I should hope it would be, because those antennas don’t fit in my rack and wouldn’t be appropriate even if they did (because I have separate WAPs distributed across the house via PoE).

Yes, they’re going to do something even if we don’t react. But no, it’s not necessarily martial law. I feel like people aren’t understanding what “plausible” martial law and the Insurrection Act invocation will really mean. It can and will get unimaginably worse, for not just those who choose it, but for millions of innocent people. It’s possible we can’t avoid that, eventually, but the rational choice is certainly to do what we can to avoid it.

No, it’s not necessarily the rational choice. Not if, for example, delaying to act causes us to lose in the long run, e.g. by giving the fascists more time to shift that Overton window slowly enough. In fact, you yourself acknowledge that in another part of your comment: that we have a limited window of opportunity before hypernormalization kicks in, and we’d better not squander it.

More and more I’m thinking we really need a wealth tax. Not because the government needs the money - the government literally makes their own money, they can create as much of it as they want - but because I think a cap on wealth is necessary for social cohesion.

This is literally what the inheritance tax is for, so there’s precedent.

Of course, they piss and moan about that too, but I don’t give a shit and neither should anyone else.

You should probably demand a public retraction from your Republican members of Congress, too. They won’t do it, but at least it’ll annoy their staffers.

I just DDG’d a meme reply to the parent commenter typoing “soviet onion,” LOL

Fucking braindead strawman argument. We’re demanding better Democrats, not third-party losers.

Quit insulting people’s intelligence, pretending we don’t understand game theory.

Biden deliberately appointed a Republican AG who let Trump walk, and thereby brought about the destruction of the country. That, by itself, is immediately disqualifying for being a good president, regardless of whatever else he did.

He’s going to be remembered on par with James Buchanan, at best.

Regular Costco stuff isn’t that much in bulk. To get serious, you gotta go to the Costco Business Center.

LOL

As opposed to fucking what? Supporting women being brutally oppressed by religious fanatics?

WTF is this pro-tyranny spin?

The protests have diminished after the thugs of the Iranian government brutally suppressed them by murdering 200+ protestors.

I don’t give a fuck about how many jackbooted thugs were killed in the protestors’ self-defense.

You must worship Dear Leader or you will be punished.

Like a big neon sign that says “I am a dictator.”

Lucius shouldn’t have that power either! It’s not an issue of being “stable enough;” it’s an issue of anyone having it. Frankly, your argument kinda proves my point.

It’s analogous to a limited hangout. Sure, they acknowledge it’s wrong, but that doesn’t stop them from doing it and they suffer no bad consequences for that choice. Really, what’s the Aesop people are actually going to take from it? The one based on the demonstrably empty words, or the one based on the actions?

Most especially if his real name is revealed and it’s certain that it is the right identity.

“Johnathan Ross,” apparently

“This is wrong” — Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight

Prescient, and also an example of copaganda/how corporate media conditions the public to accept this shit because the “good guy” is the one using it.

Minneapolis ICE shooting updates: State denied access to evidence

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension initially said it was partnering with the FBI to investigate. But state authorities said Thursday they had been notified by the FBI that they would no longer have access to “case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews.”

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Also worth remembering that stories like that go nationwide because they’re unusual. If cops did that on any sort of routine basis it wouldn’t be newsworthy.

Close. Politicians are hellbent on making them invade privacy, using “preventing” crimes before they happen as a pretext.