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[–] 115 points 6 months ago (8 children)

And just because the 1st amendment allows us to criticize our government and you'll win your case, doesn't mean they won't illegally make your life hell between here and there.

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  • [–] 65 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    And just because the 1st amendment allows us to criticize our government, doesn't mean they won't completely ignore our rights and nothing anyone can do will stop them.

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  • [–] 40 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Fascism has historically been defeated using specific tools. People here are happy to explain how to defeat fascism.... in Minecraft.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Part of the problem is those specific tools require enough of a consensus from the populous to see wide use. There's a schism in the states in what is considered reality rn. So either that schism will continue or something will somehow reunite us. We've already seen the relationship between state level government and federal government become publicly hostile. So the smart money is probably on the former. If things continue the fed won't go away or get reformed, it will just become less and less trusted by states who oppose it

    Depending on your political philosophy this might be for the better in the long run even if rn sucks . But the big elephant in the room is that no state (no not even Texas or California), is economically able to cede. The biggest and most obvious issues are water and food. If you can't figure out where to get those other than the states you oppose or the fed you don't trust, then you're screwed

    So yeah I don't think we're in any sort of unified resistance era despite what Lemmy likes to suggest. Each state is too reliant on each other state. The slow grinding decay will continue on far longer than anyone wants

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    People's feelings about the economy is the strangest predictor of change in modern American politics. And right now people are pissed and the GOP's greatest politcal.weakness right now is that they have too much power. It's harder to put the blame on the Dems when the GOP has absolute control over all 3 branches of government.

    Honestly, the Dem's inability to put together a filibuster due to Fetterman may be a secret advantage.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    I'm assuming you meant strongest and autocorrect gibbed you. But yeah absolutely there's discontent. My point was more about where that discontent is placed. For a lot of people it's placed at some abstract thing, for others it's at some invisible elite, and other still the very visible elite

    You'd need enough agreement to bridge the gaps there. Which seems feasible locally but not so much state-wide and definitely not nationally

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  • [–] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Also weird: Those of us who said back when it was formed that the name, "Homeland Security," wasn't just fascist-sounding, and maybe telegraphed the real intent, were somehow correct. Broken clocks, I guess.

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago
    [–] 33 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    The average person can’t afford to defend themselves in court.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago

    A local ACLU affiliate may be able to assist with finding representation. The First Amendment Coalition legal hotline is another option. There's also the American Bar Association lawyer referral directory (or just put "[your state] bar association" into your search engine of choice and browse for its lawyer-finding resources).

    Many places offer pro bono representation for those who cannot afford to defend themselves. Doesn't mean it's easy or that it isn't a pain in the ass to have to go through the process but the alternative is letting the bastards win and that's unacceptable to vertebrates.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The way I read this is the average person has nothing to lose.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    They have everything to lose and they're one missed pay check away from homelessness.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The thing is, the entire us economic system is busy trying to make the distinction between employment and homelessness as thin as possible.

    They want you to extract zero extra value from being employed with them, they want every single interaction blown apart and separate.

    The entire goal of Samuelson-derived econ is precisely to leave people with nothing left to lose. This is why Rights and Deeds and Compacts are so important, they are emotional bulwarks that the extractive class can provide at, frankly, very low cost.

    And the Epstein class has decided to shred the final pretenses of civil rights just as their idiotic war will destroy the economy.

    A lot of people perceive themselves as having way less to lose than you think.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Sounds like it's a good idea to use an instance that isn't in the USA to protect yourself from data demands.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    They just passed legislation in the house (it'll pass the Senate probably) that allows them to spy on anyone anywhere in the world.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    They were already allowed to spy on non US citizens as much as they pleased.

    The 5 eyes just made it super easy to ask someone else to acquire some data on US citizens and put it in a database that they conveniently had access.

    Now, since the most of the country likes to gargle Trump's balls on the off chance he might hurt some non whites they don't even need the plausible deniability.

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  • When this is over, MAGA won't be able to hide their support. If they say they just supported "Republicans" in this time then they were still MAGA. Being Republican at this time is being MAGA.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago

    Anonymous? Lmafo. My Facebook IS FUCKING FULL OF PUBLIC POSTS. Bring it on

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    I'm right here. They could just ask.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    unmask my gemini and nostr BITCHES

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    [–] 28 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Good thing I’m on Lemmy where my strife and comments are meaningless.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Unless you say something negative about furries. Then all 8 other people here seem to get mad.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    one of the first things i have to block is all the furry porn and furry memes posted here.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Where do you find all of these?

    So I can block them. I never see this content. Perhaps filtered by my instance.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I learned a trick. Don't just block the community, block the user. The user will inevitably create their next sexual oddity community that I endlessly block over and over, but when you block the user it ends there. They likely aren't contributing much to conversations outside of their kink anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If you say something negative about the USSR, the tankies will flame you. But not too early in the day. They don't tend to wake up until about noon or so. It's pretty easy to end up living like a vampire when you've been unemployed for a decade.

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  • [+] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    i don't think it's inconsequential, information is powerful, second only to unity. and to tackle unity you need to disrupt the flow of information, if people don't know that many others share the same beliefs as them, then it's much easier to fall into despair

    and yeah so far no hero has emerged from the masses to unify people and properly stand against the terror, but as long as the information flows it is always a possibility, a constant threat to their agenda

    or so i tell myself to keep my hopes up

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    When it quacks like fascism and attacks critics like fascism, it is fascism

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    At least they are doing it by the numbers, the Ministry of Peace is up and running to maintain a perpetual war, this latest move helps establish the Ministry of Love managing surveillance and fear. The Ministry of Truth was already in place for propaganda and the rewriting of news and history. There will be no love except the love of Big T.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    could also be plain totalitarianism

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)
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