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This current phase of US fascism began in 1971 when US oligarchs feared losing their privilege due to the "excess of democracy" in American society, specifically in education, media, courts, etc.

Maintaining their status, they said, depended on "reverse engineering the 20th century."

Nancy MacLean Democracy in chains (source of quotes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_CnzsSeJyU

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/an-excess-of-democracy-how-corporations-killed-the-campus,15165

#USPol #EUPol #PowellMemo #Fascism #Racism #Democracy #TriCom .

so hrtcafe.net went down due to a coordinated terf/far-right action.

and so this is as good a time as it gets to make even more mirrors of https://git.gay/hrt/pages/ (or the github repo this is a mirror of already, if you want to touch github).

clone it, set a cronjob to do a pull every week. set up a web view like https://hrt.soap.systems if you have the means to do so and the willingness to deal with potential terf interference.

trying to shut down online resources hosted by annoyed transfems, that’s totally going to work and have the intended effect, right?

edit: people are asking if I know what actually happened, what kind of attack it was and such.

I didn’t see a lot of confirmed info about it (and didn’t really look too hard either), but judging by what I’ve read so far, I’m assuming a combination of doxxing, pestering the hosting and threatening legal harassment.

supposedly the person who hosted it took it down themselves to get the heat off of them - and I can’t blame them, that’s reasonable, no one doing this should ever feel expected to stand up to being personally targeted. that’s what we have a community for. they can back off to ensure their own safety, while we deploy a hundred more mirrors.

/erin

The Rust project puts out an article about how they're listening to their community https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/20/rust-challenges/

Except it turns out that article was drafted by an LLM https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1rz15t3/what_we_heard_about_rusts_challenges_and_how_we/obiwu24/

They claim nearly every line was rewritten by a human but I'm not sure how you could send a worse signal to your community about how much you aren't listening than having an LLM draft a post saying we're really listening, honest

RE: https://digipres.club/@foone/116241346584343156

since starting this, I've gotten sued by a credit card company for being unable to pay, and had to pay 700$ due to a delivery fuckup.

Please, if you can donate, it'd really help.

'Afroman released an entire album in 2023 about the incident, calling it Lemon Pound Cake, while its title song also took aim at the officer who, the lyrics said, "got the munchies because he got high".

'That song has had 3.6 million views on YouTube, while another parody track titled Will You Help Me Repair My Door has had more than nine million.'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq57557d6p6o

#HomeRepair #fundraising #DefamationTrial

Successful fedi trans folks, how can i get hired and therefore keep affording rent

I know ISO 13485 and 9001 like the back of my hand, am an expert at root cause analysis / FMEA, have extensive facility auditing experience, can manage building automation systems, wrote hundreds of SOPs and other technical documents, taught myself enough coding to write a program for tracking equipment PM/calibration/validation dates, developed and executed protocols for equipment PM/calibration/validation and trained and managed a team to do the same, can read and interpret electronic diagrams, am great at soldering, have drawn, etched, and assembled circuit boards, and can bake the most amazing desserts.

I am also open to learning whatever else i need to prevent myself from being homeless

RE: https://toots.dgplug.org/@kushal/116256305982397149

Big bad news. Oof