lemonaz

Same. I was only pointing out that over a human lifetime, it adds up: a total of $1m would be equivalent to living 80 years (rough average lifespan) on $12.5k a year. It’s not a lot.

Allegedly! The evidence is slim. It’s reasonable to assume the killer is still out there…

Alas, I think they found a new one in nihilistic young men who want to burn it all down.

For your whole life, $1m is cutting it close — I think for the entirety of a good life in a country like the US or Western Europe, $10m is plentiful. $10m for your whole life, with current cost of living. Anything beyond that should be taxed to oblivion.

I’m stealing this.

I completely agree.

Last I checked, in all of those, the resistance tried to save as many people as they could, and didn’t think empathy was weakness.

But don’t take too long otherwise people will forget and will fall prey to new fascist propaganda alleging that you’re “censoring free speech” or “rewriting history”.

Exactly. That ratchet works on power.

You’re right but I wasn’t going for a “dentist = political party” analogy. More like a “get your teeth taken care of = keep power in check through public pressure” analogy (to be clear, only voting doesn’t count as pressure) .

It’s definitely my point! That’s exactly why I used that analogy :)

We should tend to our teeth, our environment and our political environment as well — and they will, as you say, take care of us. The “cavities” in American politics started waaaay before Trump. Trump is when they reached the nerve. (I hope I said that correctly, ESL here.)

Bullying power in general as well. Progressives have been too soft on liberals too and always let them run the show. But the reality is it’s always harder to rally people when things seem to be going ok and the crisis is muffled rather than blatantly obvious. Kinda how we never go to the dentist when nothing hurts even though we really shouldn’t wait until it does. Anyway, hope something meaningful comes of this resistance because this fascist stage is still a stage of neoliberalism, like that’s where the root cause is.

Why not both?

They been sayin too, for 900 pages and hours of videos.

Your average MAGA supporter thinks that. These guys are literal psychopaths.

Ideally they’d take over the Dem party since it would solve multiple problems simultaneously: a relevant progressive party + existing infrastructure + no neoliberal faux-progressive party that would split their vote

Fair enough. In that case, let me amend my prescription:

Whether or not it’s the same project is immaterial — it’s about redundancy of the data, hosting it in multiple countries, in such a way that if one country turns authoritarian and wants to burn it down, they’ll be backed up in 10 other countries. The community as well should be international and redundant in a way that allows for responsibilities to shift if push comes to shove.

Ultimately it’s about not being vulnerable to one country having one bad day.

Unless you intend to host your replacement on the moon.

No, just countries that don’t want to destroy IA/Wikipedia. If there’s none of them left, then we’ll have much bigger problems.

Honestly, if they and people in government had done the bare minimum to uphold the law, much of this would not have happened. This administration has been working in legal gray areas since day one. I recently learned of the phrase “state of exception” and it fits a lot of what they’re doing and how they’re doing it.

I don’t have “the resistance” in the room with me right now to ask them what they do or don’t know. But you seem to know, since you’re being very critical that they’re not doing the things you want them to do, without saying what they are — so I’m asking you what you personally think they should do rather than what they shouldn’t.

IMO it’s not that blue check equals credibility, but rather it equals that you are who you say you are. This is a good thing particularly when it comes to public figures/officials — not for their sake, mind you, but for the sake of other people who may see a tweet from them. If the checkmark is there, then it’s them. If not, then it’s an impersonator. Right now it’s difficult to tell.

Tl;dr: it doesn’t make what they say real, it just makes them real.