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a contingent of protesters, many of whom appeared to be on their way home from work,

So not protesters at all. Just residents who are sick of these thugs.

Also from the article:

An Associated Press reporter observed dozens of agents detaining a street vendor selling bedazzled smartphone cases, one of a number of arrests in the area.

A true concern for anyone right now: counterfeit phone cases. Won't someone think of the poor domestic bedazzled phone case manufacturers?

It's good to have a forum to discuss the issue from a political angle. You can wedge politics into everything if you try hard enough but then for other stories, you don't really have to try at all. This one seems like the latter.

Advocating for immigrants to resist is advocating for them to put themselves in real danger. So yeah, no one can do that in good conscience.

However, there's a very rational argument to be against deportation, especially as it's being done right now: Unrestricted deportation makes this country objectively worse, not better. Deporting employed, law abiding people who have lived here since they were 3 is a stupid idea. Our immigration policy is not good policy and before we irreparably ruin lives and tear families apart, we should fix it.

I'd say the protest I was at was at least twice as big as what's listed in that sheet. It wasn't a major city so it's not that hard to count either.

I get your point with the rest but...

Vote right? Transphobic.

Yeah, it kinda is? That's a core plank of the MAGA platform; it's practically inseparable. Unless you're talking non-USA parties but then there's still a better chance than none it's a yes.

Apple is the trend setter. The avant garde. If Apple does it, soon everyone will be doing it. If you see Apple doing something shitty, you need to nip that in the bud right quick.

They had no problem standing up to the FBI when they knew the Constitution still worked. It's not bravery when it doesn't cost you anything and there's nothing to be afraid of. But now things are different and regular every day people don't want to say it out. The implications make them uncomfortable.

Apple's market share outside of the US is pretty pitiful. Even with their piles of money, it would hurt.

On a mobile device? It's more likely that only OSS drivers work and the binary blob driver only worked with a pre-Pandemic aged kernel. Or it needed a very specific userspace library that doesn't work with a minimal libc.

"Free software enough" usually means "has a snowball's chance of actually working".

It's a significant factor for sure. However, this year Reddit has accelerated its enshittification since the API schism and is far too risky to continue use anyway. The only viable alternative to Lemmy that I see is Mastodon and I never really got into the Twitter format.