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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.⁩ ⁨⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:
They should have a general strike demanding the right to general strikes.

I don’t see how it’s enforceable, you don’t have to picket, just no one shows up for work at that same time, what are they going to do?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.⁩ ⁨⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:
It’s illegal not to show up to work? I mean on the picket line maybe. But a general strike is more about not showing up than demonstrating. What are they going to send soldiers house to house and force you to go to work at the point of a bayonet?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.⁩ ⁨⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:
To be effective a general strike needs to be open ended, indefinite, until demands are met. We are not there yet, organizing some smaller ones is a good practice run perhaps, but just preparing for the real one.

In 500 bc, then 350 bc or so, the plebians of Rome had general strikes, decamping to a hill and refusing work until demands were met. One was a written set of laws as the rich were just making shit up as they went. Another was getting tribunes, every tribe got one and they could veto the senate, offer sanctuary, were sacrosanct, elected to one year terms. The second general strike expanded the tribunate.

The Peoples’ tribunes are the only reason their republic lasted for 500 years. Until the imperial boomerang came back on them as well, the tactics they used warring with other peoples were brought home by their own politicians.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Do they not tell you when a comment is removed? Does the comment appear posted still like on reddit even though only you can see it? Because if not, it has to be a bot because every comment on every thread is removed by a moderator.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Her pictures on the news article, and video, are off. Her face and her boobs are off. I wonder if I would think that if I didn’t know it was fake already reading it though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Their web browser is quite functional I have used it for 15 years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Fuck off mozilla.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I wonder if lasers ruin them like older cameras?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Or the one with him and some soccer asshole freestyling a soccer ball in the oval office. Guy cannot walk down a ramp and he’s shitposting hackysack kicking a soccer ball.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK announces largest ever facial recognition rollout as part of policing reforms⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
That could be a factor I didn’t even think of that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK announces largest ever facial recognition rollout as part of policing reforms⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I think people are being dosed with some kind of pollutant that is inhibiting their fear center somehow, interfering with brain function to make them more trusting and compliant, and massive numbers with taxoplasmosis, a parasite that affects all mammals spread between rodents and cats, where the rodents lose their fear of cats when they get it.

I used to joke about that, half joke, I’m full serious now. In the US as well, something is fundamentally wrong with everyone, not just one side.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I was talking about venezuela being a military coup, an agreement with their military to give up maduro, on the cold war template, that their military is now the de facto ruler, a client state of the US, and their civilian leadership puppets.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a shameless plutocracy at this point. The mask is off, no one is pretending to follow the rules.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
That is a paltry amount, whomever the class action lawyers are did a shit job, and should’ve taken it to a jury.

No doubt they figured a judge would overturn any large judgement though, the judges being so thoroughly captured by the rich, especially appeals courts and higher.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
The military wouldn’t have brought helicopters low like that if they weren’t. There are mobile units, shoulder fired weaponry, truck mounted, that can take down helicopters, and they were mobilized, and this was one of the most fortified areas in the country.

I am amazed at how bad everyone is at seeing what is going on, but here we are.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not surprising you think assessing the credibility of people making incendinary comments is not proper. That would help explain why you continue to pretend to believe the administration in their concerted efforts to overthrow the republic and replace it with a fascist kakistocracy. It would help explain why you would think such a thing would be good for you too perhaps, if you are for real.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Your profile has disgusting comments, endorsing the execution of protesters, pretending to believe the false pretexts told to justify it.

Which is a betrayal of the constitution and laws, a betrayal of the country, and shows a real lack of understanding and historical perspective to endorse the government being able to summarily execute citizens on the streets. If for real, only a weak mind would fall that deep into the arguments of cynical influencers turning people against their country and fellow citizens, no?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
It isn’t a secret about the federalist society, never has been at least that part of it. You are trying to argue established fact, if I wanted to do that I would find some conservatives online to call them out for lying about executing american citizens under false pretext, as if that’s an acceptable precedent to set, that doesn’t fly in the face of everything those traitors claim to believe in.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is OpenAI dead yet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
You seem to forget about the US government, and fed, that will bail them out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The left? The left is nowhere near power. I am having trouble hearing you from inside the ass of the billionaires there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Are you for real? You do know about the federalist society? They groom them from law school, picking the ones less likely to come down with patriotism.

It has not been like you describe since idk when, the 70s really.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
In theory or what? Last I heard they were virtually immune. Courts are getting worse, not better too, and judges decide.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Actually no, qualified immunity shields them personally. A tortured orecedent, if the exact situation has not happened and been sued on it gets thrown out, or some ridiculous thing like that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Gofundme for victims will be shut down at the government’s word. They are one of the worst in that regard I hear.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The labour movement some 100 years back in minneapolis beat the shit out of cops and mafia thugs and strikebreakers trying to break the teamsters union’s pickets.

Organized club battles, each with long guns to the side in case, and the teamsters won. Not one battle either this was a protracted struggle, for months or idk how long exactly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The courts are fucked, we cannot sue our way out of this. Scotus will cancel it with any success, if appeals did not first.

They already barred nationwide injunctions. The admin could round up citizens to concentration camps and no judge can now say stop. You can try to sue individually as if irreperable harm would not have haapened by then if you could even get it into court.

Seriously that was a big deal and media did not realize it. Or tell us if they did. Scotus is nazi.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
You de facto do not have a right to have your rights honored though. If an agent wants to put a slug in your head, they will demonize you, maybe persecute your friends and anyone sticking up for you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Like butterfly knives, many places in the us too. Ny for instance, cops are taught to flick knives open to be able to charge for knives no reasonable person would think fit the gravity description I read once.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
They aren’t selling to the consumer directly though, they are selling primarily to governments and business. Given that Israel controls the US and many of it’s businessman, this will win them favor. The regular citizens will be victims of their consumers more than anything. AI will be put to all sorts of draconian 1984 kind of uses.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Maduro was given up by venezuela’s military though. That operation was not possible, and indeed would not have been attempted, if the military hadn’t entered into an agreement to stand down, and given intelligence. Helicopters are vulnerable to multiple weapons systems they couldn’t reliably take out, not the least in one of the most protected places in the country with the country mobilized.

There is no question, the military is now the de facto power, overseeing the now puppet civilian government in selling out their assets, an old cold war template.

'As such, they would not be able to do that in Iran. What they could do, is assassinate their leaders, including the ayatollah. They have everything compromised more than Iran thinks too, they could. Only the US likely stopped netanyahu from doing so already.

As to invasions, it has a lot of mountainous areas, and is several times larger than Iraq, which is mostly flat. We could go through and blow shit up with impunity, but an Iraq style invasion is out of the question unless our leaders lose their minds quite a bit more. Not that they wouldn’t try anyway but not now they want to make war on America.