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That’s definitely something to work towards but a general strikes requires years of planning, organising, network building, and just fucktons of money. People still need to eat and pay rent. People will be fired and need help fighting it. The regime is likely to injure and maybe kill.

There hasn’t been a general strike in living memory.

A general strike takes time, it’s not something we can just do. Rushing it and fucking it up would be a huge win for the fascists.

The article suggests that people are willing to pay to have all their games in one place.

A not-insignificant amount of people would rather buy a game they just got free than have to remember to open epic.

This fascist regime has clearly been planning for a while to send the military to attack american cities.

If they feel confident in using the military instead of the death squads they’ve been building under ice, that implies they are optimistic about their control over the military, or at least ready to test that control.

Anyone who thinks there’s an electoral path away from fascism is deluding themselves. They’ll shoot us dead in the street before giving up power.

We all get those things regardless. The stories we tell ourselves about how the world works don’t affect how the world works.

Life, joy, friends, love, art, pleasure, dopamine, oxytocin, etc.

Anything we’re doing now can still be done without the concept of free will, because we’re already doing it without free will.

I just dont understand this admittantly common argument.

Free will seems like such a psychologically damaging lie. As if blaming yourself for the outcome of every sad movie you’ve watched is somehow motivational.

Since coming to accept that free will is farcically impossible, I feel free to just go about my actions with a sense of curious enthusiasm as to what will happen next, safe in the knowledge that que sera sera - whatever will be, will be.

In employment, Verizon said it will commit to aligning its business in California with the state’s various requirements under its diversity, equity and inclusiveness (DEI) laws, though the company ended its employment-based DEI initiatives last year in order to secure approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its purchase of Frontier.

The DEI commitments Verizon will make are not expected to conflict with its promises to the FCC, which largely involved hiring and promotional practices.

So CA allows yet more dangerous corporate power consolidation in exchange for just following CA law - but not so much as to conflict with verizon’s anti-DEI promises to the regime.

What a truly progressive victory worthy of gavin newsom.

There was a hilarious study the other month showing that on r/conservative, 30-60% of posts on any given day are 2 posters, who posted every single day - except the day that ukraine strikes knocked out power in moscow.

That sounds like a reasonable and healthy attitude to take.

I’ve started buying 2nd hand physical games, got a cheap record player, buy books from little bookshops, clothes from goodwill and don’t shop online. Not ready for a dumb phone yet.

I grew up in niave 90s with ‘internet will set us free’ thinking. But oligarchs turned the things i liked into poison, so i avoid drinking the poison as much as i can.

Alerting venezuela to the risk might have foiled the operation.

Galvanizing public opinion beforehand might have led them to rethink. Continuing against public opinion costs more political capital than selling it after it’s already done. Authoritarian regimes can ignore public opinion more than representative ones, but they still can’t ignore it entirely.

Maybe reporting the story wouldn’t change the outcome, but it’s a possibility.

to avoid endangering US troops

This is a straight up lie. They held off to avoid blowing the lid on the US regime’s undeniably illegal actions.

If they had reported on government malfesance as is their sacred duty, they might have stopped a crime before it happened.