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More black bars than New Orleans…

Death toll in the jail article is ~1029 yearly, if its explicitly stated I didn’t see it. That was calculated from the figures given (total pop 735k * death rate of 1.4/1000) (That number is wrong, as stated in the article the actual rate is likely to be slightly higher because they had to exclude a great many sources from their sample due to bad or questionable data).

It should be noted that those deaths aren’t divided by cause: police muders, inmate violence, deaths from pre-existing conditions, lightning strikes, deaths from conditions exacerbated by the quality of care available in the prision, dying from old age, fatal infections from rusty stairs, deaths from food poisoning, fatal allergic reactions to bee-stings, suicides etc. are all lumped together because they’re all relevant to the conclusions of the study, but aren’t necessarily relevant here.

Those… look it’s NOT hard to find data to show the death toll for the US, so why did you go with such horrible examples?

There is no widely agreed on figure for the number of people that have been killed so far in the war on terror as the Bush Administration has defined it to include the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and operations elsewhere. According to Joshua Goldstein, an international relations professor at the American University, the global war on terror has seen fewer war deaths than any other decade in the past century.

Like beyond how rough the numbers are: the wiki pages all include the total death counts, but those are both coalition wars and the total deaths are not broken down at all. This data exists, you can find it, but you can’t find it there so why use it?

Similarly, the paper on jail deaths very much does not answer the question, as it is an analytical study on the impact of jail conditions on mortality and explicitly does not address the causal conditions of those deaths:

[…] health and mortality data for people who are incarcerated or in police custody have been shown to be “incomplete…incorrect… [and] anachronistic,”42 and jail data may underestimate deaths or contain inaccuracies related to causes of death. Finally, the associations found in the study do not suggest causality.

It is not hard to show what you want to show. By instead providing such poor quality sources, you undermine the credibility of your point to a spectacular degree. Like. Just use real numbers? Hell, it’s not hard to find very reasonable estimates on death tolls from imperialism itself. But notoriously vague values from sources that explicitly clarify their own imprecision is just a terrible way to approach this.

I can’t, for whatever reason the codec Truth Social uses does not work with my phone.

Wait, really? I figured this was yet another thing he was gonna demolish…

In a broad sense sure, and that’s a great reason to use a VPN (especially if you listen to VPN ads on youtube)!

It really isn’t a good reason in this example, though. At least, not as an explanation for setting your location to be outside of the US. Use of a VPN is identifiable (unless you set it up yourself, which isn’t anonymous) so it will make no difference where you’re located if the authoritarian government you’re supporting gets replaced with an even more authoritarian one that decides to prosecute people being mean to them online, and it can only serve to incriminate you if the data ever gets leaked (like what happened here).

Generally this is true, but within the scope of this hypothetical it doesn’t really change that this fundementally doesn’t make sense.

No the troll kingdom has been at war with the lizard cabal for centuries, I’m very careful to never confuse the two groups.

Seriously though I don’t think you’re trolling, I just think this question is kinda dumb. While there are reasons to use a VPN yes, you have yet to present a reason for why a huge number of legit US-based maga-influencer VPN users would want to set their location to something other than the US instead of just using a US node, which would be both faster and less suspicious.

It’s just silly to think they’d be doing that, there legitimately isn’t a reason to pay money to do a less convincing job (unless this is a false flag)

It’s also possible that this is all being orchestrated by the lizard cabal (prove me wrong, I dare you) but hopefully we can agree that our time is going to be much better spent discussing things that are actually likely instead of what the lizard pope might be planning next.

An unironic use of “just asking questions”, dang.

And so is tweeting about a fire while in a crowded theater, but defamation/libel are famously hard to even show standing for, let alone prosecute. And they (oversimplifying) generally do not apply to speech critical of a public figure, which is why we can say things like “Stephen miller is a collective of sentient bugs stuffed into a skin suit made from stitched-together horse foreskins that’s embezzling millions of dollars that he then spends on underage sheep and recreational bidets” without worrying about legal repercussions.

Commercial VPN services aren’t particularly cheap.

Hold you accountable for what? Nothing being done here is remotely illegal. I shill hard for my political beliefs and Warl0k3 isn’t my real name, how is what they’re doing (if they were really from the US) any different?

As for a foreign group using VPNs, why bother? This information hasn’t ever been reported before, and any investigation into it is both unlikely under the current administration and has the resources to blow thru any cheap VPN you might be using for large scale commerical work like this. And even if that happens, nothing will happen to you. So why spend the money?

But why use a VPN to appear from outside the country? Why not just use a VPN node within the US, so it’s not obviously russian but still obscures your location? For that matter MAGA, who they’re supporting, currently is in power and in the US there’s nothing illegal about posting vile political rhetoric online. So there’s no reason to not simply make up usernames and create a bunch of twitter accounts. You’d save a great deal of money and make yourself appear a great deal more credible if you just made yourself appear as though you were in the US, not in countries known for having whole industries centered around online astroturfing services.

As in, could they be using VPNs so they appear to be from outside the US, but actually aren’t?

… I mean I guess? But that seems like an expensive way to make yourself less credible.

Agreed - RPGs are a collaborative process, but need a framework in which to collaborate. The DM is there to provide that framework, so if there’s no indication that they’re angling for something to be more than flavor, I’d prefer to get to the story they’ve been intending rather than sidetrack the session. It probably varies by though.

This… wouldn’t surprise them at all? Those types have always been very explicitly pro-authoritarian.

No it’s pretty much the Reich. The early days of the 3rd reich have been heavily romanticized, but it really wasn’t any more competent or well executed than what we’re seeing here.

Oh hey, it’s you again! How’ve you been? Still doing the “aggressively present some truly spectacular misinterpretation of what I’ve written” thing? Glad that’s working out for you.

Aaaaanyways, I’ve never said or even tacitly implied that it’s okay that trump is stupid, nor have I ever made anything like a hinting gesture that he isn’t stupid, nor have I said that this isn’t evidence of his mental decline, nor have I said that his overall mental decline isn’t relevant.

As is becoming tradition, I invite you to give it another go.

That’s not really the point. Sure you could argue this, but why the hell are we wasting our time arguing about if the stupid detail of him mixing up a word is actually relevant, instead of talking about the "he’s trying to send troops to defend a street" thing? That is my point. I don’t care if people think it’s a sign of cognitive decline, I care that you’re choosing to spend your time talking about that instead of the thing that really pressingly matters.