DidiQJan 27, 2023
“"In Germany, teaching the Holocaust is mandatory. It includes visits to concentration camp, museums, etc. They don’t shy away from their own ugly history. Yet the kids aren’t damaged; they’re strengthened, matured, humbled. US needs to do same re slavery. Not that complicated.”
Siggy Rose.
Show threadShoq 🌿Jan 28, 2023
@DidiQ It absolutely infuriates me. Banning books as close to fascist practice as any society can engage in, and yet we're all sitting on our asses watching them do it, as politicians and pundits prattle and pontificate ad nauseum with absolutely no ideas for how to respond. But we need a response. A global response. And right away.
#ConditionRed
Show threadParanoid Factoid

@shoq @DidiQ The right is fighting a war. They take specific bits of governmental power, for specific reasons. The same can be said about media and platforms, they coordinate and take a loss for a greater purpose. They are organized and well funded.

We need organization. First and foremost.

Jan 28, 2023 at 4:47pmElk
Show threadShoq 🌿Jan 28, 2023
@ParanoidFactoid @DidiQ
💯 And since they are now seizing social networks, the safety, sanctity, security and ubiquity of the emergent fedivese is absolutely essential to that goal.
Show threadParanoid FactoidJan 28, 2023

@shoq @DidiQ We should take a closer look at Copyright. So much the right is doing uses DRM and copyright to sew up control of areas in the economy and engage in monopoly extraction.

Seems unrelated. But their goal is a feudal economy, using monopoly and control of the state to extract from a public turned into slaves (Serfs). Copyright is central to their tactics. More so than mere corporate consolidation.

The FSFs old GPL license is something to rethink in new contexts.

Show threadJustinmwhitakerJan 28, 2023
@ParanoidFactoid @shoq @DidiQ we’re already behind. I’m not going to say we’re too late, but we’re already behind.
Show threadWndlBJan 28, 2023
@ParanoidFactoid @shoq @DidiQ Not at all sure that the law underlying what’s going on in FL, the ‘don’t say gay’ bill, would be found UNconstitutional by the 11th Circuit, and this #SupremeCourt.
Show threadParanoid FactoidJan 28, 2023
@wndlb @shoq @DidiQ But that just goes to corruption on the court by packing.