Yep exactly. There’s no backbone to these. It’s a weekend parade then back to brunch.

Am effective protest needs to be disruptive. What essentially amounts to a big weekend block party really doesn’t accomplish anything. Some of these events today had speakers thanking cops or platforming Zionists, like what are we even doing here

The only ones out there today really doing things that matter were the real leftists in the crowds trying to educate folks and trying to make them realize that no part of this administration is an anomaly to the imperialist state, they’re just louder about their fascism.

At the very, very least these events could take place in the middle of the week without prior approval from local police or w/e. Disruption is what makes a protest even the slightest bit effective, and a weekend parade doesn’t do that.

Middle of a weekend in approved areas. That accomplishes so much. Big “vote out the fascists” vibes.

Never. Let shit hit the fan if it has to. Fight back instead of swallowing the whole boot.

Legitimately the way various porn sites addressed similar laws is the way to go. Verification required in this state? “Well we’re no longer serving this state’s traffic at all, and conveniently here’s the contact info of the government officials to blame, enjoy!”

I can think of a lot.

Imagine seeing a bullshit fascist vaguely-worded and practically unenforceable law in a single state that doesn’t go into affect for another year and immediately rolling over and swallowing the boot.

Same dude also vehemently defends Google’s anti-sideloading bullshit, no surprise there.

Fuck this fascist.

You would think FOSS overall would be inherently leftist but apparently not lmfao

systemd maintainers rolling over and complying in advance somehow isn’t even that surprising.

Can’t forget /r/worldnews which is literally just an israeli bot farm

This is literally all there is to it, along with indentured servitude by tying insurance to employment on top of it. This country’s fucked up healthcare system keeps the billionaires happy and the people stuck appeasing them.

Yeah this PR seems like it was just closed and ignored, not merged in. systemd maintainers love to comply in advance to fascist bullshit apparently.

It’s always hilarious to me seeing people in the wild here saying to avoid hexbear and the like when those instances are practically what make this place worth using lmao

yeah that wave of early internet jokes had its time but the actual person was a massive piece of shit

capitalism babyyyyy

It’s why I made sure to get my newest phone used, but that comes with the risk of getting a Verizon model (in the US) which can’t be bootloader unlocked. Had to return the first one I got off eBay for that reason, and the second one I made sure to ask the seller where they initially got it from.

They don’t offer port forwarding so it sucks for seeding. It works but it severely limits the clients you can seed to.

Yeah that’s pretty much it

Fork found in kitchen and water is wet

All they’re doing is finding a new vendor, they’re not backing down on this bullshit at all. And the gall to say “oh we have enough data on most of you already 🥰” is absolutely vile.

Requested my data archive already and getting ready to wipe and delete my account. What a shitshow.

Tbh I’ve been running this (not exposed of course) for a while now and never thought too much of it, it gave some weird vibes but functionally seemed pretty useful.

In retrospect it absolutely makes sense that the whole thing was just AI slop.