i thought i the project had changed their name :p

it hits hard the other times too – it’s just that you’re VERY SLIGHTLY less scared because you have an idea of what to expect and what to do.

funny that – i had always presumed that it student/faculty/staff project since the university of california owns it.

it gets easier after the 5th or 6th time :p

linking graham platner to his reddit posts suggests that this would be unnecessary.

i’m on 2.0.2, but i’m on graphene and i’m not having any problems.

lemmy has stars?

i just downloaded it, thank you for building this!

why stay on there?!

hang onto it so that you never have to buy butter again for the rest of your life.

besides nazi content, the admins of lemmy.ml don’t decide what i can and can’t see via de-federation meanwhile the admins on lemmy.world and most other instances allow the same sort of brigading that reddit does to make content they don’t like go away into obscurity.

I didn’'t really feel like reading those same jokes, quips, puns, and slogans ad nauseum.

this begs the question of why the neoliberals are here at all.

reddit/facebook/instagram/etc. will always have better bread and circuses so expecting to get it on lemmy is a lost cause to begin with and that lacking quality – combined with efforts to minimize leftist narratives like piefed and tesseract – means that they won’t stay here for long.

so what are they looking for when the come here when they continue to insist on implementing the same enshitification that made reddit so insufferable?

they’re fighting for their lives meanwhile the epstein classes’ soldiers are doing it for college loans and retirement – it’s an existential crisis for survival for the ansar allah while it’s just a pain the ass for the modern day white army.

oic, i missed the part about tor.

What do the apps give you that Lemmy’s default UI doesn’t?

i want to say that Lasse Collin and Jia Tan clearly don’t spend enough time touching grass, but i hope they never do. lol

does it let you to export more than gif’s?

i suspect we’re the only ones. lol

which browser and os?

your system is blocking a public university’s website and describing it as malicious – you have more immediate problems to fix.

does the link not work for you somehow?

EDIT: maybe you’re asking for an easier to understand version and the best i can do is this ai summary:

This dissertation, completed by Benjamin Thomason at Bowling Green State University in 2024, critically examines the role of US “democracy promotion” as a tool of empire, focusing on the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Core Argument: Drawing on a critical Gramscian Marxist perspective, the author argues that the NED and USAID function as “engines of intellectual warfare” in US foreign intervention. They mobilize communications and organizational resources to reinforce elite hegemonic narratives, thereby facilitating neoliberal and neoconservative US foreign policy objectives abroad.

Methodology & Historical Context: The study traces how covert Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) media and civil society operations during the Cold War evolved into the institutionalized, “pseudo-overt” democracy promotion apparatus that served as a pretext and method for US interventionism after the Cold War.

Case Studies: To support its thesis, the dissertation examines several major US interventions since 1983, including:

The Contra War in 1980s Nicaragua

Operation Cyclone in 1980s Afghanistan

The 2000 overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in Yugoslavia

The 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez in Venezuela

The 2004 coup against Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti

The 2014 Euromaidan events in Ukraine

Syria Focus: A dedicated chapter analyzes the US-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War from 2011. It details how USAID provided monetary, media, and civil society support to what the author characterizes as primarily sectarian, theocratic, and Salafi rebel groups opposing the Ba’athist government, demonstrating the “moderate rebel industry” and narrative-control infrastructure.