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Also nobody else who is currently sitting on the Supreme Court who is directly and personally responsible for these particular loans directly not having been forgiven, with actions more recent than 40 years ago, that we might want to bring up also, while we're calling balls and strikes.

Yeah, I generally agree with all of this. It's a little confusing to me because:

Biden was a shitty Senator and a much better President.

the reign of fascism will last until the Democratic party turns into something capable of defeating it

Is a weird juxtaposition. If someone in the Democratic party did turn himself on a personal level into something capable of going good things, why would you want to emphasize how shit he was 30 years ago? I mean, it is true, but also, these were some of the things that a lot of people used to attack him and pretend he wasn't good now and help lay the electoral groundwork for the horrors we've got going on now.

I feel like if you're motivated to speak honestly, but you're only speaking about one side of the equation and the one that was less relevant and in fact actively misleading in the election, that's dishonest. Maybe not. Maybe I am just sensitive about it because of the quantity and volume and variety of dishonest stuff that was levied at him. But that's where I am coming from in it, at least.

Brought to you by the early 20th century labor movement.

The foundation got laid so strong that people had time to forget what it even was or why it existed, what it was like before. It was worse than today, if you can imagine. Now we're going to have to build the whole damn thing again. No one "in charge" is planning to help with it, either, just like last time.

Joe Biden forgave half a trillion dollars worth of student loan debt, the Supreme Court told him he couldn't, and he still managed to get a couple of hundred billion forgiven.

All this stuff Trump is now undoing is stuff that Biden did. All these people having their wages garnished, are suddenly having problems because of Biden's people losing the election.

I don't know what or when you're talking about here although I assume it is roughly accurate. Biden did all kinds of fucked up stuff from supporting segregation to supporting Clinton's neoliberalism to the Iraq War and all of it, sure. Israel too, even up to the present day. If you want to tell me we need to get rid of every one of those 1990s Democrats I will 100% agree with you because they are fucking everything up. Biden somehow turned himself into not one of them (except on Israel) even though he was the same age.

I think people are still attacking Biden just out of habit at this point, because what's done is done. But if his party had won, this particular instance of bullshit (along with an incredible amount more) would not be happening. That's what is most relevant here. If you want to look at a broader scale, then let's say that if not for Reagan and for a generation of young people too cool to vote for Democrats because they thought it would help end the Vietnam War if they stopped voting, maybe we'd still be able to support a family on a single income and go to the doctor when we needed to.

Absolutely it is that deep. People are getting snatched, judges and 100% innocent tourists among them. Anyone in government who is pretending it is a normal time, talking about tourism and come see our beaches, is helping lay groundwork for letting it continue and escalate.

You're not wrong. Somehow, though, even that deeply corrupt process has managed to out-democracy the unfathomably more corrupt process that leads to which elected leaders get into office and what they do with it.

Somehow, when it comes down to it, "Do you want abortion to be legal" can still receive a resounding "yes" from the people of the state. Putting extra layers in the way of that happening is still a bad thing I think even though the underlying process is subject to the same swampy awfulness that the whole rest of the thing is subject to.

I'm suggesting that anyone who is on the non-fascist side of what's going on in this country, who is framing the drop in tourism as because Trump has impacted "the economy" as opposed to because he is snatching tourists and putting them in turbo-jail for literally no reason and all and it's scaring the shit out of people who might otherwise want to visit our previously safe country, when other people already inside the country don't have that option and are keeping their kids home from school worried they might get snatched too or something, is normalizing some really dangerous shit.

If he wants to talk about California's economy, then maybe I would argue that his priorities are off, but fine. But the way he framed it to me crosses the line over into active normalization and complacency, not just failure to grasp and emphasize the right point.

"California dominates as a premier destination for travelers throughout the nation, and around the globe. With diverse landscapes, top-rate attractions, and welcoming communities, California welcomes millions of visitors every year," Newsom said in a statement on Monday.

"We also recognize that our state's progress is threatened by the economic impacts of this federal administration, and are committed to working to protect jobs and ensure all Californians benefit from a thriving tourism industry."

I can't wait for this twat to stop being a Democratic tent-pole. They are throwing people totally at random into concentration camps for life and arresting judges. A Democratic politician from Long Island just went missing. They're building or finding new prison facilities as fast as they can get it done. A 9.2% drop in your state's numbers, or the quality of your state's top-rate attractions, I don't give even the tiniest fuck about.

See my other comment. I wasn't saying at all that Lemmy was a US-only thing, I was just trying to say that that the whole network is probably enough of a niche platform that it's not worth the substantial effort that would be involved in trying to interfere too much with US users on non-US instances. Big instances in the US, they can fuck with, and so why not (and especially since the Take it Down act is structured to empower individuals to go after them without the government needing to spend resources on it.) Instances outside the US, never mind, we have bigger fish to fry.

Oh, I am sure most of Lemmy is outside the US. I was saying that, in general, Lemmy (and even Mastodon) is probably too small and difficult a problem for them to want to attack through any systematic method. I think, if anything, they'll just surveil and punish individual US-based users as opposed to trying to shut down or block instances outside the US.

It's one of the advantages of ActivityPub services. Bluesky will be easy for them to attack at the root and I fully expect them to do so, whereas for truly federated services I think the reaction will be "ah what the hell too much trouble, how much harm can they really do."

No, they will just make server operators liable for obeying any conservative who has an issue with any content there and can make the right format of complaint.

I suspect that instances outside the US will simply be too small a factor to bother with. Small, scattered opposition that is subject to deliberate trolling and disruption at any scale anyone feels like deploying will simply not be worth bothering with.

This is all assuming if a big internet-censorship operation starts (which it seems likely that it will). I think it will mainly focus on large based-in-the-US companies which host large services. Notably among them will be Bluesky. The only impact it will have on anything ActivityPub-based is that they will shut down or muzzle some big instances inside the US, and then, the point being made, they will probably move on, leaving instances outside the US to do whatever they want. That's my prediction.

Oh, also, Palantir's surveillance will incorporate people's comments into their overall dossier on the person, regardless of where their instance is, which means that anyone who maintains a big presence on an ActivityPub network will be putting themselves at person risk of neo-deportation to somewhere they can never get free from. It will still be legal to do, though. Sure.

I don't think it is for the right reasons. Whatever she says, I think she is opposing it because she hates Jews, not because she cares about Palestine or free speech. For example I suspect that making it illegal to boycott Russia, she'd be all for.

should fail

I'm going to to stop you right there. I do actually agree with you 100%, I'm just saying that "no one can prove I didn't do this action for X innocent reason" falls apart in how the actual law is actually applied (and regardless of whether the law is being applied for a reasonable reason in the first place, which of course this one is not).

A lot of things in legal-world can actually work this way. Intent matters. So if you're distributing a document that calls for boycotting Israel, that can be illegal (I mean... arguably, I guess, under this awful law). If you're in charge of a purchasing agency, and you suddenly drop all your Israel-aligned contracts, that can be illegal. If you're denying mortgages to people of a certain color, that can be illegal.

No one can stop you from the individual actions, but if someone can prove that it was part of a coordinated effort to achieve one particular goal (which it kind of has to be coordinated in order to achieve any impact) then it can be illegal.

Done

I dislike the phrasing "data rape."

I knew it, man.

I learned MIPS assembly first, and it was like the registers were all a baseball team, with everyone trained and doing their part to try to get the job done.

When I learned about x86 assembly it was like the registers were a tiny band of wacky misfits who were going around in a van trying to solve mysteries.

• Code segment: fine
• Data segment: It's weird that you even do "segments" but fine
• Extra segment: ...
• F segment: Please stop
• G segment: Stop it

Most times of state-created suffering do not feel abnormal to most people.

Milton Mayer interviewed a bunch of German civilians after World War 2, and most of them remembered the concentration camp years as good times and had a positive view of Hitler. Only the professor among them really even had much awareness that anything important had been happening during that time; most of the others were just concerned with issues of family, their work life, their economic situation, and so on.

Fishing?

Fight for… what? My fellow Americans?

Yes. Some of them don't have the option. It's either be here safe, or have ICE kick in their door and fuck them up. Some of them just want to do science. Some of them are wanting to turn the resources of the richest country in history to solving big problems like climate change. There are important things and people happening in the US that are worth defending. At least try.

The Trump people, you can fight to educate better and rescue from the economic circumstances that primed them up to line up behind fascism. Not for their sake, fuck 'em. But for the sake of everyone else who will be a victim once their confusion and violence becomes law.