As we all expected, RFK Jr. knows little about Autism.

FTFY

Nah. Probably just some vague law about it being illegal to enter that state as a “terrorist”.

Which is just a word for a brown person or a white person with a brown enough sounding name like “Lopez” or “Muhammad”

The article is not clear. Was he held by ICE or held at the request of ICE (like it says).

So it sounds like ICE was using state resources and officers to hold him but he was freed because of a state judges rule?

This doesn’t sound so much like ICE/feds giving up. But them testing which state resources and judges will play ball and who needs to be “removed”.

They are suffering from the degrading material conditions of capitalism and attributing the progress of other groups as the cause. That’s it for most of them. And that’s being fed to them by Media all day long. It’s not much more complicated than that.

Most aren’t married to racist or xenophobic beliefs. Often times you don’t need to even address those beliefs directly. It is much easier to direct their anger at their boss. Everyone has a boss that is fucking them over.

It’s why I’m never gonna have a pointless conversation about trans rights with my coworker when he starts talking about “men in women’s sports”. I’m gonna say “yeah, I don’t know about all that and I really don’t care. I care more about what they’re doing to labor rights. You know are boss can do x,y,z”.

I DO care about trans rights. But he doesn’t. I’m not trying to be his friend. I’m just trying to redirect his anger. That’s really the best I can do.

I’m not saying we don’t need to address existing structures of inequality. But that trying to first “change the mind of a racist” and only then redirect their anger into class solidarity is the wrong path. At least when you’re just talking to some transphobic coworker.

The anger needs to be redirected first. It is significantly easier to address racism and xenophobia when they are no longer the scapegoat for the material problems all of the working class are facing.

Literally no one gives a shit about Liz Cheney. Why is this daughter of a genocidal war criminal still talked about?

There are so many lies from the right worth spending time caring about. This is not one of them. Pick your battles. Fuck the Cheneys.

This country doesn’t want to pay teachers so it’s using technology to fill the gap. It’s not being used to enhance the education. It’s being used to keep costs low. It’s like using a self checkout camera. Sure, some people will still steal stuff. You’re not actually trying to prevent all of that. You’re just trying to lower that amount of theft so it’s less than hiring a cashier. The teachers suffer and the students suffer for it.

But this country is also not interested in having well educated people capable of critical thinking. I believe I’m paraphrasing Carlin now. But it just wants obedient workers.

I’ll give the benefit of the doubt here. But if you’re at all “leftist” and attribute America to being run by “Israel” you should really understand who’s framing you are repeating here.

America is not “run by Israeli interest”. It is run by the interest of capital and for the interest of capital. American capitalist are absolutely the ones running, encouraging, and most of all enabling the actions of Israel. And they hide behind “creating a safe place for Jews” like we don’t all understand it’s just another madagascar plan.

Please don’t fall for this “Israel runs America”. Especially trying to attribute all Jewish Americans to supporting Israel.

Israel IS American interest. And that interest is for a white supremacists capitalist class. Using Antisemitism as a shield will only last for so long. These Nazi’s are going to drop that real quick and start “sending Jews to Israel where they can be safe” before we know it.

And if it wasn’t clear. The people that say America is “run by Israel” are Nazis. And the Nazi leaders running this country will quickly start singing that same song when they are done using antisemitism/Israel as reason to deport Muslims and anyone supporting Palestine.

Please don’t let fascist fool you. The Israeli fascist do not care about Jews and neither do the American fascist. They both only care about creating their own fascist ethnostates.

Yes. Fascism is about normalizing treating outsiders as non-human. To do this you expand your crimes step by step. Justifying and normalizing each step. And you don’t have to do it for long. You just move onto the next worse thing quickly.

There was a really good, almost poetic, video that covered this just as Trump took office. It’s been a good reminder for me to keep my compass and perspective.

https://youtu.be/0YFdwfNh5vs

No I won’t. I’ll mean to. But I won’t.

I mean. Definitely not “Christ like” as in being like Jesus. But if we’re talking Christianity, well, it’s basically par for the course.

Yep. And I don’t have to use 10 different video player UIs. I can just use Plex. That lifetime pass from years ago has been worth it. Even if I know people are critical of Plex.

Fucking camera man. Can you just please zoom in on his crotch already!

Same but photopea usually replaces Gimp for me now. Works in the browser and is basically Photoshop but without all the automated tools.

I mean that would be a win. You can show why due process is important and that justice is served with it.

How is it a loss to use the justice system as it was written to convict someone of a crime?

If Democrats are so worried about messaging that they’ll let innocent people rot in prison and only attempt to save one guy for a “win” that just means they actually don’t care about any of them.

That’s likely safe. But…

Most malware isn’t trying to make your computer unusable anymore. That was the old days when people just wanted their “hacking” acknowledged.

You can definitely still be running a crypto miner if you sudo’d something stupid you downloaded on Linux.

He’d probably just upgrade your drivers to the latest stable version for your distro and fix all those W: prints you see whenever a guide tells you to “sudo apt update”.

You know who you are and you’re me.

I hadn’t really thought about it until reading this comment but I am definitely the same. I use to pirate so much software back in the day. But, I really just find myself looking for projects on GitHub that fit my needs.

I pirated a video upscaling program just to test it out. Topaz I think it was. But it was mostly just curiosity because it was very niche in it’s performance improvement over it’s open source alternative video2x.

That’s literally the only software I can remember pirating in the last 10 years.

If it’s good and requires a one time purchase. I buy it. Unraid is obviously going to be an example of that for a lot of people here.

I think I’ve spent more money donating “coffee” to good open source projects though. And going windows free for over 3 years now has been a big part of that. I can’t stand when I have to use Windows now. Work still forces it on me. But I literally only use it to SSH into my redhat VM.

All my piracy is media these days. And that’s only because the streaming services have basically reached the point that cable did back in the late 2000s.

Piracy has always been based on convenience rather than cost for me. “Piracy is a service issue” is the famous quote. Additionally it’s about services not giving you ownership over the thing you purchased. Which is what a lot of software has become.

Trans people are just people. It’s like saying “there are still laws about black people” in the Jim Crow South.

Laws should be written to be inclusive, not exclusive. When laws are written in these fragmented ways it is the exact purpose of right wingers to exploit them. It is written to SERVE THE POWER OF OPPRESSION.

This is the same as “gay people can have civil partnerships”. While ignoring that it is literally just a method used to exclude gay partners of the same rights married partners have.

It’s the same “separate but equal” bull shit that has existed over and over. I don’t know how “well intentioned liberals” keep falling for this same trick over and over again throughout our history.

The rules on “sex” are entirely based on social definitions of gender norms. Or tell me you would be confused by seeing this guy walk through TSA with F as his sex.

https://www.olympics.com/en/news/transgender-boxer-pat-manuel-makes-history-with-first-professional-win

Edit: I really should not have to use “passing” trans people to make my point. But I feel like people live in a different reality where every ID check is followed up with a genital inspection.

This is the precise reason why that clip everyone lost their mind over was using the wording “birthing person” when discussing rights related to abortion.

You can get your “anti-woke” panties in a bunch for terms like this. But there is a reason they are used when deciding laws. It is meant to very very specific and at the same time being very very inclusive to the rights the law is meant to protect.

It’s so no asshole tries to take away your rights on a technicality they made up in their mind.

No one is calling women, nb’s, or trans men “birthing persons” except in this specific context and for very good reason.

Holy shit I just checked his profile. Does he just spend all day on Lemmy posting?