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Ferrous

@ Ferrous @lemmy.ml

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  • Trump says Biden’s pardons are now ‘void and vacant’ after autopen controversy

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  • That is wishful thinking. The democrats have never responded in kind to republicans breaking precedent. If there's any lesson to be learned from the 2024 election, it is that democrats hold "precedent", "decorum", and "mature pragmatism" to be more important than winning (or quelling fascism).

    It's the same wishful thinking as people who were saying "Biden could use the new presidential inmunity SCOTUS ruling to legally assassinate trump!"

    Understand that both democrats and republicans are driving us off a cliff.

  • How Trump Plans to Manipulate US Economic Data to Gaslight the Public

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  • /> Trump does something outrageously fascist

    /> "Man.... leftist bug me"

    Thanks for letting us know which side you're on, and for spending your time critiquing the real issues.

  • Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained

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  • That playbook is literally how the US justice system has worked since pretty much the beginning. Our constitution explicitly enshrines the right to keep slaves.

    And calling the Gulag Archipeligo a "first hand account" is laughable. That book is basically folklore and rumors.

  • Dems push AOC to primary Schumer, furious over his support of Republican spending bill: report

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  • Gillibrand was literally the AOC of yesteryear. You can push populist candidates to your party of capital until the cows come home, but special interests will swallow them up every single time for eternity. You need to think beyond the democrats and American electoralism in general for that matter.

  • Multiple D.C. LGBTQ+ bars pull Jack Daniel's orders over distiller's retreat from diversity & inclusion

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  • Where my Canadian Club enthusiasts?

  • To make America great, Donald Trump is undoing its greatness as global stock markets fall

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  • The MAGA movement (often referred to simply as MAGA, or Make America Great Again), was founded on the belief that the United States was once a “great” country but has lost this status owing to foreign influence, both within its borders (via immigration and multiculturalism) and without (via globalization, or the increased integration of multiple national economies). MAGA members think that this fall from grace can be reversed through “America first” policies that would provide a greater degree of economic protectionism, greatly reduce immigration, particularly from developing countries, and encourage or enforce what MAGA members consider to be traditional American values.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/MAGA-movement

    Why are you whitewashing this?

  • Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time?

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  • When a "good" solution ultimately defangs or sedates workers with otherwise radical potential, then no, a "good" solution is inadequate and should be thrown out. Why is everyone bleating this empty aphorism all around lemmy? The simple fact is that the only way we are going to steer ourselves out of this devolution into fascism is with a hail mary: some sort of labor movement, a geopolitical shock, a massive strike, etc... And this (almost religious) faith in "good solutions" or half measures is not worth anything. It's copium. It's toxic positivity in the form of blind, religious hope.

  • Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time?

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  • From the DSA instagram 6 days ago:

    Why didn't the "economic blackout" change anything?

    Stocks rose Friday instead of falling, and there was no sign that the "economic boycott" that spread across social media had any impact whatsoever, other than maybe being a promotional tool for smaller businesses.

    Why didn't it work and what would work instead?

    We don't have power as "consumers".

    Working people are always going to need to buy things. And even if a large portion of workers stopped buying everyday goods from Target or Starbucks, we'd still need to pay rent, pay the mortgage, pay utilities, and ultimately depend on a larger supply chain. You can't "opt-out" of capitalism.

    Boycotts that work are focused on a clear target and have with a specific demand, and are built on long-term, deep organizing. But even then, as a tactic, a boycott isn't going to be what brings the economy to a halt to stop the Trump agenda.

    We have power as workers.

    In January 2019, a 35 day shutdown of the federal government came to an end after the flight attendants union announced their intention to strike. Such a strike would have grounded a large percentage of air travel, which even if just for a short period of time would have had a devastating impact on the US economy.

    If we want to hit the ruling class where it hurts we need to organize as workers, not as consumers. Our power is in collectively withholding our labor, not withholding our dollars (which we only have in the first place by selling our labor).

    Strikes are organized, not mobilized.

    Strikes don't happen because someone made an Instagram post calling for it and then everyone thought it was a good idea.

    Strikes are the result of long-term organizing that builds tightly structured organization through a series of escalating actions that show the level of support for the union, which if successful leave workers confident and the boss afraid.

    A strike can't work if only a minority of workers walk out either. Strikes require a supermajority of workers to be effective.

    So what can you do?

    Join an organization like DSA that is working to build the kind working class power necessary not just to beat back Trump's attacks but to win a better world.

    Join the labor movement. Organize at work, in your union if you have one, and get trained on the secrets of successful organizing through organizations like Labor Notes. Looking for a new job? Consider taking a job in a "strategic sector" like healthcare, education, or logistics.

    Stop scrolling and start talking to your coworkers, your neighbors, friends, and family. The revolution will not be posted. Revolutions are made through organizing.

  • USA’s presidents have all been awful humans

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  • Trump to order US Education Department abolished, WSJ reports

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  • A nice list of judge appointments that ultimately meant nothing. SCOTUS gave Biden total immunity, and he failed to stack SCOTUS.

  • Trump to order US Education Department abolished, WSJ reports

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  • This is what Biden solidified by refusing to prosecute Trump, refusing to stack courts, and refusing to espouse policy that would've won the election. Biden had a choice between beating Trump and continuing genocide, and he chose to genocide.

    The leftists' claim through this whole debacle has been that the democrats are controlled opposition, and the complete lack of resistance from democrats after Trump's victory should make it abundantly clear to you that they were correct.

  • Please answer.

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  • And on top of that, a pointless Twitter comment.

    I swear, every meme nowadays is three levels of reaction deep.

  • "Joe Biden's fault"

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  • Strawman. Leftists don't claim Biden single-handedly ushered in fascism. Leftists underline how little Biden did to ensure a winning campaign, as well as how little he did to defend against Trump.

    Biden enabled Trump by not stacking courts, not prosecuting trump hard enough, or choosing policy positions based on what would beat trump.

  • Easiest way to automate a VPN refresh?

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  • You're thinking i could make a bash script that pauses all torrents and a cronjob that restarts containers with some timing built in?

  • Yet another banana face

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  • I once saw someone comment this pic on a guy's post featuring him and his girlfriend who was 2 feet shorter than him.

  • Trump tells Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meeting

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  • A man who, by the way, was fully supported by every single democratic senator.

  • Trump tells Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meeting

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  • The reasons for which the US was able to turn fascist are all homegrown. We don't need to resort to blaming foreigners for the rise of fascism - which is the only logical conclusion to a country that was founded on genocide and colonialism under the sole guidance of white slavers. This is peak American exceptionalism.

    Social safety nets, wages, childcare, healthcare, mental health, working hours, etc... have all been crumbling for some time now. The fact that our adversaries picked up on this and exploited it by no means absolves Americans of their turn towards fascism.

    If, at the end of these 4 years when democracy has been truly and completely demolished, the only lesson you've learned is "damn russian spies destroyed america!" You haven't learned your lesson, and you're honestly spitting in the face of all the victims of US policy both domestic and abroad.

  • 'China is the real winner': Trump's reversal in Ukraine aids Beijing, Western officials say

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  • The reasons for which the US was able to turn fascist are all homegrown. We don't need to resort to blaming foreigners for the rise of fascism - which is the only logical conclusion to a country that was founded on genocide and colonialism under the sole guidance of white slavers. This is peak American exceptionalism.

    Social safety nets, wages, childcare, healthcare, mental health, working hours, etc... have all been crumbling for some time now. The fact that our adversaries picked up on this and exploited it by no means absolves Americans of their turn towards fascism.

    If, at the end of these 4 years when democracy has been truly and completely demolished, the only lesson you've learned is "damn russian spies destroyed america!" You haven't learned your lesson, and you're honestly spitting in the face of all the victims of US policy both domestic and abroad.

  • 21 DOGE staffers resign as they refuse to 'dismantle critical public services'

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  • This is based on the faulty liberal assumption that fascists are only fascists because they have yet to be shown all of the facts and logic.

    Let's just speed run the scenario where you post this article on a right space: you post the article, every trumper comes out and says the resignations were good because the staffers were woke, and then you scratch your head wondering why your appeal to facts and logic didn't work on fascists. At this point you might just start spamming right spaces and have all your posts go directly to spam.

    It's honestly kind of disturbing how you write off actual protests in favor of online activism, and I couldn't think of a more liberal take tbh. Anyone, at this stage of the game, who is taking the position of "less protests, more..." should be evaluated extremely critically - especially if your alternative is spamming r/conservative with liberal thinkpieces.

  • Condemned South Carolina man Brad Sigmon chooses to die by firing squad

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