@TheFreeThoughtProject that doesn't really make any sense. Qualified immunity doesn't have anything to do with whether they keep their jobs or not, it is whether they are civilly liable for their actions. If the police department doesn't end up firing them then if they didn't have qualified immunity they'd have even more of a reason to keep working since they'd have lawyers bills and any potential judgments hanging over their head.
@CClark The scariest thing isn't paying off the debt, of course that's never going to happen. It's that the policies they're pushing are causing massive inflation. The solution to high inflation is increasing central bank interest rates that push up other debt rates as well. If 28.2 trillion dollars in debt returns to debt service rates from 2007 (rates that were already historic lows), the amount of debt service alone will move from 400B to 1.4T. That extra trillion dollars in spending will have to come from somewhere. Either increased taxes, or massive program cuts, or both. Trying to just borrow more at that point will only cause federal bond rates to rise further, further exacerbating the problem.
@doktorzhivago @kpeace @icedquinn The bad news is that when people lose everything to stupid bubbles propped up by government, they come hat in hand to the government asking for my money to help make them whole.
@doktorzhivago @icedquinn @kpeace BTC isn't an escape from anything. It's just another system of control.
If a single walmart tried to run on bitcoin, it would overload the system. If two walmarts tried to run on bitcoin, no transaction would go through for years.
If a single walmart tried to run on bitcoin, it would overload the system. If two walmarts tried to run on bitcoin, no transaction would go through for years.
@Plerome @Genie @MoralPanic @Nike @TurboNormie @borzoi @internetfreak I totally agree with this -- It doesn't matter if they cheated during the election, because it was rigged by yellow journalists making a center leftist Republican out to be the grand dragon of the KKK.
@pluralistic I'm pressing X to doubt on that one.
If the Democrats aren't the party of the wealthy, then why do they have the support of the entire fortune 500 and the entire mainstream media?
Real leftists are being sold a bill of goods.
If the Democrats aren't the party of the wealthy, then why do they have the support of the entire fortune 500 and the entire mainstream media?
Real leftists are being sold a bill of goods.
@CKsTechnologyNews Oh god, don't rely on their services. Even if they don't kill their services they'll change them so you can't recognise them.
Self hosting ftw
Self hosting ftw
@Laconicif @duckduckgo @session Damn straight!
I envision a time soon where companies will get wise and sell fediboxes that let you get on xmpp, matrix, pleroma, peertube with your own instances with a click of a button. At that point on fediverse you aren't the product, you aren't the customer, you are the operator.
I envision a time soon where companies will get wise and sell fediboxes that let you get on xmpp, matrix, pleroma, peertube with your own instances with a click of a button. At that point on fediverse you aren't the product, you aren't the customer, you are the operator.
@SaltWraith @metokurist
The first step is to clean our room. Stop worrying about war, and start worrying about becoming the best us we can become.
Doing small steps, making sure we're doing well for ourselves, making the things we want to have, supporting the things we like, that's how things move slowly forward.
We got to build a big tent, and give people places and things that let them be themselves. A place people can be free, and people will slowly gravitate towards that.
The way you win a culture war against fascists isn't to attack the other side, it's to present a superior option. Just like you looked at the stuffy angry repressed religious right back then and people said "I want to hang out with these guys instead", right now people are looking at the stuffy angry repressed religious left and saying the same thing.
If you're looking at the institutions, stop. Institutions are conservative, not in the "left/right" sense, but in the sense that they're not going to make a change until well after it's clear the paradigm has shifted. They're dominated by the left wing right now because 20 years ago it was clear the left wing had won, so 15 years ago they started getting woke. Thing is, by then culture at a local level was already starting to shift.
The left is still winning, but things that were unthinkable 10 years ago are becoming thinkable for the right. Nobody expected Gen Z to become the first generation in a century to be more conservative than their parents.
Of course, once it does happen that the right starts to look like the victor, expect the fascists to start heading over there, and the whole cycle will start again. It isn't actually about left vs. right, it's about the free vs. the authoritarians, and authoritarians play dirty.
The first step is to clean our room. Stop worrying about war, and start worrying about becoming the best us we can become.
Doing small steps, making sure we're doing well for ourselves, making the things we want to have, supporting the things we like, that's how things move slowly forward.
We got to build a big tent, and give people places and things that let them be themselves. A place people can be free, and people will slowly gravitate towards that.
The way you win a culture war against fascists isn't to attack the other side, it's to present a superior option. Just like you looked at the stuffy angry repressed religious right back then and people said "I want to hang out with these guys instead", right now people are looking at the stuffy angry repressed religious left and saying the same thing.
If you're looking at the institutions, stop. Institutions are conservative, not in the "left/right" sense, but in the sense that they're not going to make a change until well after it's clear the paradigm has shifted. They're dominated by the left wing right now because 20 years ago it was clear the left wing had won, so 15 years ago they started getting woke. Thing is, by then culture at a local level was already starting to shift.
The left is still winning, but things that were unthinkable 10 years ago are becoming thinkable for the right. Nobody expected Gen Z to become the first generation in a century to be more conservative than their parents.
Of course, once it does happen that the right starts to look like the victor, expect the fascists to start heading over there, and the whole cycle will start again. It isn't actually about left vs. right, it's about the free vs. the authoritarians, and authoritarians play dirty.
@alex I like how no matter what the problem in the world, there's only one cause.
Federal debt? Men rape.
Riots in the streets? Men rape.
Global pandemic? Men rape.
Climate change? Men rape.
Women can't find mates? Men rape.
Why are the edges of some coins knobby but the edges of other coins smooth? Men rape.
I've only caught a few posts but they are truly inspiring.
Federal debt? Men rape.
Riots in the streets? Men rape.
Global pandemic? Men rape.
Climate change? Men rape.
Women can't find mates? Men rape.
Why are the edges of some coins knobby but the edges of other coins smooth? Men rape.
I've only caught a few posts but they are truly inspiring.
@SaltWraith @metokurist You're probably just a young one, so time for a history lesson: The right lost the culture war. They didn't lose it in 2020, they lost it in 1996.
At their height, they controlled everything. They controlled the culture, they controlled the government, they controlled the discourse. They were able to cancel their enemies at will and blacklist their enemies.
What happened? The left started selling freedom. They started making the argument "Hey, these nutjobs are going to track you down and fuck you up, we just want everyone to be able to live how they want, don't you want to be with us?"
They were the ones free to make the edgy jokes. They were the ones free to make the interesting art. They were the ones telling the interesting stories. Establishment stories were so caught up in their dogma that they were boring.
Today, the simpsons is establishment as hell, but when it came out it was anti-establishment. In an era when every TV show was about the perfect family, they were showing a dysfunctional family and poking fun at sacred cows.
The strategy for winning hasn't changed, only who the big establishment trying to force everyone to live a certain way has. The left might control everything, but the right is finally learning to sell freedom, and they're going to win that way.
The bigger, the stronger, the more fascistic the left becomes, the more their grasp will slip from the people who drive the culture. People don't want to walk on eggshells. People don't want to feel a boot on their neck, and they won't tolerate it forever.
At their height, they controlled everything. They controlled the culture, they controlled the government, they controlled the discourse. They were able to cancel their enemies at will and blacklist their enemies.
What happened? The left started selling freedom. They started making the argument "Hey, these nutjobs are going to track you down and fuck you up, we just want everyone to be able to live how they want, don't you want to be with us?"
They were the ones free to make the edgy jokes. They were the ones free to make the interesting art. They were the ones telling the interesting stories. Establishment stories were so caught up in their dogma that they were boring.
Today, the simpsons is establishment as hell, but when it came out it was anti-establishment. In an era when every TV show was about the perfect family, they were showing a dysfunctional family and poking fun at sacred cows.
The strategy for winning hasn't changed, only who the big establishment trying to force everyone to live a certain way has. The left might control everything, but the right is finally learning to sell freedom, and they're going to win that way.
The bigger, the stronger, the more fascistic the left becomes, the more their grasp will slip from the people who drive the culture. People don't want to walk on eggshells. People don't want to feel a boot on their neck, and they won't tolerate it forever.