Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it. The international hacker community is preparing to strike against U.S. infrastructure and calls for public awareness against incoming fascism

    • Hackworth@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      My final semester in American Sign Language was “Sex, Drugs, and Profanity,” and most of the signs are just exactly what you’d guess. (I held on to those textbooks.) Plus, facial expressions are a big part of the grammar of the language. I don’t recognize this scene, but assuming it’s from a comedy - it’s probably also not far off from accurate.

  • Letsdothis@lemmy.world
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    Lol this is hilarious. I don’t know which “anonymous” they spoke to, but it definitely wasn’t the actual subversionist hackers that know how to do shit.

  • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Ah, Anonymous—the digital equivalent of a fart in a hurricane. Trump’s America? Weakness isn’t new—it’s baked into the propaganda circus we’ve called democracy since Reagan. You think script kiddies and Elon’s crypto-bros “hacking fascism” will fix anything? Please. The real op is watching tech oligarchs and politicians collude while we argue about which flavor of dystopia we’re slurping.

    Infrastructure attacks? Bold move, Cotton. Let’s see how it works out when grandma’s dialysis machine gets bricked by some edgelord’s Python script. If you want revolution, stop fetishizing IRC nostalgia and touch grass. Until then, this is just digital graffiti on a burning trash barge.

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I’m not going to write off hacktivism so quickly.

      Even if it’s just a few defaced websites now and then, that’s a whole lot more effective than any other sort of activism I’ve seen to date.

      • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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        Oh, sure, let’s romanticize hacktivism, the digital equivalent of spray-painting a slogan on a collapsing wall. A few defaced websites? That’s your bar for effectiveness? The oligarchs aren’t losing sleep over a 404 page; they’re too busy consolidating power while you cheer for digital vandalism like it’s the French Revolution.

        Real change doesn’t come from poking at the system with a keyboard and hoping it flinches. If anything, these stunts just give them more excuses to tighten the noose—more surveillance, more control.

        You want to fight the machine? Build something better. Organize. Create infrastructure that can’t be co-opted. Until then, hacktivism is just a tantrum dressed up as resistance.

        • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Settle down mate.

          I didn’t say defaced websites are going to take down the government.

          My implication was that it would be more effective than ranting on social media.

          • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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            Settle down? Sure, but let’s not settle for mediocrity. If your metric for effectiveness is being slightly better than social media rants, you’ve already lost the plot. Hacktivism that doesn’t disrupt the system in a meaningful way is just noise—an aesthetic rebellion that the system shrugs off or, worse, absorbs.

            You want to be effective? Stop playing into their hands with token gestures. Build tools, networks, and alternatives that outlast their control. Otherwise, you’re just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic while calling it progress.

            Defacing websites might feel cathartic, but it’s not revolution—it’s a distraction.

      • nomy@lemmy.zip
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        What a pointless thought-terminating comment.

        Do you have any actual critiques or just lame regurgitated snark to try to win imaginary points?

        • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
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          Well, meowmeowbeanz has a good point, namely, Anonymous saying anything is meaningless. Because Anonymous is a not a group, at best it could be called a movement, at worst it’s just a name. In any case, anybody can claim to speak for them. Hence their statements are meaningless.

          However, meowmeowbeanz’s post is also a barely coherent rant with overused emphasis. Which makes them seem mentally unwell. It’s like encountering somebody with a tinfoil hat ranting about how the earth is round.

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    Anytime I see something about “Anonymous” I just assume it’s some kind of fed psyop until proven otherwise.

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      So you’ll go to your grave believing it because all the proof in the world will just be fake news

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        In this case? Yeah, probably. If there was proof of their identity they would no longer be anonymous, would they?

        It’s a much more reasonable assumption than how your lot assumes anyone who disagrees with you for any reason is a Russian bot, and can’t be convinced by any amount of proof otherwise.

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          I mean at least you’re leaning into the conservative conspiracy hole instead of pretending you’re not in it, so bonus points for honesty.

          I’ve also never accused random posters of being Russian trolls/bots, so fewer points for that.

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            Lmao, “conservative conspiracy hole.” I guess “being suspicious of anonymous sources” makes me a conservative conspiracy theorist, somehow 🤣

            This is just basic critical thinking lol.

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              “This thing I don’t understand is a government psyop and I will refuse to believe any evidence to the contrary”

              That’s literally Maga 101 you can’t be surprised I called a spade a spade. Plus I just happe to know you’re already conservative from your other posts so it’s just more evidence to back it up.

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                This thing I don’t understand

                What don’t I understand about it?

                I will refuse to believe any evidence to the contrary

                There is no evidence to the contrary. The only way there could be would be if they got caught.

                Plus I just happe to know you’re already conservative from your other posts so it’s just more evidence to back it up.

                Lmao of course you do.

                As I always say, “If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying.” Please cite any evidence at all that I’m conservative.

                I apologize for my mistake earlier, when I said my suspicions about Anonymous were more reasonable than your belief that I’m a Russian bot, what I should’ve said is that they’re more reasonable than your baseless and unfalsifiable belief that I’m secretly a conservative. Huge difference.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      That’s kind of inevitable right now. The most important thing is making sure Trump and the GOP get the blame. Well, them or Russia.

      Actually, the best targets aren’t the government. It’s big business.

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        They’ll blame it on Obama, Hillary, Biden, communism, LGBTQ, Black people, immigrants, etc.

        They never take the blame - there’s always an ‘other’ to demonize.

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        That’s gonna be a big ask. Republicans don’t even get the blame for the things they do themselves. Oligarch propaganda is everywhere and pernicious, look at how the average working class American has accepted the notion that low level bureaucrats are the reason they’re poor.

      • Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world
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        The final season they steal all of the money the ruling elites had been using to control the world, ending their grip on society.

        Could also be argued that the dark army did the most evil shit and the government siding with the deus group rather than taking the side of the citizens is why things spiraled after wiping out the debt history of everyone.

        Elon and the other people pulling the strings on society losing all their money would not be a bad thing for civilization at all

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    Anonymous, if you are going to do it, PLEASE make sure to leave the innocent people alone and go after the rich assholes that are doing this.

    Other than that, here’s my axe, go wild

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    5 months ago

    Exploit it you say? Please get in line behind the russians, the chinese snd pretty much all arab countries

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    If they actually gave a shit about spreading awareness, they’d find a way to get that video on Fox News, OANN, etc

  • Korkki@lemmy.ml
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    “America is becoming fascist” makes me cringe.

    It cannon become something that it has been for a long time. US was fascist under Clinton, Bush, Obama, first Trump admin, Biden and it keeps on the same track now. It’s less than useless rallying cry when US foreing policy alone in the past 70 years is a realworld example of the thought experiment of “what would have happened if nazi-germany had won WW2”. Genocide, war, coup, and dictatorship galore committed by the United States, especially after the 80s.

    In the end what this narrative is about is that precarious middle class liberals fear that even more of the practices that US has been spreading around the world are now coming home and now the US government will gut it’s own people instead of some foreigners. Even this isn’t unprecedented and at worst Trump can only make things worse for some, but for many what they fear is already reality.

    Makes me really think if this “Anonymous cell” has any real grass-roots basis or if it’s just the same coup-mongers hiding behind thin leftist veneer to just jump against Trump, who they see as destructive loose cannon to their operations, not as an real opponent. Nothing new for Anonymous name being used in this way btw. Where were they under Biden?