FlashMobOfOne @ FlashMobOfOne @lemmy.world

Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.

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I'll add it to my list. Thank you for the recommendation.

You're not wrong.

Having read a lot of history on the subject, the hope I do have is in the thousands who resisted the Nazis and Russians in small ways. Most of their names are forgotten (or fake, as is the way with resistance), but their stories survived because many of the people they helped told those stories after the war. Not everyone can be a Schindler or a Winton, but there are going to be more than a few who find a way to help people where needed as things get worse.

Sadly, yes.

I think here in the States we're a 9/11-style event away from happily embracing totalitarianism.

I'm currently reading Hitler's First Victims and while I knew Nazism was gaining power in the early 1930's, I didn't actually know that the systemic murder of Jews began this early, nor that anyone in the legal apparatus at the time tried to stop it, so this was heartening in a way even though they didn't ultimately succeed.

There are a lot of parallels with what's happening now under Donald Trump, particularly the intentional destruction of the rule of law, which made the establishment of Dachau and the kidnapping indefinite imprisonment and murder of Jewish political prisoners possible.

Jesus.

Yeah, sounds wild, until you realize that the police are a civic religion and the Federal Government 100% supports this kind of activity. Hell, everyone involved in Uvalde got reelected.

A small piece of good news, even though we know that the puritanical hypocrites of Wisconsin won't let that be the end of it.

This app sounds exceedingly useful to me.

Always appreciate when people offer their opinion with a YT video. I'm definitely going to watch it. Thank you.

Not sure if he pushed the original measure but he was definitely instrumental in the compromise they attempted to insert into it.

Apologies.

Every time I mention I had a run-in with a homeless person, some self-righteous SJW discounts my experience and infers that I must have been in the wrong, though I was just sitting on a bus minding my own business on the way to work. My city has fare-free buses, so we end up having a lot of close encounters with untreated homeless people. (Also why I carry a stun-gun instead of mace, so if I have to use it there's no chance of friendly fire.)

So I figured you were another one here to cast aspersions, and I have a short fuse with it for sure. My mistake.

That vote tally, though.

Go judge someone else. It wasn't my decision to turn whole cities into mental institutions. It was Ronald Reagan's.

I tested it on myself.

It works fine.

Can't even articulate an actual critique. Definitely a cop.

^ This guy is a cop.

My pocket stun gun was $19.99. Decided I needed a defense mechanism I could conceal after an encounter with a scary aggressive homeless man.

Also has a flashlight.

Window film is so glorious. I have my bedroom windows blacked out with it, easier to sleep, and yes, always cool temperatures in there.

Thank you. It's important to tell the people you like that you like them.

Not necessarily words, but a simple phrase: "I like you."

I think people should say that to each other more.