2026 headline:

“judge orders ICE to keep beatings below 10 minutes or 50 punches - whichever comes first”

Assuming everyone lives in a city where the weather is mild, the distances to things are short, there is reliable public transportation, and has significant infrastructure in place for walking/biking

Could you elaborate about what you mean here? It appears to me as if the people participating in fuck cars are more bemoaning the lack of these things. The people frequenting that comm will be the first to complain that the vast majority of Americans have abysmal choices for non-automobile transportation.

Also assuming that everyone using a car instead of biking/walking is just being lazy, without spending a second to consider the elderly or infirm

This, I just simply dont see in that comm. I feel like the people in fuck cars comm would be the first ones to argue that the elderly and infirm are oftentimes the first ones to suffer due to lack of good public transportation options. Casting the fuck cars community as ableist and ignorant to the struggles of the disabled seems unfair - given how the mass transit community are some of the primary champions of low floor trams, paratransit, accessible stations with elevators, designated priority seating, etc…

Turns out, skepticism towards the motivation for promoting poor strategy is a real thing that leftists arrive to without being “liberals”.

You understand that the leftist position is similarly that liberals have poor strategy and are naive, right? The difference is that leftists dont think there is a vast conspiracy to astro turf liberal ideas onto an internet forum. As it turns out, people are complicated and arrive to various political ideologies for a whole myriad of different reasons - regardless of whether not it seems rational to you.

It’s still bizarre how the liberals on this site refuse to believe that a particular brand of marxism leninism could be arrived at organically - as millions upon millions of people already have across the globe for the past 100 years.

Why is it that liberals scream “INORGANIC” every time leftists start a discussion that is anywhere to the left of the US State Department’s official stance?

Turns out, principled leftism is a real thing that people arrive to without the help of “Ruzzian bots” or “ccp shills”.

Good work. Might be valuable to add a “allows port forwarding” row.

Edit: whoops, I’m a silly willy. It’s right in front of me! My bad.

Shoutouts to the the fucking masked videographer.

Some commenters in the thread you linked are claiming that the videographer was working for ICE for a promotional video.

And in my case, using docker solely for pihole. It’s as if my “shipping container” has nothing inside save for a box of kleenex.

I use the frigate plugin in home assistant to make my lights do certain things when persons are detected where they shouldn’t be. Once you’ve got frigate connected to home assistant, your possibilities are endless. With a few zigbee smart switches, you could start pulling off home alone style antics if you really wanted. Think: sprinklers, lights, noises, projectors, video, etc… just dont forget to keep the legal aspect in mind.

I also have home assistant play a sort of alarm on my denon home theater stereo if a person is detected in frigate. It gets very loud.

I haven’t heard of alarmo. It sounds like it fits my use case perfectly. Checking it out.

Honest, genuine question: would there be any point in this descent into fascism where you’d give up on this tactic?

I suppose I can still understand it at this stage: most conflict is still abroad, only 9 months in to the presidency, and the Epstein revelations are still fresh, but how long will you push this?

Will you still be shouting about Epstein once the first protestor is killed by ICE? What about after the first civilian doors are busted down? What about after trans people are definitively criminalized? What about after the first train is loaded up? What about after the first mass grave is discovered? What about after a few tens of thousands of Americans have been exterminated?

I’m not saying everything above is going to happen, but supposing they did, would you still be shouting Epstein? Because at this point, it appears as if you, along with the rest of the Epstein crowd, will be shouting about it regardless of however far we are into the fascist descent. I dont understand that.

It makes light of the fact that America has been carrying out and bolstering fascism abroad for decades. In other words, covert fascism. For some reason, liberals have only started to renounce American fascism now that it was turned inward. In short, they were fine with covert fascism, but overt domestic fascism is unacceptable.

Leftists have held since day one that the American poltical experiment was built on slavery and genocide, and that fascism was the only logical conclusion. We are being vindicated.

Why are you getting snippy and evasive? My question was honest and genuine. Will you answer it?

Well put. Thanks for entertaining my pedantry.

you can learn how to swing a hammer in about thirty seconds

You cant downplay hammer skills, though. There is almost no skill ceiling with hammers. Put any blacksmith up against an amateur, and you’ll quickly see the difference between 30 seconds of training and 30 years.

Honest, genuine question: would there be any point in this descent into fascism where you’d give up on this tactic?

I suppose I can still understand it at this stage: most conflict is still abroad, only 9 months in to the presidency, and the Epstein revelations are still fresh, but how long will you push this?

Will you still be shouting about Epstein once the first protestor is killed by ICE? What about after the first civilian doors are busted down? What about after trans people are definitively criminalized? What about after the first train is loaded up? What about after the first mass grave is discovered? What about after a few tens of thousands of Americans have been exterminated?

I’m not saying everything above is going to happen, but supposing they did, would you still be shouting Epstein? Because at this point, it appears as if you, along with the rest of the Epstein crowd, will be shouting about it regardless of however far we are into the fascist descent. I dont understand that.

This kind of shit is going to save us from the garbage apocalypse. I wish our brightest minds could be working in this kind of stuff instead of figuring out the best way to serve ads.

People dont like this (correct) take because it doesn’t allow them to blame their countries’ problems on foreigners.

“Is it our withered social systems, our sickly education, our ever-evasive retirement age, ballooning wealth inequality, crumbling infrastructure, or corrupt government that is causing our descent into fascism? No… it is because of people’s innate stupidity and Ruzzian propaganda”

At the heart of the “we mustn’t be distracted away from the Epstein scandal” crowd is the naive belief that we have simply yet to find the perfect argument that, when shown to the frothing genocidal fascists, will somehow magically turn them 180 degrees and renounce american fascism.

It is this supremely liberal idea that you can wriggle yourself out of fascism if you find the right facts and logic, the most epic slam, the most cutting late night TV monologue, to show a right winger and have them renounce fascism. It’s based in the incorrect idea that the wheel of history turns via ideas. The idea that the marketplace of ideas, in combination with certain “Great Men”, are the ultimate arbiters of history.

Fascism doesn’t work like that. You could drop 4k footage of Trump committing the acts, and nothing would change. If you want to halt fascism, you’ve either got to squash it with guns and tanks, or you give people healthcare, education, retirement, and socialization.

You realize that China has dominated the smaller consumer drone sector for ages now? And that most countries are beginning to turn to Chinese drones for military applications?

Still a better track record than the F35.

I’m sure that if we illustrate to conservatives how this move was illogical and hypocritical, the tide will turn and the devolution into fascism will stop. All they need is to be shown the right facts and logic to be set straight.

/s