Notices by Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)

I guess this is me:

As someone who’s done C++ for 20 years: Rewrite it in Rust

C++ as a community is too toxic and largely unwilling to do the work to change. Ditching C++ makes it possible to move away from that culture.

Ok, this thread by @cwebber is about Bluesky infrastructure architecture, but tbh, this point here goes for a democracy too. It needs to be designed to be as resilient as possible if/when hostile forces gain control over it.
https://social.coop/@cwebber/113529104626396729

I am extremely happy with my gif usage in this thread on Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/patigallardo.bsky.social/post/3lbdfce7znk25

You want to be scared? Watch Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa talk about how fast institutions were dismantled in the Philippines, after pointing out that they had modeled their constitution and democracy on America.
https://youtu.be/RtSTBoPloqI?si=fEzzaN1sAouWLSWw

He should’ve been in jail years ago, and here you are.

So I guess the Democrats are just going to hand over the country to a despot because that’s what you do when you play by the rules? Good luck with that. Good luck with history recording you as the Good Guys that handed over the nation to a fascist dictator.

As wild as it sounds, I’m starting to root for variation on Costa Rica’s “Civil War” : arrest Trump and call a new election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rican_Civil_War

“Gen Mark Milley, the top US military leader, resisted Donald Trump’s demands that his forces “crack skulls” and “beat the fuck out” of protesters marching against police brutality and structural racism, according to a much-trailed new book. “Just shoot them,” the president reportedly said.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/25/donald-trump-general-mark-milley-crack-skulls

And there you have it. Trump confirms that he will deploy the US military inside the US.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/18/trump-administration-transition/

Found the video because it was referenced from this short by msnbc
https://youtube.com/shorts/q0uaZzlZbVc?si=rrgq2XHN8WnI_fLa

This video had a nice graphic, not done watching it yet.
https://youtu.be/eGhj2XRhWwI?si=0XPAHgPBPI08YjrA

Lol, the title of the video is confident but the video itself is anything but

There is still very little talk about it, probably because he threw a whole pile of handgranades this week.
https://youtu.be/rF5xvO2uqJo?si=6UXUBxH64cRjGnfe

“This is why Donald Trump is trying to purge the military of good honorable generals”

Full video
https://www.youtube.com/live/ORiQqcLfpxc?si=sJfnRe7l1WT-qrZi

When people in all seriousness put their faith in military personnel refusing orders… then we’re in a precarious situation.

I have to believe that the state governments are not going to go along with this, that they’re not this nuts. But are we really at the stage where we are tabletop gaming out a civil war?
https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/113482122372369427

This is part of what has had me worried the last few days
https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/113482206215664623

🙃
https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/113464837816023089

“Former generals who have worked for Trump say that the sole military virtue he prizes is obedience. As his presidency drew to a close, and in the years since, he has become more and more interested in the advantages of dictatorship, and the absolute control over the military that he believes it would deliver. “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” Trump said in a private conversation in the White House, according to two people who heard him say this. “People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.””
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/