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Um. I guess your intent was not clear, sure looks like you accuse OP.

You do understand that you started a shitthread by accusing OP of being a paid fascist, right? Then leaned into it. But most of your comment history is flip quips, so par I guess.

Trolling it is then, eh?

Don’t be a bonehead and drag down the discourse, Scotty there is regularly posting and commenting against the authoritarian regime in the US as well.

Lemmy has a lot of reddit-like baggage, but it’s a small community, it’s easy to recognize users and verify their history, and even tag them if you use the right reader.

Right, that list somehow reminds me that I need to go get a copy of Children of Men, very topical, sadly, and worth a rewatch.

It sets itself to autostart, and then hid the setting deep on a second screen. Opt-out plus malicious design, for one example, and the algorithm and pay structure for another.

If you’re canadian you already paid for cbc publishing the transcript, so here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-speech-davos-rules-based-order-9.7053350

I fucking hated spotify from the moment I first interacted with it, primarily due to the way the app worked, and its exploitative position as middleware.

Convenience be damned if it’s a net loss to society.

Guns will only defer a cultural problem.

Self education that leads you and your friends away from heroic individualism, hypercapitalism, parochialism, cults, and other cultural excesses that lead to authoritarianism. It’s what we’re dealing with around the globe but the USA is struggling to understand.

Types out the opposite of what they meant

Gets corrected and has a tantrum

…calls antifascists nazis

Hmmmmm

Great idea! Instead of fine alcohol, we can just leave barrels of shit behind.

Fucking thank you. It bears repeating. I’m sure USA generals know this very well.

Yes, trigger troops and recon, no doubt.

No they don’t think they can repel an invasion, but they know they can make it very costly. Different bioregion, same advantage as the Vietnamese resistance, and cold is even harsher on troops and equipment than the jungle.

They also lack snowmobiles and dogs.

so as a citizen, besides not buying their shit slurry, what is there to actually do about it more actively

Well there’s a vast landscape between ‘citizen’ and ‘not buying’!

As a participant in state and local politics, you do what you can. I learned during years of NGO work that the longest lever for the non-owner class is policy.

That means working on specific issues by directing persuasion to policy makers, and often you catch those flies with honey. Appeal to the cooperative side of politicians and bureaucrats, make them feel like leaders and other ego things. Also, usually, pressuring with risks, like looming financial or political losses. This seems like very unsatisfying work because it is far from the front lines and providing direct relief, but systemic change is easier when protests aren’t necessary.

Meanwhile it’s also possible to start the Transition to a new economy, without fuss. Cooperatives are all around you, join them. Find every little opportunity for mutual aid, and take them when you can. Make non-commercial transactions normal. Participate in repair cafés, and develop thrift economy, like clothing exchanges and toolshares and small buying clubs. Electrify and find more efficiency. Group study. Build small organizations and ventures.

And crucially, participate in a little Direct Action, for your sanity and honour. What that means, whether it’s food charity or illicit art, is unique to you.

Serious question: how will a carrier group fare in arctic ice during winter? Will it be what is needed to hold an Arctic island after showing up all bristly in the summer months?

While the USA’s relatively slim arctic-ready forces are deployed on the Atlantic side of the ice, what will be happening on the pacific side?

An answer: they can take it, but when winter comes, holding it will be difficult. The northern NATO members have notable infantry that can use the ice to advantage, and there are only five or six harbours of interest in Greenland.

Not sure how “the end of NATO” will result in nothing happening! Can you elaborate on how major trade and military and diplomatic agreements will not be withdrawn, and result in no reaction?

It’s a “temperature round” tracking nascent anxiety. Not useless but not very specific.