We've gone from "if you don't vote you have no right to complain" to "if you don't dedicate time to running for office in matter how reactionary your area is, you have no right to complain."
May I please have rent and food money since I will be needing to stop working to start campaigning for local officies? Can I also now have money for different healthcare that is tied to work?
I'll happily give you links to donate if you put your money where your mouth is, I've been wanting to run for office in my deep red community. No guarantees they'd vote for a queer disabled leftist however.
When WannaCry was a major threat to cybersecurity, shutting down banks and hospitals, it was found that it used a backdoor Microsoft intentionally kept open for governments to use.
EternalBlue is an exploit of Microsoft's implementation of their Server Message Block (SMB) protocol released by The Shadow Brokers. Much of the attention and comment around the event was occasioned by the fact that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) (from whom the exploit was likely stolen) had already discovered the vulnerability, but used it to create an exploit for its own offensive work, rather than report it to Microsoft.[15][16]
EternalBlue[5] is a computer exploit software developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).[6] It is based on a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that allowed users to gain access to any number of computers connected to a network. The NSA knew about this vulnerability but did not disclose it to Microsoft for several years, since they planned to use it as a defense mechanism against cyber attacks.
In real life, if I do not prevent someone from doing a crime that I am aware of was premeditated, I am guilty of not doing my duty. Corporations are people thanks to Citizens United, and governments are ran by people, so uphold them to the same standards they subject the populace to.
American Alphabet Soup backdoors good, Non-American Alphabet Soup backdoors bad.
We could just ban the idea "companies that have open vulnerabilities for corporate and government use" but that would benefit every citizen of every nation, so no.
If there's a backdoor for the FBI, there's nothing to stop Russia and China to also not use it. Same for a Chinese backdoor, nothing to prevent America from figuring it out. It's why China bans American companies, and we're phasing out Russian and Chinese companies.
It's impossible for an open door to know who's using it, and keys for a closed one can be copied and leaked. The safest way to garuntee noone else uses a backdoor, is to not have a backdoor.
I personally find the ides that if you want an eduction, which is required for modern living, you need to abandon your rights as a citizen. Mandatary and needed public goods shouldn't strip you of your mandatory and needed rights.
Students have their rights stripped, especially as a child, because some Karens and Kevins didn't want to be a member of the HOA, they wanted to be a school board member.
Bags searched and confiscated, protests shut down, students having harmless objects taken away out of a nebulous fear of "could maybe do somethig in the future".
The fact that most people assume Arch is a broken mess because of a meme is wild. Same people would think Linux is impossible to use if they used Windows still.
Every world leader above 60 should be out of office. They don't have the same opinions and energy of the people they are leading into climate change beyond saving, and increased interest of Fascism.
No you don't understand, we use this bot to deem people as biased. Ignoring that all media is biased to its owners' financial interest and nothing else.
Hell Lemmy.world has banned active users posting NBC and CBS and other reputable news outlets because they shared them too often.
The mods who installed this bot act like its some major service, when all it does is enforce the shifted overton window and acts like news and trends isn't bought and sold to the highest bidder.
This bot doesn't improve anything, it doesn't make mods jobs easier, it just wastes energy like Bitcoin and AI farms.
Nope, most states require either a certain percentage/number of registered voters for a party or a state-wide petition to get onto the ballot. The only 3rd party on all 50 states' ballot is the Libertarian party. The Green party is a distant 4th place, as they often need to regather signatures and new petitions every 2-4 years.
If a new party was formed for 2028, it might get enough ground in one state, not any to really sway the balance of the Electoral College.
RFK Jr. and Joe Rogan are a form of ultra crank magnetism. I think if RFK picked Rogan for VP, the country would implode from an integer overflow of Weird-Stupidity.
It would be wonderful to see pro-democracy and pro peace groups holding as much resources and influence as groups like aipac does. Being able to offer candidates that sort of security. The sad truth is we can’t.
We really can't. AIPAC has the money if a country that gets unending support. Americans can barely afford rent. Americans are paycheck to paycheck and can't afford sudden expenses, like medical care and bills.
This is intentional at this point. If the people who need to vote for you don't have the money, but the corporate and international lobbyists can fund and sway the politicians more than the general public, it's a win/win. They get elected, pay back the companies who got them into office, and the people who got them in feel accomplished, when neither the companies or candidates care about any of the voters.
Trump won because the poor and rural people who saw some dude talking what they wanted to hear, and he wasn't bound to them, he was bound to thr corps and Russians donating to him.
To stop this would stop the income of Politicians across every step of government, local, state, and federal. Super PACs outweigh any of the members of Lemmy or the Fediverse. What we want doesn't matter.
If we want to stop AIPAC, we would have to stop the same things that enable Russia to fund candidates. Republicans would keepto any money flowing, Democrats would want to keep any money flowing for them. Sensible people want less money in politics. Politicians don't.
Lobbying is good for them, and bad for us. Lobbying defunds welfare, education, healthcare, and puts that money into the pockets of the wealthy.
And that's not to say "both sides", one party often has members who want to stop this. One party has a progressive wing, one party has a fascist majority. But both together will probably prohibit overturning Citizens United.
If one person he is insanely focused on made a joke about him breathing too much, and they saw people laughing at it, he would. Instantly without second thought, because he never had a first thought.
The person saying "Don't publicly criticze me, I will agree behind doors where the press and public can't see it. The public don't need to see me make public statements that murder is bad."
We've gone from "if you don't vote you have no right to complain" to "if you don't dedicate time to running for office in matter how reactionary your area is, you have no right to complain."