Everyone is saying it though.

Of course we should try to reach out and educate, the soap box and the ballot box are always the first and second choices; but you sound like someone with nothing to lose. What happens when the attempt at “education” fails? When the attempt to speak civilly is met with red-faced screaming? When you try to use reason and they use an armed mob.

I wonder if anyone just tried educating Hitler about how antisemitism is wrong.

I’m in a deep red state. I have no interest in letting a caravan of MAGAts come into the singular liberal, “crime-infested blue city” within 200 miles to Rittenhouse some “groomers” because their guy gets to be dictator “for a day.”

you’ll still have to pay a lot of money to get real education.

Exactly, meaning most people won’t. Leading to dumber, more easily controlled citizens. Easily locked into their 40-50hr/wk rat-race, happy for a meager bit of comfort, unwilling to take the risk involved in forcing real actual change.

It’s a concerted effort spanning almost 70 years and I agree, they’re not going away at all.

It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).”

The rich hated FDRs New Deal and immediately set about to undo all the trade, tax, and housing policies, labor and consumer rights, everything, he’d done. They very much want a return to the gilded age with themselves as the robber barons and gentry. They’ve been very successful and those think tanks are now pipelines used to funnel ideological purists into powerful positions like our current Supreme Court.

I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety. We only have soap, ballot, bullet, and jury boxes and obviously the soapbox has limited impact.

Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.

edit: tl;dr the shadowy cabals the rightwing says are behind everything is classic projection again because they’re controlled by shadowy cabals of rich people and they’re winning

Says the clown acting like grown women are kids.

I’m old enough to look at 22yr olds and see them as grown women. Pretty gross to see them as anything less honestly.

You must be looking at the wrong 20yr olds, take a walk around a university campus and tell me they’re kids.

These clowns will pray to take your guns and call you stupid for owning them while fretting about Trump and his cult seizing power and banning LGBTQ+ folks from existing.

We have them around sometimes but I’m pretty sure there’s a pipeline from local schools so it’s “official” and they’re finishing up their degrees. They usually get hired but not always.

The berry purchaser is the real job creator.

That sound you hear is my bank account pre-emptively emptying itself.

If you ever really thought that was an option you’re far more optimistic than I.

Remember those few years when stores had a little machine they could feed the check into and it’d fill everything out for you?

It’s PFAS all the way down.

I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here

Reading is hard but maybe if you try again you’ll get it.

At least twice per week (always at 6am) for me.

I had a (white) friend who had a pretty nice one, rims and tinted windows, heated seats, it was a nice car for a Chrysler. He said he got stopped constantly for made up reasons but they would inevitably let him go when they realized it was a 30yr old nerd and not normally “kind of people who buy them.”

He ended up selling the car and getting a mustang.

prove to me by pointing to the specific source code that would prevent Proton from your private key password

You want them to point to code (that’s not publicly available) that prevents Proton from capturing credentials?

What a dumb hoop to tell someone to jump through. Do you expect someone to actually post a block of code? Would you even be able to read it?

Maybe they do, why so negative? Do you think breaking some hypothetical monopoly would be a bad thing or something? Is your last name Supply by chance?