MyBrainHurts

Phew, hello fellow old!

If you're into old school ska punk, Streetlight Manifesto is a lot of fun. That being said, I once got pulled on stage while wearing a Streetlight Manifesto where the lead singer of the Dreadnoughts proclaimed "great band, singer's an arsehole though."

Admittedly, most countries have wild plans; a family friend helped update Canada's plans to counter attack America a few years back.

How’d not burning cars work out when Biden was prez?

??? Pretty okay? We got some significant climate change legislation etc... If you're saying we should have been rioting against the Biden presidency, I don't think you're particularly helpful for our current crisis.

Martin wouldn’t have won without Malcolm. Peaceful protests only work when there’s a third option besides listening to them or stays quo.

Strongly disagree, look at Gandhi.

I think there's a dangerous tend for kids in the West to romanticize political violence after having grown up in privilege and safety that would be unimaginable to much of humanity even nowadays, let alone across history. And more dangerously, to only look at narrow slices of history they like rather than the full sweep.

That's not to say seriously violent riots and protests can't work, it's just that they cost a huge amount of innocent blood and lives, and of course more often than not, they don't work. (But those same spoiled kids don't like reading about those parts of history/current events.)

That being said, I'm not sure we're strong enough to actually do a peaceful protest properly. The power of MLK wasn't the willingness to protest, it was the willingness or even eagerness for supporters to be beaten black and blue over and over and over again in a desperate and eventually successful attempt to shock the conscience of a nation. I've seen nothing that indicates we'd have the resolve for that.

I'm nowhere near LA but at least on BlueSky there's been a lot of snide "oh, now they're telling us to fight fascism by being nice!" Under any comment or post about not getting violent and not burning shit. I'm sure there's some right wing provocatuers but I imagine there are also a bunch of kids who think lighting cars on fire is in fact fighting fascism etc.

This really just seems like "I want to complain about .ml" with extra steps.

I don't care for them, so I don't go there.

Open source projects will be used for things of which you approve and of which you do not, that is life.

Straight down the centre.

Fyi, what's happening in LA is a much more trumpian distraction; it'll suck up all the media oxygen, it's an (possibly the only, if iirc) issue (immigration) on which he not only has overwhelming Republican support but ALSO a net favourable rating with the public overall.

Oh yeah, he's absolutely trolling and doing so delightfully.

Ehhhh, trump's incredibly successful modus operandi for distraction is to bait the Left into over-reacting etc. Epstein is actually important to a swathe of his voters (as is, I assume the respect of one of the wealthiest men on Earth.)

If trump wanted a distraction, he'd sifn another ED targetting trans folks or somesuch in a way to make the Left freak out so that the fight becomes about that/our over reaction depending on your pov.

I was 34. But maybe a late emotional developer?

Yeah, I'm curious myself.

I think though, short term at least, I put money on trump. He's vindictive and petty as fuck and a huge chunk of Elon's wealth is from govt contracts, subsidies and future expectations. A trump govt can remove almost all of those and otherwise target him pretty effectively...

It's funny, I was pretty much in your shoes (who cries at imaginary people?) For most things. Then covid hit, something flipped and damn, I'm pretty sure I've had tears in more movies in the last 3 years than the 30 before that.