Even though she herself is a less than great person (she's a bog standard transphobic grifter), screw Elon Musk! Strongly dislike the recurring notion in this chat that she somehow deserves this, or like it's impossible that he could've lied to her and manipulated her. Violence against women isn't fine because the woman in question is a bad person.
The fascists own all the media organizations. The population has been taught systematically since birth to have unyielding blind faith in the institutions of the state and capital. Many won't understand that anything unusual is happening until they're hungry and cold, burying empty caskets for their drafted children sent to die in fascist wars of conquest.
Jesus fucking christ... literally Reagan era. What do they mean "evidence based science"? But they banned it cause of "DEI"? I guess merely the association of HIV with queer people and people of color is enough to classify it as "DEI"? So like. Black people and queer people having effective medical treatments is "DEI"?The horror show continues. Persecution of minorities is now standard practice in America.
There also comes a point where they don't have to hide anymore. They're doing Nazi salutes on television. They're pardoning white supremacist neo Nazis. They're already there. Why pretend when they can just deny that such a thing exists or should exist in the first place? Fascists will love it, and that's where his core supporters are anyway.
He will probably suspend the constitution soon. He will at least make a serious effort to have the entire thing suspended due to "far left radical insurgency" or too many "illegal aliens disrupting the political process".
Idk why he's talking about a 3rd term. I don't think anyone expects him to live out this one. He is very old. 4 years of being a fascist dictator might as well be a decade off of his lifespan. There's no way he'd be physically capable of running again. Being the most vile human being alive is actually very bad for your physical health.
This is the desired outcome. They want all women to be as gender conforming and submissive to men as possible. They know it affects women who do not fit the defined conventions of what women are meant to look like / act like / talk like etc. This is actually the main reason they want to do it.
Rape already requires an often unattainable burden of proof for which other crimes do not. Male sexual violence against women is also so prolific and so often unpunished that rapists can be senators or even presidents. The overwhelming majority of rape never results in any negative consequences for rapists.
Refusing to participate in sexual relationships with men is a part of the collective action women can take. Women as a class are rapidly losing all bodily autonomy and all civil rights in the US. Having sex with men is literally dangerous. Refusing to do so isn't just a means of striking but also because it's literally not safe.
Allowing a 14 year old to work an overnight shift on a school night is an open declaration of war against children. Half the government of Florida are child sex trafficking pedophiles anyway, so I guess the relaxing of child welfare laws can only really benefit them.
religion, in that it is only a tool to further their ends and they will interpret religious scripture at their own discretion and opinion
education
healthcare
There's only two things they do care about, capital and power. They are white supremacists and Christian nationalists second, capitalists and oligarchs first.
Maybe they shouldn't have replaced the computer modernization department with a "fire everyone and destroy the country" department headed by a divorced nazi.
Reality is exceptionally mundane. I watched contrapoints video about conspiracies last night, and I was struck over and over again by this idea. Reality is boring. Why did Elon Musk decide to surround himself with 19 year old boys in his little DOGE club? Because that's exactly how he sees himself. He surrounds himself with very young, very online/techy men because he sees himself as a very young, very online
/techy man. He sees himself as a popular frat boy. The outsider in politics. I guarantee you he tells them when he sleeps with someone. They absolutely have group chats where they all talk amongst themselves and include him the same way. He's just a delusional divorced man who is almost universally hated by people who aren't either literally paid to like him or incentivised to like him because of his politics and position of power.
There are literally millions of men like him in America alone. Most of them are his followers. Why does he have the position of power that he does? Cause he fucking paid for it. That's all. It's exceptionally boring. It's melodrama in its finest. America dies not with a hammer blow but with the slow whistle of air leaving a bike tire. It's anticlimactic. It's mundane hollow reality. It's a story told a thousand times before. Egotistic racist divorced man is promoted to management of an office. A few months later, after thoroughly ruining everything, the office is closed for good. Life is empty. The glory we were told was there never existed. The climactic final battle is largely fictional.
Resistance isn't really about grand fights or sweeping upheaval. It's about changing material conditions for people. Helping those who need it. Organizing communities and building solidarity. Sweeping upheaval comes as a consequence of those things, but isn't itself a conscious focus. We remember revolutions for their sweeping upheavals, for their bloody final battles. But that wasn't what people in those movements had been working for. We don't talk about the growing class solidarity in the face of repeated violence from the ruling class over decades. The disillusionment people feel from their rights being lost. We ignore those things cause they don't make good stories to tell in the moment. Resistance itself is (mostly) boring labor and nuisance civil disobedience.
I don't think this is currently possible under the current treaties of the EU. At the very least, there is contention about whether it would be possible. It's also not really an overnight kind of situation. At the very least, closer ties with the EU are definitely good for the country.
A very solvable problem with window tiling managers. There's unironically thousands of them.
Linux just honestly might not be for you if a terminal is an insurmountable obstacle 🤷♀️ it's how you interact with the basics of your computer. It's worth ripping that bandaid off and getting over your fear of term imo. I honestly prefer software I can just run from the terminal.
LadyAutumn @ LadyAutumn @lemmy.blahaj.zone Posts 3Comments 888Joined 2 yr. ago
Even though she herself is a less than great person (she's a bog standard transphobic grifter), screw Elon Musk! Strongly dislike the recurring notion in this chat that she somehow deserves this, or like it's impossible that he could've lied to her and manipulated her. Violence against women isn't fine because the woman in question is a bad person.