Those of us who survive this hell will show this to our children, when they're old enough.
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Not many people with empathy are left on Xitter, I suppose.
If you hate your mental health, you can use Nitter to read the replies to that post. Just the most sickening shit imaginable.
Hmmm are there? massive? I mean I know we all use that word lightly but “massive” they are not
34,000 people for Sanders in Denver. Tell me with a straight face that this is a small number of people. "But relatively speaking-" hush. Big number is big.
...but yeah, pretty small compared to the number of people at, say, the Women's March in 2017. I guess a lot of people learned a thing or two about what peaceful demonstrations can meaningfully accomplish against a police state. Still, nothing to sneeze at.
Yes, Americans love rallies… that is not a protest
Absolutely valid point here. The thing is, both Sanders and AOC have built their entire political careers on grassroots organizing, which is happening quietly alongside all the big speeches. Cory Doctorow has a good overview of this.
Sure, I'd much prefer to see spontaneous uprisings, but we've been in this hell for nearly a decade at this point. People are fucking burnt out. If AOC/Sanders is what it takes to bring in fresh blood, then so be it.
have been asking for evidence of these protests myself for the last few weeks and I have not seen anything more than a couple dozen people by the doors of a Gov building… not even big enough for Police to be around
Consider that sharing footage of a protest can put attendees in danger. Lots of emboldened brownshirt types would love to rat you out to the cops or your boss. Lemmy users are probably aware of this, which might be why you the only pics you see are from corporate media - those are already out there and a little traffic on Lemmy won't make it much worse. See my original point about corporate media not covering the protests.
On that note: the people who showed up in 2017 and 2020 probably learnt this too. Maybe they're now taking part in less visible/public actions that would be too dangerous to share indiscriminately? Who knows.
Equality is when everyone dies in the Trump Wars
Fair enough. You can probably tell that I mostly wrote that reply to work through my own despair and apathy.
I'm just personally done with Orwellian imagery. As a faraway threat, the fear it inspires used to motivate me. Now it's no longer a faraway threat - it's right here. Now, after learning about ever-worsening mass surveillance, after seeing popular movements crushed, after years of burnout and despair, I find it only makes me want to curl up and die.
In general, I see a lot of people react this way to what's happening right now. So I try to share what little hope and strength I can muster. Maybe it'll help someone.
There are massive protests all over the US. AOC/Bernie drawing huge crowds. Republicans chanting "tax the rich".
Corporate media won't give it the coverage it deserves, and mainstream social media will bury it with their algorithms. Because they're all owned by the billionaires bowing to Trump.
They want you to feel like nobody's doing anything. Remember that.
I think the assumption is that WW3 will involve nukes, and the collapse of civilization as a result.
While I'm still raining on your parade:
Fun fact: the doctor in question was opposed to the death penalty, and proposed the guillotine thinking he could at least make it more humane. He deeply regretted this action and spent the rest of his life campaigning against it. His family was so ashamed that they changed their surname.
Pretty sure you still need a phone number for an account, though - the usernames are just for sharing your contact with other people.
Most peoples' phone numbers are easily linked to their identity. Which means the government knows who's using Signal.
Usernames are definitely an improvement, but this is a fundamental limitation in Signal's design.
One use case could be mass protests/uprisings, where you have a lot of people congregated in a small area. An increasingly popular strategy among governments these days is to just shut down the entire internet in an agitated region. Bluetooth could keep information flowing between people with only mutual contacts, as they move in and out of range.
Whoa.