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Eddie Izzard - Dress to Kill reference.

Yep I completely agree that our Democratic party does incredibly little. They got all upset at Trump calling them Do Nothing Democrats during his first term, but it’s the fucking truth. Voting Democrat is only the “lesser evil” because the alternatives are either fascists or independents who have no power hold whatsoever at ANY level of government in the entire nation.

The part that is infuriating for me is that I’d rather at least have a more centrist party if not outright liberal party, because Democrats are still conservative; they’re just further left of Republicans. The only liberal parties are independents and you cannot get federal power without first having local/city power, and then state power, and finally federal. It’ll never work on any other way in the US and that’s been proven for over 200 years.

You can’t fight from the inside if you’re on the outside.

It’s easy to point blame at something or someone when you’re completely unaffected by the problem and have zero personal stake. What I’m trying to tell you is that everyone needs to prioritize their own privacy online and it wouldn’t matter if I was a resistance general or the just the random dude on the street. We all have something to lose.

The only thing I will say is that I do work for government myself. No, it’s not an elected position, and no I’m not someone high up in legislation or anything like that. But I have been a public employee for decades now and my own state has proven that they can and will work to have someone forcefully resigned based on unfavorable social media posts.

So again, no.

But also “because of people like you” is exactly the kind of shit we should be fighting against saying in the first place, my dude. Because that leads to generalizations that those in power do take advantage of.

And I’m sure your uncle works for Nintendo. What’s your fucking point?

Jfc, no. Any work I may be doing does not need to be proven to you, and disclosing any of it would only be putting myself at risk. Do you even understand what kind of shit the feds are trying to use for digital surveillance? Or that our TSA literally are checking phones of people coming into our borders for anti-Trump social media posts? Why would I ever fucking tell you or anyone anything I participate in? That’s just how out of touch you are if you think I should.

I mean, you’re right if giving any facts is just an excuse now. This isn’t a list of reasons why we shouldn’t do something, it’s a list of reasons why it hasn’t worked at all yet, because people are trying, but you’d like to assume we all sit on our fat asses and do nothing I’m sure.

Why are you, so successful at installing despots around the world, that when a coup starts at home, you fail so damn hard at keeping the wigs off?

That is exactly the fucking answer. Who is doing this? Our military. Because they’re that god damned strong. You just listed a bunch of countries that while things may have been difficult, they do not at all compare to a super power’s military strength. They just don’t. That’s not something I’m happy about, and that’s not even American exceptionalism talking, that’s just the reality and the disparity of the different miliary strengths.

If you have already accepted your deaths, then why even bother replying to me on lemmy?

I’m not accepting it and you don’t get to say when I can and cannot speak out just because we disagree.

No it only does live ISO. Persistence requires install to USB, not live ISO which would all be stored in RAM.

"I keep telling these people who are being crushed with an oppressive boot to stop being crushed with an oppressive boot, but they just won’t listen. "

Listen, what you’re saying has no nuance and is easy to say without having to take any action yourself. Even if you’re well meaning, only actions matter here and trying to have an understanding and context of actual life in America. It’s easy to be on the outside looking in on the trainwreck here.

You clearly have no idea how many protests and riots we’ve had in response, but it gets swiftly stomped out. You don’t seem to understand how the strength of one of (if not the) strongest military power can be used against its own people to end a peaceful protest with force. If the police won’t do it, they send in the National Guard.

I’m not proud of my country. I don’t make excuses for my country. In many ways I hate my country. But your words are tone deaf and frankly pathetic.

While I agree that private prisons are horrible, I can’t see how this would have changed anything had it been a public prison. This also happened 3 years after he left that job as a prison officer.

You have books?

Anal Javelin sounds overly aggressive lol

You can go simpler: 4 wealthiest people are richer than the rest of the people who aren’t those 4 people.

Man that’s just tragic. Such a terrible way to go.

He got the company car on day 1.

You absolutely can, right now. Once.

Saying this as an American, my first thought was it had to be an American tourist.

They were looking out for you, you could get ran over.

You were never very good at Connect The Dots puzzles, huh?