MasterBlaster @ MasterBlaster @lemmy.world

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It is authoritarian. Communist system devolve to authoritarianism because it is a natural progression (easy to do). Socialists can, but a good democratic political structure makes it harder.

He said Capitalism, not Corporate Capitalism. Pure, unfettered Capitalism leads to the same place facism, communism, and feudalism go.

The issue is "unfettered". Regulations enforced upon the operation of the markets, maintained by rule of law, enables achievement of greater agency and success upon much larger parts of society.

People understand they can prosper from creating real value, which pushes society toward greater advancements to quality of life and enable more individual freedom than any prior economic and political system.

Kill the illness, not the patient.

Exactly. Just like they never tracked and stored our movements when we turned iff location history.

The class action suit they lost on that was fake news /s

Racism is a powerful motivator, unfortunately.

It also means you are presented with a Faustian chouce: walk away, or give up any hope of privacy. "You wanna see this? Give me full access to your metadata, and a way to hack your system".

Qubes is starting to look like an everyday use requirement rather than a security nerd tool.

Article said it caught his interest, which to me means he took notice and will likely try to own it and enshitify it soon, not that he is currently behind it.

I had the 500 and 3000. I finally got rid of the 3000 3 years ago. I saw no reason to install linux at the time because it was already almost the same from my perspective, except the Amiga also had sterio sound 4096 color output, and pull-down screens. The console commands were substantially similar and several enthusiasts ported linux comands to AmigaOS.

Plus, we now can run more modern versions of AmigaOS on Linux though I have never done it myself.

Amiga still exists as a reasonably modern OS and hardware as of a few years ago. It was bought by small businesses and updated a few times.

Absolutely right!

The outrage is telling. Hogg is making an effort to introduce fresh faces and ideas at the primary level. This gives Democrats a chance to choose which ideas they want to go into play in congress. That is all.

If those voters are happy with what they currently have, the incumbent is safe. If not, those new ideas go up against opposing ideas. If a plurality like those ideas, they get to see them play out in congress. The only risk here is that they lose the seat.

Since at the moment, he's doing this in reliably blue districts, the risk is lower than elsewhere. This is a recipe for real change in the Democratic party for the better.

The only reason to fight against it so hard (that I see) is the protection of individuals' comfort at the expense of the welfare of our nation. It's evidence of moral rot in the the party that is threatened by true representation of the citizens' needs.

I support Hogg's efforts - as long as he does not have the morality of "boss Hogg". (For the kids out there who have no idea of what i mean, find and watch a season of The Dukes Of Hazzard.)

Well, I was an Amiga user. That was already unix-like, preemptive multitasking, etc. It was fading fast in the early nineties, and while i was already working in I.T., I was not interrsted in using Windows 3.11 and 95, so I began playing with Slackware Linux. I figured it was a good way to get comfortable with "real" I.T..

I learned Bash and had to compile most of the software i wanted to try. Since, like all programmers, I'm lazy, I wrote some simple scripts to build the code and make them into packages (tgz) for Slackware. This took tedium out of the work, and i could use the packkage manager to install and remove them.

Those were rough days for desktop users, though. I really had to use windows when i needed to pass output to "normies". I tried several window manager and desktops, and eventually landed on Ubuntu.

Know anybody on the east coast who could participate? I'm becoming truly scared at this point.

Classic movie! It was commenting on the Regan era trickle-down, job exporting, tax-cutting agenda and the people behind it

Exactly, yet they're futzing aound like there's no known way to deal with this behavior. This is why i think all the outrage is theater to keep us all believing things will work out until there is nothing anybody can do about it.

Then they will be free to disappear any undesirables unhindered.

Until i aee any evidence that anybody wants to enforce the Constitution, i conclude the next move is removal of the judge. Or maybe he'll fall out a window.

It's that bad folks. Our remaining politicians and law enforcers need to take this seriously. Shit got real months ago.

True gallows humor - in a dad joke. Well done. (Seriously)

I'm going to sit down in the corner over there and weep quietly now.

Go to a science fiction convention. Seriously. There's some wild live music. I wouldn't be surprised if you heard it there.

I used to go to several in the Northeast US, like Arisia, Lunacon, Philcon, Boscone. Of course yor best bet would be WorldCon.

Until you realize republicans are on a PR offensive against empathy. Litterally, not figuratively. I'm not speaking in metaphors.

I'm unaware of being in a trash-talk contest with anybody. Given that another "MasterBlaster" who is not me (on KBin) replied, I think this is a mistaken identity. In fact, this is the first time I've seen anybody else with the same handle as me.

The fact that Trump has not already been removed from office on the basis of violating the constitution tells me he's already won.

There are no consequences to ignoring the rule of law, so he will simply continue. Since there are no consequences to ignoring law, he will simply cancel elections. Who's gonna stop him? He's already declared himself king and few even shrugged.

It's over. The only thing left is a violent uprising. Pretty soon even saying that will be enough to put the speaker in prison as a terrorist.

I feel this is the best first choice. I fear i will end up emigrating as a refugee rather than by choice after this path. The level of surveillance is highly sophisticated such that i can be individually identified by facial recognition even if I'm careful about cell phone security.

This is a government that almost certainly will go after identified protesters, so i cannot do this until i have a peer group that can support me. That's what i need to find now.