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I've looked online but I guess I failed my search checks, because I didn't find anything big in NYC.

But also like others have said, we need to do more than just march. We need to be disruptive. No more labor until every Republican resigns. That kind of thing.

I think that's the "only Democrats have agency" thing that comes up. When Republicans are horrible shits people are just like yeah they're horrible but like you don't blame the bear for doing bear stuff. But everyone else is held to normal human standards

Usually when you make a deal with the devil you get something.

Most (proper laws) laws require intent.

Some laws are "strict liability". I think some sex crimes are, for example

Remove some Republicans from office via the 14th amendment.

Lead protests. Not just parades but actual disruptive protests

Back left wing candidates

Use any and all procedural tricks to delay things.

other stuff that moderators don't like

So many places seem to be run by idiots, if your metrics are other than "personal enrichment".

Like, one of my old jobs, the CEO laid off almost everyone and is now banging hard on the "return to office" drum. Like, my guy, how is making people do a 2 hour commute going to help? It's a small company, he knows most of the people live that far away. And then they go into the office, and they end up doing these like hour+ long lunches. Or they leave early for drinks.

It's fucking stupid. It's the CEO driving with his emotions. He wants to feel like a big business man with an office, and he wants to have fun socializing. Idiot. Fun guy to hang out with, but he's making pants on head stupid business decisions. And there's nothing any of us can do about it.

True, I'm definitely doing arm chair analysis. If I was in charge, I probably wouldn't have entered the console market at all. I'd probably have tried to build steam. That had to be easier if you own the OS, too. On the other hand, they utterly fucked up "Games For Windows! Live" or whatever it was called.

I said in another thread but I've been unemployed for a while now. Even jobs I'm referred to my old coworkers aren't giving me interviews. If capital wants me to spend money, they have to pay me money first. Until then, fuck them.

It's funny because like 20 years ago or whenever Xbox launched I was like "why don't they capitalize on the fact that they own windows? The platform everyone plays games on. Why are they competing with themselves?"

Hypothesis: businesses are run by idiots and people whose contradictory incentives create behavior indistinguishable from idiots.

Yeah I don't know what the solution is. Just killing all your ideological opponents probably isn't it.

Preventing the concentration of wealth and power and investing heavily in education would probably help

Some of those people (or their children) are still having breakdowns because a black person is in the same store :(

I think a lot of us have picked up, been taught, this idea that like "the past had bad stuff but it's over now, and everyone's better, and everyone who was fighting for bad things realized the errors of their ways and repented".

You have to remember it's not about facts, it's about feelings. As I always say, we're all susceptible to that to some extent, but the republicans have it bad.

I think they're making a joke (what with the /s), but some people will say that since "Nazi" is derived from "national socialist" it's a form of socialism. Usually people making that claim are arguing in bad faith and/or are grossly misinformed.

Even republicans don’t want fascism.

They don't? How can you tell?

Yeah I think a lot about the guy I knew that took a job at palantir. When asked about working on questionable stuff, he just shrugged. He was always nice to people he knew personally, so far as I can tell, but bigger picture stuff didn't seem to matter to him

The video games in my house were downstairs, and one time I did a "Can I go downstairs?" instead of "Can I play video games?" when I knew they didn't want me playing more games. Thought it was a clever loophole. Only worked the one time, but got jokingly referenced for the next ten years.

I do feel like protests need to transition from "We're here with signs" to "No more labor until these problems are addressed," but I don't know how to get from here to there.

Are there protests? Are people lining up in DC? I feel like the left is just broken and disorganized and losing on every front.

As the other person said, it really depends on what people mean by "strict".

My parents were "strict" in that they enforced a bed time. Now I have better than average sleeping habits. So that worked out.

But I've also read about "strict" parents that, like, take doors off their kids rooms, or read the kids private messages, or other nightmares

There are too many headlines where the first half is exciting.

Trump hit by bombshell

Iranian leader slaps trump