Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Any recommended pixelfed instances out there? Cooperatively run, if possible.

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"When you create a political culture that is incapable of hearing criticisms, that is going to make you really, really bad at going after the voters that you need." ~Ash Sarkar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKa9Y-6KWE

Donald Trump, an anti-press extremist obsessed with punishing journalists and news outlets who criticize him, has won the presidency of the United States.

Lawmakers and President Biden must act before it’s too late.

Read our full statement: https://freedom.press/issues/limit-trumps-power-to-destroy-the-press-before-its-too-late/

@lwriemen I'm sorry, but if you willingly or coercively voted for Trump and you're not already rich, you will have to watch out.

Shomari Figures was elected in Alabama's second congressional district. Because this district is new there was some worry that turnout would be low and there was a massive campaign to let people know that their ballot might be different than expected and that their representatives weren't the same familiar faces. That campaign seems to have worked! Figures will be the first Black person to hold the position since 1832!

North Carolina isn't all bad news! Josh Stein, a Democrat, became their first Jewish governor after defeating lieutenant governor Mark Robinson, a literal Nazi. Not much is disqualifying these days, but we can feel good knowing that Robinson won't see the inside of the governors mansion!

It's important to note that California voters said no to a ballot measure banning slavery.

Seriously.

Any other countries want a cartoonist?

The lesson here is that the Democrats need to stop being Republican-lite if they actually want to win a national election. They won't, of course, because the reality is that the party leadership is more than content to pass the office back and forth between them and the Republicans. US political parties compete not for voters, but for donors, and losing an election can bring in the donations just as well as winning an election (often better).

And some of you are going to start talking about not wanting to consent or be complicit in the horrors of the next administration. There will be horrors. I agree. But voting isn’t a pledge of loyalty. You already don’t believe that the U.S. is a democracy, you already don’t believe that they particularly care about your consent or are in need of your complicity. I know the Liberals like to attach moral baggage to voting. But why would we, as anarchists, accept that? All that talk about “earning” and “deserving” your vote, about the patriotism of participating in the process, about democracy … fuck it. Your vote isn’t any of that. It’s just a thing you can do to maybe make the world slightly better. It costs you practically nothing. At the end of the day those in power are more than happy to take abstention at the polls to mean that you’re basically fine with whatever. Voting is only being complicit if it’s the only thing you do; what matters are the other 364 days.

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#uspol #voting #anarchism

You know, fuck this, stream of consciousness coming up. Mute/whatever as you see fit.

Trump didn’t win this election. Kamala lost it. The Democrats lost it. Neoliberalism lost it.

Turns out if you’re on team moderate social injustice and your opponent is team total social injustice, you’re playing the social injustice game with the people who wrote the damn book. Who did you think was going to fucking win?

What I’m trying to say is this: Fuck. Neoliberals. (1/13)

Georgia Supreme Court does the Republicans who appointed them a big favor. This is blatant.

https://www.ajc.com/politics/cobb-county-absentee-ballots-must-be-returned-by-election-day-georgia-supreme-court-rules/7DHUDZ4IARGOLDHYPR53AI7PYU/

Software patents are a uniquely bad fit for patent protection. And they enable schemes like this one. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/judges-investigation-patent-troll-ip-edge-results-criminal-referrals

Privacy experts are shocked and astounded Inland Revenue had no idea it had breached the privacy of more than a quarter of a million taxpayers. Reporter Phil Pennington spoke to Guyon Espiner.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018962903/privacy-experts-shocked-ird-had-no-idea-it-breached-privacy

Some self-care tips for today. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/11/01/election-anxiety-remedies/

I voted today in Alabama. This often feels like a classic Quixotic windmill-tilt and in terms of the electoral college it almost definitely is. On the other hand, what if on this one day the women of Alabama came together and ratfucked the Republican party so hard that it led to the most glorious upset of all glorious upsets? I'd like to say I was part of that.

The windmill almost never falls, but it's worth trying to topple and feels really fucking great when it does.