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  • Find Something You Love as Much as Gavin Newsom Loves Having Anti-Trans Pundits on His Podcast

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  • I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice [...]

    That was Martin Luther King Jr. talking about civil rights. It rings just as true today for trans people.

  • Find Something You Love as Much as Gavin Newsom Loves Having Anti-Trans Pundits on His Podcast

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  • In some cases, sure I'll grant it can be unfair for newly transitioned women, i.e. on hormones for less than a year. After that, any potential advantage is for a large part nullified (which is overly simplistic as a timeline but whatever). Also, let's be real honest on just how many people this affects. The amount is so staggeringly small that even if we put aside that there is only a temporary advantage, there's really not much of a problem, just a handful of individuals.

    But, and this is vitally important to understand, sports are not a core, vital governmental interest and thus do not need to be legislated. To be very plain, games are not important to the functioning of society. Individual leagues can come up with their own policies if they feel it so necessary to exclude the small number of trans women who want to participate.

    The entire "debate" just shows we are not a serious society. God forbid trans women want to exist and pursue their interests.

    As for Gavin Newsome, this really shows he's trying a bit too hard to start a presidential run with a theory of "let's be Republican Lite." That worked so well the last time.

  • Trump border czar: ICE will ‘absolutely’ deport legal immigrants

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  • Hiding behind “but they committed a crime!” is going to be used to justify all kinds of horrors.

    Yep. Anything they don't like will be criminalized. Then when there is an inevitable protest because of some overreach, the government will react by going to the media and vilifying the protests for supporting "hardened criminals." It's so transparent.

    It just goes to show that legality and morality, while sometimes overlapping, are not the same.

  • JD Vance says he and his daughter, 3, were confronted by pro-Ukraine protesters

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  • I agree. Make them uncomfortable. Make them see how reviled they are.

  • Military to Remove 'Enola Gay' Photos for Violating DEI Rules - Newsweek

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  • Pete Hegseth is truly one of the weakest people in the country. I guess we now know that words really do hurt him. Just say "gay, trans, LGBT, and diversity" and he'll probably go sit under his desk to suck on a bottle of Jack.

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  • Hell, they probably used this as a time to do some quick stock buybacks on the cheap.

  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia

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  • I'm not sure they're all compromised. The ones who aren't are just cowards and go along with everything even though they know it's wrong.

    Honestly, I don't know which is worse, the compromised ones doing bad things to help their masters or the cowards who can't muster enough courage to publicly call the first out and in so doing become accomplices.

  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia

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  • Traitor.

  • UK and France will work on own Ukraine peace plan, says Keir Starmer

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  • And so begins the new isolation of the United States, the end of Pax Americana, and the end of American empire and hegemony. Hopefully, Europe can take over as the leaders of the free world and setters of norms.

  • After Oval Office disaster, Europe emerges as Ukraine’s best hope

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  • Or ever again.

    It will take severe work for anyone to trust the US ever again. It was hard enough after Trump the first time, but now American contrition will take much longer and require more. I'm talking like impeaching and removing a broad swath of this administration, rejoining international organizations (like the WHO, etc.), and joining others we hadn't been in before (like the ICC).

    American leadership is trashed for a generation at least, possibly forever.

  • Economic Blackout: Will a 24-hour boycott make a difference?

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  • This is a start, but there needs to be more and for longer. This first one is just to get our feet wet and get people into resisting. The second blackout should last a week. Amazon Blackout 2 should be 1-3 months, with Amazon Blackout 3 being of indefinite length. Same for Walmart.

  • Economic Blackout: What to know about the February 28 boycott taking off on social media

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  • If the world isn’t comfortable taking action by now

    The sad fact of the matter is most Americans aren't. So, we have to meet them where they are and start small and low-threat to get them comfortable.

    Personally, I find a one day blackout super easy. I don't buy a lot as is, and when I do, I go out of my way to not engage with big companies. I know companies don't feel my actions, and I know they wouldn't feel my actions if there were 100 of me doing this. So, we need to use this as an opportunity to get people on board as "baby's first social action." Get people comfortable with doing something so that bigger, more impactful actions can be taken down the line.

    After the 28th, we need to then organize the next one and make it longer, say 3 days and ask that people get their friends to do it, too. It will take successive action with the awareness that this is all connected.

  • Economic Blackout: What to know about the February 28 boycott taking off on social media

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  • It only fades away if we let it. So, don't let it fade away but rather ratchet up and start attaching specific demands to it like "Elon out of government, DOGE disbanded, and all dismissed federal workers reinstated."

  • Economic Blackout: What to know about the February 28 boycott taking off on social media

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  • You're right, but it's a start to get more people involved and comfortable with taking action. One day is easy and manageable for anyone, but longer periods seem scary. Starting with just one day gives people a foot in the door to try more acts of resistance. When the next call comes for a longer period, it will be easier to get people on board because how much worse is seven days from one?

    So, you're right. One day won't save us. One day won't solve the problem. This is not the end, but a beginning, just a first step.

  • Talk of a "Feb 28 Economic Blackout" is spreading on social media. What is it?

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  • I don't think it's much of a problem. People taking part want to do something to combat Trump and Elon, but many don't know how. And let's face it, it's kinda scary to try to go up against powerful people. This is an easy, low-threat way to get started. It's for Jim and Jane down the street who want to do something but don't know what and are afraid of going all in right now.

    So, if they boycott for just a day as a symbol, they see it's not so bad. Hell, they may even make it two or three just on their own. Then the next call to blackout comes a month later, but this time it's for a week. Easy. Now, this time, they find alternative local businesses who align with their positions to get "emergency" supplies from. Then the next call comes for a month's blackout, and they realize that they haven't been buying from the big companies at all, so that's easy.

    But, they still feel like they aren't doing enough. Isn't fighting supposed to be harder? So, they decide to attend a small protest. Then a bigger protest. Suddenly, Jim and Jane realize that they are going to city hall meetings, protests, etc., which they never thought they'd get involved in. And it started with just taking a day off from buying things.

    Obviously, this won't happen for everyone where they get hyper-involved. For most, it'll probably just be doing the economic blackouts for however long at a time or just finding alternate places to do business so they feel like they're helping. And you know what, that's fine. If people turn away from the big businesses, even just 20%, that will start to show up.

  • Talk of a "Feb 28 Economic Blackout" is spreading on social media. What is it?

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  • The key thing to remember is that a one day blackout won't have an effect on the corporations. What it will do is get more people comfortable with taking action. If you can go one day without buying from Amazon, two days isn't much more, and then a week, and then a month. The idea is to ratchet up the action.

    Just like how fascism has a progression to slowly "boil the frog," collective societal action does, too. This isn't an end but a beginning.

  • Corrupting Data

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  • "Oh tasha"

  • Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting?

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  • Easier and more painless to just pay another company to do that and not have to worry about server security, spam, the endless SSH requests for ‘admin’, etc etc

    Definitely. I do it for fun though. I'm kind of a masochist 😂

  • Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting?

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  • Rolling your own email is a pain. That said, I use a VPS and host my own server with domain name and site for $5/month. Setting it up was a pain, but once you get all the records right so you're not considered spam, it works really well. That said, I haven't done anything with webmail; I strictly use IMAP and SMTP.

  • ‘It took the Nazis one month’: Pritzker compares Trump’s policies to 1930s Germany

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  • I love my governor! I was really skeptical of him at first (being a billionaire and all)*, but he has really pleasantly surprised me. It looks like he's starting the soft campaign for president with this, and all I can say is that I am sad that if he gets elected, the loss of Illinois' best governor of my lifetime will be the entire country's gain.

    *I wanted to add that his wealth still bothers me, but he's proven that he's the exception that proves the rule that billionaires are bad. He's really put his money to work for people and "can't be bought." With the amount of good he's done, it makes one wonder why the others haven't done anything similar.