[-] StarlightDust 17 points 2 weeks ago

They were also fans of using it against left-wing protestors while ignoring the right doing it, particularly in the case of anti-genocide protests. I assume they will just find something new to pick people off in the crowd now.

[-] StarlightDust 22 points 3 weeks ago
[-] StarlightDust 17 points 1 month ago

"At least one parent at 20% of schools" is an incredibly strange way of saying ~0.04% of parents (assuming each school is an average of 500 pupils).

Children have a right to socialise safely, with proper tools to keep themselves safe, rather than forced to be secretive about even owning a device. This is from a group of middle class helicopter parents who refuse to parent and want to move their responsibility onto the state in a poorly thought out one size fits all model.

[-] StarlightDust 18 points 1 month ago

Liberals learned the word tankie from anarchists on Lemmy but they never learnt what it means so they call now call anyone unwilling to vote for the slightly less conservative but still conservative war mongerer. I don't even live in the US.

[-] StarlightDust 20 points 1 month ago

They did this before 2008 and it ended up being responsible for the credit crunch. Housing needs to cost an amount that doesn't require such extreme mortgages.

[-] StarlightDust 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The biggest advocates for non-violence are white cis heterosexual men. It is the failure to recognize the multifaceted nature of violence itself. Punching a Nazi can mean that other Nazis stop looking up to them, and they stop being able to effectively organize.

You should be selective and strategic with who you punch. Typically you will want to go for leadership, or the guy who offers a connection between two groups that you consider a risk.

That being said, you should also consider that you probably aren't going to have as much success punching a Nazi on their terms. A lot of them are into their gym and guns so it tends to be to your advantage to catch them alone when you are in a group. Sometimes the opportunity will come after one of their demonstrations when they are walking to their car. Other times, it can be useful to find where they live and work.

Punching Nazis isn't an everyday thing but its unrealistic to claim it isn't sometimes necessary. It works very effectively as part of a bigger picture. Alongside it, you can put stickers on their doors in the middle of the night. If the circumstances arise, you can do silly stuff like convincing one that another fascist is sleeping with his equally shitty wife.

[-] StarlightDust 35 points 2 months ago

If the employer if promoting a union, its probably somewhat in their pocket. Its just an extension of HR. I used to use the printer in the same room as my workplace HR and the union rep would constantly be insulting employees behind their backs to them.

[-] StarlightDust 15 points 3 months ago

One thing that isn't really touched on because it never got published is that Spofforth has been an active organizer for the far right since 2020. Since then she has been active in anti Drag Queen Story Hour harrasment and targeting hotels. Another example is Yorkshire Rose (Amanda Smith) who has been doing the exact same but to a larger extent.

My main concern is that these fascist agitators have been placed into prisons with people of colour and leftwing activists for an extended period of time.

[-] StarlightDust 16 points 4 months ago

Misogyny and transphobia, as per usual. The build instructions used "he" and bug reports and pull requests have been denied and given edgy responses.

[-] StarlightDust 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

We should always strip bonuses from CEOs of companies like DB when they make such a mess of key infrastructure. Richard Lutz got €440,000 after his salary last December. That being said, they don't need the money in the first place. The railways themselves do, as do the people paying the excessive price of tickets right now.

[-] StarlightDust 22 points 4 months ago

I don't think I will ever feel comfortable learning NixOS since they accepted a sponsorship from Anduril until there was community backlash. Anduril performs violent border survailence for the US government and are responsible for a huge amount of death and suffering.

[-] StarlightDust 31 points 4 months ago

The new CEO of Mozilla, Laura Chambers, has a background working at all sorts of evil companies like AirBnB and PayPal. Its absolutely no surprise that the company immediately dropped plans to diversify in ethical, unique and privacy friendly ways as soon as she joined.

CEOs getting paid primarily in stock means grifters like this will drop their USP for whatever trend makes the line go up, if it is crypto, NFTs, or AI.

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