Isn’t that just as bad as Russia doing it?

That’s some real victim-blaming shit… What exactly did you expect Canada to do to counter Russian election interference in another sovereign nation?

I don’t think Rivian is generally known for quality / reliability: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/rivian/

😂

This is a really good point. And yet, movements are started in the wings. It’s really hard to get people all fired up with some tepid centrism.

Hey welcome! You may proceed to do all the rich eating you like over here.

The implicit demand is to stop supporting fascists.

Saying the emperor has no clothes (or his clothes are made in Moscow) is the first step in doing something about it. If we all keep quiet and just go along with authoritarianism, then the fight will be over before it starts.

Yeah, they wanted change. But then the fascists conveniently swooped in and pretended they offered the type of change people actually wanted. (Cheap eggs, etc.)

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I guess we’ll both stay tuned and see whose prognosticating is right here.

Let them prepare! Effective organized protest and resistance isn’t something that happens overnight. It can sometimes take months or even years of concerted effort.

You say placate, I say practice. People who have never protested a day in their lives aren’t going to start out with a multi-month blackout. They need to get used to protesting by starting small.

The organization that organized the economic blackout has longer-term boycotts planned in the coming weeks. This is just the opening salvo. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I mean, yeah. Part of the low pay inherent in U.S. government jobs is the baked-in assumption that it’s one of the most stable jobs around. Once that assumption goes out the window, the government will have to pay more to make up for the loss of that major perk.

Get that defeatism out of here. They’re only above the law if we let them be. To date, the Trump administration has backed off when a judge rules against them. Sure, they then try to come up with new, illegal shit to do. But the courts definitely still have a place in putting the brakes on it.

Same! Okay, not without problems, because running a mailserver isn’t maintenance-free. But Mailu has been generally solid and it works with Docker. (And Podman, unofficially.)

As much as direct action is fun, this is just a lie. Lawsuits have already changed the Trump administration’s behaviour. Sure, they are still doing tons of illegal shit to see if they get called on it. But federal judges’ rulings have called them on it and even served as effective push back in many cases.

Be the change you want to see. In Minecraft.

It’s good, but it’s centralized. Let’s say an authoritarian regime shuts down the central Signal servers. Then what?