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.
Comment on Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months agoI 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.
June@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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:
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”.