I actually believe him, and I’ll tell you why:
Because before the leadership change, he was one of the most distinctly anti-DNC posters I remember interacting with. He was so incredibly critical of the Democrats it was easy to mistake him for one of those MAGA/tankie trolls trying to discourage people from voting (that was never actually his message, but it was easy to misinterpret it as such).
Point is, IMO he has street cred against being a “vote blue no matter who” type.
Popular enough to win the general election? No. Popular enough to win primaries because the vast money/media coverage imbalance meant he was the only candidate many of the voters had heard of? Yes.
He doesn’t intend for there to be any other sitting presidents after him. At least not before he’s dead.
Bullies need to be fucking punched in the face, the sooner the better. Trying to be cautious and not overreact only encourages them to escalate.
There is no such thing as “too early” when retaliating against a bully.
No-one wants to be the one who ruined Star Trek, for example.
Ironically, toning down the “woke” philosophy to “play it safe” is the surest way to do that.
EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE
Nearly 1 out of every 3 people in the USA is a fucking psychopath.
They’re interpreting it to mean “Do you still approve of Trump’s deportation policy, despite everything?” and they’re saying yes to that.
Did he fucking stutter?
I’m not sure I’d call it “relaxing,” but It’s definitely easy mode.
Of course, that’s why so many of the losers among us go off the right-wing/incel deep end: if you’re living on easy mode and you still manage to fail, you’ve got nobody to blame but yourself. But they can’t handle that either, so they go fucking insane desperately trying to find scapegoats.
The kernel is copyleft (100% of it).
Technically, sort of, but GPLv2 isn’t good enough. Stuff has to be GPLv3 (or AGPLv3) to fulfill the intent of protecting the end user’s right to control their machine. That’s the essential thing people are looking for when they choose “Linux” — if it’s a tyrant device like a smart TV that’s subverted to work against the user by showing ads or whatever, nobody gives a shit if it’s running a Linux kernel because that fact doesn’t actually help them usurp the manufacturer’s control.
Usurpation of control is what “GNU/Linux” implies. The fine details of which software has what license isn’t the point; whether the system as a whole delivers on the promise of user freedom is.
Yes, they’re going to do something even if we don’t react. But no, it’s not necessarily martial law. I feel like people aren’t understanding what “plausible” martial law and the Insurrection Act invocation will really mean. It can and will get unimaginably worse, for not just those who choose it, but for millions of innocent people. It’s possible we can’t avoid that, eventually, but the rational choice is certainly to do what we can to avoid it.
No, it’s not necessarily the rational choice. Not if, for example, delaying to act causes us to lose in the long run, e.g. by giving the fascists more time to shift that Overton window slowly enough. In fact, you yourself acknowledge that in another part of your comment: that we have a limited window of opportunity before hypernormalization kicks in, and we’d better not squander it.
IMO Jupyter notebooks are a good example to look into first, if you want something more contemporary and somewhat widely-used than “tangle and weave.”
Welp, looks like the car-brains have gone full mask-off in Czechia. I always knew they were terrible people, but I wasn’t expecting to read an article making the connection quite so strongly today.
As Turek’s image as a tough guy with an expensive taste in cars shows, Motorists mainly represent younger men living in smaller towns, often dependent on cars and the automotive industry.
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The group’s representatives often praise self-discipline, healthy lifestyles…
LOL, pretending car-dependency is a “healthy lifestyle.” All reading that makes me think of is how utterly fucking weak, pathetic, and generally inferior those losers must be compared to folks living an actually healthy and disciplined lifestyle.
It would require 3D printers sold in New York to include technology that blocks the unlicensed production of firearms and gun parts. It would also make it a crime to possess, sell or distribute digital blueprints for printing illegal guns.
This is an attack on my property rights as a 3D printer owner, never mind the Second Amendment (or First Amendment, for that matter). In practice, this would essentially require all 3D printers to have closed-source, DRM’d firmware and almost certainly spy on you. It is way, way more authoritarian than people only thinking in terms of “gun violence” likely give it credit for.
Also never mind that “is this 3D model a gun?” is an absurd thing to have a computer try to figure out, even with the recent advances in machine learning. That goes double if you care about things like distinguishing a gun that would actually shoot bullets from a water gun, nerf gun, or other vaguely gun-shaped nonfunctional object (which any frothing-at-the-mouth jackbooted thug who would stoop to supporting this clearly wouldn’t). And even then, guns are fundamentally simple devices made from multiple parts – is it going to SWAT you for printing a cylinder because it might be a gun barrel?!
This proposal is dangerously insane in every conceivable way, and probably several other ways I haven’t even thought of yet.
I like the way you presented the ctrl-c blog post as sort of introductory to the tonsky.me one. The second one is much more useful in terms of exploring the details and making specific recommendations, but the first one does a good job of motivating why I should care.
Also, it’s funny how both authors are kinda beating around the edges of literate programming e.g. in their discussion of code comments being one of the things worth highlighting, without ever quite getting there.
It’s a joke (and a bit of a dig on javadoc-esque documentation).
Once they left the facility, they were again hit with chemical agents officers were using on protesters in the area.
“We were not charged with a crime,” said Sigüenza. “We were released and then tear-gassed on our way out.”
Just in case there was any shred of doubt left about how sadistic these complete monsters are.
My additional complaint is that it should be nationwide.
Okay, let me rephrase that: I believe that he believes what he’s saying – I don’t think he’s trying to “whitewash” the DNC (i.e. I don’t think he has an ulterior motive), as your previous comment accused him of. Whether he’s actually correct in his assessment might be another matter, but I believe he is expressing it in good faith.
Also, responding to this part separately:
I think you’ve got some misconceptions and false assumptions going on here:
“Populism” (i.e. listening to the majority, which is the working class) isn’t a bad thing. Bernie Sanders and AOC are “populist.” The word with a negative connotation that you’re looking for is “demagogue” – that’s what Trump is.
Your speculation about them deciding to support fascist shit is fearmongering. In reality, that’s incredibly unpopular amongst the actual people (as opposed to extremists amplified by sympathetic media) and I don’t think they’re that stupid that they’d support it by mistake. If anything, moving to “populism” means moving away from that.
The DNC’s problem up to this point has been exactly the opposite: refusing to do what their voters want and instead catering to what their rich donors want. Frankly, Martin claiming that they want to win (instead of being controlled opposition while raking in corporate donor graft) is the best fucking news I’ve heard in a while.