Think there might be some truth in this matrix...

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Testing out using rclone to mount the media library for jellyfin, it seems usable so far but scanning the entire library would take an insanely long time.

The image below is of Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D, WA3) US Congresswoman from SW Washington. In between the murder of Renee Good on 7 January and the murder of Alex Pretti on 24 January, Gluesenkamp was one of 7 democrats who voted to fund ICE. The bill would not have passed without them.

She and her husband own Dean's Car Care on NE Lombard in Portland.

#Washington #PDX #DHS #ICE

@Kierkegaanks Have you seen A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night? If not I cannot recommend it highly enough.

#introduction

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Please don't think that you can stop a Nazi by pointing out hypocrisy or by pointing out that they are lying.

They know. It is a feature, not a bug.

When a fascist lies to you, they are displaying power. "I know I am lying. You know I am lying. What the fuck are you going to do about it."

When a fascist lies to other fascists, they are displaying loyalty. "I know I am lying. You know I am lying. We do this because it is how we show allegiance to the cause."

In this way, fascism is inherently an empty ideology. It stands for nothing. It believes in nothing. It can therefore lie about everything.

Except one thing: power.

Fascism MUST lie. It MUST deceive. It MUST play to baser beliefs like racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia, because it has literally nothing of value to offer.

They know this. We know this. That is why they lie.

I’ve Moved pleroma back onto the VPS to see how it handles. I might move lemmy and/or piefed too, it mainly depends on if running them interferes with streaming services.

@thomasfuchs "Today we are rewiring Mozilla to do for AI what we did for the web"

From what they've done lately for the web, this might be a threat to AI.

Started playing Ocarina Of Time using Ship of Harkinian

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/mX2wLCSnp8XDSzfUCHyMpV

REMEMBER: Strikes don’t end until demands are met, If ICE doesn’t leave then the strike shouldn’t stop, anything less will be ineffective.

Minneapolis-St Paul general strike STARTS January 23

No work

No school

No shopping

Make noise

Do good

Be good

#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis

Man, it pisses people off when I say that marches and protest don’t have any practical effect when the government doesn’t care about the will of the people.

Listen: if rallies make you feel better and connected to other people, great. Really. That’s a good thing. But as Malcolm X once pointed out, nonviolence only works when your oppressor has a conscience… or is worried about being reelected.

Does anyone think Trump gets worried seeing people rallying against him? Do you think he thinks he’s in any jeopardy at the midterms? No. Whether or not he actually is is not the point; the point is that, delusional or not, he doesn’t worry about 3% of the US population coming out to march against him because he either believes the other 97% are on his side or he thinks he’s got a way to either rig or suspend the midterms. Y’all get that, right? That the idea that he’ll try to simply not allow midterm elections is not a crazy fringe idea but entirely plausible, if not likely? I mean, if you don’t think he’ll do it just because he’s openly talked about it, you’re a dummy. He talked about trying to get Greenland and invade Venezuela and a lot of you didn’t think he was serious… until he did it.

If protests get too big or too visible or disruptive - much less turn violent - he’ll just declare martial law and suspend elections that way, plus start mowing motherfuckers down in the street, and nobody will stop him. I can’t believe anybody is still naive enough to think the Democrats will do anything but issue more strongly worded statements if he does, but what can they do? He is the commander in chief of the military and since he’s already legally immune for anything he does as president, no order he gives is illegal even if it violates the Constitution. I mean, if that logic occurs to me it’s almost certainly what he’ll claim.

What I want is for those of you who are desperately clinging to the idea that the vox populi is still the most powerful force in America to please stop deluding yourselves, because it’s dangerous. I don’t mean metaphorically dangerous, I mean physically dangerous. This is not 1968, this is not Vietnam, and all the old glories are gone. This is: you’re gonna go out there in pink pussy hats and whichever faction of the American armed forces he sends are gonna use those brightly colored symbols as targets. I’m not exaggerating, I’m not being hyperbolic, I’m telling you the exact truth. You are not going to defeat fascism by marching. All you’re going to do is, quite frankly, pat each other on the back so hard you’re going to get a false sense of the power of collective voices against state which has deafened itself to your voices. And it’s gonna look like every generation or so of Iranian or Chinese students who think this time is gonna be different… and end up smeared on the stones of some public square or another.

There are and have been times when protest and nonviolent resistance were very good and effective ways of making the will of the people happen. This is just not one of those moments. I mean, I’d be glad to be wrong but absolutely nothing suggests I am.

@aral @nicolasvivant It will require ID verification, LOL… LMAO even

@FediTips

Honestly i think its a useful PSA about blocking the bridges, even if i dont think its the best way, im sure there are a lot of folks who would rather go with a sort of zero tollerance policy and i totally respect that, its good to have such options.

@FediTips

Where i disagree is that i think you are allowing your anger at a small group cause you to alienate a much larger group of people whom you probably have much more in common with then not in terms of ideology or goals.

I also think as with threads that it makes it harder for the average person to ever consider leaving a corporate social network when the alternatives might actively prevent them from being able to keep following people on the corporate networks. It causes more harm then it prevents, its better to block specific problematic accounts rather then blanket target an entire network because of the actions of a few powerful people who "own" those networks.

I dont think this is a disagreement worth unfollowing someone for, its just my personal opinion and i respect your right to your own opinions and views.

@David @FediTips Virtue Signaling is the point with a lot of this stuff. Its the same thing that happened with Meta’s attempt to federate threads. It’s misguided in my opinion but some people are more sensitive then others about such things. I’m a big fan of meeting people where they are as long as where they are isn’t an outright nazi bar.

It may not look it but “BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT” is a pretty solid quake mod, like damn.

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/2SRxJ2Bwu6qrTD3no1DdQQ

@mynameistillian It sounds like you have a hardware issue, likely RAM. I would recommend running memtest86+ for a bit to see if it shows any errors.

We need Democratic leaders who don’t dodge questions about whether an agency that teargasses babies and kills innocent people should keep having a bigger budget than most countries’ militaries.

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