sevenOfKnives

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

The credible threat of violence is often much more powerful than violence itself. See unions, the civil rights movement, mutually assured destruction.

Society is very often an implicit contract of "do what we want or else." Without the "or else", the powerful have no reason to listen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then europe should have no qualms about footing the bill and doing it themselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I really hate to defend the actions of those POS nazi scumbags, but this is mostly on the rest of the world for standing back and letting americans foot the bill for everything. Europe being caught scrambling to invest in building up their defense industry is another perfect example of this. Or like how the germans decided nuclear energy was too scary so they started relying more on gas imports from russia.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Frankly, we need an alternative to DNS that isn't vulnerable to this kind of censorship.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

protests represent the threat of violence. the threat went away and the rulers stopped listening.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Last I checked there are about 107 million americans bearing arms right now. Sorry we haven't started a civil war soon enough for you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

omg, how did I forget BenHeck tore one down, ty!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

What would you have us do? The election was rigged, and the rule of law has been completely dismantled. Citizens who disagree are being disappeared by ICE. We're all broke, and decades of union-busting means we have no power in the workplace. People are protesting despite it all. Loudly. Our media just isn't covering it.

And need I remind you, until trump started waving his dick around, you very nearly had your own maple-flavored fascism. And may yet. Except you already gave up your right to bear arms, so you can't even fight back when it happens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

i wonder how much hardware is added besides the CD drive...

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

that's not exactly true. volunteers have archived most of the old government websites and public data.

i mean, it's not overthrowing the nazis, but frustrating historical revisionism is a start.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I miss fujifilm so much. I much preferred their color chemistry over kodak's. sigh

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