#cwuspol — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: OpenSim seems to be afraid of Mississippi and UK age verification laws, but it's completely unafraid of the DMCA; CW: long (over 1,800 characters), UK politics (UKpol), US politics (USpol), Mississippi politics (MSpol)
Looks like OpenSim users are getting increasingly anxious that e.g. Mississippi and UK law enforcement will shut down every last OpenSim grid on the grounds of their age verification laws, what with none of them having verified the real-life age of all their users. Even if a grid runs in Kazakhstan under a Russian domain with a Kazakh and Russian admin team.
"This will so totally happen!"
The self-same people, however, appear not to be afraid at all that Linden Lab and Second Life content creators will shut down any OpenSim grid on the grounds of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, what with almost all of them blistering with stolen Second Life content. Not even if a grid runs in the USA under a US domain with an all-American admin team.
"This will so totally never happen!"
Pray tell, why should the former wipe OpenSim out in no time while the latter hasn't even happened to one measly OpenSim grid in over ten years of copybotting tons of expensive premium luxury content in Second Life and offering it in OpenSim as full-perm freebies? Not even after these announcements by Linden Lab themselves from early this year?
Oh, and OpenSim cannot survive without selling the most private personal data of every last one of its users to some big, commercial, corporate age-verification service? But at the same time, OpenSim cannot survive either without breaking international copyright and intellectual property laws left and right?
Oh, and by the way: The most that Mississippi and the UK can do against a grid is try to fine it. The most that Linden Lab can do against a grid is Cease & Desist it out of existence.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #UKPol #CWUKPol #USPol #CWUSPol #MSPol #CWMSPol #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DMCA #Copyright #AgeVerification -
CW: USpol; Trump is really, obviously demented at this point
Barack Obama said, "You would be worried if your grandpa started acting like this," and that was *before* Trump spent 12 minutes at a rally in Latrobe, PA rambling about late golfer Arnold Palmer... including the size of his penis. 😮
#TrumpIsSenile #TrumpIsDemented #Election2024 #USpol #CWUSpol
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CW: USpol; Vance stops waffling and dodging, claims Trump did not lose 2020 election
After weeks of dodging and equivocating, JD Vance has finally taken a stance: he says that no, Donald trump did not lose the 2020 election... "not by the words that [he] would use." He says that's because of "serious problems in 2020", despite the Trump campaign being unable to bring any credible evidence of said "problems" to any court.
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/16/not-the-words-i-would-use-vance-goes-all-in-on-2020-denial/
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CW: USpol; Trump goes completely off the rails at town hall
And the mainstream media, such as NBC and the WaPo, are *still* sanewashing this as much as they can, calling it "an unusual format" and "a somewhat bizarre move".
No. It was a public display of dementia. The man has gone completely senile. Seriously, read about it: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/lets-just-listen-music-trumps-townhall-event-gets-weird-rcna175449
#TrumpIsSenile #journalism #Election2024 #TrumpIsDemented #TrumpTownHall #USpol #CWUSpol
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CW: USpol; Republican Senators Cruz and Scott are vulnerable
Senate Democrats pretty much *need* to topple one or the other of these red-state stronghold senators to keep their majority — but they may well have a chance to do so!
(TBH, I can't see how Floridians can possibly keep voting for the pro-climate change party after Helene, and Milton's going to hit sometime this week...)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/senate-texas-florida-democrats-cruz-scott-rcna174071
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CW: USpol; dock workers' strike successfully ended; workers will get raises
Good news! The longshore workers' strike has successfully ended, with ports agreeing to a 62% raise in pay over the next 6 years. Workers are going back on the job already.
Big win for labor! ✊🏻
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/03/longshoremen-suspend-strike-as-ports-agree-to-pay-raise-demands/
#strike #dockworkers #DockworkersStrike #UnionStrong #labor #USpol #CWUSpol
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CW: USpol; House Republicans just voted down their own government spending bill
The snark is strong with this article about how the House Republicans are screwing up must-pass legislation less than 2 months before Election Day.
Republicans can't govern, and should not be entrusted with government offices.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mike-johnson-gop-fail-shutdown-bill-rcna171632
#RepublicansInDisarray #RepublicansCantGovern #HouseGOP #Republicans #USpol #CWUSpol
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CW: USpol; Springfield, OH is still plagued by bomb threats
JD Vance and his ilk continue to claim that they were "right" to make up lies about migrants eating pets.
In the meantime, his followers keep sending bomb threats to elementary schools.
MAGA are terrorists (we don't need to keep saying "domestic" anymore, do we?).
#BombThreats #JDVance #RepublicanLies #MAGA #MAGACult #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #USpol #CWUSpol
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CW: USpol; NPR says "debate between Harris and Trump wasn't even close"
They say "the spotlight now should be on Trump's incoherence and general lack of any serious grasp on policy", and praise the fact that moderators did engage in some fact-checking.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/11/g-s1-22023/debate-harris-trump-takeaways
#PresidentialDebate #HarrisVsTrump #Election2024 #USpol #CWUSpol
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CW: USpol; Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC is under investigation for fraud
It claimed it would help people register to vote, but instead just stores their personal data. Michigan's secretary of state is investigating Musk's "America PAC".
#ElonMusk #fraud #shenanigans #AmericaPAC #VoterSuppresion #VoterRegistration #DirtyTricks #RatFucking #USpol #CWUSpol
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CW: USpol; Democratic senator introduces bill to curb SCOTUS overreach
In a riposte against the court's recent gutting of the 40-year-old Chevron ruling, Sen. Ron Wyden's (D-OR) "Restoring Congressional Authority Act" would restore the ability of government agencies to, well, govern. Things like allowing the EPA to protect the environment.
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/02/scotus-chevron-doctrine-senate-bill
#Democrats #SCOTUS #JudicialOverreach #Senate #USpol #CWUSpol
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CW: USpol; Florida's "Stop WOKE Act" struck down as unconstitutional
A federal judge placed a permanent ban on the act, saying it violates the First Amendment.
The final paragraph of BoingBoing's writeup puts this in context pretty well: the thing was entirely performative from start to finish.
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/30/judge-flushes-floridas-ban-on-woke-workplace-activities.html
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CW: USpol; Harris campaign responds to Trump's "you won't have to vote anymore"
A Harris spokesperson minced no words in calling Trump's statement a "vow to end democracy", saying that "Our democracy is under assault by criminal Donald Trump".
Between this and #Project2025, the election *should* be a slam-dunk. Sadly, way too many Americans support fascism and want a #DictatorTrump.
#Election2024 #Trump #HarrisCampaign #HarrisForPresident #USpol #CWUSpol
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CW: USpol; Harris campaign's smart news strategy
And this morning there's SCOTUS reform, also good for Democrats in general.
But sooner or later the news cycle will shift to something that's better for Republicans, or worse for Democrats or Harris. And when it does… *bam!* They can announce their VP pick, and turn the news media's attention back onto something good for Harris.
Canny strategy, and I like it. 2/2
#Harris2024 #journalism #strategy #HarrisForPresident #HarrisCampaign #USpol #CWUSpol
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CW: USpol; Harris campaign's smart news strategy
It's been over a week and the Harris campaign still hasn't announced her pick for VP.
And you know what? I'm okay with that! It's something they can keep in their back pocket, until they need it. Right now, the news is all good for Harris; it's about her massive fundraising and momentum, and starting to be about Trump saying "you won't have to vote". 1/2
#Harris2024 #journalism #strategy #HarrisForPresident #HarrisCampaign #USpol #CWUSpol
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CW: USPol; the Republican Party platform is pure Trumpism with zero principle
Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele says the new Republican Party platform is nothing but a manifesto aimed solely at Donald Trump, and it's "riddled with... contradictions", "incoherent, hate-filled and ham-fisted".
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republican-party-platform-trump-project-2025-rcna161259
#Republicans #RepublicanParty #RepublicanPlatform #RepublicansInDisarray #USPol #CWUSPol
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CW: Aggressive big-mouthed Brit vs aggressive foul-mouthed MAGA 'Murkin on OpenSimWorld; CW: long (1,139 characters), USpol-, MAGA mentioned, right-wing American mentioned
So how fscked-up is OpenSimWorld with its complete lack of user rules and moderation? Yes.
There's a guy with a thousand sock puppet accounts who keeps creating new ones just to attack others and claims to have governmental authorities take care of everything that's going wrong on OSW and in OpenSim in general. Now he has revealed himself to allegedly be British, and he's still implying to have something like the MI6 go against hatespeech on OSW as well as pirated Second Life content in-world.
He's currently duking it out with an good ol', red-blooded, flag-wavin', gun-tote'n all-Amurkin 'Murkin MAGA "patriot" from 'Murkuh who, on a scale from 0 = the most radical Antifa groups to 100 = literally Hitler in 1944, is a solid 500 and insults everyone from 499 downward as a "libtard", who "knows" he can beat anyone in a swearing contest just like 'Murkuh can beat anyone in anything, and who has told me once that he thinks Germans are wimps for not having enough balls to have an ultra-extremist right-wing government.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #OpenSimWorld #USpol #CWUSpol #Libtard #Libtards #MAGA