus (can’t verify if it’s any good though from experience), as these will essentially isolate programs away from your filesystem and allow you to easily shut off internet connections it can make.

It’s honestly not unlikely. The guilt tripping seems off, there’s not a squeak about this on uk’s open university ‘Group for Palestine’ facebook group (couldn’t quite check their Instagram) despite a reputable chair member of that group organizing it, the spam in general on lemmy of all places (especially through a very emotionally vulnerable instance when it comes to palestine)…

Nothing quite on the level of “definite proof that this is a scam!!” but it certainly smells

Worked fine for me, especially those repackers. There were occasionally some problems like repacks relying on some libraries that are impossible to set up but usually some other repack for the same game works fine. I use bottles flatpak for extra bit of security (since it isolates the filesystem and some apps), works much better than lutris IMO but you can’t really go wrong with anything

blood and soil

Have you tried just giving the friend MP code and them joining through it? Worked for me without any zerotier, so it could be repack dependent. I used the GOG version.

Truth nuke

Marxists would get annoyed at liberals crying fascism at things that aren’t fascism. It’s a very specific thing

Real liberal democracy has never been tried

To be fair, you don’t need to update your system to install a package, all you need to do is run the update command just to sync up the database, then cancel out when prompted.

I’ve gone multiple weeks/months without updating and everything was fine.

The domain name is a red flag in itself, but looking through steam underground I did find someone with plenty of comments under their belt saying how they got files for some game they shared from that site and 0 mentions of it being malware, so it’s probably okay.

That being said, I’d personally recommend just using bottles for piracy, don’t even bother with native linux ports given how they’re usually worse than windows versions running through DXVK/Vulkan (except maybe Factorio given it’s Linux unique optimizations) using Bottles or something for added security - it’s safer to download them too given how many trustworthy repackers package them.

Based mask off.

Can’t wait for Dems to respond by wanting to rename it to department of peace

Sounds like they’re grasping at straws to get a bigger sentence or something, Luigi stans are nothing but adventurist larps in reality

The shooter was trans, and some media + lots of online spaces are already spreading mental illness narratives. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is going to get used against trans people in general, it’s sad.

Nothing as fun, but just a heavy corruption scandal. The director of the school was apparently pocketing a lot of the money from school funding initiatives, and offloading a lot of the purchases that were supposed to be done onto the last year students. I remember our class being chosen to buy new furniture for an entire classroom in the name of “giving something back”.

We had liberal politicians fight fascism in the past, and it was great!

Not only did they welcome fascists who opportunistically saw where things were going with open arms, but also forced workers to accept monarchists and reactionaries who repressed and brutalized them constantly as comrades in arms and 2 days after Fascism fell in Italy, Fiat for instance had ordered guards to fire into insubordinate workers if they didn’t start working in 5 minutes.

Workers got so fucked that you could upload the retelling of the events on PornHub

The average workers for Israel literally go on the news to yell how happy they are to have a chance to contribute to the atrocities.

First of all, how do you even arrive to the conclusion that it’s the “average workers” based off of a couple of people whom they might have grabbed off the street or maybe somewhere specific like a pro-war protest that admittedly do happen.

Second of all, the media is literally nationalized by Israeli government who have an imperialistic interest in the war, and maybe it’s a crazy theory but maybe spreading such propaganda and exclusively shaping pro-war narratives is part of their job? Like, if someone dissents and says anti-war slogans on state media, they’ll just arrest them and cut the recording out until they find a more aligned person or just script it entirely?

Regardless of what you think about political systems, sometimes it’s just that people are inherently evil. As the US elections showed us.

There’s a long and exhausting debate that can be had here, but I personally disagree strongly because this is the type of rhetoric and narratives that fascists spin, but turn it against who they paint as enemies. It’s the material conditions that drive human behavior and who they support, and things have been going downhill which prompted people to turn reactionary, start trusting the pro-Trump propaganda, refusing to trust “liberal owned media” and this is something that’s happening worldwide with the rise of far-right. Trump himself didn’t drop out of the sky and ruined everything, things were already broken enough for people like him to take the opportunity.

Okay, let’s ignore for a moment the fact that most of these reports come from sources who would imperialistically benefit from Israel’s failure (like Iran, Saudi) and the fact that Israelis also have an oppressive government who isn’t afraid to suppress dissent and there might be a degree of intimidation as an incentive for people to just say that they support it - this tells us that ALL of Israeli nationals are ontologically evil. That an entire nationality is a hivemind, and all of them without exception are evil. If this is what you truly believe, then welcome back Adolf Hitler.

As for resistance, even though I personally think protests are pathetic, Israel has those - anti-government and anti-war protests where you have the far-right ramming cars into the protestors. There’s also numerous conscientious objectors in there who were being conscripted into IDF but refused, landing them in jail. Also, active censures from work and school for pro-Palestine sentiments. The latest act of resistance from what I’ve seen was thousands of Israelis marching on a military base to end the starvation in the region.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/thousands-in-tel-aviv-rally-against-gaza-war-demand-to-stop-the-starvation/

Now be so kind and stop dehumanizing other people, especially workers.

Yup, there’s a ton of people online who obsess about “doing something”, without thinking of what that’s actually going to achieve or who they’re actually affecting

What’s the point though? The atrocities committed are being orchestrated by the ruling capitalists and politicians in Israel, not the average worker who has no say other than the threat of jail for soldiers who refused to commit them, and even those that do are tricked by indoctrination that it somehow benefits them.

The only ones benefitting are the capitalists, not workers who might be torrenting