I’m pretty sure this is who they’re sourcing for the claim retracting it, but it’s been telephoned a fair bit: https://x.com/tshugart3/status/1813332364761968959

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CSIS like most of our “think tanks” is also a barely disguised corporate lobbying group that pretends to be something more.

https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ideological-shaping-of-the-possible-part-i-how-corporate-think-tanks-serve-as-influence-laundromats

Chatbots passed the Turing test ages ago, it’s not a good test.

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I don’t have millions of dollars to advance my ideas, all I have is my vote. If they really want it they better buckle down and earn it.

So… by voting my conscience I don’t get a vote? I was literally brought up with the idea that if enough people pressure one of the parties one way or the other they might start embracing your ideas. And that was supposed to be how this worked.

I’m voting for the people I most like on the ballot. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do?

I’ve still got a fancy IRC setup with a bouncer and whatnot.

These days discord has pretty much taken over its niche though, and it’s what I’m on 99% of the time outside of chatting with the community for a half-dead 20 year old game. But, not long ago in my lifetime IRC was 100% the way to go for this sort of text chat, and a lot of that still exists. And well, it’s absolutely dead simple and resilient as a protocol.

So he’s following the one that’s actually an issue. Cool.

Nah, the worst part is it’s not even original. This has been getting passed around for about a year.

According to some weird red-brown alliance “patriotic socialists,” “maga communists,” or whatever they’re calling themselves now (The first one was probably way too on the nose). We’re not them though. We even immediately drove one of the main figures behind that cryptofash bullshit out, and now they’re just a semi-regular feature in the dunk tank.

/Edit - May be confusing the drumming out with another far less edgy community and/or the r/CTH days. Folks like that are prolific about trying to wedge their way in. Latter point there still stands though.

They’ve decided a radically inclusive, three-year-old community of lefties who were here well before there was any serious activity on Lemmy are secret fascists who only pretend to be heavily LGBT for laughs. How are you supposed to respond to that? It’s hugely insulting and absurd on its face.

These accusations specifically are always so wild from you libs. Blue anon through and through.

That’s literally what concentration camps are. Points where you “concentrate” a population you’re trying to control.

Outright murdering the people you have in them was a Nazi death camp thing, but the Brits were probably most famous for using them before that while attempting to suppress colonial rebellion.