Bernie_Sandals @ Bernie_Sandals @lemmy.world

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He's not wrong. Someone enabling fascism is just as guilty as the fascist

Except no that's now how culpability works under any system, there's a reason every country on earth views being an accessory to a crime as lesser than committing it yourself.

Okay but again as has been pointed out to you, that has no bearing on government contracted products like this, whether that's code or rockets or anything else the government doesn't want to just share with the entire world.

Why do you think software would be treated any differently?

Okay but that has no relevance at all to what the comment you were replying to was about. Companies contracted by the government and DOD specifically to create rockets are guaranteed to be covered by ITAR. Meaning open sourcing them would be impossible, regardless of the first amendment or anything else.

There's a massive massive difference between the software for a DOD contracted rocket like SpaceX makes, and hobbyist rocketry.

While courts have ruled source code is first amendment protected. Your statement is still very very wrong. Just because it's first amendment protected doesn't mean it can't be classified normally or made illegal to leak because of ITAR.

But go leak some of the source code from XKeyscore or a schematic of a pair of GPNVG if you'd like to test our code classification and ITAR systems.

I can see how timeliness was his priority, but our unhoused numbers and housing market would look very different had mortgage relief passed.

Oh yeah in hindsight most people would say they'd prefer the mortgage bailout rather than the bank bailout. But when you're a young president in your first days of office and people with economics degrees are screaming about how it's all burning down..

I understand why he did what he did, should've definitely still tried to of gotten way more mortgage relief afterwards though.

I just wanted to note that it wasn't exactly the sneering "Yes let me fuck over the working class as much as possible for my neoliberal values" as some people claim.

Obama addressed the housing market bubble by bailing out the banks when he could’ve issued the same relief to those who were exploited.

I've read his autobiography focusing on this period, iirc according to him his advisors said there were basically only three options.

1. Bail out the banks who had a part in causing the issue and subsequently failed. (His least favorite but what he ultimately picked)
2. Bail out the mortgages of the people who were at risk of foreclosure. (His favorite option)
3. Complete nationalization of failed banks with extra actions like forgiving all at risk mortgages (He was tepid on this)

The problem was that those solutions are in order of increasing expense and decreasing likelihood of Congress's will to pass. Meanwhile the economy was burning down and his advisors were saying we could have another great depression if action wasn't taken immediately.

And the party establishment can and has changed over time, the Democratic Party of 1890, or 1910, or 1930, or 1970, were massively different parties.

The party has generally trended more progressive over time on everything except economics, and that's starting to change with the tepid integration of democratic socialists.

But a government that potentially is nefariously attempting to block a candidate shouldn't be able to bar someone from being elected.

No conviction short of insurrection would disqualify him from running for office and being elected.

Many candidates have won election for president while never even leaving their house to campaign. Trump would unfortunately be in a better position than anybody to win the election from inside a prison cell.

Idk Trump was literally attacking this judge's daughter.

Any other person would've been held in contempt.

This is exactly why Judges have been so lenient on him. None of them want to go from country clubbing to having firsthand knowledge of the witness protection program.

How do you literally say "I am against social justice" and think you're the good guy?

By first declaring "Social Justice Warriors" to be the enemy and bashing against them at every step for a decade.

violence is here

Nobody fucking wants to have to confront fascists and protest and riot

Neolibs have ignored the political fight .... tried to sweep it under the rug

Vote for Biden all you want, I’m trying to warn you that it’s too late

No amount of jelly-spined fascist lite democrats are going to get us out of this hole

Tell me what the message of this is supposed to be other than this:

"Neoliberals ruined it all, voting is pointless, go buy a gas mask, and you need to go into the streets and riot to confront fascism."

To me they come off the exact same.

Also, if the democrats aren't the answer, who is? Where are you planning to pull institutional support to battle the fascists? Or are you just planning to go into the streets and yell about it aimlessly?

certainly not what I have been saying.

Then what are you saying??? Because so far all I've heard from you is.

"Neoliberals ruined it all, voting is pointless, go buy a gas mask, and you need to go into the streets and riot to confront fascism."

people are getting ready to face the consequences of your complicity.

Oh shit didn't realize I was the boogeyman singlehandedly keeping American politics in gridlock.

I'm perfectly aware that American Conservatism has quickly backsled into fascism, and I know the establishment neo-liberal wing on the Democratic Party ignored it.

Part of my family barely survived the Holocaust, and the rest of that wing of my family was killed, I'm perfectly aware of what fascism is and will do.

I'm just saying that telling people "it's all over you're doomed you better take to the streets and do revolution" won't fix the situation literally at all.

Just so you know, when you say shit like this you sound exactly like the MAGA lovers that are frothing at the mouth for the start of violence because then "they have to take our country back".

There's plenty of ways to avoid fascism that doesn't involve just letting the world burn because you're upset it isn't perfect.

Cope cages on Western tanks, I think. Russians have had them for awhile but theirs look like shit.

Not just that, look at the sides and front bottom, there's ERA slapped all over it. They gave it both the Cope Cage and ERA treatment, this is truly peak credibility.

Ohhhh alright, haven't heard him called that before.

Spock? Ain't that Star Trek?

It's from an actual journalist and has lots more other stories/quotes.

I think it's actually real.. The article also depicts Kirkbride, even in his own words, as like five times more insane than I thought he was, mostly in a good way.