Tinidril

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[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

All that does practically is prevent them from making arrests. It does not prevent them from deploying on US soil, or using force against civilians.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No military force will ever be deployed anywhere with that restriction. They could be delivering food and medicine to an orphanage, and they would still be prepared to respond to any aggression.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (41 children)

Wealth inequality continued to grow under Biden, and the average net worth of black families decreased.

This neoliberal obsession with "incremental improvement" is a fucking plague. It's so easy to blame voters for not recognizing marginal changes, but it's delusional to think today's American voters are any different from voters in any other era or part of the world. Not recognizing that is political malpractice on the part of Democrats.

This pattern that we are living through is the same pattern behind every fascist movement since Mussolini. It starts with a failure of leadership from out of touch liberal elitists.

Democrats stand for absolutely nothing. They check the polls to figure out what people think they want to hear, but they never follow through because they have no conviction. Someone who is passionate about starving children doesn't slow down to brag when starvation falls by 10%. Democrats do, and that registers with voters - consciously or unconsciously. Democrats can point to charts and figures all day long but,without genuine passion, they will always fail to break through.

Voters want conviction. Republicans have it, and Democrats don't. Shaving half a point off inflation won't change that.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Great work!?!? Atta boy!?!? What are ya looking for here? The world is burning and you didn't bother to do the one small thing that could have made a difference, and you think that's something to brag about?

Over 10,000 people have died so far just from USAID cuts, and another 23,000 from the PEPFAR funding freeze. Those numbers alone are ticking up faster than the Gaza death toll,which is still happening BTW. But, not to worry, Rodneyck kept his integrity, and that's what's really important.

Politics is about achieving the best possible outcome, not making personal virtue statements.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's also interesting that he sees his own leadership in the party as being hopelessly undermined - yet he hasn't resigned for the good of the party. That's so fucking telling.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We need to take the Democratic party away from the weak and disconnected fools and shills that run it. Third party strategies in a first past the post system are self defeating. What this call shows is that the establishment can't cope with strong progressives in the party. Outside the party, we just make a great excuse every time Republicans win.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social -2 points 1 month ago

If this doesn't clue you in, then you are a hopeless case.

https://youtu.be/9-c8OoXSfWI

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

Those are IPv6 addresses that work a bit differently than IPv4. Most customers only get assigned a single IPv4 address, and even a lot of big data centers only have one or two blocks of 256 addresses. The smallest allocation of IPv6 for a single residential customer is typically a contiguous block of the 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses mentioned.

If Google's security team is even marginally competent, they will recognize those contiguous blocks and treat them as they would a single IPv4 address. Every address in that block has the same prefix, and it's actually easier to track on those prefixes than on the entire address.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

The training is not even similar, and neither are the hiring practices. I think that is the key difference.

I don't think you are entirely wrong though. Police tend to act very differently when up against protesters who are known to be armed. That's a big reason why concealed carry is allowed in many places when open carry isn't. The politicians don't want their thugs to be intimidated.

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