People adapt.
Under a fascist leadership, they adapt by becoming more accommodating to fascists and more allergic to liberal democracy.
I know plenty of people who are excellent community organizers. All they need is to change what they teach at their outreach classes.
I agree in theory. But in practice, it seems any kind of militant liberalism gets dismissed as “both sides” or denounced as “being a tankie”.
A big part of the rush to sink billions into AI revolves around this fervent instance that China is creating an Evil AI and if they build theirs first, it will force everyone into eternal Super AI Communism.
“China is going to steal our AI so we have to fight back” is just the latest riff on this aging song.
Power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Not really up to a few hundred terminally online liberals.
Trump loses, they lose
They’ve been on this shit since the Confederate Era. Trump is just the latest in a long line of fascist bannermen.
SCOTUS said only Republican Presidents have power and thus he was rendered powerless.
They forget how many of us gun owning liberals there are.
Without an organization and leadership to coordinate action, that’s not particularly useful.
Movement conservatism is scary because it’s a movement, not just a bunch of nutjobs who all happen to own guns.
We have already past the tipping point where content creators are now paying more for their work to be heard then getting paid for their work.
The gatekeeping of modern social media plus the data harvesting of LLM is strangling independent ownership, without a doubt.
It’s a shame folks on Lemmy can’t see it. But then Reddit is the Ur-example of big business robbing people of their work product.
The thing that will bring down the copywrite system will be countries without copywrite making enforcement impossible.
That’s because fireworks are a pain to film
Starmer and the Labour government not being as left wing as Corbyn
It goes a lot farther than that. From the Cass Report to the HS2 to the genocidal approach towards migrant refugees (deliberate sinking of boats in the Mediterranean), Starmer’s Labour party has demonstrated very little interest in reversing Tory policy.
They campaigned as moderate administrators of Tory extremist platforms and they are positioning themselves to continue to looting of the UK with a liberal demeanor.
everything looks like a war crime
Mass execution of civilians is always a war crime.
Also because Biden isn’t a criminal.
The US has committing war crimes on a regular basis, globally, practically since the word entered the vernacular.
Biden still hasn’t closed Gitmo - a two decade running war crime - along with the rest of our torture prisons and black sites. He’s blatantly violated international law via our looting of the Afghan Treasury, our terror bombing in Syria, Libya, Somalia, and Iraq, our mercenary kill squads sent into Mali, Yemen, Congo, Nigeria, and Haiti, and our illegal occupation from the the Philippines and Japan to Panama and Cuba.
And then there’s Israel.
Biden’s continued criminal misconduct dating back to the McKinley Administration. Its just within the scope of his office, so the SCOTUS thinks he’s beyond prosecution.
Drone displays are increasingly popular.
He’s one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LLhkrj1HDNo
The average number of drones for a Sky Elements performance is 300 typically costing $45,000 all included. Though costs have been dropping, they’re still usually higher than for a large fireworks production, which averages about $1,000 a minute and usually lasts about 20 minutes.
Unfortunately, the modern US Congress only accepts payment in Bitcoin.
Half the fun of fascism is deflecting the blame for your miserable policies on your favorite scapegoat.
The military will march to war to end the Woke that stole their benefits
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/opinion/not-voting-elections.html
Matthew Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing Opinion writer.
NYT had to change the headline to “Why I Won’t Vote” after social media caught him voting
it’s 42/39.8
When less than 40% of the population wants to vote for you, that’s really bad
An incumbent President HAS placed third in a general election, though.
Kids love to read about the American Revolution, Vietnam and Afghanistan, or the Cuban Revolt (that finally succeeded). They’re less excited to read about Grenada, Guatamala, the Spanish Republicans, the Hungarian Revolt, the century of Cuban revolutions that failed, the American Confederacy, the Battle of Blair Mountain, the Greek Civil War, the Philippines, or the American Natives.
Guerrilla Warfare is incredibly bloody affair. Rebels rarely live to see the revolt successfully concluded even when it does succeed. The problem with wars of attrition are that they get a lot of their participants killed.
Who here actually wants to die for their cause?