Just the whole country or is the a specific movement you’re referring to?

Only to avoid the humiliation of being impeached. He waited until they informed him they had the votes, so I don’t think this is the best example.

Large organizations are inefficient. This is extremely obvious yet somehow (probably due to wealth and media dominance) certain factions have made ordinary people think this is a government issue when it’s actually a governance issue.

The solution is to break up these bureaucratic nightmares into smaller pieces that can be subordinated to society rather than rule over them. But no one is really talking about this.

What evidence is there that violent protest works?

Depends on the exact composition but most lavas are going to be way more viscous than honey.

Maybe. He and important members of his coalition have been very supportive of Israel in the past. I don’t think it’s as simple as you say. Some of the isolationism the coming out of his mouth is more myth than reality I think.

Another thought I had is what if he was still writing it?

Good that Assad is gone because fuck that guy but very worrying for AANES/Rojava.

Very surprising. I have the same car and drive mostly on electricity from a trickle charger. I hate gasoline so I probably wouldn’t switch even if it was more expensive, especially since I only drive about once a week, but still. My garage is extra cold too due to my heat pump water heater, so that could make things worse.

We’re not even talking about insulting people. We’re talking about humor that points out the very real fact that men are by a huge margin the main perpetrators of violence against women (and against men too!)

Again, how is that harmful?

Attempts to dodge the question make it clear that you cannot articulate any harm here. Which is one of the things that makes it not bigotry. Go touch grass mate.

No, I’m asking you to explain a specific harm in a specific case which I don’t believe matches any reasonable definition of bigotry.

Is it? Men as a class are privileged. I’m fine with punching up.

Note this does not apply to individuals and certain subsets of men who may be relatively less privileged (gay men, black men, etc.)

Why do you think it’s fucked up? What’s the harm?

All good points I hadn’t considered! However, some people did try to turn it into a math problem which I had to object to at that point, since they were doing it wrong.

Do they? That’s hard to believe but if they did the stats right then feel free to share. How do you even measure the number of encounters?

The people pointing out the women killed by bears vs men stats a few months ago need to understand this as well lol

Like I am fine if you want to meme or dunk on men but once you bring bad stats into it that’s when I get serious.

Yeah discoverability is a huge issue. I feel like tech people often get stuck on the fact that most regular people don’t want to do a ton of work to browse the web, they just want content to come to them. I know people in the fediverse have negative feelings about algorithms (and most that exist today are harmful) but does a transparent, community-managed algorithm have to be a bad thing?

Seems like a lot of people prefer bluesky for whatever reason. I wouldn’t know since I’ve no interest in either.

I think it’s more helpful to identify that the issue is boots on our neck, not who is wearing them. What’s the point of fighting for a new government that’s hardly better than the last?

Even if there’s no clear alternative focused on human liberation today, it’s better to build consciousness so that one can be created than tug of war back and forth between tyrants with different colored flags.

The US has many flaws and these incidents were terrible. But these largely didn’t involve the modern intelligence apparatus we are discussing. We have large numbers of people here on Lemmy actively calling for a socialist revolution but they’re completely safe as long as they follow the law.

Try calling for revolution in China and see how it goes. Leaders of even relatively non-political protest movements or advocates for minority rights are frequently disappeared or executed. In the US, there may be isolated incidents of this nature (typically by local law enforcement) but largely social critics are free to organize legal resistance to the state without repression.

Of course, there are reasons to worry we might be headed in that direction. All the more reason to organize and resist while you still can.

To be clear, I don’t ascribe these actions to communism. China is not communist by any reasonable definition. I ascribe these actions to authoritarianism. While the US is somewhat authoritarian, it is less so than China (at least within its borders—foreign policy is a different can of worms).