My perception is you are trying to talk people out of donating to maintain lemmy, while using it yourself?

What does this even have to do with piracy ???

There is piracy and then there is talking others out of donating

The current ftc doing something constructive?

Most likely situation is that this will not happen now, or years from now

Love it

I attempted to download a car once, but front wheel got stuck in my router. Was huge mess

It definitely solves many issues!

Will lookup tornado cash

While I can easily imagine the USA splitting up, the fascists are in every community though.

I like the quote from Sontag

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. / Susan Sontag

The problem with avoiding the fascists is that they are always everywhere at a low percentage; and a good society requires the equally low percentage of decent persons to convince the vast majority of people to not go rogue.

This requires good governance in local areas; and that is a finicky thing indeed. If the USA splits up, who knows how that goes? I would not put money on any region being bad or good in two generations

Yes, it’s not hard for a full stack developer to make. Probably a thousand people already in the fediverse can, including me.

But it cannot be hosted on USA controlled servers, and the developers need to find a way to be anonymous to USA offices

Edit: also some other issues. Cannot put it as an onion service because most people in the USA do not use tor. This means regular domain.

• register domain where cannot be seized
• server must be load balanced or using something like kubernetes
• heavy traffic costs money , how to pay bills without crossing USA banking system? And cannot expose payers or contributors
• where to host?

many people can build it, but most of us have no clue to the obstacles

That is so true

Looking at the reviews, ignoring the mega hats, it seems part of the app does not work from time to time

Oh, I have stopped, as of today I am no longer engaging this debate. Hopefully this takes and I don’t spend energy while I figure out what to do

Those are unofficial death camps. Maybe.

I put care and effort into the word ‘official’.

We do not have a Russia next door, which started the war to suppress the same movement in many Russian cities.

Siberia does not count

The Democratic Party shares equal blame. I think my more recent posts the last few years criticizes them without mentioning the Republicans because when trying reform sinners one does not try to save the devil too.

But all my issues with them are moot if most of the country uses private companies to decide primaries and elections without oversight. And when most of the population have no issues with any of that.

But like a little child I still hoped, and offered advice and tried to educate. Now, the time for such things are done.

I’m pretty sure the democrats will win by a landslide next year, and there may even be a democratic president, but it will not change facts on the ground. It’s going to be a bad next few decades

For me, this was inevitable so can only shrug.

Personally I would like a revolution resembling Ukraine, but not possible. And even if there were, most of the population does not understand democracy needs paper ballots counted properly, with recounts. So any revolution will ultimately be more of the same later.

Some countries are simply not cut out for democracy, and I am grateful things as less bad than I imaged. At least there are no official death camps in this bill.

I can only sigh and hope to keep out of political prison for a few more years ; but realistically will probably be arrested this or next year trying to protect neighbors .

Clinton killed more in Iraq with deliberate destruction of water treatment plants, sanctions and attacks on energy grids.

So, I’m just sort of typing without thinking about it much. But Trump will never step down, it’s an impossible demand, but it’s incendiary enough for orange face to not ignore it. This remains in the press cycle because it’s personal to him, there will be constant agitation by police and agencies against the protesters who just stay or regroup.

Assuming the original protesters stay the course, this will attract more and more participants because Trump himself, and the gop, will keep it in the news.

This is a positive growth cycle; eventually the demand will be the entire White House vacate when there enough protestors, and it’s now a revolution, peaceful it may be

5,000 (± some) dedicated people who communicated well with each other and others. Who were willing to just stay in the streets until the government changed. The only one demand given: the president had to step down.

I’ve seen revolutions start with less, but America is large.

Every region in the world has its way of doing things. When new layers of control are added, it makes some people nervous.

When the new controls are perhaps mismanaged and corrupt, promising to do more than advertised, it makes some people angry. Especially during an increase of lawlessness and corruption of the central government. Especially when it uses the same messaging which has already harmed many

Same reason mass murderers get airtime. Entertainment and horror.

This guy has already broken hundreds of laws, and will continue to harm many. He is from the super rich , and will have a life of luxury, superb health care and will outlive most of his critics. Is that not news worthy enough ?