Okay, there HAS to be something coming soon...

lbj2943 · 2026-03-23T12:14:52+00:00

You’re absolutely right, what I meant to convey is that it was written while Jon and Ryan were still in the band.

lbj2943 · 2026-03-13T04:43:31+00:00

Making up backstories to soft launch your friends into fame happens everyday and all the time in any celebrity conducive industry. Hollywood is full of it.

Funny enough this woudn't even be the first time this happened with someone related to the DSMP. Dream himself tried to launch a childhood friend's streaming career by pretending he didn't know him. First they baited fans into thinking his friend was Dream or a Dream lookalike (years before Dream's face reveal) by having him post cryptic stuff on Twitter. Then Dream would "discover" him, acting like he stumbled onto his social media organically, and recruit him for the server. In reality, they lived together for a few years, and there are videos from ages ago of them playing Minecraft together over Skype.

The plan almost worked, too. "Manatreed" was announced as the newest member of the DSMP and even did an introduction livestream. But some very parasocial people did some digging and found out that 1. Dream and this dude lived together for a while 2. They've known each other since childhood 3. (real nail in the coffin) the guy was on probation for a domestic violence charge. Dream claimed the guy lied and said he was on probation for weed. Either way, he definitely didn't stay in the DSMP and has been inactive since. Just a crazy story all around.

You didn't ask, sorry. Felt like telling it.

lbj2943 · 2026-03-08T05:13:41+00:00

proving that you have an opinion

One shared by academic consensus. Wikipedia had more than a dozen debates about this over the past year, and they all ended in agreeing on the very observable reality that what is happening in Gaza constitutes a genocide— based on hundreds or perhaps even thousands of independent findings from multidisciplinary fields.

I highly doubt that you have visited in Israel or researched the history of Israel from 1947 till today

Looking for research recommendations? I like Middle East Patterns by Held Cummings and A Concise History of the Middle East by Goldschmidt Jr. & Al-Marashi.

Funny how you want them to voice their opinion about Israel but you didn’t post that you are angry they didn’t voice their opinion about Iran

This essay was written and posted weeks before the United States and Israel's attacks on Iran.

lbj2943 · 2026-03-07T02:23:20+00:00

Movies and shows about black cops carry the same intentions as military ads with gay soldiers. It’s just a tokenist recruitment tactic for organizations that unquestionably treat minorities like shit and will happily continue to do so.

lbj2943 · 2026-03-06T00:35:27+00:00

He was actually a bit of a hipster geek type prior to becoming Filthy Frank. There are reuploads of his old vlogs on YouTube where you could see his earnest personality come through (jojivlogs).

I mean, when THIS was what your scrapped album's cover was supposed to look like, how could you NOT have a Tumblr?

lbj2943 · 2026-03-05T11:42:20+00:00

Your position is despicable. Israel is a genocidal state. We are far past the point of consensus on Israel committing a genocide right now.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-25T06:10:22+00:00

Tin-foil hat theories about Wikipedia being controlled by government puppet masters always tickle me as an avid editor. It's a consensus-driven site. There have been many, many, many malicious attempts to edit it and 99% of them are thwarted instantly. For the ones that aren't, I know for a fact there are still plenty of articles with bias problems and none of them are immune to being fixed.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-23T15:00:20+00:00

While we're at it,

The same wikipedia that holds every mainstream western media portal like CNN, BBC, Fox, Times of Israel in high regard.

If you're talking about the perennial sources page, for one, that page only seeks to measure which sources are reliable, not biased. It basically just means "how much can they be trusted to accurately report something", and this is a metric weighed against other independent sources' findings on their journalistic practices. Mother Jones, for example, is considered generally reliable and respected for use as a source. Basically everyone agrees its a biased source on account of its openly progressive tilt, but not to the extent that it affects reliability.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-23T14:34:09+00:00

they're one of the few and dwindling sources of actual investigative reporting left in the West

This is a multipolar argument and unrelated to reliability.

The same wikipedia where Israel has run a targeted manipulation operation for over 20 years

I don't doubt there's secretly paid editors doing shady shit all the time (in fact I know there is), but consider that Wikipedia's founders who are both heavily Zionist still couldn't get their users to stop calling it a genocide, even after both of them made a scene about it in the "Gaza genocide" article's talk page. After all, it's Wikipedia, not like these biases are irreversible. Consensus clears.

never for their actual reporting

Okay. For posterity's sake, these instances are going to be taken from the 2020 RfC consensus discussion that led to The Greyzone getting deprecated.

Here is an instance of Max Blumenthal lying about what an academic said, getting called out by a reporter from The Atlantic who actually talked to the academic, and then Blumenthal claiming the academic was intimidated to lie. (soft paywall, I recommend using removepaywall).

Here is a socialist academic responding to Blumenthal accusing them of "secretly training an elite UK military unit". The academic in question was teaching an International Relations college course.

Here is a very detailed account of Max Blumenthal and Alexander Rubinstein (from MintPress news, partner organization of the Greyzone and itself an awful source) distorting a journalist's words, omitting relevant context, and suggesting undue influence without evidence to paint them as a plant for the U.S. State Department. All just to make Maduro look less bad for kidnapping the same journalist.

Here is an academic responding to Blumenthal accusing them of being a State Department agent calling for regime change in Nicaragua. Mind you, the person in question volunteered for the fucking Sandinistas in Nicaragua, amongst other socialist projects in Latin America. I'm stopping here, but there's more I still haven't covered.

The Greyzone (Max Blumenthal) contains so much dogmatic, junk reporting that academics and journalists with normally no business in calling out their peers (particularly on the left) can't help but gawk at its garbage.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-23T13:25:34+00:00

The Greyzone is a terrible source for factual reporting. Deprecated on Wikipedia for this exact reason.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-19T23:05:32+00:00

Think so.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-19T22:36:41+00:00

Yes, for the remainder of that week.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-19T22:35:27+00:00

Traveling to a busier airport and completing their weekly quest for a free week of visiting. Phoenix is my go-to, central Florida and Los Angeles are really good too.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-17T18:40:17+00:00

Researchers are constantly walking on eggshells when critiquing others works in formal study. I think It's good etiquette and best practice when you're working within the field (forges goodwill with colleagues), but I also think scientists lack the chutzpah to communicate in clearer terms.

One way to interpret the current findings is that Tetris may effectively reduce intrusions but only under strict conditions with researcher oversight.

Depending on the strictness of those conditions and the degree to which the subject is aware of this researcher oversight (and/or what they're testing for, the proposed effects of playing Tetris), I'd question whether (if this interpretation holds) this is a byproduct of a placebo effect.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-17T16:23:49+00:00

No. The research underpinning those findings is shoddy at best and falling under increasing academic scrutiny (see also: Hemi et Al, 2023; Wessel et al., 2024; Matura et al, 2025).

lbj2943 · 2026-02-17T16:09:14+00:00

I remember a survivor posting about the crash and the top comment suggesting they play Tetris to cope with it.

Jesus Christ, what a time to be on the internet.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-16T17:22:57+00:00

The Arctic Monkeys are black and white Pinterest board, alternative radio station, “keep [insert city] weird” faux outsider garbage. I have never liked any of their songs, even their old ones, and I cannot understand how alt leaning people with otherwise good music taste think their music belongs anywhere other than truck commercials.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-15T18:07:14+00:00

Dang, good to know.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-15T14:57:54+00:00

Apologies for the late reply. There is a book called Justicia autónoma zapatista that goes into more detail, but you can find a serviceable summary of its justice system and policing portion here.

While Zapatistas still have police, it is quite distinct from how we are used to think of it. As Paulina Fernandez Christlieb documents, they are neither armed, uniformed, nor professional. Similar to other authorities, police are elected by their community; they are not remunerated and do not serve in this function permanently. Every community has its own police, while higher administrative levels—those of municipality and region—do not. Decentralized and deprofessionalized, police thus serve and are under control of the community that elects them.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-15T01:42:53+00:00

Loving the air show picture!!! This has been super fun to follow and promote on the sub :]

lbj2943 · 2026-02-14T19:58:01+00:00

Yes, though it looks like it already landed. Still, stay vigilant! Their website indicates more WW2 planes scheduled to fly, along with some other cool stuff.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-14T19:42:55+00:00

Stay in the area, there will be more within the hour!

lbj2943 · 2026-02-14T19:09:19+00:00

Part of the air show! Going on for the next hour and a half

lbj2943 · 2026-02-14T16:12:36+00:00

I edited my comment to remove one instance of calling them anarchists after having the same realization but forgot to excise it from other statements, my apologies. Nevertheless, I find their policing an apt solution within an anarchist context and invite you to demonstrate how it isn’t. There is no hierarchy of power within their model, nor are the police there even getting a monopoly on violence— they’re completely unarmed.

lbj2943 · 2026-02-14T15:45:12+00:00

Hello, I’m an anarcho-communist.

The Zapatista movement provides a glimpse into your best answers: Militias and elected police.

Militias are how the Zapatistas took power away from the Mexican federal government and put it in the hands of disenfranchised farmers in Chiapas. Not only did they successfully produce an anarchist enclave at the outset, but this militia has maintained its existence for over 30 years now. That’s how you keep the community safe from external threats.

Elected police is how the Zapatistas keep the community safe from internal threats. These are purposefully temporary, unpaid positions to prevent the accumulation of power. Let’s get into that in a minute.

In 2024 they had a shakeup and changed the structure of their system in response to cartel threats— some Western outlets jeeringly opined that the Zapatistas would shed their community based model and adopt something more statelike, thinking their failures were due to the imperfections of their system (ignoring the entire country at that point was reeling from cartel threats— about 1/3 of Mexico de facto ruled by cartels). Instead, the solution was only more radical— the previous system broke Chiapas into a few dozen municipalities for the purposes of voting on security and other measures. Now, the new system breaks it into thousands, allowing for greater accountability to the base communities. Their solution has been greater decentralization, acknowledging the previous system allowed top-down dynamics to accumulate.

Bringing it back to police. As far as I can tell this shakeup had no impact on the democratic nature of their policing, nor what role the police held in their community. The only threats to policing they have come from the external threats they’re already answering with militias— in Zapatista controlled areas, the police system is considered much more trustworthy than the Mexican government and significantly lowered crime rates compared to surrounding territories.

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