I think micro plastics in our anything will probably be an issue

Basically just the same as just defederating but you also sign a little thing promising you'll never refederate with threads

They have very simple demands, they're not giving some pie in the sky stuff like "have Joe Biden tried for war crimes and abolish capitalism" or something; the protests all have demands along the lines that their university boycott Israeli companies and cut ties with weapons manufacturers aiding the genocide. To claim otherwise is completely infantalising to the protestors who are risking their university positions and physical health to protest despite the police crackdowns.

Here's a link to the list of demands of the student protest in new York, for instance

And here's a picture of the list of the demands of the columbia faculty protest:

Please, Joe Biden, please just do this one thing and presidentially pardon yourself

iirc the death sentence is just being used as a motivation for her to return all the stuff she got from corruption and if she does it'll be downgraded to life in prison

im not saying governments dont astroturf or anything, i meant it was a QAnon-esque conspiracy to assume that there were paid shills and bots around every corner and the vast majority of anti-american sentiment comes from a Russian cabal or something, especially on a comparitively tiny online space like lemmy. Like i've fairly frequently seen the accusation that lemmy is filled with paid actors / bots working for various countries from people just because they've suddenly been exposed to views that they've never really encountered before.

i think that it's a lot more likely that a few people are just making burner accounts to be dicks on the internet than some weird QAnon-esque conspiracy theory that both the Russian and Chinese governments are not only aware of a tiny reddit clone but also are actively employing people (who all happen to be fluent in english) to create fake accounts and convincingly imitate westerners all in order to slightly increase political divisions in america for a few thousand people by having arguments about already incredibly contentious issues.

anti-Israel and anti-America content is cool actually

it's almost as if a company that helped incite an ethnic cleansing just a few years ago, hosts far right stochastic terrorists like libs of tiktok (despite the owner repeatedly breaking meta's own rules) and actively suppressed the voices of Palestinians and posts that criticised Israel doesn't make for a good instance to federate with.

it was immensely irresponsible for any instance to federate with them, let alone the largest one.

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