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AutistoMephisto

@ AutistoMephisto @lemmy.world

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  • Bernie Sanders, AOC rally crowd of 30,000 in Denver’s Civic Center

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  • Exactly. As horrific as the Kent State Massacre was, it changed people's perceptions of the anti-war protestors. Suddenly these weren't just a bunch of whiny kids who didn't want to get drafted, these were people who didn't want to die senseless deaths. Imagine if the Kent State Massacre never happened and the protest carried on without incident. Nothing would have changed.

  • I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor

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  • Yep. They basically never recovered from that 3rd bong hit they took in their freshman year of college and think because they've read the likes of Bastiat, Friedman, von Mises, Rand, and Rothbard they know everything.

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  • Like, I think someone in the DNC should be out there, putting out answers. What did they do with the money they got? Where did it go? Time for an audit.

  • 'You felt you could disregard it?': Judge grills Trump DOJ over White House ignoring oral order

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  • Not just the military. I draw your attention to this, emphasis mine

    (a) In General. Process—other than a summons under Rule 4 or a subpoena under Rule 45 —must be served by a United States marshal or deputy marshal or by a person specially appointed for that purpose.

    Section (b) says:

    Enforcing Orders: Committing for Civil Contempt. An order committing a person for civil contempt of a decree or injunction issued to enforce federal law may be served and enforced in any district. Any other order in a civil-contempt proceeding may be served only in the state where the issuing court is located or elsewhere in the United States within 100 miles from where the order was issued.

    The line:

    a person specially appointed for that purpose.

    is interesting because it does not specify who is qualified to be appointed. Now, I am concerned that this language means that Judge Boasberg may only appoint one person, but if he seems it necessary, he could probably get away with appointing more.

  • 'You felt you could disregard it?': Judge grills Trump DOJ over White House ignoring oral order

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  • Judge Boasberg does have one other card he can play, according to FRCJ Rule 4.1(b). If the US Marshal service is unable or unwilling to carry out a federal court order, the Judge who issued the order can deputize individuals to carry it out.

  • Tim Walz says he and Harris were too ‘safe’ during 2024 presidential campaign

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  • He's already done one in Iowa, with many more yet to come.

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  • For extra fun, look into where school districts allocate their funding and how it relates to their rankings. Some of the worst performing public schools spend a lot more on athletics than they spend on anything else. It's like they want to be professional athlete mills instead of functioning adult mills.

  • Tim Walz says he and Harris were too ‘safe’ during 2024 presidential campaign

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  • Walz has offered to do town halls in red states where Republicans have stopped doing them.

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  • This is true, the US is awful big. There's work arounds, though. Balloons aren't hard to build and launch, but the fact that they would be sending and receiving data packets directly inside US airspace would make them ridiculously easy to track and take down.

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  • Like, I remember the pirate radio station making a big hubbub during that time when rock n roll was banned in the UK. I could see illegal porn sites operating on ships in international waters, outside the boundaries of US enforcement using satellite connections to get their content out there. Problem is, the US is a little more trigger happy and might just send Navy ships out to sink them. If it happens in international waters nobody has to know.

  • The Democratic Opposition Should Look More Like Rep. Al Green

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  • If I were Green I'd have swung it upside the head of the Sergeant-at-arms. Wouldn't be the first time a cane was swung in the Capitol.

  • The Democratic Opposition Should Look More Like Rep. Al Green

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  • Either Al Green or Anthony Weiner. I watched an old speech of him defending a bill to fund medical care for the first responders of 9/11, and he spoke with such fire and passion. He put House Republicans on blast for sitting on their hands and hiding behind procedure before voting "no". While we don't need people with his character flaws (he sent unsolicited dick pics to someone who may or may not have been a minor, I've read conflicting reports), we definitely need people with that kind of fire.

  • 100% mirror universe

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  • The mirror Star Trek happened when Zephram Cochrane shot and killed the Vulcans arriving to greet them instead of shaking their hand. The nearby people stormed the ship and raided the weapons, using them to conquer the rest of Earth.

  • Anti-Trump summit in DC evacuates after receiving ‘credible bomb threat’

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  • This. They just do the work, and then if they feel like it they do a video or whatever claiming responsibility and whatever afterward. That's how Al-Qaeda did it on 9/11/2001. They just hijacked the planes and hit the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, then Osama bin-Laden released a statement afterwards. He didn't announce the attack beforehand. That day would have gone much differently if he had. But this isn't like some comic book or Saturday morning cartoon where the villains go on some monologue about their fiendish plot before they do it.

  • Author of Upcoming Elon Musk Biography Says ‘There Is No Evidence’ Billionaire Has Any ‘Intellectual Achievements’

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  • I can agree with most of this. Capitalism, and society in general, banked rather hard on Galileo's old saying,

    "Measure what is measurable, and make measurable that which is not so."

    They took that to mean, "Give every facet of everything an objective measure in order to determine how make imaginary lines go up so imaginary numbers in our bank accounts go up.

  • Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes

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  • For the landlocked, may I recommend the Dead Drop Protocol? Leave the message in a place that everyone knows about, but only the intended recipients knows a message is there to be read. Like the Message in a Bottle, it supports all encryption methods and is disconnected from the Internet.

    There are a couple drawbacks, though. For one, unless you are watching the drop point, you have no way of knowing whether your message made it to the intended recipient or if it was intercepted. Vice versa, if you are the intended recipient of a dropped message, the only guarantee you have that the message is authentic is if the message uses a self-authenticating encryption method. Also, there is a potential that any drop point you use may be under surveillance, so make sure to not use the same drop point too often.

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  • Removed the ability to communicate cryptographically. Our only tool.

    Not entirely. The old methods still work. I'm talking about old fashioned pen and paper. OTP ciphers and dead drops. Messages, hidden where only the intended recipient knows it's there. The problem is, there's no dead drops in cyberspace. There's no place one can leave a hidden message that can't be seen by others in cyberspace. And while quantum computing might break OTP, it's too expensive to use for that purpose.

    There's a certain artistry to the old ways. Invisible inks, dead drops, One-Time-Pads, and the like. Cryptography existed long before computers. Those who would be our rulers have bent so much of their energies towards preventing our communicating in cyberspace that they've neglected those of us who studied the pre-Information Age methods. And we can still use them. A guy walks by a trash can, and throws away a seemingly innocuous food wrapper, and a couple hours later another guy goes and collects it, knowing that there is a message written on it in ink that can be revealed with the use of heat and lemon juice. If their intent is to return the USA to the "good ole days", then let's use the spy tricks from the "good ole days".

  • Sen Jerry Moran (R) begs Trump to not let USAID food rot

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  • The plan then is to literally bomb the competition until the biggest repeat customers have no choice but to come back to us. It's not listed on Project 2025, though. And the ones that can't be bombed will be turned into puppet states, so either way, they come back. I doubt that their plan will actually unfold how they want, but we'll see.

  • AOC says she's worth less than $500,000 after kickback claims — and seems to get kudos from Trump fans in response

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  • And why his current wreckage of government still has many conservatives approving: they believe he is answering, kind of.

    Now, if only we can get them to see that he's got people in his orbit at billionaire techbros who think they're all going to be John Galt, and that the "capitalist utopia" he builds in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" is what they're trying to build and it won't be good for them. They think they're all going to live in their own Galt's Gulch when it's going to be more like Andrew Ryan's Rapture.