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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • meaning withholding your vote from the Ds to encourage decent candidates is actual sabotage

    That is only true if you vote. Particularly in primaries. The MLs are apathetic to actually doing so; as such they are disregarded. They need to show up and vote a suitable third party. Or spoil their ballot so that they show up as a countable protest vote that would sway such districts.

    Simple abstinence is not only getting out of the way for fascism; it is indistinguishable from apathy and the apolitical. I am not missing the point from Grammar or the MLs.

    Part of my criticism of the MLs is also that they are just unwilling to put at least a minimum level of work here. It can help us get some policies that we may want. It also helps build credibility for higher level protests and strikes. If you can get people to show up to vote you can also get some of them to realistically show up for other civil disobedience. That is a credible movement. Voting in the west is rather easy and carries little personal risk; compared to protests and strikes. If you cannot get your organization to do that then its safe to assume they won’t do much in other aspects of resistance; particularly those that carry personal harm.







  • Credit cards create permanent identity links that no encryption protocol can erase.

    Here’s the brutal truth about “anonymous” email services: your payment method matters more than your password strength. Proton accepts cryptocurrency and cash precisely because credit cards eliminate anonymity from day one.

    Every monthly subscription charge links your encrypted account to your real identity through financial records that governments access routinely. The Stop Cop City activist could have sent messages in unbreakable code, but their credit card told the whole story.

    Yeah, I kind of expected it would be an opsec error. Still a big L for Proton. I have been hesitant to move due to them not being on Fdroid or having Linux support. One of the last major things for me to de-google. Tuta seems nice tho.


  • Bombing those you are trying to be on your side is not really a way to get them to join you. Germans and Koreans are still part of the proletariat after all. Tankies like to pretend that people are supporting the bombing of countries outside the west; which is not the case more than one thing can be bad. They just happen to be authoritarians and only agree with the cruelty when its their flag on the winning side.

    They are right that dems are a right wing part overall, but it is where our most left leaning politics still live. We should try and grow that. Ideally we should found our own party that is truly left leaning, but that requires coalition building and voting. It does not matter if you can come up with goals that they will agree with 90%. They just won’t actually show up to support it as their activism is largely online. They are very passionate until it requires action. It would help our movement to have some real coordination. Short term there are real policy changes that can slow down the harm from fascism. Simply abstaining is to surrender unconditionally.