How about "zero poverty" instead of "zero unemployment"? We don't need to force people to work. That's how you get coersion based "democracy" like the USA, which in turn is eventually how you get another round of fascism.
The idea that if you don't work you don't eat is another of those that we must leave behind.
I think the old conundrum doesn't apply here. These arseholes are both evil AND stupid. They'll do damage whether they achieve their scummy fascist goals or just break a bunch of stuff in the attempt.
Take the current example: the goal appears to be to install a new, fascist, system, but the outcome is likely to be no system at all. Either way, we're fucked, and our only option is to stop them.
@inthehands Just please, for the love of all that is good and holy, let there be one adult somewhere in the mix who makes sure the existing code is backed up safely.
Because you're 100% right, this is the stupidest idea yet from a group of people whose footnote in history will read "Oh yeah, those dickheads."
The thing about all this Signal and Venmo shit is that you and I just found out about it, but any genuine agents of hostile regimes have been exploiting it for months if not years. They're all pissed off today because maybe --- maybe! --- one of their best sources of information is going to be cut off.
@hannu_ikonen I hope the takeaway from my posts for most people will be "holy shit, I better stay out of fights if it's nutters like him I'd be facing". (Voice-over: it's even worse than me.)
But I fear that it will come to violence for far too many, in which case "follow through" to me doesn't mean "punch through your target" it means "make sure the fucker never walks again".
I've seen quite a few posts lately advocating violence, such as "punch nazis" or "don't forget to follow through the punch".
Let me sound a note of caution here.
Most of you (and this is a good thing) don't know anything about violence. It's not like you see on the screen. Schoolyard dustups don't count. If you've never personally sent someone to the morgue or hospital, the best thing for you to do is to avoid violence as much as humanly possible.
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@Alice I don't know if the recycled air in airplanes is filtered, but it COULD be. My guess (because unmasked air travel remains a major vector of transmission) is that it isn't, and that airlines decided the cost of fitting HEPA filters wasn't worth the lives destroyed and lost.
Some years ago I read a poem (my brain wants to say it was by Herman Melville but that hasn't helped me search for it) that described a hanged man's body -- I think it was John Brown's -- as "a tongue in the bell of the sky".
That phrase haunts me! Please help me track down the poem!
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