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  • How to resist an oligarchy [10 images]

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  • (In the 'Churchgoer' slide I think you have the wrong year on the bit about ICE)

    One group you've missed that I think can do a lot of good are what you might call 'Interference'. Basically finding ways to make the system less efficient and effective. The resistance manual that's been going round has some ideas, but there's also basic stuff that can gum up the processes they use to be evil.

    If they start a tip line to identify a certain class of individual, send them tips. Lots of tips. Make them plausible so they have to divert time and energy to investigting them.

    If you see an official vehicle when you're travelling, obstruct it as much as could plausibly not be deliberate. Drive slowly and brake harder than you need to. In fact, do that anytime you can cause a nuisance.

    Slow productivity anywhere you can. If you have to interact with a business that supports the oligarcy, do everything you can to reduce their efficiency. Call them repeatedly for minor things and talk for as long as possible. Place orders and then cancel them after they've started fulfilment. Return things.

    Be sand in the cogs of the system without exposing yourself to direct physical danger. None of these things will end the threat on their own, but they make it easier for others to resist and add up if many people do them. If you're working online use protection. A good, ideally foreign and non-logging, VPN helps, TOR also helps, but you should always assume these things c`n be compromised, so stack them.

  • Donations to Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund slowed, then surged

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  • The difficulty comes with defining shooting someone, who isn't an obvious immediate threat, as legitimate. If there's a plausible way to do that, it should be the core of his defense, if there isn't you're asking the jury to let him off just because you don't like the guy who was killed.

    I hope his defense team can find a way to show that he acted in self defense against the harm the company were doing to him. That would be a plausible reason for the jury to find him not guilty, not set a precedent for letting murderers go free, and send a suitable warning to other CEOs.

  • Donations to Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund slowed, then surged

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  • Yes, pardons get used like that, but are applied but one, theoretically accountable (I know, I know...) office. Having jurys just decide someone is not guilty because the dont like the victim seems far more likely to lead to a complete breakdown of what remains of law and order. Given what's coming, maybe that's inevitable, but I don't think encouraging it is a good idea.

  • Donations to Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund slowed, then surged

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  • I agree with what you are saying, but this is not a precident you want to set. Jurys are supposed to consider whether the defendant broke the law, not whether they agree with the ethics of the action. Too many miscarriages of justice have occured for 'vibes' to be an acceptable way to judge these things.

    I would rather see his defence mount a case around self-defence or something of that nature (the CEO was harming Luigi or his family for instance) so that the jury have a reason to say he was within the law.

  • YSK: This May Have Been Auto-Installed on Your Device Recently

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  • In the play store, don't forget to flag it as innapropriate.

  • When you forget that you hired THEM because you weren't skilled enough to do it yourself

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  • So their standard hourly rate is $100, but for $75 more they'll teach you how to do it? That might not be a bad deal, depending on the task, and how frequently you'll need to do it in future. Even if you had to go to the super delux "do it while I watch" option to really get to grips with it, it might be worth it.

  • Donations to Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund slowed, then surged

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  • Because that's how lynch mobs got off without penalties too. It's very much a case of being careful what you wish for in this case. If he gets off because the jury says it's OK to gun someone down without direct provocation, you can bet that others will too. You shot a gay man for no reason? No problem, the jury says that's fine. You shot someone you suspect of having sympathies for Democrats? Head home, the jury was packed with MAGAs.

  • Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox?

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  • It just occured to me that if you want to use Ubuntu without snap, you could uninstall the snap package itself (I'm not on Ubuntu, so you might need to find it), then put a 'hold' on the package to prevent it being reinstalled. That should, in turn, prevent any package versions that use snap from being installed.

    Initially uninstalling snap might require removing any packages that use it, but that'll tell you what you need non-snap versions of.

  • Bring back the traditions

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  • Just replace the blade with a large stone or metal block and aim a little higher. Watch out for the splash.

  • Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox?

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  • I suspect that what's happened is you installed the apt version, then at some point upgraded it and there was a version in the main repo that had a higher version number and installed the snap version. If two repositories both have a package with the same name, and no other rules in place, the higher version number wins.

    If that is the case, you need to pin the firefox package to the mozilla repository. You can find more details here: https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration

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  • Hey, at least bats isn't running them over with his tank-monstercar thing

    ...bats isn't running them over with his tank-monstercar thing yet.

  • Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back | Schatz said he would hold up Trump’s diplomatic confirmations

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  • Show up in person and explain exactly what you want to see from them, and why it would benefit them. Then let them talk to the next person, who does the same. Make sure your representatives hear the same message again, and again, until it's easier for them to do what you're asking than not.

  • God was there....and that face

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  • That's not helping...

  • God was there....and that face

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  • Like a sea turtle trying to get up on a raft.

    What a mental image. Brain bleach, stat, please.

  • Could Trump Force X To Become The Everything App For Government Payments

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  • I'm sure he could and would. All he'd need to do is dictate that X is the only payment provider all government departments may use to improve 'efficiency'.

  • Doll rule

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  • I'm guessing that was their last post.

  • Glory to your terminal and your home directory! I have built my own emacs from source!

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  • I am but a humble vim enjoyer, I just read the description of Doom Emacs, and now my brain hurts!

  • Glory to your terminal and your home directory! I have built my own emacs from source!

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  • Ok, you've built the OS, but have you built a text editor for it yet? /jk

  • Trump least popular newly elected president since Second World War – except for himself

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  • Consider the presidential election. A simple binary choice was presented to the electorate; the Democrat candidate versus the Republican candidate. There were no other possible results. It was extremely clear to anyone who wasn't already MAGA levels of devoted to the Republicans, that the Republican candidate would do far worse things than the Democrat candidate, thus there were functionally only two actions you could take: vote for the democrat candidate or vote against the democrat candidate. Abstaining, voting third party, or otherwise not voting democrat had exactly the same result as directly voting for the republican candidate, namely increasing their odds of winning.

    Neither candidate should have been standing, both parties should have had free, fair and open primaries, and the whole situation stank, but that was the situation when the polls opened, and voters needed to act accordingly. As I said, the republican propaganda team was in overdrive and successfully fooled a large enough portion of the electorate into thinking of the election as a referendum on the democrats, rather than a choice between democrat and republican, and got them to think along the lines you've outlined above. That was enough to shift the election in favour of the republicans, and leave us in the situation we're in now.

    The same dynamic played out all the way down the ticket, giving what is likely to be a catastrophic result for a vast number of people. The argument that it's not the voters' fault is disingenuous; no-one was holding gun to their heads when they voted. Yes, the amount of disinformation and propaganda they experienced was extreme, but that does not absolve anyone of their personal responsibility. The fact that neither party treated the electorate with any respect, likewise, does not absolve anyone of their responsibility, nor did it change the nature of the election. The trick was played on voters by the republicans, getting them to think, and say, that the democrats weren't good enough without considering what the alternative was.

    As you say, they want people fighting amongst themselves, and it would certainly be best to acknowledge that the election has passed, and the situation is as it stands. The republicans have a clean sweep of every branch of federal government and many state ones too, and are wasting no time in implementing their worst and more damaging policies as quickly and ruthlessly as they can. Now we have to work out how to protect the vulnerable, slow the oncoming tide of fascism and find a way to start bringing people back together again. The next major round of elections should be in two years, and present an opportunity to turn, or at least, slow the tide that threatens to wash away the USA. Between now and then a lot has to change, but it's doable, even if the parties themselves do not, but it will take people looking past the obvious tricks and understanding that they usually, unfortunately, only have two options in an election, and now-a-days one is much, much worse than the other.