It would be like the one upside of a TBI.

But really, due where I was in life when I played it and how much it helped me process things, I’m not sure I would give up the experience I already had.

Exactly. I think what I see on lemmy is a great deal of misunderstanding regarding where the American population is at right now. Lemmy has, on average, a far higher level of political engagement than the average American and there is a greater representation of activists on this platform. The American public is simply not at the ‘let’s improvise a mass work-stoppage’ stage. We just aren’t where we need to be to topple a fascist regime.

A primary benefit to these large protests is to drive political engagement and remove perceived barriers to activism. That is how we move things from ‘useless protests’ to ‘impactful resistance’. You have to get more of the public to where we are already at, even if it is frustrating to wait for all these people to catch up.

For something so pointless Mike Johnson and the usual stooges seem to be spending a lot of time talking about the upcoming protests using inflammatory rhetoric. One would think they might not bother if what you say were true.

Quite a lot for online friends and gaming. For irl friends, it’s more sporadic.

Abolitionists were definitely woke in that they recognized and fought against a systemic injustice. Not everyone in the North was an abolitionist, but the political struggle naturally defined the war.

They did lose the Civil War due to woke.

Ah yes, extortion. I hear that works well.

Of course a pest control salesman would look at natural pest control as a pest.

And if nobody takes the bait, the administration just declares that they’ve saved Portland and it’s peaceful there now, you’re welcome.

SMS/MMS and the PSTN are completely compromised by multiple governments. Not saying that makes smartphones any better, just be aware.

Such a remarkable person. Godspeed, Dr. Goodall.

Wagging the dog like every conservative president, really. Something something drugs or whatever reason we are giving for murdering civilians in the Caribbean.

I ended up cracking my copy of it (which was pirated anyway) and gave myself a ton of money at the start as well. Fun game for kid me, not really a classic.

I also cracked SimCity and 688 Attack Sub but I had legit copies of those, I just hated keeping track of an extra piece of paper to play them.

I hate that all these are legitimate possibilities. “We’re doing a coup, so you will all be expected to do your part.”

Hegseth is a media talking head. He wants spectacle to garner viewership, so a dramatic in-person meeting would be the way he would do it.

Telling them we are invading Venezuela probably.

That is true, the Nazi’s didn’t go after sexual minorities until 1934, but persecutions began for socialists, communists and sexual minorities (as their supporters were largely overlapped) years before that. I mostly have a burr in my britches over Niemöller leaving out other victims of the holocaust like the Roma and what today would be called LBGT+ people. But it’s not a competition, the poem’s point stands that the Nazis come for everyone eventually because fascist ideology is intrinsically corrosive - it needs a constant threat to justify it’s ever-consuming need for power.

It really was a twofer to paint both with the brush of sexual immorality. Weimar Germany was the center of a sexual reform movement that promoted birth control for women, equal rights for both sexes, acceptance of sexual minorities, legalization and regulation of sex work and more. It was really ahead of its time.

Then the Nazis came along and found common ground with the conservative religious groups to demonize and then victimize everyone involved.

It’s just… I know history doesn’t repeat itself, but goddamn does it rhyme.

This was already in motion before the assassination. Kirk was literally in the process of claiming trans people are dangerous killers when he was murdered. The regime is just taking advantage of the assassination to accelerate a plan they were working on.

They actually went after trans people first last time as well.