Yep.
"Whiteness" is proximity to power.
It's about who is given the freedom to behave certain ways.
Sharing is power
Visibility is power.
Knowledge is power.
It's important to keep sharing things, even on a smaller populated place like fediverse where the bubble effect seems stronger.
From a BIPOC perspective, this place is very white centered and it's definitely not because of the bubble effect, but the bubble effect increases the feeling of BIPOC being mostly absent or invisible.
@thomasfuchs I'm saying if democracy ended in the US, it wouldn't look like democracy ending when Hitler came to power.
It is extremely difficult to know what constitutes a "free and fair" election, and even more difficult to tell if a particular election meets those criteria. If democracy were to end in the US, it could be a long time before people actually realise this is the case (again, you can look at Russia as an example, although the same is true in many other countries).
@AdrianRiskin @timo21 @scottsantens
That's why I said that any Basic Income scheme has to be done within the concept of full redistribution of wealth and directly challenging and defusing private wealth and power.
It should be noted, though, that private interests can do all of that pretty well in the current system, yet they still insist on miserly amounts of highly conditional, stigmatized "charity" schemes and insistence on "payback" and profiteering because "work ethic" & "laziness".
@Hyolobrika maybe the thing that you are missing is that in a system like the US they don’t get that power merely because they get elected.
In the US it is fundamental to the system that no, we absolutely don’t trust ANYONE with such power.
It doesn’t matter if you get elected, it doesn’t matter if you really really want the power, it doesn’t matter if you think you have the power, you still don’t have the power, because the US system was designed specifically to make sure you don’t have that power.
That’s a huge problem with this whole “ democracy is on the ballot” nonsense. No, it’s not, because the US system was designed specifically to make such a thing impossible.
So I would say that if the people want to elect somebody promising things that they wouldn’t have the authority to do at all, then the people are wasting their votes and they’re going to be disappointed, but that’s really the long and short of it.
Might as well vote for the candidate that is promising to flap his arms and fly to the ceiling.
We should absolutely educate the public on civics so that they know those promises are unfulfillable, but if they want to vote for someone based on a promise that he can’t keep, well…
Most of what is in there now is computer stuff I am craving to upgrade my trusty 4 year old laptop, and beef up its storage and its power.
It started as an HP 15 series lapper with Windoze 10 Home, 4GB RAM (1 stick), and 1TB of internal HDD storage. It's currently jacked up to 2TB internal, 16GB (2 8GB sticks) of RAM, and so many USB-attached external hard drives to count, all running on Windows 11 Pro, with Ubuntu on the side via VirtualBox.
But, my greedy ass wants more storage and power.
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