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Protests are good to demonstrate a movement has real numbers, but don't just go to one to stand there. It's a great place to find political organizations which can work to create actual change.

For what it's worth. I suspect fed-run relays have sped up the Tor network substantially. I'm really mostly using it to avoid commercial tracking and passive dragnet so it doesn't really bother me...

but nobody can win without being slick and two-faced

And don't forget 'rich', or more importantly, supported by the rich. A national-scale campaign requires resources that a typical organization can't gather, and to win without such a campaign is miraculous in most systems.

So, you’re assuming we’re all American here.

Nah, like you said it applies to most democracies, even if America is an extreme example of these universal trends.

Nazism refers to a school of political beliefs. It's not some vague unknowable thing, a Nazi is perfectly capable of advocating for Nazism using speech and symbolism. So don't pretend they have no clue what a Nazi advocates.

No, killing a Nazi does not make someone "the Nazi". It would be nice if you didn't trivialize atrocities like the Holocaust.

People who self-identify as Nazis, as well as those knowingly in neo-Nazi organizations, are therefore perfectly valid targets of assassination. Historically, Nazi killers are seen as national heroes, so don't give me that 'winning people over to your side of history' junk.

When it is strategically effective to shoot a Nazi, and it often is, then I advocate you do so without hesitation. Where it is not strategically effective, I advocate the myriad of nonviolent techniques put in use by antifascists. These are preferred, not because of some silly claims that Nazis should not be harmed, but because they're safer and more sustainable than individual actions.

Listen closely to what a Nazi wants, yes even the 'cosplay Nazis', and think about whether their life is more important than stopping their goal of mass extermination.

I don't know what the culture is where you are, but I don't give people money for friendly gifts. If anything, that just implies our relationship is transactional and shallow, rather than a community who care about each other more than money.

What I do is return the favor by giving them free things later, just like they did. Like buying them a drink at a pub.

Yes. So what?

Law doesn't matter. Breaking the law is common. And if anything, Trump's first term is all the proof we didn't even need that laws won't stop this.

haha thanks, I appreciate it.

Surely there's some reward or motivation, whether it's rational or not. Would you feel any different if you didn't do it?

Serious question, why? Stress relief of button-pushing? Thinking it might work and that it can't be slower than doing nothing?

I just don't feel any urge to push the button.

I don't have evidence, but I have heard there are also times of day when it's automated and when it's manual. So you might need to press it at midnight but not during rush hour. Interesting if true.

Good call, I'll start looking out for these!

Huh, these are all common sense statements I would have assumed true. Four our of four, good work!

but they never seem to consider that it’s them that keeps electing those people.

How so?

If one doesn't vote, a slimy politician still gets elected.

If one does vote, in most elections they can only choose from a small group of people who probably fail to represent them, and even if there is a reasonable option, they probably won't win the vote anyway.

The system is rigged, when it comes to voting there usually* isn't a correct option. Our political voice must exist outside of elections.

(I say usually, because a few elections are better than other, but generally speaking at a federal level, it's slime no matter how you vote)

A key aspect is that it doesn't even require confirmation.

Private against who?

Privacy communities need to really drill in the idea of threat models instead of pretending privacy is some linear scale and the ultimate goal is to bury your phone and computer in a lead-lined concrete block underground. Privacy and security are meaningless concepts unless you know who your are protecting it from and what their capabilities might be. I don't need to hide from NSA Tailored Access Operations because I'm not trying to x the y of the USA. I do need to protect myself from basic scam attackers, copyright trolls and neo-nazi stalkers. And Matrix, along with certain basic opsec guidelines, does that and more for me.

Anyone who doesn't know how to (safely!) pirate books, articles, films, games and software, please read, use and share the resources over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

This skill is increasingly useful.

What the fuck is a right-winger doing in a neoliberal cabinet?

I don't understand what's surprising about that. I'd expect most people in a neoliberal cabinet to be right-wing.

Headlines are being headlines, I get it, but Fry was repeating a joke:

“I heard a very good joke yesterday,” the QI host, 67, told Stig Abell on Times Radio on Thursday.

“Someone said, ‘Musk is not a Nazi... Nazis made really good cars,’” he went on, before bursting out laughing.

Maybe we should read it.

(I have and it's short, simple, empowering and to the point, would recommend)