KelvarCherry

@KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As I said in my comment, the killing frenzy is here. This government has become more emboldened than ever in oppressing and brutalizing us citizens because they’ve been taking slow steps toward fascism for decades. The War on Drugs; Bush v. Gore; The Patriot Act; the reporters of Ferguson; Trump’s first term executive order overreach; the fucking Insurrection—This year: DOGE; ICE; CECOT; Tariff War; Plus we’re just now seeing everything in the Epstein files which was happening as well for decades.

  Decades of peaceful protesting and it hasn’t worked. We’ve only been losing ground. 2015’s gay marriage decision was a fluke; and the Affordable Care Act was more of a duct-tape fix than true reform.

  We’ve had two real assassinations in the USA: Brian Thompson in December 2024, and Charlie Kirk in September 2025. Do you think the government wanted either of those? Judging from the bipartisan condemnation, absolutely not. Folks like me are not saying to mow down a red state neighborhood. We’re saying to resist the ICE deployments, physically, when they show up.

  You’re right that the US government wants a killing frenzy. It’s the one they are enacting, every day of the majority of this term. Even if Republicans’ intent in disappearing these tens-of-thousands, maybe hundreds-of-thousands of people is to bait a reaction from people, what is the alternative? We… let tens of thousands of human beings get disappeared? The dehumanization of these victims is sickening and yet it continues to be perpetuated by “holier than thou” liberals who either don’t realize what they’re suggesting, or don’t care.

  So, let’s say no one does anything in retaliation. Why wouldn’t they just make shit up? Well… the answer is, they have. We’ve got Stephen Miller on FOX ranting about how blue cities were littered with “body after body after body” under Biden; talking about how Portland would burn to the ground every night. It’s all lies. They lie. We know they lie. Their biggest ally, big tech, spent billions of dollars over the last several years making machines that fake evidence and gaslight people. The White house has used AI-generated images and videos to humiliate activists and produce propaganda.

  IF we ever claw back our nation from fascism, and that is a big IF, scholars will ask why no one did anything—how this could happen with the open internet, a tool believed to be able to mitigate and prevent the rise of fascism. This constant fearmongering about the “Insurrection Act” and insistence to not react is a significant part of that answer, and I will preach that to the grave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m genuinely losing my mind at this take. For the last 13 months we’ve seen thousands of human people walked to their death – watched planes of human beings take off and return empty; and still half of the comments I see that suggest taking action beyond peaceful marches and waiting for the 2026 midterms get this “smarter than thou” smug response from people, some claiming to be 50501 liberals. Sometimes it’s, like, 15 lines and a song quote; with the occasional ALL CAPS “DO NOT TAKE THE BAIT”.

  People are dying, folks; now. Come to reality. A clash with ICE, especially in the first months when they were untrained and barely armed, wouldn’t have accelerated anything–because we didn’t have that and yet we are here. This mythical “Insurrection Act” invocation wouldn’t have caused the terrorism we are witnessing now; nor the deployments in LA or Portland. Yes, people will die in clashes with the state; but what’s the alternative? Letting people die in raids from the state? We watched camera footage with video of pro-Palestinian activists getting disappeared. We’ve seen masked agents killing hundreds of people across the states, every month. We’ve seen them raid neighborhoods, and pull people into vans. We’ve seen our police watch, do nothing, then arrest the bystanders for “causing a disturbance”. Every. Day.

  The part of me that is clinging onto some partial hope in human nature wants to blame this widespread passivity propaganda for the reason it took a year to have the resistance effort in Minneapolis, which there had been nothing like until that point. Really, though, I sense the real reason behind these arguments and the wider inaction, is that the thousands of people have been predominantly people of color, and mainly Hispanic folks. So, too, were the kids in cages through the first Trump and Biden administrations.

  I understand that Holocaust poem in a depth that I just didn’t understand before. I understand the Holocaust documentaries and testimonies I’ve watched in a depth I hadn’t gotten before.

  You aren’t outsmarting the Republicans by standing back as they kill thousands; tens-of-thousands; hundreds-of-thousands of people of color. You’re giving them exactly what they wanted: A “second American Revolution”; [white]-bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  [The world is run by Satanic Pedophiles]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RFK Jr. wanted to lead the USA’s health department against a believed massive conspiracy by big-Whatever. Trump gave RFK Jr. a slot so RFK Jr. didn’t split the far-right crazy vote in the 2024 election.

  In 2024, RFK Jr. launched an independent bid for the presidency after floating challenging Joe Biden’s spot in the Democratic Party. RFK Jr. had no chance of winning the Democratic primary or an independent bid; but being a conspiracy theorist and all-around horrible person, it was possible that RFK Jr. may have split enough of that population from key states to cause Trump to lose. That conspiracy theory nonsense really doesn’t hold water in the Democratic voter base. The folks who would choose RFK Jr. over Harris or Trump, would otherwise choose Trump over Harris.

  Recall that in 2016, Trump won many key states with <54% of the vote; and in 2020, Biden flipped those key states after Trump’s mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic and other controversies. Even losing 3% of the popular vote in a few states to RFK Jr. may have cost Trump the election in 2024, or so it was feared.

  Lots of people here are giving explanations of why the citizens may support RFK Jr. and, while that is all true, the reality is most of Trump’s campaign staff are just loyalists (i.e. Pam Bondi), alt-right conspiracy theorists (i.e. Kash Patel), and folks who assisted in his election campaign (i.e. Elon Musk, Dr. Phil). Many of these are figures are people largely unknown of until they were appointed to be Trump’s staff. RFK Jr. leads the HHS because he was given that role by Trump. As to why the USA folk chose Trump; Well, we’ve been having that conversation for 15 months now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Go to your room! Both of you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  fuuuuuuuck I mean I knew it was bad, but… fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I completely agree. I’ve been swimming in these realizations for the last year. I knew Trump’s second term would be bad, but this has gone well beyond where I thought it would go.

  I keep asking the question How did we get here? and Why?. None of those have any good answers. We’ve passed off-ramp after off-ramp over the last 20 years and now our nation is in a state of genuine peril, and yet so many people remain ignorant still. Even seeing fellow Leftists proclaim about the “Revolution” with joy makes my stomach churn. Masses of people are being disappeared. I get that these posts are probably a way to cope, but my mind tends toward the human side of things. I don’t care about figures or standards; I see pain and suffering. These are lives we’ll never get back. We’re going to lose tens of thousands of people in the next months and every one will leave an impact on the people around them.

  You raise a good point about the aftershocks. I’ve been thinking of that same aspect. Millennials and Gen Z already show signs of severe trauma across the generation. Social withdrawal, clout-seeking, AI/Religious psychosis, anti-social behavior (like TikTok public nuisance content) – and that’s from the living conditions before Trump’s second term. Ironically, that trauma led Gen Z to become more conservative – see trad-wide/manosphere content – and to back the alt-right.

  The USA population was already crumbling. Look at how many people are physically disabled, mentally disabled, emotionally over-burdened. Drug addictions incl. alcohol; Regular mental breakdowns; Compassion fatigue; Cyber harassment – Our population is profoundly sick.

  I worry for what will remain when whatever uprisings happen, happen. We’re losing more people every day this regime holds power. 365 days. 365 days of suicides, mental breakdowns, psychosis, murders, new addictions. If standards continue to escalate, we’ll soon be seeing bombs; which kill some and injure many. Whoever remains will be left with the momentous task of rebuilding a functioning society while caring for a population in which the majority of people are disabled, many are delusional, and all require constant food, water, and maybe medical attention.

  I’m not sure if I’d rather die before the action, burn as the USA turns in on itself, or cling through the hell that will unravel and be left sifting through the pieces… if there even is another end to this regime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is all true, to which I ask, what is the alternative? I’m afraid that the future of the USA is one of two options: the authoritative oppression of fascism, or the chaotic hellscape of war. Both are intolerably violent. Fascism is targeted and ruthless; War is broad and destructive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  None of us want to live in a war-torn state. That’s why I and most others voted for harm reduction. What we’re facing now is terrorism. The USAmerican people are being terrorized by federal forces.

  People are not calling for violence for a economic policy we don’t like, which is what the first USA Civil War was fought over. We’re dealing with federal forces who are hell-bent on terrorizing us. What politically-aware people have been calling for, for the better part of a year, is the next degree of harm reduction. Targeted political assassinations. Fighting ICE agents. Storming the capital, perhaps. With each month, this government gets more empowered and more violent.

  War is awful. Violence terrorizes people. I have severe C-PTSD from the police response to the BLM riots in 2021, still. I have vivid nightmares, still. I understand, and I felt that when I saw Trump take office. I felt that watched that university student get abducted by ICE at the beginning of this mess. I felt that with every clip out of Minnesota.

  We all know war is terrible. No one thinks the USA going through a Civil War will be exciting. People see violence and they want it to stop, and they see massive peaceful movements that have not worked, in the face of a government that shows no hesitation in threatening or attacking its people.

  What is the alternative? We let federal agents keep shooting and abducting people until some magical aspect of Democracy manifests and pushes them out? How do we actually envision that happening? What do we do for the three years until our next presidential election? Every person who is killed, abducted, disappeared is a life permanently lost.

  For those who talk about peaceful protests and voting the fascists out, how do you expect to win elections when your voters are being killed? It’s not just the ICE agents, either, though they certainly are violent. Consider: Layoffs, Homelessness, Imprisonment, Emigration, Suicide. The people here today are not going to be the same people here in three years.

  The reality is, the people of the USA are under violent occupation. We are living the terrors of war. Violence does not require mutual-consent; and when only one side chooses to fight, you end with a massacre. That is what we have been living through – a slow-rolling massacre. No one knows what will stop this, but maybe, just maybe, ICE agents would think twice before going on deployment if half of the last three squads never made it home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should really post this on its own. I think people in the USA would benefit from seeing and internalizing this principle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Local PD aren’t doing anything to stop this because the police forces are mainly staffed by low-IQ Republicans who, if anything, will protect ICE with the argument that ICE is federal and therefore apparently can ignore all laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Local PD isn’t doing much because they are overwhelmingly filled with low-IQ Republicans. If they show up, they protect ICE with the argument that they’re federal agents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you referring to Arturo Gamboa, who was shot at while protecting a No King’s Day protest? He eventually walked free, and the shooter was arrested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the limits to masked so called ICE agents? Are they just let off the hook and disobey laws while not identifying themselves? Why can't I be in the right by them stopping me first and shoot?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The real answer is we don’t know. Precedent doesn’t exist anymore. The SCotUS has been ignored on 9-0 decisions. I’d broadcast: shoot ICE on sight; but I haven’t gotten the opportunity, and truthfully I can’t say what I would do in the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the same reason the media pushed the AI bubble. Silicon Valley holds their chosen boys…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That and altering pictures of women to have cum sprayed on their faces. Pure incel deviant behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI crawlers are scraping every site. Every site. Random public-but-unlisted hobby sites are getting scraped and spiking users’ data. There was a Lemmy post about that just now. Consider that FaceBook is the largest distributor of Child Sex Abuse material, and think of how much Child Porn is stored on underground sites. They absolutely trained their model on Child Porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked up the advice I had blindly followed and apparently milk jugs are biodegradable. That’s good for the environmentalists, but not for water storage. That said, stored water won’t “go bad”. It won’t even acidize like a glass of water on your countertop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuclear War in films, like most aspects of life, is extremely over-dramatized. IF, and that’s a big If, a country launched a nuke at another, it would not mean an end to the world, or the nations involved.

  Nukes are not reality-destroying devices. They will destroy a part of a city. They would destabilize life in that area, but one bomb is far from a global crisis. Your life would remain the same unless you are near the impact site.

  Here is one key disaster preparation step you can take, relevant in a nuclear attack as well as storms and civil unrest: Stock up on water. Keep a few milk jugs, clean them out well, and fill them with tap water; Then shut them and put them somewhere cool and out of the way. That’s the most essential disaster prep step you can do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The last 3 years of “White Supremacy” has me questioning the narrative on White Competency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the sad truth. MAGA is the revolution against Neoliberalism, combined with the economic transition from Late-Stage capitalism to Techno-Feudalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good to hear from someone who understands the bigger problem. Trump isn’t a one-off outsider - he’s what the Republican Party has been transitioning to. The attacks on Venezuela, while outrageous on a global scale, is actually more in-line with prior Republican presidents than most of this first year of Trump-2.

  Bush Sr. did the same in deploying in the Middle East against Sadam Hussein, which Bernie Sanders notably called out. This was in 1991.

  For decades the USA has been transitioning to fascism. Our schools teach obedience and have been cutting back civics courses and high-level analysis. Our workers are exhausted and struggling to make ends meet, many now working several jobs (normalized via the term “side hustle”). The media landscape has been bought by billionaires and oligarchs. Our culture of consumerism keeps us pacified.

  I hate to be a doomer, which is all I’ve been for the last half-year, but time after time USAmericans have cobbled together sizable movements despite our disadvantages. Occupy Wall Street. The strong anti-war movement. Now the “No King’s Protests”. It’s not working and I don’t see how it will ever work. We have had massive protests, and our leaders laugh at us spit in our faces. They do not care. No amount of signaling our desires will make them care.

  Call me "radical or “accelerationist”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  USAmericans have shown a complete inability to rise up against their government. This is not surprising given our crushing economic system, the fragility of our lives, and cultural landscape of the USA. At this point I believe Resistance has to come from outside the USA. This is unlikely due to the USA’s extensive nuclear arsenal.

  I foresee the USA going the way of China and Russia, steadily oppressing its people, enriching its oligarchs, and occasionally creating problems for the world. Greenland may very well be the USA’s version of China constantly threatening to seize Taiwan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we deprogramming empathy in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s not personal, it’s business

  This mentality is such an ingrained part of corporate culture, and our culture has been centered around corporate life since around when Reagan came into office. The top suggestions for how to survive in this USA culture is to cut off empathy. What’s worse is I think a lot of people have. There’s an air of cruelty to every aspect of this society, from politics to police to medical to social media. Everyone wants a break from the reality of their shitty life, and many are willing to step on others for the hope of an opportunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I also don’t watch TV or movies – only Twitch streams. I’ve been this way even when not beaten down by capitalism and fascism though. Even when I’m taking a break from working on creative projects, it’s still nice to be able to turn my brain off and get the experience of seeing the game. Maybe my unmedicated ADHD makes me that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A Minecraft and Roblox streamer tried that a year ago, primarily as a pitch to investors to make a service for other streamers to make AI-generated content. His name is Kwebbelkop. This guy managed to make the laziest brand of content I have ever even heard suggested as an idea: An AI avatar reading an AI reaction to an AI-generated image. And I thought reaction videos were bad…

  I’m tired of all this…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was laughing along until you said “watching a stream (even without commentary)”. Yeah I’ve done that one. Sometimes I want to see what’s next in the game without spending 100 hours to get there ><. Also watching lets me mentally unwind, playing takes a mental toll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  None if you don’t get caught. They’re not going to do a full investigation if you don’t try to murder the guy. Also, look how badly the current FBI fumbled the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s killer? into Brian Thompson’s killer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a handful of stories about Apple and Google locking people out of their entire digital lives. I think the reason people seem not to care is that most people don’t have the mental bandwidth to go against the grain and move their entire lives off of Apple and Google services, especially when they bought into these devices with the hope of making their lives easier.

  Truly, most people don’t realize how dependent they are on megacorps. I’ve been finding that out repeatedly over the last year. I thought I was good because I don’t pay for streaming services, buy video games, or order Amazon delivery… then I took inventory and realized how much I actually relied on YouTube, Twitch, Google Drive, and GitHub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ms Rachel forced to hire security over Zionist threats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate that most coverage of Ms. Rachel has used her smiling preschool/kindergarten icon. It really adds to the absurdity of this hate. Sure, let’s attack the woman whose free educational YouTube content is parenting Gen Alpha better than their actual parents or public schools.