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  • And even there. There's no guarantee. Going to Europe where fascists in Russia, Hungary, etc loom? Maybe you'll be safe a little longer somewhere on the Asian continent with the currently slower rolling fascist forces there. But it's only temporary. You can't ultimately escape.

    The question is. Where well the breaking point be for most people. What event will cause the public to drag these fuckers from their homes and hold them responsible. Because that's what it's going to take. For them to remember that they rely on us. Not only for their wealth. But continued existence. Only when that fear has been driven into them, will things even start to get better.

    And it might surprise us. It may just be a red state that does it. One of these Republican sycophants getting dragged from a town hall. Assaulted by a whole community for their rolls in making things worse for everyone. Police are going to have a hard time locking up a whole town. And these elected ghouls that love to ignore their constituents will reel in terror. To be clear, violence isn't the answer. Fear is. The fear of knowing we far outnumber them. That they could be subject to violent accountability at any moment. Dragged from their safe beds even.

  • Sometimes there's family or other things you just can't take with you. Support structures you might not have somewhere else. Friends and neighbors. Mutual aid.

    There can be circumstances that override that. But honestly, the more that flee. The easier it is to get what the fascists want. And at best you're only helping yourself short term. Because no matter where you go. They will come for you if they can.

  • The intention was to instigate discussion. Which it did. Otherwise it would have been just another link that someone might have skimmed over.

    Using it would have been treating it as a secret code that it is and not highlighting it. By highlighting it Etc the only way it was being used was as an example for people to inform themselves and learn from. Used to see that sort of bullshit all the time over on Reddit. Thankfully Lemmy is a better space.

  • At least one person has. And one more aware of always a good thing.

    The world and what is going on makes so much more sense when you have a basic understanding of Republican code speak and dog whistles. Like how Republicans are currently dispatching National Guard from states with high crime, to states with lower crime. Claiming that it's about crime. On the face of it it doesn't make any sense. Unless you understand that they've turned the word crime into a dog whistle / code word for black/brown/Jewish/liberal etc. When it comes to Republicans everything is about racism and white supremacy. Granted echoing is a bit more esoteric and slightly less common code / dog whistle from them.

  • Yep. The United States was one of the bigest inspirations for Nazi Germany. It goes back to the countries founding unfortunately.

  • We're gonna get the zonk.

  • The whole point is that it's likely about white supremacy. And that people should be aware of it and it's language. For those that don't know.

  • 100% he was gonna claim it was a (((Democrat))) or a (((liberal))). Those that know know.

  • I remember way back when world was still federated with most of the triad. Hexbear honestly has no one but themselves to blame. With nothing of value to offer. But cycles of revenge and retribution are hardly helpful.

    They got their asses rightfully kicked to the curb for brigading. I have zero sympathy for them in this situation. But this is still disappointing behavior on the part of @rimu@piefed.social and makes me a bit more reluctant to recommended piefed to others etc. Even though .world outright blocks hex anyways. I hope it gets addressed sooner rather than later. Because I "REALLY" like the experience so far on piefed. And would like to see it prosper. Even though this will be a bit of a blemish on the project. That's nothing compared to Lemmy and its devs.

    Have a dialogue front and center to opt in to blocking the whole triad when setting up the software. Nothing wrong with that at all. But yeah, please don't stirr up the dumbass's nest. They're better off being irrelevant and largely ignored. Even if it's funny ironically for this to happen to them. It's just more pointless drama.

  • At the end of the day though. It isn't the instances themselves which are actually the problem. Rather the people on them. We can rightfully rail against them all day long as much as we want. And they do give us plenty daily to point out all their flaws.

    It also won't change the fact that many of them can and already have set up shop on other servers as well. Even if you blocked every domain ending in ML. That type isn't going away. If anything those instances do quite a bit to contain/expose them.

    The problem with defaulting a software to cut them off. Is akin to those trying to legislate morality. When morality is legislated, no one is moral. Because there is no choice or consent. Likewise a "boycott" entered into without knowledge and consent, isn't really a "boycott". Can we beat them by becoming like them? I'm not so sure.

  • They're RFK's people after all.

  • National Democrats are useless. Always have been. Local groups and local power are the only way. I'd never donate to the national party.

  • Extra fun fact. For a while in many places neither group were considered "white". Black and Muslim is the new Italian or Scott/Irish.

  • Usually that or rispettare le donne. Often after hitting or disrespecting them.

  • Several apps have support now. Voyager, boost, and infinity. Though they don't always support all the new features yet. But give a like experience to using Lemmy.

  • It's a separate server with separate logins. So no at the moment there is no reporting account directly over. But you can import the data so you are subscribed to all the same communities Etc.

  • Paid too much. And there are already alternatives shaping up. Check out piefed. Dot world has one. The user experience it's already better than Lemmy.

  • I should have been more specific. They don't buy them television stations, newspapers etc etc etc. Air america, the closest thing they ever had went belly up because no one listened. And what most conservatives slur as msdnc. Is a solidly right wing Channel. More likely to actually hurt a good candidate and then help.

    The money Democrats take in every 4 years, is chump change. Republicans and their allies spend that much or more every year.