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Then let's see Microsoft do this with full transparency and keep a publicly accessible list of forbidden words. Then evidence this is a general policy should be plain.

If your oath against genocide has any exceptions, it's not an oath against genocide.

So long as one person is in danger from genocide, we all are in danger from genocide.

Your problem is rich people. Don't let them.

in 2015 in 50% of officer-involved homicides the victim was neither armed nor resisting.

Police violence has been getting progressively worse since, including through the Biden era (though very much through Trump regime years).

Extra convincing since animal genitals in furry porn are a controversy in the furry sector. Some like their characters to have animal-appropriate gonads where others (e.g. VISA, the credit card) feel thats a line too far.

(Not a furvert myself but have researched intersections of sex-focused content and the freedom of speech, or in some cases, commercial restrictions on free speech.)

get yourself involved in any of the current protests such as No Kings and the Tesla Takedown.

That way you'll be able to help with organization. Then we can engage in a general strike over a list of demands ( starting with ouster of the President)

And if civil war breaks out (say if someone does a you know on you know who of the United States) you'll be the first to know where to deploy.

Do not trust media agencies. They are underreporting protests already, and would rather autocracy over public class consciousness. ETA The newspapers did this in 1930s Germany, favoring NSDAP over the trade unionists, only eventually be seized by Hitler's regime and their owners processed into the concentration camps.

Do not trust the Democratic party who would rather stay in power than see the election reform that is necessary, and are pretending they won't get jailed (or worse) once the White House secures enabling power.

The people are going to have to force regime change or enjoy a new holocaust and expansionist incursion by the US Axis. The monarchists are hoping we'll wait for our representatives to act in our name.

Make tea and have a seat, because this is a bit of a story.

After the era of J. Edgar Hoover, FBI engaged in a lot of internal soul-searching and wanted to actually live up to its name as an investigation department, rather than what it had been under Hoover, which was a paramilitary force in the service of the current administration, (see FBI's interest in far-left activists like Dr. King and Malcom X and the Black Panthers) it changed its focus in the 80s to organized crime and serial killers (though they were very few in number, and hot cases when at large) Reagan used the DEA for stings against political enemies, but political activists were able to act more openly as elections and campaign money was deregulated.

In 2001 the 9/11 attacks happened, rapidly followed by the PATRIOT Act which was passed, largely sight unseen, which put FBI under the Department of Homeland Security. Soon after that ICE was formed intended to be a paramilitary department that served the interests of the ~~new regime~~ current administration, and it's been that the whole time.

And this is how ICE appeared in New Zealand for the raid of the Kim Dotcom estate on < checks wikipedia > January 20, 2012 (the same day as the Wikipedia blackout in protest of the SOPA act, incidentally). Also there were representatives from the MPAA and RIAA since the arrest of Dotcom was argued to be based on media piracy infractions (that Dotcom was getting a slew of hip hop artists to ditch the labels and use the new MEGAupload music distro service had nothing to do with it we swear). These days, the raid was credited to the New Zealand police, but in the January and February reporting of the incident in 2012, it was US Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (on loan to big media). As Dotcom noted, they could have just arrested him in his workplace parking lot. His work routine was consistent. Someone wanted a show,

ICE appears in a number of other weird places, including busting a number of repair shops in Florida that were fixing Apple products without licensing to do so. This would forshadow the wave of right-to-repair legislation and litigation that is still moving through the states (with John Deere and Apple making strange bedfellows).

On their website ICE does customs work within the US while the CBP is supposed to operate along the US borders, but really ICE goes where it pleases, and arrests who they like, and it was this way right up to the George Floyd protests in 2020 when Trump used them as his private police force to interdict where the local departments were not doing (in Trump's opinion) a sufficient(ly brutal) job. And this is how the ICE office in Portland Oregon became a focal point where every dispersed crowd of demonstrators resulted in double the numbers the next day (and lines of moms and dads). That's how Abolish ICE became a rallying cry during the protests. I wonder why we stopped chanting.

So ICE was developed much the way the German SS was, as a paramilitary service loyal to Dear Leader rather than loyal to the office of the Chancellery / Presidency, because when you're a despot trying to put down democratic features, you need a force that's loyal to you and not the law.

I'd say the fake-work product from telecommuniters is by necessity of a higher grade of quality than in-office fake work. A cleric can simply run around between the copier and the coffee machine carrying a folder of papers, and that would be sufficient to entertain the boss. The at-home worker has to create a spreadsheet or chart or something that seems important and relevant to the department goals. to make sure the boss feels he got a day's worth of work.

I forget if it's English parliament or French estates in which those who agree with the king sit on the right and those who disagree with the king sit on the left, which comes down to pro-monarchy and against monarchy.

We have plenty of autocrats who assert they are pro-liberty, pro-equality and pro-popular-rule, but to the last, they all want to only give the rights they like, want all the power and want to hand it to friends and (preferably immediately descendant) relatives. Even the DPRK calls itself a democratic people's republic.

Stalin liked Leninism so long as it didn't do anything he disliked (at which point he ignored it). Valid criticism of Soviet communism is in the swiftness that it became susceptible to corruption -- contrast US democracy which was corrupt (had its own mechanisms for stratified power) coming out of the gate.

Left wing policy seeks to distribute political power as far and wide as possible. In a (hypothetical) ideal, every member of a society would have exactly the same amount of political power.

It tends to move slowly, which sucks when families are in crisis.

Right wing policy aims to consolidate power, again with a hypothetical of a single point. Right wing systems move quickly, but do whatever the rulers want, ignoring the needs of the commons.

Given Aesop's fable about the frogs who wanted a king and chose between king Log and king Heron (or watersnake or stork) this is a paradigm that has been around for a while.

20 since I was like 9 or 10.

Evidently it's a German thing? Though I was never pressured to do so, it just seemed right.

The internet did get rid of ETI theories of UFOs and probably facts. Now we have Wikipedia and ubiquitous cameras.

Instead we have WTF is THAT UFOs called UAP, and singing abandoned buildings, but no ghosts.

Part of the problem now is fake news and we're about to lose video authentication the first time someone makes a convincing AI-generated street incident.