Looks good, just need to work on a few minor things:

All of the ascenders and descenders (lines that extend above and below) need to be longer, especially on the f, d and the p. Also make sure the line on the right side of the a is clear and noticeable, it looks a lot like an o because you can hardly see that line. Overall the round parts of letters like a, d, g, p, etc are a little too wide/fat, so that combined with the vertical line parts being too short makes them look too similar to an o.

That may sound like a lot of criticism, but overall it does look very good. It just takes a lot of words to try and describe these small issues.

You’re advocating for a general strike? Great! Except … then why are you disparaging the very people this thread is about who are doing exactly that, why are you saying “those efforts are useless” to: “Unions, faith groups and local leaders urge residents not to work, shop or go to school after killing of Renee Good”. That is a general strike. Even though it’s just one day per week for now.

I know what your next reply will because I’ve seen it many times. You’ll say it’s not enough, that everyone has to strike every day all at once or it’s useless. Nope. That’s never going to happen and isn’t how it happened in places where protests and strikes were effective. It doesn’t have to be everyone every single day, though the more the better. It has to be enough that they can’t be ignored or shut down.

Will enough happen here? I really don’t know because there is so much propaganda flooding the zone to suppress information, to scare and to dissuade people, and you’re contributing to that. If you really do want to help, maybe at least just stop contributing to that.

Protesting isn’t effective until it is. Maybe it never will be or maybe the tide will turn or who knows what. We only know doing nothing accomplishes nothing. There are plenty of cases on video of people in Minneapolis preventing ICE from taking people when a crowd showed up yelling, recording, and blowing whistles, where ICE turned around and left. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t.

Now since you know so much about what doesn’t work, tell me what should people be doing and what you have done to help make whatever that is happen? I’m tired of every time people try to take action and there’s a post about it on here, you all come swarming out of the woodwork to repeat your same old talking points saying it’s useless and no one should bother. What is your agenda?

Either actually start doing something you think will be effective or shut up about it. Stop trying to dissuade the people who are actually doing something, whether you think they’re effective or not.

They literally said what I quoted and what I responded to: That sociologists say not to bother (who? which?) and that if people do one thing they think they’re done and stop (not at all in my experience).

Which sociologists say “not to bother”? Is it 9 out of 10 of them, like in a toothpaste commercial?

And why do you think people who participate in these things only do it once and stop? Generally the people who participate in one thing are the same people who continue participating in more things. Movements rarely spring full-force into existence at once, they build as more people are affected and/or become aware. Awareness is definitely starting to grow as even oblivious parts of the county are now starting to hear stuff getting through their bubbles that doesn’t match the propaganda from their usual feeding trough.

TBH this post reads like a copy of the typical “your efforts are useless so don’t bother” propaganda that every. single. post advocating activism gets–there are at least 5 times as many posts lie this trying to dissuade people from taking action as posts advocating action. Gee I wonder whose interests that helps?

If you want to argue about what works best and encourage more effective activities, go ahead and do that instead of just complaining about people who are doing something instead of nothing.

I sometimes wonder where we’d be today if Obama hadn’t made that joke or been given the Nobel Prize. That abominable thing might never have entered politics, might never even have entered the conscious awareness of most people of the world.

The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the the “Myth of Androgyne,” in which Aristophanes describes three genders.

I suppose next they’ll be banned from teaching German.

No, the exact opposite.

He’s going after all the blue states for multiple reasons, mainly that his enemies are concentrated in them. Leaving the red states alone because they voted for him. His fondest wish is to use the military against anyone who opposes him.

For now, the goals are: Retribution, Bring chaos and terror to his enemies, Provoke and escalate violence, all leading to justification for the most important objective: invoking the Insurrection Act which allows deploying military forces against the People. Implementing Martial Law to justify canceling the midterm elections, which would go against his minions if allowed to happen.

Anyone who thinks we’re going to have any kind of normal free and fair elections this November is in denial.

Agree, and I made that point already. The only thing worse than a Daily Mail story is an AI interpretive dance of a Daily Mail story.

The ones this article links to appear to be non-AI, though that doesn’t mean Daily Mail is a good place to get news. I read similar info on some major media news site in the US, again them not being AI is not necessarily a guarantee of unbiased info. Let me look in my history for a link. - (edit: I’m not finding anything in my history from a major US media source, so I guess what I read was probably also the Daily Mall.)

This sounds exactly an AI generated slopicle, with all the typical phrasing and re-wording you expect. It basically takes lines straight from the refenced articles and slightly rewords and/or adds little interpretative phrases to them.

Folks, we need to start learning to recognize this kind of crap and not be fooled by it. For example:

Hindustan Times simple statement: “A neighbor further told the Daily Mail that she spotted Jonathan Ross’s wife Patrixia pacing around the driveway on Wednesday afternoon.”

This: “She was spotted looking frantic as she walked back and forth in the driveway, according to the Hindustan Times, suggesting a woman suddenly grappling with the reality that her husband had been involved in a lethal force incident during his shift.” <-- (oh please! no reporter writes shit like that, “… suggesting a woman suddenly grappling with the reality that…”)

Daily Mall simple statement: > “She also shared photos of baking recipes from a Spanish-language cookbook.”

This: > She appears to enjoy cooking, having previously shared photos of baking recipes from a Spanish-language cookbook on social media.

And what is this?: “Shortly after the shooting, Patrixia and the children were never seen at home again.” That doesn’t even make sense! No human would say that.

I’ve just watched the first third of this (original source linked by squirrel) video.

tl;dw This is a great idea: Cory Doctorow explains how

1. all the countries the US trades with were forced, in their trade agreements with the US under threat of losing the US market, to pass their own digital copyright anti-circumvention laws so that US big tech companies can seek rent and collect the personal data of citizens of those countries with impunity, and

2. Now that trump has imposed all these tariffs on them and violated the agreements anyway, there is no longer any reason for them to to keep those laws on the books, laws which only hurt their own people and help US tech companies. He explains retaliatory tariffs only hurt their own people, that the best response is for other countries to stop protecting US oligarch and repeal those laws, which will help their own entrepreneurs and citizens, and withhold billions in rent to the US oligarchs.

And that’s just the first third of the video, but I stopped to post this before watching the rest. edit update: yeah the whole video is worth watching.

nice idea

Please stop posting meaningless crap articles with “panics”, “losing support”, “wildly unpopular”, “regrets voting for trump”, anything about them dropping n the polls, etc. etc. It’s all fake crap to make anti-fascists feel good and falsely think they are somehow winning.

No. They aren’t panicking, they are proceeding with their plans full speed ahead and doing whatever they want with impunity. They still have just as much support from the magats as always, and every magat would still happily vote for trump again.

Don’t post these and downvote the ones you see.

They’ve already come out and said the Real ID isn’t proof of citizenship, just your identity.

The problem is, it’s only possible to know you were lying to yourself about something once the lie has been exposed and realized. The revelation most likely comes from an external source since the human mind is so good and not seeing things that don’t fit into your beliefs.

Pathetic. My entire OP in this thread (along with a bunch of other people’s) is about fighting against the corrupt Democratic party apparatus by primarying their candidates from the left, and you say you give up because they’re corrupt. Well, that’s your choice. Don’t know why you bother to talk about it here, go live your life and let others decide the future then.

So? You just give up then?

Very good article