PugJesus @ PugJesus @lemmy.world Posts 4,384Comments 8,803Joined 2 yr. ago
I once again comment that the Trump administration seems to adopt a lot of policy farmers wouldn’t like, for a party of rural areas.
Doesn't matter. They'll vote Republican anyway.
Okay, but they never stopped, so...?
There's a second problem that much of the Dem base is legitimately conservative compared to us.
Moving right is no solution at all - it clearly has no positive results, electoral or practical. But moving left, though a far superior option, is not an automatic fix. Nor an easy one, considering that Dem candidates are chosen by electoral primaries.
I find this hard to believe
I find it tedious and miserable. I engage for the same reason I can't leave trash on the floor - the inaction irritates me more than the tedious action. If I find trash on the floor constantly in a public area, I'm more likely to leave than become a super-cleaner.
My point is more "Some people are legitimately just unimaginative sods who Follow The Leader, but others legitimately want to make society worse, as an ideological aim"
Running a public website of any sort is an incredibly vulnerable position. You can't 'run' or even meaningfully 'fight', all of your information is ultimately traceable back to you, and your main asset is at the whims of the institutions of capitalist society. The more 'battles' you fight using the website as a means not just of organization, education, and agitation, but of a challenge to the law itself, the more your website's effective lifespan will be shortened. In any area which one is going to challenge the law itself using the website, one should be prepared for that fight, not simply as a one-off "Fuck you pigs, I don't answer to your laws" (which anyone who has attempted with a cop squad with a judge-signed warrant outside of their door can assure you is ineffective), but with meaningful arguments and preparations within the context of the society we are fighting these battles in.
Put another way - running a mutual aid nonprofit is generally not the time to give the middle finger to the government on tax filing status, helping immigrants evade ICE is not the time to be flagrantly breaking traffic laws, and a soup kitchen for those abandoned by capitalism is probably not a good arena for challenging sanitation regulations. IF you are going to pick any of those additional fights, you should be prepared, not simply dismissive on ideological grounds - it might warrant the dismissal on ideological grounds, but on practical grounds, you are headbutting a 20 meter-thick brick wall and saying "It's me or you!". The end result is not in question; only the timescale.
You don't have to like the law to use the law against itself; you don't have to be a supporter of the rules of the game to use them to protect yourself. But refusing to acknowledge their existence in a society where the law remains extremely powerful may sate your ideological urges, but it will sink all your ideological projects.
Exactly. Foucault argued that you can tell when a group has been subjugated, because they start to self-police according to the oppressor’s rules. From a liberal perspective, the state is desirable, so an individual internalizing and following the state’s laws is desirable.
I didn't realize anarchism meant never picking which battles to fight at a given time and arena.
I am not inclined to seriously discuss our instance with people who act obnoxiously.
Well, then I hope you find someone non-obnoxious to discuss it with. Because if you're actually interested in dbzer0 as more than a hobbyist project that breaks when-it-breaks, being able to address and head off legal issues is core to the long-term survival of a site. Whereas acting like being wary of the laws of forces that absolutely can royally fuck your site is fundamentally unreasonable rather than a very real threat that must be addressed one way or another is a great way to get... well, royally fucked.
Sadly You’re not the real adult in the room. You’re just a smuglord who’s way too high on the smell of their own farts.
Legit, I thought you took your instance more seriously than this. This is basic covering-your-ass shit.
Man, that constant “I’m the only adult in the room” vibe you try to have is getting
obnoxiousold.
Yeah, I fucking agree. It's getting real old being the only adult in the room. I didn't realize the admins of most Lemmy instances were just winging it, thinking "Well, when it comes crashing down, it comes crashing down 😊"
Utter zero-foresight techbro shite. Jesus Christ.
What’s most important is that you got to feel smug.
What's most important is not having every fucking instance other than .world hanging from a legal thread. Isn't your instance based in the E fucking U? That's not exactly the wild fucking west as far as legal requirements for hosts go.
Believe it or not, I don't want any of this shit going down. I'm not fucking 20, I'm not full of vim and vigor. I don't get a fucking thrill out of fighting with people online anymore. I question why I stay in these communities when everyone seems content to play chicken on the railroad tracks.
I hope you're independently wealthy and can afford legal fees.
That operates on the presumption that there will be free and fair midterm elections. Which is far from guaranteed at this point, for the first time in my fucking life.
If only.
Of course, now that I say that, I should clarify that not all dedicated Republicans are dribbling monarchists who have the approximate civic participation and awareness of serfs.
Some, of course, are outright fascists.
As someone who has spoken up numerous times about how "DEMS BAD" is a cop-out, the reason why we 'waste our time' focusing on the Dems is because
Let’s figure out a way to separate the base from trump. We have to get through before it’s too late.
is a fucking pipe-dream.
Trump could - and in his last administration, literally did - kill their loved ones and they would thank him for it.
The Trump 'base'?
They're monarchists.
If only the king knew about the decrees he's been writing and signing and haranguing us to obey.
If only the king knew...
Even Bowser isn't that evil
I’m biased here. I’m still against .world and their tendency to use “legality” as a smokescreen. (Blaming it for banning Luigi content right after he axed that United guy has earned my ire forever.)
.world didn't though. The admins clarified that that was never the policy.
As Marx once said, "One-man management [is] the most important principle of the organisation of socialist economy."
Wait, no, that was the Soviets, my bad
The coolest, definitely
Mugshot of Zofia Posmysz, 19 years old, arrested for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, 1942