Wouldn’t have ever been elected even back in 2016 if neoliberals hadn’t used him as an excuse to be more conservative than Reagan…

Still hopeful the DNC chair election finally takes them out of party power.

But if not…

Then 2/3/25 is the day we need to solidify around a third party. It’s insanity to keep following neoliberals after the last 3 elections.

The only reason they’re talking about “gulf of America” is so people ignore the other shit they’re doing.

It’s stupid as fuck and will never stick, so if you want to complain about trump, complain about the shit that’s actually hurting people.

Some cities are downright hostile to vehicles with fewer than 4 wheels and you put your life on the line every time you go out.

Even in cities where they’re common…

I lived in Hawaii where they’re all over, and even tho I’m basically a giant I rode one too. One day I was a couple cars back from a 4 way stop, and there was a woman on a scooter a few cars ahead. I’m tall enough I could see over cars on it, so I saw her wait her turn, slowly pull out into the intersection…

And the truck to her left just guns it, hits her pretty hard, and then just drives off.

She did everything right and just got demolished.

This was my first “real” chair purchase and its suprisingly decent not being a steelcase amia/leap (havent tried both but its all anyone on reddit talks about)

I got a leap for $300 from an outlet based in NYC.

I have zero idea why they’re so cheap, but they’re real and brand new, so big “fell off a truck” vibes. Especially since everything is constantly “on sale”.

But I bought one in 2017 from them, and another in 2022. Never had issues, and the website is still up. It’s just the “sale” they’re having has seemingly been running for 8 years now.

I fucking hate how “populism” got the “progressive/socialist/communist” treatment by the neoliberal mouthpieces of billionaires…

Populism is a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of the common ‘people’ and often position this group in opposition to a perceived ‘elite’.[1] It is frequently associated with anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment.[2] The term developed in the late 19th century and has been applied to various politicians, parties and movements since that time, often as a pejorative. Within political science and other social sciences, several different definitions of populism have been employed, with some scholars proposing that the term be rejected altogether.[1][3]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

The issue with trump is he lies about being a populist.

The issue with the neoliberal wing of the democratic party is they are the establishment. So they actively fight against common Americans gaining any power, politically or economically.

And obviously Republicans are worse, but ask Americans if they want the establishment, and the bets reaction you’ll get is “better than Mad Max”.

And that’s just not enough to win elections.

We need a Dem party that is sincerely populist or we’ll keep losing elections.

The people are over neoliberalism, and have been for decades.

The issue is if they’re not plugged in all the way…

At least one manufacturer set it up so if the power cord isnt fully seated, an error light comes on and the GPU doesn’t work.

And I have zero idea why Nvidia didn’t do it themselves so it’s on all cards.

It ain’t just that, it’s making them have the fight.

Not sure how many people remember Project Pat, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLbYMfbBB1w

We used to sing it except “ain’t going back to mast” because Captain’s Mast was the less formal version of Court Martial. At a mast, the Captain could do whatever they wanted and no one higher up even heard about it.

You had to agree to Mast, if you didn’t they’d have to take you to court martial where people outside the chain of command got to hear what’s going on. The downside is punishment could be much worse.

Some of my guys were getting fucked, so I told everyone to refuse Captain’s Mast, and the command backed down because it was obvious they weren’t the problem. But our chain of command showed they didn’t give a fuck.

Word spread that a 1/3 of my division got out of demotions, and it was all anyone would talk about.

It’s why I don’t take the idea of the American military being used against Americans very seriously. The vast majority are just there because they have no other options. They hate the military more than most pascifists do. So it doesn’t take much for shit to break down.

That’s not even getting into how much of the military are minorities, immigrants, or even non-citizens. They’re not gonna do what trump wants them to.

There’s always a chance…

Up to the point of Terminator robot soldiers, then we’re fucked.

By the time we get those, we need to have our shit sorted out.

Power is where people believe it is.

No one really “controls” a military or government, at every step of the chain people can disagree. And when they do, it doesn’t always shake out the way people expect.

I was threatened with a mutinity charge in the Navy, but I stood by my position and like five people didn’t get demoted over some bullshit that wasn’t their fault.

If I’d have backed down, they’d have been fucked because they were the fall guys.

If trump tries to sic the US government on citizens or blue states, don’t expect everyone to just follow orders, even if the people at the very top do. They’re still the ones sitting at desks.

Look at South Korea, president tried to pull a coup and basically everyone told him to fuck off. Didn’t matter that he was in charge of the military and government

so many people would believe otherwise

Just like they did four years ago when the same thing happened…

There’s just nothing to gain from intentional fuckery tho, and a very plausible reason.

Even if they “unfollowed” it might not have stuck and if they refreshed it still would have been there.

Things changing on the GUI but not where it actually matters is literally the issue here…

So I 100% believe a bunch of people experienced what you’re saying.

They’re just confusing client side GUI with server side database.

Comfort.

Gen 1 fights fascism.

Gen 2 enjoys society and understands how much worse it can be.

Gen 3 grows up with all the advantages and privilege, takes it for granted, and burns it down so they don’t have to pay for Gen 4 to have it.

• that is when both sides sell out to the oligarchs

Gen 4 is fucked and desperate, and either disengage politically or go with the party that’s the best liars.

• that is where we are now.

What comes next?

If we’re lucky at the DNC chair election they see the error of their ways, the neoliberals lose their death grip on the party, and shit gets better surprisingly fast. If we’re lucky we came close enough to the ground that we go to Gen 2.

If we’re not, the left most option sides with the oligarchs over voters, and it’s time to affix your own oxygen mask before helping your neighbor. We’re back at Gen 1, and it might take a while

Obviously, fuck Meta, but…

“People were not made to automatically follow any of the official Facebook or Instagram accounts for the President, Vice President or First Lady,” he wrote on Threads. “Those accounts are managed by the White House so with a new administration, the content on those Pages changes.

“This is the same procedure we followed during the last presidential transition. It may take some time for follow and unfollow requests to go through as these accounts change hands.”

That sounds like a plausible explanation. If you followed when Biden was president, that same account is now Trump’s.

Which means there are likely millions of users either unfollowing or following the account since Monday. I’d be surprised if anyone wanted to hear from both Biden and now trump.

I couldn’t find an actual article, but here’s people complaining about Instagram doing the same thing four years ago:

Old.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/l1y2je/unfollowed_and_blocked_the_white_house_account/

Hell, 4 years ago Biden was bitching that Twitter didn’t do this

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/politics/biden-twitter-white-house-accounts/index.html

“Luigi” was the response to “how do we fight fascism”…

That is the context you were avoiding by not linking.

This isn’t an argument, I’m trying to explain something to you.

Yeah, once I noticed the post title it made sense why you removed the comments.

But even without that:

But mods can be stricter than the instance.

It’s ridiculous that people leap to the “.world is full of pro-corprate fascists” because they disagree with a single mod.

There’s more than few instances I dont like, so I’ve blocked them and never see them. I don’t know why people with the axe to grind against .world dont do the same thing.

Edgy kids just want to find the line and then constantly put their toes over it and claim nothing is allowed because they personally crossed a line.

So…

Members of the government are seizing private companies for themselves?

Isn’t that why we can’t have universal healthcare or free education?

Because the slippery slope would lead to the government seizing private property?

Why are we skipping the good parts?

It makes perfect sense, wealthy capitalists are almost always pro fascism…

That’s why when wealthy capitalists take over the left most option, it leads to outright fascism.

What just happened isn’t unique to America, it happens all the fucking time all over the planet, for all of recorded history.

When the left most option is still wealthy oligarchs, they don’t get enough votes letting the rightwing option seize power, because their voters have more blind loyalty and are more willing to believe their party’s lies.

Devils advocate:

you may use physical force upon another person when and to the extent you reasonably believe such to be necessary to defend yourself or a third person from what you reasonably believe to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by such other person.

Luigi can claim he believes it’s unlawful…

It doesn’t have to actually be unlawful.

His lawyers can start talking about why it’s lawful for insurance companies to decline claims based onnshitty AI.

Opening up a huge can of worms because records disclosed in this can be used for civil trials later…

Especially class actions for people the AI denied wrongly.

Like, dude allegedly executed a CEO in broad daylight, why wouldn’t he want to try and steer this court case towards that stuff?

No idea why you’re being so vague…

This?

https://lemmy.world/comment/14592254

Looks like a mod replied and then deleted so not sure what they said.

But yeah, those comments don’t seem to violate .world’s TOS, and I have no idea why a mod would have deleted them. But mods can be stricter than the instance.

I’m not sure why you’re blaming the whole instance for what one mod is doing.

Edit:

The thread title is “how to fight fascism” which is important context I missed earlier.

So yeah, the first comment saying just “Luigi” could very easily be considered a call to violence. Then the next one say “did nothing wrong” also makes sense to remove.

It’s actually not always wrong…

Legally speaking:

In most countries, it is lawful for a citizen to repel violence with violence to protect someone’s life or destruction of property.[3]

The scope of self-defense varies; some jurisdictions have a duty to retreat rule that disallows this defense if it was safe to flee from potential violence. In some jurisdictions, the castle doctrine allows the use of deadly force in self-defense against an intruder in one’s home. Other jurisdictions have stand-your-ground laws that allow use of deadly force in self-defense in a vehicle or in public, without a duty to retreat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justifiable_homicide

Not saying it’s perfect, but it’s likely the defense he’ll use if not denying he pulled the trigger.

They’d just have to convince a jury that denying healthcare which causes injury and death to a shit ton of Americans is a use of imment force and this action would have lessened it.

If they show that after the shooting less claims were denied…

It probably won’t work, but that’s the path to jury nullification without saying jury nullification is our defense.

Under the New York Penal Law Article 35, you may use physical force upon another person when and to the extent you reasonably believe such to be necessary to defend yourself or a third person from what you reasonably believe to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by such other person.

Tilem & Associates points out in an article that the term “reasonably” is used twice in the law mentioned above. Both your belief that force is being used or about to be used and your belief that your use of physical force is necessary to stop the attack must be reasonable under the circumstances if you want to successfully use the defense of justification.

https://documentedny.com/2023/07/27/new-york-self-defense-laws-stand-your-ground/

It’s a sound legal defense, and as far as I know it’s his only option.

But as always: IANAL