@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.