There's a pretty big leap between "Most posting happens during work hours" and "Many federal civil service workers spend most of their workdays complaining about their jobs on Reddit." It's not like it matters if people are shit posting at work all day anyways but their data doesn't even back up what they are saying.

Always mask in places that vulnerable and high risk people can’t avoid!

In other words, mask everywhere. The immunocompromised are all around you! They have to work, they have to go to school, they have to get groceries, they should not be forced out of their social circles and hobbies and into isolation at best, or killed at worst, for the comfort of reckless ableists. Children who cannot mask should not be forced to become ill! The destitute and homeless who can’t afford masks should not be forced to become ill!

This deserves its own post! I appreciate the insight and reading recommendations.

this shit is so pathetic

They did the same thing to a hacker in the 3DS scene years ago, I wouldn't be surprised if they followed the same plan even.

https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-conducted-invasive-surveillance-operation-against-homebrew-hacker-201223/

I was really disappointed with the mod response to this thread. Locking the thread and removing comments from people being hostile towards those who are being covid minimizers, yet leaving up posts that are anti-science liberalism is absurd. How can you expect people to be respectful to those whose actions directly threaten you? Also people on lemmygrad are constantly making flippant comments about any number of people and topics, but apparently calling people plague rats is too far? I guess the folks there can dish it but can’t take it. Just an absolutely shameful display from a community of marxists. Sorry for the disorganized rant but this has been pissing me off all morning.

In addition to the answers you’ve gotten already, here’s some links that may be of interest to you.

How did the whole war in the Donbas start? Why did Donets and Luhansk declare independence?

According to Lenin's definition of imperialism, is the Russian Federation imperialist?

PSL Statement on Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine

Prolewiki page on the war

Most of these links are a few years old already, but at a glance they appear to me to still be relevant. I’m unfortunately busy with work so I can’t take a more in-depth look at the moment, but hopefully this will still be of some value.

Listen, I'm all for dunking on shitlibs, but if someone's literally asking for reading recs on communism, I think we should at least try and give them something. Maybe I'm just being naive or my sealion detector is bad or something, but this to me seems like a good faith request, even if it's very ignorant.

It’s really disturbing that anyone could be so brainwashed as to believe the Democrats are meaningfully different from Republicans when they are constantly vowing to kill as many people and ruin as many lives as possible. You really expect me to side with you to stop Trump when you are criticizing him for not being ruthless enough and promising an even more cruel border policy?

https://hexbear.net/comment/5072095

Every COVID Infection Increases Your Risk of Long COVID, Study Warns

https://icemsg.org/2024/07/21/2024-week-28/

AAA: COVID-19 has lasting deadly impact on traffic safety

Cognitive performance of post-covid patients in mild, moderate, and severe clinical situations

Jessica Wildfire’s COVID bookmark list (from the sidebar)

It seems unlikely to me that they’d use covid as the excuse considering how hard they try to pretend that the pandemic is over and that Biden defeated it

If you’re interested in learning about communism, then I think reading would be a better place to start than a debate. /r/communism has a Basic Marxism–Leninism Study Plan, personally I started with the Manifesto of the Communist Party since it was the most commonly talked about.