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brendansimms

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  • Heartbreaking:

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  • No, not at all. I'm saying that the likelihood of getting a 'progressive' candidate on a ballot is extremely unlikely. I'm also saying that 'politics' and specifically 'progressive politics' is far more than just elections. I'd contend that most 'governance' is done by unelected government workers. I'm saying that political candidates dont matter as much as us building our own communities and networks. I'm saying that arguing over which candidate would fuck us over the least is largely a waste of time. Progressive politics, in practice, should devote less time to electoralism and more time to developing their communities - government be damned.

  • Heartbreaking:

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  • Seems like this instance needs to define what 'progressive politics' are. From my perspective, US electoral methods are currently constructed in a way where 'leftist' ideas are simply not allowed to advance. Like, yes Platner is guilty of war crimes but he is the less worse candidate, so sure vote him in and then move on and do the real work of community building, organizing, unionizing, and building a powerful labor bloc that is not beholden to any political party. Elections will not save us.

  • Crying is a free action

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  • Quebec passes secularism law banning street prayers and prayer rooms in universities

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  • so, anti-freedom then? I can understand not allowing proselytizing, but this reads to me like de facto anti-muslim legislation.

  • Bondi firing a reminder that even ultra-loyalists get dumped by Trump

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  • ^^^ she wasn't dumped, she was saved. Now she'll get some cushy job next to noem were they just collect checks and keep furthering the construction of the american reich.

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  • Wireless everything. Its magic. RF magic.

  • Enshittification: Science and Applications (published by Nature) is hit with "pooptical power"

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  • I'm not an optics expert, but I don't think that's right. Sad state of things when this gets published in a Nature-adjacent journal. Unless pooptical is a thing, in which case ... I want to know more

  • Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunch

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  • saving this comment for when i dive deeper down the rabbit hole later. at the moment i think im only self-hosting jellyfin and owntracks, and I have a couple llm models in LM studio but haven't messed with them in a while.

  • Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunch

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  • Sounds interesting. I currently pay the 5$/month for the Kagi search engine and that works great so I'm inclined to trust them on their other ventures.

  • Having to work during the apocalypse sucks

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  • you CAN effect change, major change. You choose not to, which is fine. But a single person can most definitely change the world.

  • Am I useful to Lemmy or not?

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  • Controversial posts that get engagement are probably thought-provoking and worthy of discussion. Discussion is much more important than karmafarming. Continue!

  • 8 million Americans marched for No Kings

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  • will you strike on May 1?

  • Graham Fetterman busts out the lies

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  • "Wanted to have an adventure and kill some people. Joined up in ‘04, did Fallujah and Ramadi, and managed both. Hell of an excellent experience." <Quote source is a Pushpull reddit search source for p-hustle, which is/was his reddit username: LINK

  • What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history

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  • Yes.

  • What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history

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  • will you strike on May 1?

  • What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history

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  • will you strike on May 1?

  • What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history

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  • will you strike on May 1?

  • What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history

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  • will you strike on May 1?

  • There is no ‘Epstein Class’

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  • I think I understand that the author was saying that arresting everyone involved with the epstein stuff would in no way move the world toward a more equitable socioeconomic system, and focusing on this specific situation takes away from the 'real' work necessary to do so. I disagree. I see the epstein situation, and the global awareness and disgust, as a crack in the capitalist system that should be exploited. progressive messaging on this situation could be more along the lines of 'this child sex trafficking ring is not an abberation within the capitalist system, it is an inevitable feature when obscene wealth is allowed to be concentrated in the hands of a few'. From this perspective, then, using a term like 'epstein class' is actually a useful, albeit inaccurate, way of discussing how the socioeconomic system will enable this to happen again (and is most certainly ongoing right now) to people who generally don't think about things in terms of 'economic systems'.

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    Alvarado ICE facility attack: 11 charged in 'ambush' on ICE officers, officials say

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