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weilawei

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People are people are people.

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GottaLaff, to random
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No pay wall.

"Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups

After lying low for years in the aftermath of January 6, exclusive reporting shows, militia extremist groups and profiles have been quietly reorganizing and ramping up recruitment and rhetoric on Facebook." https://www.wired.com/story/extremist-militias-are-coordinating-on-facebook/?bxid=5be677284b2ef40b1e6d155f&cndid=42353131&esrc=bx_multi1st_dailyext&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_050224

weilawei,
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@GottaLaff The paywall loads after a few seconds. Dark pattern on their part.

I understand why it wouldn't look like that on yours (presumably to do with the URL parameters and cookies you have set in your browser and email client), but it is in fact paywalled.

Archive.is link:

https://archive.is/UJHma

weilawei, to random
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I think we should ship our monarchists to a "safe third country" like Britain.

Susan_Larson_TN, to Women
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weilawei,
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@Susan_Larson_TN Dude is a flight risk who tried to leave the country and they grant bail?!

"Mr. Rundo’s use of fake documents and other deceptive tactics while attempting to travel internationally demonstrate that, in practical terms, he was trying to evade prosecution and is willing to leave the country to maintain his freedom."

weilawei, to random
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The "but not all Boeing aircraft" person: tell me you don't know the first thing about manufacturing without telling me you don't know the first thing about manufacturing.

When a company acts like this, it's from the top-down. It gets into -every- product, because this is a cultural issue driven by the owners and managers.

weilawei, to random
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Well, how long before we get all of our doors kicked in for criticizing the genocide?

They're making it officially personal, by making it a law that you have to support genocide now (between your taxes and not being allowed to protest it).

samhainnight, to random
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Looking at all the universities sending cops to brutalize protesting students, I wonder how many of the universities realize that the students are paying them to do a job (ie to educate them), not paying them to be harassed and arrested.
Do you have to pay your student loan if you can’t attend class because your university arrested you for spurious reasons?

weilawei,
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@samhainnight I'm hoping we see lawsuits, lots of lawsuits.

weilawei, to random
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"At the same time, our movements are kept safe through their escalation. If, following a raid on an encampment and arrests, students willfully go home, the administration will see that their strategy of repression is working and will double down on their violence."

https://itsgoingdown.org/we-dont-need-safety-we-need-to-escalate/

weilawei, to random
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Although the actual shooting will be one-sided, with the cops and freelance fascists doing the ambushing,

This chalk talk on reactions to being ambushed and what to do about it still apply.

Think about this as it applies to kettles. WRT more advanced strategies like kettling back, that gets touched on (analogously) toward the end.

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=BpYbT4orFfs&t=9s

weilawei,
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The police operate on the assumption that they'll be the surrounding enclosing aggressors, but things get real interesting when that's not the case.

"As our comrades from Within Our Lifetime wrote, “Enough with de-escalation trainings; Where are the escalation trainings!” Escalate from mass rallies to mass blockades of weapons companies, from encampments to building occupations, from getting kettled by the police to kettling them back."

Kettling back, see parent post.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/flood-the-gates-escalate/

weilawei, to random
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When I see articles recommending to only use "-Wall -Werror -Wfatal-errors" for "the initial phase of development", I am lead to believe that those people write sloppy code and just don't want to be told about it.

One thing about dependencies: I won't take a dependency on a library that produces a warning.

No warnings, no errors. There are ways to address turning off a single warning in a truly exceptional case, but that should be rare and raise red flags.

weilawei, to random
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I found another one to block:

https://toot.io/@synlogic/112367188607203058

weilawei,
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@oblomov What a piece of work, billing themself as "pro-democracy".

Some of the most egregious seem to have a profile that's basically just copied a bunch of slogans and words from actual leftists, and then they proceed to push faaaar right view points.

weilawei, to random
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Why is it that politicians gotta take all the nice words like, "freedom" and ruin them by using them exactly backwards?

"Standing behind a sign that says “Freedom Month,” Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday blasted efforts to pass a constitutional amendment in the Sunshine State to make recreational use of marijuana legal. DeSantis also denounced efforts to pass a ballot initiative that would make abortion legal in his state."

gratefuldread, to random
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DeSantis declares NYC 'reeks' of pot amid Florida’s battle for legalization and 2024 voters https://www.alternet.org/desantis-nyc-florida/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon via Alternet.org

weilawei,
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@gratefuldread Some of us see that as a feature, not a bug.

weilawei, to random
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As a wise person once said, these people have names and addresses.

Maybe protests should start at the houses of top level fascists from now on.

weilawei, to random
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"At least two Texas communities along the U.S.-Mexico border have purchased a product called “TraffiCatch,” which collects the unique wireless and Bluetooth signals emitted by nearly all modern electronics to identify devices and track their movements.

“TraffiCatch is unique for the following reasons: ability to detect in-vehicle wireless signals [and] merge such signals with the vehicle license plate,”"

Make. It. Illegal.

Flatly illegal, no loopholes, no exceptions.

weilawei,
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@GustavinoBevilacqua Even if it could be used for that, the problem lies with giving our police access to any technology more deadly than a rubber band.

The surveillance state is a much larger problem than speeding cars; and the crimes of the state against peoples' rights are more severe, like tracking a pregnant person going out of state for an abortion in order to arrest them and charge them with murder.

weilawei, to random
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"The police action against protesters comes exactly 58 years, to the day, after Columbia called in NYPD to break up a similar occupation of Hamilton Hall in protest of the Vietnam War. The university has since denounced its own decision to call in police at that time, which resulted in over 700 arrests."

But tonight they commit state violence so they can sell a class on how awful they were and then grade new students before beating them.

weilawei, to random
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The White House is calling it, "not a peaceful protest", and I agree, but it's the cops doing the rioting

fkamiah17, to USpolitics
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reek of desperation intensifies

weilawei,
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@fkamiah17 Wow yeah... saying it includes Tylenol is awfully misleading, since most Tylenol here contains nothing scheduled whatsoever in any way (they're alluding to the RX variation with codeine, but that's pretty messed up).

weilawei,
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@fkamiah17 It's legal to have up to 1 oz on your person here, so that's the practical limit for buying at a time. Then you have to take it home and go back to buy more. Limit is 10oz at home or up to 6 plants (cannot be publicly visible).

As for paracetamol/acetaom, yeah, you can buy as much as you want in giant bottles. Completely unrestricted.

weilawei,
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@fkamiah17 In old money? I'm not quite sure I follow. (Pounds?)

weilawei, to random
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Are they doing war crimes yet?

Are they bad enough to stop giving them weapons?

"Palestinians thought they heard women and children screaming for help. ⁣⁣
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But they say it was an Israeli drone playing the sound to lure people outside so it could kill them.⁣"

https://www.instagram.com/p/C54NvBUx3k6/

Video shows drones hovering in the air. Subtitle reads, "A quadcopter [drone] is releasing children's voices right now from Nuseirat camp, just like you're hearing. God is sufficient and the best to rely on. Yesterday, a young man was martyred. Poor guy went to see what the sound was in a school. Of course he was sniped." Scene changes to show a street, "Palestinians say Israeli forces used the sounds to target people in the Nuseirat refugee camp." Scene changes to show a young boy in a white tshirt with gold lettering on it, "LAMBRGN". Subtitle reads, "This person went outside when he heard a woman screaming for help." "It was 1:30 at night. Suddenly we heard a woman shouting in the middle of the street. "Help!" with a baby also asking for help. The voice was coming from outside of the house door. It was a quadcopter with four propellers. [The quadcopter] headed towards the tents broadcasting the same crying. We called my cousin in the tents and told him, "Don't fall for it. It's just a sound system." Abu Anas al-Shahrour, [from this] area, they shot him in the head." Scene changes, showing a hovering drone, subtitle reads, "Residents also said drones played sounds of gunfire, explosions and the movement of military vehicles. They did this late at night when electricity and communications are often cut off. ... Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said ... use of drones amounts to psychological torture. ... Israel's attacks have killed over 33,800 Palestinians since October."

weilawei, to random
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Well, that was a surprisingly fascist take. Blocked I guess..

The police don't need you to apologize for them putting snipers on the roof to intimidate students. Don't carry water for the fascists.

weilawei,
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I'm actually slightly bothered, because someone I had pegged as a decided ally just went full fascist apologist, apparently unprompted.

I can't stress this enough. The police have the money, the guns, and the politicians. They are there to intimidate students. There won't be any of those Uvalde-ass cops stepping up to save any students if a RWNJ wants to cause trouble.

What do cops do? They protect people who sought out a protester to murder, like Rittenhouse did. That's what cops do.

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