Notices by Yeshaya Lazarevich (alter_kaker@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands
They really don't like that
@andy

@inthehands
Wow I have no idea what this means

@inthehands
Hey that's when I checked out of local politics once and for all
@homelessjun @MisuseCase @mekkaokereke

@thomasfuchs
I think I've read the article he's thinking of. It's how it goes: two people might read the same pop paleontology article and one might think: We wouldn't be human without grandmas! Grandmas are great. And another might read the same think: "the only purpose of the postmenopausal female is to help care for grandchildren." What a pig 🙄
@rberger

@inthehands
Hmm yes but it also looks like their business model involves you publishing to their service

@inthehands
I think that a Git client well optimized for this specific use case would sell like hot cakes

@inthehands
Bonus points if integrated WYSIWYG Markdown editor

@inthehands
Following

@inthehands
Not to mention the abdication of duty. What's the point of fighting if you're destined to lose?

@inthehands
Your dishwasher shows how much time is left???! 😮😮😮

@inthehands
Very cute. I definitely have very serious political disagreements with this guy, and I think that he has done harm and is capable of doing more. Nevertheless, I can see how he might at the same time be a very rare thing in politics, a genuinely decent person.
@designatednerd

@inthehands
Can you summarize the video please for those of us who don't/can't watch videos?

@inthehands
Pyrrhic is a hell of an understatement

@inthehands if I tried that I'll get kicked out of the neighborhood, I'm afraid. But I was talking in general: putting forward candidates at all levels and supporting them with union money and infrastructure. I was discussing with someone about why has there been no successful effort to take over the Democrat party the way the Republicans were taken over by their right side. It was suggested that there hasn't been an equivalent of the Koch money and all that
@blogdiva

@inthehands @blogdiva I was just about to say that the only way forward I'm seeing is keep electing Democrats while taking out all of the conservative union leaderships, and mounting a tea-party style takeover of the Democrat party using union resources

@CarRamrod @yabellini @aud the reason for the contrast is that Swartz was enriching the commons, whereas Altman is enriching shareholders. It's called the profit motive. No amount of regulation can change the basic incentive structure of capitalism.

They even acquitted German corporate executives at Nuremberg who were working slaves to death worse than the SS at Auschwitz, because it was their "fiduciary duty to company shareholders" to do so, and therefore it was ruled they had no choice...

@agremon
"When 24 Farben executives were tried at Nuremberg for the slaughter at Monowitz, then argued that they had no choice but to pursue slave labor – it was their duty to their shareholders. The judges agreed: 19 of those executives walked."

From https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/19/stolpersteine/#truth-and-reconciliation citing https://www.scribd.com/document/517797736/The-Crime-and-Punishment-of-I-G-Farben

I'm worried that even if Democrats manage to stay in power, unless they do something to fight back against encroaching fascism we'll be back to square one in 2028. I was just blocked by someone for daring to express this concern despite being an immigrant and unable to legally vote, which makes my opinion worthless.

I guess some people's disagreement with fascism is less a matter of principle than of allegiances.

Ugh I'm so mad. She should keep the damn SS out of her mouth

#uspol

@jonny also the left here is totally compromised by a variety of authoritarian and fash-aligned tendencies as well as all kinds of accelerationists and hero cults. Which isn't helping... At least the unions look like some of them are starting to wake up

@inthehands it started raining just after I started my walk with the babies, and got more or less done just before I got back home. I am soaked