Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@eff I try to only have productive conversations on social media, but that only seems to occur amongst like minded people. This isn't a new phenomenon. For all the talk of increasing polarization, the same was true back in the days of Usenet. Anonymity makes it easy to be a jerk, but when you talk within a community, your username becomes your source of regard.

Unite Here Is 85% Unemployed and Still Fighting Like Hell https://inthesetimes.com/article/unite-here-union-unemployed-workers-biden-campaign-door-knocking-canvassing

A New Crisis Hotline Could Serve As an Alternative to Policing in Chicago https://inthesetimes.com/article/crisis-hotline-defund-police-chicago-socialist-black-lives-matter

False Claims of Rampant Voter Fraud Draw From a Well-worn Racist Playbook https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-gops-old-refrain-voter-fraud

@LeoSammallahti https://chomsky.info/20170202

Search for "Take pandemics"

Warnings of the next outbreak were present after the "bird-flu" outbreak, and the government did take action.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-national-security-council-149285

@LeoSammallahti The bottom line is that Gates needs a profit motive to take action. He isn't a philanthropist, like the media claims, just a disaster capitalist. His pandemic warnings were driven by a desire to increase his wealth, otherwise he would've undertaken the funding he was asking for.

Maybe the reason no other "leaders" spoke out was they couldn't come up with a way to profit from it.

@LeoSammallahti At Gates wealth level, he can make governments listen. (At least in the USA, our politicians are buyable and not that expensive. Gates knows that from the Microsoft antitrust trial.) He could start manufacturing of PPE and respirators. He could fund more research into the viruses.

@LeoSammallahti On Gates...if he knew, given his financial resources, why didn't he take action?

@LeoSammallahti https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/scientists-predicted-coronavirus-pandemic/613003/

I found many hits in a web search.

We're at war with our government now.

Bill Barr reportedly suggested bringing sedition charges against protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/16/bill-barr-sedition-charges-protests

The EPA Responded to a Respiratory Virus by Relaxing Pollution Controls - Major polluters were deemed 'essential.' Under EPA policy, environmental and safety inspectors were not. https://inthesetimes.com/article/epa-pandemic-environmental-pollution-regulation-enforcement-rollback

Healthcare Workers Are Leading the Largest Strike Ever at the University of Illinois-Chicago https://inthesetimes.com/article/healthcare-workers-strike-university-illinois-chicago