The thing is that Amazon needs to get broken up way more than Ma Bell did. Most people have never heard of AWS before, but it’s crazy to have one company own so much of the internet, even before you get into their stranglehold on internet commerce (which also should be broken up).
Corporate media’s job is to manufacture consent. Please do not accept their spin uncritically.
This has nothing to do with kids or porn, those are always easy bells for censors to ring. It’s about control and tracking. They want to be able to tie anonymous online activity to your real identity.
Politically, we really need to stop accepting their framing that they’re trying to protect kids. These bills are only about collecting data.
If the venemous claws fit.
Trump is already using the military against American citizens, that’s hardly a tin foil hat belief. I’d suggest that this is more of a show of force against his enemies and that Trump is too dumb to realize he needs to curry favor with the military.
I doubt this won him any friends because it’s not like the Marines have historically been dying to shell Camp Pendleton and nobody involved is being paid right now. Another note on the “don’t mistreat your military” wanna-be-dictator checklist is Trump screwing over the National Guard by deploying them 29 days at a time so their housing allowance doesn’t kick in.
They said “bathroom” not “break room”.
Ideally they would have been given some time to ramp up the process to do that.
No. Republicans are fascists who are planning to make America somewhat more universally authoritarian than it always has been. 30-40% of Americans are white supremacists who think this is great. The rest are split between people who don’t know anything that’s happening, those who think that 2008 was a reasonable level of fascism and we should try to stay somewhere near there, and those who don’t want fascism at all. (This list is ordered from largest to smallest.)
Yes. All corporate media is state media. None of it can be trusted.
It’s a sad state of affairs when you’ll get better information from Teen Vogue than any organization in the White House Press Pool.
Corporate media is propaganda. They got Trump elected and now they’re carrying water for his administration.
I can see how my first comment might not have been clear, but surely I can’t get much clearer than “That’s not what I said at all”. It sounds like you’re suggesting that your interpretation of my comment is what I meant regardless of what I was trying to say.
The mayor’s plan of “Ice free zones” is a great strategy because it sets up the inevitable court case. Regardless of what anyone on Lemmy thinks, the guy talking about “There are no rules anymore” is the doomer, not me.
There are, in fact, rules, and we either use the courts or [redacted so I don’t get banned]. Police officers arresting ICE is not on the table both due to federal supremacy and also because cops are fascists anyway and most are pretty happy about what ICE is doing. If you think cops are going to save you, you haven’t been paying attention.
That’s not what I said at all. He is resisting. But he isn’t talking about arresting Federal agents like an online idiot who doesn’t know how anything works.
Pardon me for living in reality.
Strategy and tactics tell us that your idea is not realistic. You need to understand that laws are threats of violence and the last person to speak in any situation is the person holding the biggest gun. The mayor of Chicago cannot out gun the federal government and it’s nonsense to suggest he should try.
I believe in restorative justice. The idea is that criminals should try to restore the wrong that they’ve done.
I don’t pretend to have all the answers. Maybe some people are incorrigible. But people saying to “Put a bullet in his head” are working from the same fascist playbook as he is, and that won’t solve anything.
The United States is a fascist police state and always has been. The people in the replies below are fine with that as long as they get to pick who the government mistreats.
The problem with that is that someday the “wrong” person will be back in charge, and they get to use all the power of the authoritarian state. The only thing to do is to take the power to kill people away from the government entirely.
It is amazing how Americans manage to be so arrogant regardless of reality. Has it ever occurred to you that the US has funded death squads across the world? Trump is pretty par for the course, he’s just terrorizing American cities instead of South American or Middle Eastern.
The trainee, who previously worked as an FBI support specialist in Los Angeles, received a letter — dated Oct. 1 and signed by Patel — claiming he had displayed an improper “political” message in the workplace during his assignment in California under President Joe Biden, according to a copy of the letter shared with MSNBC.
I’m not sure you’ve quite grasped the concept of linear time…
Okay, so this conversation might be a little more productive if you learned to read.
“There are other instances where officers will approach someone who’s at a urinal, the officer will touch himself or will just peer at the person, and if the person — who is there just trying to pee — responds in any way, that person is then arrested or at least charged with lewdness,”
It’s not about “having sex in a public bathroom”, it’s about harassing people to make a quota of arrests.
It’s called “parallel construction”.
The police obtained some evidence illegally and inadmissably, so they pretend they got it somewhere else.
I’ve worked in fast food. There is zero chance someone at that McDonald’s called in a tip like they said.
Why do you trust that article more than this one? Did you see his feet on the seat?
I am fine with a few spiders around, but the detente does not extend to eggsacs.