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7 days agoHe also has a minimal existing cult following to build popularity off of, unlike Trump, who has people like this:
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I also recommend Progressive Victory!
They were the ones who initially got me to phonebank for Zohran, and they’ve got good communities of people who can help you out in a number of different ways.
You CAN make a difference if you get involved on a local level and get active in your community.
And this is the VERY key part. Local organizing almost always makes larger impacts, because most people, to be perfectly honest, don’t give a shit about any form of organizing in their local community. It’s easier to cast a ballot for a federal candidate, “chip in” (as all political fundraising emails love to overuse so fucking much while setting the default for every donation to like $50 or some bullshit after asking 20 times a week) a few bucks, and be done with it, than it is to walk down to every house over a few block radius and have a chat with any person who answers the door about a local candidate or policy.
To use Zohran as an example, he’s already gotten hundreds of thousands of votes, but as of one of his campaign’s emails yesterday, got just 1,000 people to canvass today (a day they were trying to break the record for most doors knocked in a single day, which is meant to attract a large swath of anyone who wants to canvass for him).
One person in a thousand canvassing for him is infinitely more impactful to the end result than one person voting by ballot.
“b-b-but you don’t understand! My system wouldn’t publicize the data and would only keep it visible to a small group of… trusted employees, who could only see it with a court order! It’s only a coincidence the people in charge of that team are also being paid by me!”
If there’s any one group of people in our society I’d support having always-on cameras, (like Larry Ellison, soon to be part owner of TikTok claims all people should have) it would be law enforcement agents.
You do not get to wield that much power over people without personal sacrifice.
“It’s a violation of my privacy!”- you’re on the job and have the power to ruin or even end someone’s life. Deal with it. Privacy for the governed, not for the wielders of government power.
Navidrome’s alright, Jellyfin has, in my opinion, a bit of a better UI, but not by a huge amount, and it’s handled my metadata a bit better.
He was shot in the neck, not the head, but he did go limp right after being shot. His brain would have still been intact though, so he would have at least had a moment to know what had happened, but I don’t know if he was actually conscious later or if that had completely stopped his brain from receiving blood flow/oxygen.
REST IN PISS 🫡🇺🇸🦅🗽💥
The right loves to use violence, or threats of violence, as a cudgel against their enemies. A lot of their messaging relies on them seeming strong and powerful. For example, why do you think every time trump generates an AI image of himself, he’s always jacked as hell?
Just like how when neo-Nazi Richard Spencer was punched in the face, he later said he was afraid to go out in public and decided not to go harass people at a women’s march he had been planning to go to, someone like Charlie Kirk getting shot can prevent his messaging from spreading as much going forward.
If he lives, he’ll be afraid to do as many public appearances, and will probably need to spend a lot more money on private security, stay further away from crowds, and not be able to personally greet people up close.
If he dies, other conservative commentators might fear the same fate happening to them, and could also face similar effects as a result.
Trump’s shooting was more of a special case, because he has a significant cult of personality, so it was very easy to make him a martyr. But look at him now, always behind bulletproof glass at speeches, looking cowardly by comparison, and he’s been justifiably mocked for it time and time again. Even being shot and turned into a martyr can’t prevent the ridicule you’ll get from looking like a pathetic, weak crony attempting to look like a strongman.
Sometimes words are a form of violence.
Especially in his case. Not only is he a driving force that substantially helped Trump get elected, but he spread COVID misinformation that likely got people killed, helped anti-abortion bills pass (he’s even against abortion in cases of rape), he’s a climate denialist that directly supports expanding fossil fuel expansion at the expense of the planet, and has promoted the great replacement theory, among so many other disgusting things.
He broadcasts this to an audience of millions of people, some of which may take radical actions of their own as a result of his statements. The amount of harm he’s caused for so many innocent people is infinitely larger than the harm just caused to him, or even his wife and kids as a result of this shooting.
100 million is still a lot though.
To be fair, the article does mention that he’s considering using that as a way to fund his current startup if it ever needs a cash injection, rather than turning straight to more VCs, which is probably good in the long run in terms of reducing how much the company could have to cater toward predatory investors over customers, so I’d consider at least part of his remaining wealth just a means to fund a separate venture from his private life, but still, he probably does have more than enough even after that.
Also, I’d never heard of the Russian Nobleman paradox before, but I looked it up and it seems interesting. Thanks for sharing it.
Even ICE’s own website states this. They quite literally define themselves as terrorists if you compare their actions to their words.
You mean it’s skipping some of the entries in the actual playlist, or it’s just only getting the first x entries and then stopping?
I haven’t personally found a solution to random skipping to that other than allowing yt-dlp to use your account credentials/cookie to act as though it’s a signed-in user. YouTube is randomly deciding to block either some or all download attempts from non-signed-in clients, like yt-dlp.
If it’s just stopping after x number of videos, I have absolutely no clue.
And it wasn’t even Signal, an actually encrypted platform this time.
It was SMS & MMS. As in, the known to be very low security, non-encrypted protocols used for basic texting.
My father often bikes up to Canada, which means crossing the border. (obviously)
Normally, there’s a long line of cars, and a bit of a wait.
There wasn’t a single person in front of him when he got there, and just 2 cars waiting when he came back.
Maybe it’s just me, but seeing regular ass people who were previously entirely disinterested in politics start marching in the street, actively educating themselves about the political landscape, and even seeing some break off into actual blockades of ICE facilities gives me a lot more hope than seeing people do nothing in the first place.
You have to remember, the average person mostly just cares about their family and personal financial circumstances, doesn’t take risks, and just reposts platitudes on facebook from time to time.
This is an improvement from the status quo, and any progress toward a better direction is good. I guarantee you, you will see many more people engaging in concrete actions as time goes on, because these sorts of protests help spur people into further action. Hell, we’ve already seen that happening.
These protests are gateways to concrete actions, not something that replaces them.
That’s why there needs to be a clear line that people know exists between performative protest and concrete protest.
For anyone confused:
Performative protests, like the No Kings protests, serve to:
- Get people energized to either take concrete action or donate/join organizations that can
- Reduce feelings of hopelessness/despair
- Make people more aware who were previously not following the news much if all
Concrete protests actually delay or stop the bad thing in question (e.g. blocking exits to ICE facilities)
A lot of people are hoping No Kings and similar protests will stop Trump. They won’t. Of course they won’t. But you can bet there’s a lot more people donating to charities that either legally fight the administration’s actions, or disrupt fascist policies on the ground, and a lot of people end up breaking off from these more liberal protests to later go to more concrete ones.
They’re not worthless, but nothing beats direct, concrete action.
https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/dont-expect-a-concrete-outcome-from-a-symbolic-action
Because the assumption is that the president won’t be a fucking dumbass, and will need to utilize the emergency powers immediately, because of an actual imminent threat they can’t wait around for approval for.
I’ve got context.
That area is a parking lot by the ICE facility. So it doesn’t appear to just be any old photo of a man crying in a parking lot. Both the color and density of the bricks, distance of the grass, color of the parking lines, and placement of the door, which I initially was led to believe was a pole based on the angle, are all a match, though whatever’s partially obscuring the second photo in the original post is something that was likely added later on, as the most recent street view photos are from about 3-4 months ago, give or take.
Both reverse image searches on the attached photos, and facial recognition scans via PimEyes of his face turn up no results.
I was able to find two additional photos of him from this post on Bluesky, one from behind talking to officers, and another of him sitting on the ground but with a different angle of his face visible.
I found an additional photo from what appears to be the same poster on Facebook this time, showing more of his face. Still no facial rec match, though. (PimEyes doesn’t search social media for privacy reasons though, so there’s a chance it’s just missing him on there)
The org that seems to have the largest swath of the photos, and initially did the reporting, is Humanizing Through Story, who’s mission is to capture documentary-style photos of immigrants and refugees in an attempt to humanize them.
Their site links to an Instagram post by their account. That post claims that “This is what was reported to me by a community member who offered aid and resources to him on site.”
So to wrap that all up: