We SHOULD be passing laws that protect people’s rights from corporations the same way we protect those rights from the government. We SHOULD be passing laws that enshrine the right to be forgotten, by forcing companies to either respond quickly to delete requests, or have massive penalties per day, paid to the person, not to the govt. We SHOULD be building public, free alternatives like a library in cyberspace that is for public good, not profit. We should stop forcing ID laws, and start forcing encryption. Think bigger than tech withdrawals, instead take the opinion that tech should serve everyone, not the rich and powerful. Hobbyists and open source built practically all of the internet, and only later did money and politics take over.

The internet used to be a quirky free library. They turned it into an aggressive rent seeking monster.

She chose the name Dina Nina?

Get a load of Mr. Moneybags over here, having enough equity that he could mortgage something…

God forbid they set their sights as high as doing TWO things

https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/2372-catapult

Is a solid choice.

What a time to be a fascist dictator trying to control the media! Easier than ever.

Wouldn’t the magnitude of forces involved make it impossible to keep the oscillation frequency “low enough to be easily noticed”? Like, to not collapse into each other you’re going to need some pretty high speeds, and conservation of angular momentum is gonna only make it faster as you “Square” the wave.

Except the DNC icing out Bernie in 2016 clearly indicates that they aren’t actually democratic, they clearly indicated that they are a private org with no legal requirements to enact the will of the people.

All that said, you better believe I’m still voting for the not fascist party, but also still trying in my weak little ways to advocate and advance ranked choice voting to enable the undermining of the two party system.

Perhaps the difference in anecdotal reports lies in the widespread corporate tendencies to post hollow job listings. Positions they are not really hiring for, just “keep a pulse on the market”, or trending data, or perhaps contact info of potential hires when they actually will hire…

Sow doubt and suspicion. Claim fraud, steal election. Martial law the riots, fascism.

Not trying to hijack, trying to draw an analogy. This is precisely the same argument that draws the ACAB conclusion. And it is the same argument that reaches the conclusion of “No one is free until everyone is free”. We all need to have the courage to call out those around us that are corrupt/predators/oppressors.

This is from the 2024 campaign. Which he won, bafflingly.

He is directly telling everyone that he does not consider Americans “we”. His “we” is, AT BEST, oligarchs in America.

The difference is that we’ve allowed a private, for profit company to do the surveillance, and they are not beholden to all of the laws that we put in place to keep the Government in check. Capitalism’s latest innovation is outsourcing fascism. The privatization of all of this oppression is accelerating.

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.” -FDR

2026: it did end, the transition to hell was subtle, but I see it now.