The people in charge dislike Antifa because people who align under that label oppose those in power.

I hesitate to use the argument “‘Antifa’ means ‘anti-fascist’ therefore if you don’t like Antifa you are necessarily fascist”–not because I don’t believe it’s true, but because I believe it’s more correlation. The “National Socialist” party was not as its name purports, nor do many of the “Protect the children” laws actually do what they say on the tin; therefore a deeper inspection on acts, means, motives, and results is warranted over a mere “literal definition of the name.”

Context

Disney allegedly lost 1.7 million customers after suspending Jimmy Kimmel. He was very quickly reinstated.

It’s not that boycotts don’t work, it’s more that they require a critical mass to work and that can be hard to achieve.

Also hardware continues to improve at a rate fast enough that we can just let it chug through software issues for a long time without significant perceived issues.

They are optimists, oblivious, fighters, or have found peace.

So you just missed the part where not all parties are likely to adopt burdensome practices if they can get away with it? What happens if two parties decide not to dump industrial waste in the drinking water and a third party who’s further upstream realizes that dumping industrial waste in the drinking water doesn’t hurt them, is easy to dispose of in that way, only impacts parties they don’t have agreements with downstream, and they just don’t care?

There is benefit in centralization in ensuring standards (such as rail gauge, radio frequency bands, V AC, flight paths, what side of the road you drive on, cohesion of communication symbols, baud rates, pollution mitigation, food quality, etc) and resolving inter communal conflicts, and facilitating complex research and development that would otherwise be unachievable by a smaller group alone (like pharma or clean energy research).

While standards can arise naturally across disparate small groups (such as US rail gauge) a central body can expedite adoption, and enforce standards that are unlikely to arise of their own volition (such as pollution mitigation, and food quality).

That’s not to say we ought to exclusively have a monolithic centralized control structure, but that there should be something to help the small groups work together and do what they otherwise couldn’t.

That would be the first proposal:

replace the government by force

I agree, how do you propose we do that? In my comment you just replied to I laid out two options–did you have a third?

Current US government is shutdown down because the two sides can’t come to an agreement on a budget to include if health care protections should be stripped from some of the most vulnerable.

The people engaged in that decision are there because they were chosen in elections. Trump is president because he was chosen in an election. SCOTUS is stacked with Republican justices because the people that get to pick them were put there in elections.

America still has elections and though the choices may not be great the results are not (yet) predetermined; one of those options is undeniably better. My next election I get to vote on if all children in public school should have access to food.

Yeah, the electoral system is deeply flawed but there’s really only two ways to change it–replace the government by force or replace the government by electing people willing to push reforms in enough numbers to do something about it. It’s the system we find ourselves in and participation is not an endorsement, but a means to an end.

It should never be “just Vote,” but instead “Vote and.” If you can spend hours at protests, feeding those in need, hosting theory book clubs, studying, engaging in activism, etc then you can take 1 hour a year to vote.

Charitably? Upscale a thumbnail.

Practically? Almost no reason.

Technically? I work on document viewers and there are times I need to inspect rendering times for “large files.” Being able to produce files of arbitrary size is beneficial for troubleshooting, but falls short of actual customer docs.

I don’t know if you’re involved in activism at all, but I heard some advice from an old Food Not Bombs head. Don’t trust the person that is always available, always has a car, or is down for anything. This is especially true if they are new or always wear bland or name brand clothing.

I guess more generally, don’t trust people that seem like they really want to be trusted.

Regarding surveillance online, yeah, there’s absolutely no privacy anywhere and there’s nothing you can do, so just be boring.

There’s a significant number of them in my mutual aid group. You could try to see if there’s an existing group in your area-if you are having trouble finding one you could help out at a food kitchen for a while and keep an eye on who comes to donate food regularly or chart with other volunteers about other groups they may be a part of. You could also see if there’s a DSA (or similar for your country) chapter and ask some of them if they know any other groups that might be more in line with what you’re looking for.

At least in my mutual aid group a lot of people volunteer at multiple orgs from food kitchens, animal shelters, clothing upcyclers, bike repair, etc.

You could also try to arrange a book club for something like Dean Spade’s “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next).”

He also used an AI video to hide his location.

Yeah, all it takes is for others in power to either not despise them or recognize that connecting with them anyway allows continued execution of their power.

The rest will fall in line with the right motivation.

I had to put my Prusa i3 mk3s+ in storage for about a year when I was looking for a bigger place. I tucked it under the couch’s cushions when I moved from the east coast to the Rockies, and literally only had to blow the dust off the build plate before I was able to print again.

I can’t imagine most other printers going through that without needing at least a recalibration or leveling.

That reason alone will have me strongly considering Prusa when looking for my next printer.

With the rapid rise in accessible media tuned to everyone’s personal preference there’s not really a single artist that is capturing attention across the board, but that doesn’t mean there’s not protest bangers from several artists:

• Dropkick Murphys
• Grandson
• Durry
• Otep

I’m quite fond of my spouse and our pet cat.

I don’t know if all of these are scandals, but certainly bad behavior:

1. Banned interracial dating until 1999 and kind of held the position that they were right to do so until 2008.
2. Kicked out a lot of people for being gay, but the girls handing out blowies were fine since they repented.
3. Kicked out some dude for watching Glee (to be fair he was a bit of a trouble maker and this was the straw that broke the camel’s back)
4. Smoke bombs in the dorm at 2am
5. Installed Chuck Phelps on their board which helped spark an independent investigation about the school’s response to accusations of sexual assault. The school cancelled the investigation prior to release of the findings but eventually reversed that decision after a lot of pressure. The investigation found that the school would blame victims, accusing them of bitterness and breaking up their families by reporting incidents to the police.

• The reason Chuck Phelps kicked this thing off is because a member of his church, Ernest Willis, raped an underage age girl (I will call her V for victim, but her name is public if you care to find it). V was kicked out of the church’s highschool (not my school, btw) and forced to stand in front of the congregation and publicly apologize for her part in being raped. Despite V’s wishes to see through her pregnancy while living with her grandparents Chuck Phelps worked with V’s parents to send her to a pastor friend of his in Colorado where she was instructed not to tell anyone about the circumstances of her pregnancy. Chuck Phelps then sent out a survey to a number of religious families in an attempt to help V find an adopted home for her child. That’s fine except the survey was sort of a grade on the potential new families religiousness, so V’s child was basically raised in the same manufactured hell that lead to her situation.

6. Girl was repeatedly raped by her pastor grandfather. When he was eventually arrested her pastor father gladly continued the family tradition.
7. Kid converted to Christianity and realizing his abuse of prescription pills was a sin he turned himself in and asked for help. He was expelled immediately for abusing drugs.
8. Kid died of cancer and was heralded as a saint. Another girl was strangled to death by her boyfriend in the back seat of his car. Her tomb was vandalized by his friends after he was arrested. The school never acknowledged her death. Cancer gets you multiple chapel services and a day off to go to funerals and vigils, but murder gets you ignored.

• That same girl had some problems with drugs in the past and had served a stint in juvi for a possession charge, but she had really turned her life around and was an absolute delight to everyone who knew her. She had the best laugh and I’m glad we got to be friends. If there’s a heaven I’m sure she’s smiling playing the same guitar she got in trouble for owning. Also writing this made me miss her more. Fuck that shit. EDIT: Apparently her mother started a push to revisit domestic violence legislation and justice and has been working with a women’s shelter to this day to try and prevent anyone else suffering as her daughter did. Props to her mom and if you find yourself in a dangerous situation please seek help. There are resources for you, many anonymous. And if you’re in a situation to donate or help others, just do it.

9. My cousin got expelled . . . twice . . . for “smoking weed. Like A LOT of weed!”

Then I changed schools.

1. Pedos in the administration
2. Girl got run over while J-Walking and died not too long after
3. Someone’s throat was randomly slit open on the main walkway as part of a gang initiation
4. Group of students were holding a protest which involved stepping on the flag of the United States. A self righteous attention seeker who had been formerly dis-honorably discharged from the military stole their flag and was making statements about how no-one should ever disrespect the flag. In response there was a minor black panthers movement and a student published a manifesto about how all people are children of Africa therefore we are all Africans and black people need to rise up and start killing all white people and that we was going to bring a gun to school on a certain day. He brought a gun that day, but because he had the foresight to broadcast his plans in a very public manifesto the police had their eye on him. He ended up abandoning his bag with a gun once he noticed the police and fled across state lines. He was caught within a week (I think he was turned in by one of his friends).