Russia bombards all the civilian infra immediately anyways, because it creates a crisis that the defenders have to manage. It’s better to have a your defensive forces close to your civilian populace, than having to fly over to them once the attack has already started.

Remember, day 1 of the current Russian invasion, they tried to seize Kyiv airport, to bring in transport planes. The civilian airports are strategic targets even without any military presence.

This is what Switzerland does. Saves a ton of money on infra and maintenance costs, and keeps your defensive forces closer to the cities that enemies will be attacking.

This is just him manufacturing a dip for his friends to buy in on, and to pressure the bosses for bribes.

haha, that would honestly be hilarious for a whole slew of personal reasons.

Honestly, FedRAMP’s not a bad idea, it’s just badly implemented. The JAB route is basically pie-in-the-sky unobtainable without a congressperson pulling strings for you or previous multi-agency contracts, and lots of agency sponsorships are basically just doing the pre-FR dance anyways.

Absolutely unhinged. You can tell from the writing alone that this was one of Musk’s college-age flunkies. This is tinpot dictator stuff.

And man, as an IT security person with FedRAMP experience, seeing a “.gov” site running a wordpress server with a bunch of default plugins enabled, with a Let’sEncrypt cert, with no advisory banners or anything, is infuriating all on its own.

Plus, Trump likes the dictator club. He’d rather he, Putin, and Xi spent those dollars on presidential yaughts and focused on locking up dissidents than having an arms race among buddies.

This is my read too.

This is a great example of how even someone without the platform of someone like Kdot himself can still use their opportunities for activism. Don’t let rich fucks like Trump live in a little bubble; if they want to be able to come out and watch a football game, they should be confronted with uncomfortable truths.

This instance doesn’t have downvotes, and a lot of people upvote the article to boost visibility, not necessarily because they agree with whatever or whoever the article is about.

No lies were detected.

Bruh, your comment that I responded to, was itself a response to a comment (the one you said was “perfectly balanced”). That is what I am addressing in my comment.

Also, what do you mean “When did the Democrats enter into this at any point?” YOU BROUGHT THEM UP IN YOUR COMMENT THAT I RESPONDED TO!

a pretty sensible assessment of a portion of what cost the Democrats the election

Well one zio is now blocked. =)

Yeah, that was crazy. O_o

“Leftists can’t organize! They’re too busy doing massive, country-wide protest movements!”

I don’t think that most progressive groups doing actual organizing are doing these kind of purity tests, I think that’s mostly online spaces or non-political-organizing spaces that are setting out their own boundaries for acceptable behavior.

I’ve never once been asked to make a statement of e.g. trans support before being allowed to attend a protest or DSA meeting. It’s mostly assumed/ trusted that you’re showing up because you support the work.

If, however, someone seeing a Pride flag in a coffee shop window or at a protest is enough to make them leave, then you don’t want them there, not because of the morality of their beliefs, but because they are creating an ultimatum that you must abandon or hide your beliefs in order to gain their support, and that’s not solidarity on their part.

Solidarity is a two-way street.

Bernie Sanders or AOC don’t mention support for e.g. LGBT+ people in every speech, but they will if you ask them. They won’t feign or adopt indifference to the issue to gain a false solidarity.

We can help any grouping and gather support from any grouping, without needing to say we need to put the brakes on and help some other more virtuous-to-advocate-for grouping instead.

I’m interested in what examples you are thinking of, for this.

Nah, they aren’t even right about organizing; in fact, they’re literally making contradictory claims.

Were Leftists too lazy to be capable of organized political protest (“lol, organize”), or were they

“march[ing] on every major american city, and [taking] control of university commons across the country”

Because that sounds like organizing to me?

They will just present anyone who isn’t pro-Israel as ineffectual, when the reality is that the DNC not being responsive to their base at any point along the route (and don’t cite Biden dropping out as that: Biden dropped out because DNC insiders were screaming, not because of the actual electorate) cost them the election.

But they probably think that all the polls showing that the majority of Americans (even Republicans) wanted a ceasefire (which is what the protesters were demanding) were wrong, and the average American is actually secretly pro-Israel’s war on Gaza.

Especially Xi Jinping, who’s the one best situated to exploit the power vacuum that Trump will create. I’m all for imperialism dying, but that’s not on the table right now, just US imperialism being supplanted with Chinese imperialism. Whoop-dee-doo.

I’ve always been a critic of accelerationism, because I never believed a regime powerful and stable enough to obtain power through civic processes could actually be so incompetent as to implode themselves beyond repair. Fascist states tend to actually have pretty stable civic institutions, they’re just deployed in evil ways and for evil reasons. Trump is beginning to make me think that we could actually see the complete peak-to-trough crash of a superpower in 4 years or less.

Yep. Conscientious objectors won’t save us this time, disruption is going to have to happen in the streets.

As of current count, 75,017,613 did in fact bother to vote Democrat, and 75 million people resisting is more than would be needed to grind most federal government operation to a halt.

You actually have 19mm of space for writing. Or you could upsize to something with 51mm or even 54R (mm).

Another point in the long list of proof that ICE enforcement is entirely appearance-based and discriminatory. I expect no one who dislikes ICE is surprised, and no one who either likes them or who is ambivalent to them, cares.

I mean, it is in fact extremely apparent that they are Nazi salutes.