I work for the elected officials of my left leaning state government. I think Charlie Kirk was a piece of shit. The violence saddens me, but I am not sorry he is gone. I still have to observe decorum, no matter my feelings.

Jobs under capitalism are just wage slavery/servitude. The "privileges" you are allowed will change with time or workers movements. But the relationship of exploitation hasn't changed here. The level of control in the existing exploitative relationship is what is changing. It's the relationship of capitalism evolving into what we call fascism.

It doesn’t have to be good good. Just good enough to keep your chronically ill child insured.

Fair point but if you're a licensed professional you probably don't have the ability to publicly say whatever you think. Fuck me for enjoying my chosen profession, apparently.

There's a concerted effort by a group of trolls/facists to scrape the web then doxx the commenters and have meemaw and pop pop call customer service crying.

Or to directly contact C suite in cases where that's possible.

"I don't have anything to hide" made it acceptable for social media apps to ask for a video of you holding your photo-id when adding username.

I am not even exagerating facebook apparently wants 3 selfies from certain angles in video format and autodetects fake-sounding usernames.

Well, they're coming for anonymity as well. The UK identification laws could be used to collect data on theoretically anonymous social media accounts, as it applies to any website that could possibly show a child something "inappropriate", which iirc, includes not just porn but what they consider support for whatever they define as terrorism.

GOP reps have been pushing for similar ID/age checks for a while.

Yeah I'd probably be in a lot of trouble now if I were to. It's kind of ironic, because the right used to bitch and moan about the left "canceling everything and limiting free speech". Who's doing that now?

The idea that people ever say anything on the Internet that the whole world can see, and do it in their own name, seems ridiculous to me.

If something is in my real name, it's only for work purposes, like say Linked In. And in that case I'm only ever posting there if I need a job or something.

I wouldn't talk about my favourite sports team, let alone anything political, if it were in my own name.

Magasphere poisoned public debate far before Kirk's death.

Kirk deserves it

eh i'll say it anyway kirk was a weenie

Nobody needs to hurt far right, they self-regulate with guns.

Crooks and Robinson are just grumpy Reps, but Donald can't ear it.

FYI upvotes on Lemmy are public.

I deleted facebook Jan 2025 and scrubbed everything that was there. Same with reddit. I have a tiktok account just so I can watch videos but post nothing.

I'm participating in protests outside of work, I write and call federal reps, (because I am not allowed to lobby the state reps I work for, ethics and all,) I donate to wikipedia, ACLU, and other organizations that protect our constitutional rights. I boycott companies that support Trump and right wingers, to the absolute frustration of my household. My, "we can't shop there, we can't buy that product," is met with tons of eye rolling and teeth gnashing. My rebuttal is always, is saving even $1 worth our freedoms? I work for democrats in the state government, so I'm busting my balls doing my job to the best of my ability to support the people on the front line that oppose much of this fascism. I'm doing all I can, but unless someone is willing to step up and pay me a salary and benefits for further activism, I can't leave my job. If I'm going to die for my beliefs, it will be when things devolve enough that our final choice is to take up arms. I don't want to own a gun, but getting to that point means I need the disposable income to purchase one in the first place.