You do understand that if we don’t get the lesser evil we get the more evil right? It’s not like if discourage voting enough we default to a communist leader.
Comment on Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Lesser evil”
kool_newt@lemm.ee 10 months ago
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There are no varying degrees of evil when the outcome is all the same.
kool_newt@lemm.ee 10 months ago
“…when the outcome is all the same” maybe to you, that’s the definition of privilege. I’m a trans woman, my well being is directly connected to who wins, and I’m not the only vulnerable one.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What exactly have Dems at the federal level done to insure or expand your protections? Doing nothing to prevent harm is the equivalent of doing harm
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Look at the trolls username you are responding to
kool_newt@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Ya, sometimes I comment/reply not with the goal of changing the person I’m replying to, but maybe somebody reading our conversation will think a bit before giving up the game to the fascists just because Biden isn’t a comrade.
queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I can’t until some liberal tells me I should have voted harder for something that is continued endlessly under all forms of politics.
I can’t vote harder to a CEO who has no legal requirements to store this data, but does so anyways.
I can’t vote harder to the police of my area or state, or the FBI.
I can’t vote harder to a president who does not give a shit about any citizens, just “slightly not as racist or as horrible of a rapist, but blue”. Especially when “constitutional lawyer” Obama started the DAS, didn’t do anything when exposed via Snowden but want him arrested for exposing the truth, and Trump and Biden did nothing.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Sorry to interrupt, but CEOs may have data retention laws to follow, depending on the industry. It’s easier for many companies just to save everything, usually. Do they exploit that data? Yeah, unfortunately. CEOs can be blamed for a lot, but not for rules they may have to follow. You can blame them for shitty security over that data they have to retain. That’s a thing! (AI companies are the ones you need to look at now as they are the ones that want everything.)
To tweak your point a little, you have no voting power over people who are put in charge of government regulatory bodies who create those rules, for example.
Carry on…
queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
From the article we’re commenting on:
***There is no law requiring AT&T to store decades’ worth of Americans’ call records for law enforcement purposes. ***Documents reviewed by WIRED show that AT&T officials have attended law enforcement conferences in Texas as recently as 2018 to train police officials on how best to utilize AT&T’s voluntary, albeit revenue-generating, assistance.
And I have voted, I voted for Biden to “not be Trump” and he’s doing okay at that. I’m personally still waiting on protections for queer people, major laws against police brutality, higher minimum wages, healthcare reform, decriminalizing cannabis, codifying Roe v. Wade, or anything else that was planned to win over voters but still don’t have the time to do anything about.
But i guess we have the political capital to:
Violate 26 federal laws to continue building the wall that Trump wanted
Have bipartisan support to enstate a formal dress code because a Senator wore a hoodie
And I don’t recall ever voting to support Israel’s bombing of Palestine, not in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, or any other election year. There isn’t some referendum of “Hey maybe don’t play geopolitical chess that gets hundreds killed” that I can vote on. Joe “Nothing WIll Fundamentally Change” Biden said to Congress in the State of the Union, to a nation filled with people protesting police brutality We need to Fund the Police to a roaring clap from both parties.
Please tell me more to vote harder to stop the genocide of Ukrainians, Palestinians, Yemenis, and everyone other oppressed people. Please tell me to vote harder for milquetoast candidates who pay lip service while they allow fascism to grow openly and easily, because “they need to reach across the isles and compromise”.
June@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Oh I’m sorry I’m a realist that understands that we have to play the hand we’re dealt.
Feel free to offer a realistic alternative. My ears over here are open.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yep Obama did jackshit when Snowden came out under his administration and told us all that the US was spying on all Americans.
Fuck Democrats and Republicans are fine with this unconstitutional bullshit. Especially Biden who voted for the Patriot Act and the Iraq War.
xenspidey@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
He even wrote the precursor to the Patriot act which it was based off of and bragged about it.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Voted for the Patriot Act? That mother fucker wrote it. When he first wrote it during Reagan’s Presidency it was too far to the right for even Reagan.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have you got some source ? Because as author of the patriot act I found Jim Sensenbrenner
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Straight from the horse’s mouth
www.c-span.org/video/?c4876107/user-clip-joe-bide…
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Really TIL. Knew Biden was a peice of shit but wow.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m betting you dont know half of what he’s done. If you did you would never consider casting a vote for him or his party that’s allowed it all to happen.