If we keep worrying about keeping political donors happy, we’ll never reform anything; that’s the exact opposite of what they want and will do everything to stop it.

Once he gets in office it’ll be, “we need something to campaign on next election” every time reform comes up. On his final term, he’ll say, “if the party is going to earn votes for my successor, I need to play ball this term,” then the cycle will repeat itself.

The controlled opposition party won’t meaningfully reform the corporatism that got us in this mess? No fucking shit.

There are a fair number of activities that fall under the umbrella of “non-violent protest” that involve a good bit more than just holding signs and writing letters.

You can deny them food, water, sleep, or comfort, you can follow them and record their activities, you can sabotage their vehicles (since they use rentals, it’s only destruction of private property, not government property) anything at all that can disrupt their activities and make life more difficult for them, short of assaulting them, is non-violent protest.

Most American citizens are overwhelmingly united on many issues.

Unfortunately, most American politicians are overwhelmingly united on NOT giving us what we want.

We tried that when Biden was in office and all these new body cam laws were passed. So many cops threatened to quit, politicians backed down and let police unions retain control of the cameras and recordings.

It’s not difficult to understand.

We hate the idea of only our government and the police benefitting from and having control over that surveillance. We hate the idea of being taxed so we can be constantly monitored, then prevented from accessing the surveillance footage we paid for when it could exonerate us or hold police accountable.

Surely you can understand it’s more about who controls and benefits from the surveillance than the surveillance itself?

Don’t speak the words our corporate oppressors demand. They want you to believe concepts like sex, murder, drugs, and suicide are too adult, too dirty to be discussed explicitly in public.

Don’t believe them. Say the words you mean. Use language that’s accurate, not what’s preferred by oligarchs for “marketing reasons”.

The US media is complicit with this regime. Just using the words “raises fears” leaves open the possibility for some other explanation. Call it what is. These loyalists will continue to do as the others have done.

If people don’t fight back soon, this revolution will succeed without a single drop of blood being spilled

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Fuck Microsoft

No joke, the day after it happened, they said they were gonna wait a week to even vote on whether or not he was allowed to do it.

Slammed

It’s so strange seeing that word outside of a headline.

On paper, there is a right to privacy in the US in places where a reasonable person would have an expectation to privacy, which is codified into law.

The only place where everyone has an expectation to privacy (barring exigent circumstances) is bathrooms (porta-potties included), changing rooms, locker rooms, or anywhere else where people are expected to use the bathroom or change clothes.

There is an expectation to privacy for individuals on their own private property. I can spy on you in my house, but you can’t spy on me in my house (peeping through someone’s windows is a crime but me having a hidden camera in my living room is not).

However, when it comes to public officials conducting duties of their office, there is no expectation of privacy, even on their private property (though, due to the conflict of interest, this is unlikely to happen).

The only place where no one has any expectation to privacy is public property (like a park, post office, library, city bus, etc.) and private property which is open to the public (most businesses, malls, etc.).

In practice, you can’t fart or jerk off without a corporation knowing about it.

It is public. To get around that, they pay Flock (or some similar company) to spy on us instead, then use our tax dollars to buy our data from those companies, then deny FOIA requests for our own data under the reasoning that it’s their property since they bought it, and you can only FOIA records they collect, not property they purchase.

“Top DOJ officials caved to the slightest pressure, derelicted their duties and handed over their power to the fascist regime. America’s dictator will soon appoint more loyalists to their positions.”

Edited. Thanks. If we’re going to be critical, we must also be accurate.

Fine, SHE still won’t DO anything.

Representatives listen to donors only, thats the issue.

Yes, I could do better. Here’s a list of things I would try that no Democrat will:

Draft legislation to limit ICE’s power, draft legislation to prevent local police from cooperating with ICE, order the state police to prosecute ICE agents who muder citizens on camera, deploy the state national guard to protect citizens from the scourge of masked kidnappers roaming our streets, demand each and every rep, senator, and politician in my chain of command declare publicly whether they’re with or against this regime, and use whatever power i have to force out anyone who says they’re with it.

And if I don’t have the power to do it, then I’ll publicly demand the people with the power either exercise that power, or publicly declare their loyalty to the regime.

If I were running for office, would you vote for me?

I don’t give a fuck about your shit, I’m making a point.

There are people like that in this world and if you know what’s good for you, you’ll start thinking long and hard about your answer to that question now, before you have to invent your answer on the spot.

There’s no special prize associated with taking the “no violence, ever” position, but there are serious consequences, and most people with your viewpoint don’t consider those consequences until it’s already happened to them.

I had a friend with that viewpoint once. He was the victim of a home invasion. Three masked men broke into his house with bats and knives, repeatedly raped him, his girlfriend, and his best friend slash roommate, then tied them all up naked and stole everything they own. The masked men were caught, but none of my friends were the same after that. Every one of them changed their mind about violence and regretted not having the means to defend themselves. They all said the same thing, “Given the choice between living with what happened or living with having killed those people, I’d rather live with having killed them.”

The kind if person I am, is someone who would like you to consider, which of those outcomes would be easier for you to live with.

The danger of doing something “ironically” or “to gain access from the inside” is, you MUST have a hard cutoff point, both in terms of time spent and things accomplished, and you MUST exit as soon as either one happens, regardless of the status of the other.

Anything less, and you run the very real and serious risk of doing it for so long, you end up actually just doing it for real.

Corporate and regulatory capture.

The Republicans since Reagan and the Democrats since Clinton, have been accepting bribes from corporations to ignore the will of their constituents, open up the law books, and hand the corporations a pen.

Meanwhile, the corporations flood the media with their money and influence until you can’t hear a piece of news in this country without it first passing through a pro-corporate filter.

Add all that together and let it stew, completely uncontested, for about 4 or 5 decades and this is what you get.

Places like The Philippines were test runs where they perfected the formula, now they’re putting their final plan into action.

Anyone still giving money to US corporations is supporting the worldwide rise in fascism.

Anyone still supporting US corporations is supporting the machine bringing fascism to the world.