Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I'll add that prob the single most politically impactful event of my life was the 2016 Alaska democratic caucus in my rural town of 3K people (which now votes trump 2-1). The line to caucus for bernie was out the door and down the stairs. it was a collection of rural people who will never again caucus in the same room, given covid and trump etc. But at that time we were so happy to be together, speaking up and out against corruption. We were something like 100+ for Sanders and 12 for Clinton

Could this election be a blessing in disguise? Perhaps a Harris victory would've removed the urgency for the dramatic fundamental reset the broken US system desperately needs. Maybe the extreme cognitive dissonance of the situation in which we find ourselves will provide the necessary provocation for the small number of dedicated, motivated, wise (and, I hope, lucky) individuals (who're always the agents of real changes in the world) to step up where they might otherwise not have. Here's hoping.

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.

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.