it's just that easy!

part 2: the response

Why is it that the livelihoods of federal workers or the healthcare of millions of people always end up on the chopping block when it comes to budget negotiations, but never the trillions in tax cuts handed out to the rich or billions in bailouts for Trump's foreign allies?

Once again, this is never about what this country can or cannot afford. It's about priorities.

Which is why we need to put cameras in there immediately

Bruh, that’s like the most important place they need cameras. 

They watch us all the time why not a little give and take?

They also don’t permit you to protest along their secret route into the building despite having ruled that right-wingers can protest against doctors at entrances to clinics and hospitals, and they won’t let you bring a gun into their workplace despite ruling that people can do so at yours.

Stolen from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Here's a link to the EFF page that contains this information:

On Android 

With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.

On iOS 

To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.

Apple has its own targeted advertising system, separate from the third-party tracking it enables with IDFA. To disable it, navigate to Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising. Set the “Personalized Ads” switch to the “off” position to disable Apple’s ad targeting.

discord banning "Statements referring to alleged past, ongoing, or imminent sexual abuse of a minor" like ok so you're literally not allowed to talk about being a csa survivor. that's nuts! that is fucking crazy! i hate this fucking timeline i am so exhausted man i thought we dealt with all this shit during livejournal strikethrough lmfao. the world just fully hates survivors and victims so so much

The “both sides bad, voting is useless, I won’t choose between evils” leftists are still at it in my notes. “Well, maybe instead of just voting you could educate people and organi-” YOU CAN DO ALL THAT AND VOTE. AND YOU FUCKING SHOULD. In the interest of minimizing harm and improving the world in small increments for you, your neighbors and your fellow man, you should vote in local, state and federal elections. You do, in fact, have a moral imperative to vote if one candidate is running on a platform of being ‘tough on crime’ and cutting social programs and the other is running on a platform of improving education and protecting the path to citizenship.

Not voting is what they want you to do. It is why there is a Twenty-fourth Amendment. It is why the Republican Party continues to attempt to put up additional barriers to voting, why fascists keep ‘joking’ about repealing the Nineteenth Amendment. Voting for the lesser of two evils creates less harm than passively allowing evil to choose what path it follows. Until there is revolution, you must continue voting despite the abysmal choices. The rhetoric you spread is harmful, about how absolutely nothing would be different under a Kamala Harris presidency than under the current Trump administration, about how all candidates are equally evil and you will have blood on your hands when you cast your ballot, you are saying exactly what they want you to say.

The political party that legalized running over protesters is appalled at this climate of political violence.

The political party that incited a violent insurrection at the nation's capital and then pardoned all the perpetrators is appalled at this climate of political violence.

The US is crazy bc like so many people have intense conspiracy theories about the government like "I think there's a secret elite group of people who control everything" and you can tell them "actually you're not completely wrong, it's just not a secret group of people, it's a bunch of rich people and lobbyists who are doing it all out in the open" and they'll be like "hmmn I don't think it's THOSE people though. I prefer my racist & antisemitic theories"

They'll be like "I heard there's a powerful ring of pedophiles who are influencing the country" and you'll tell them "I mean yeah that's what the Epstein files are about" and they'll say "no I'm pretty sure this has to do with The Queers actually"

i wish i could talk about appalachian anything on here without awakening the settler pride weebs for rednecks community

and it is settler pride to be clear. current understanding of “appalachian culture” is entirely ignorant of the Black and Indigenous people who live here. below are some beginner-friendly jumping-off points.

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s map of Native land

The Melungeon Heritage Association

Appalachian Studies Association

Read Appalachia

the Inside Appalachia radio show

directory of Affrilachian poets

Black in Appalachia

Hope it's okay to add links, OP! Last September when Hurricane Helene devastated North Carolina, it was extremely difficult to find any information on the impact on the Cherokee Nation in North Carolina. No major media outlets were mentioning the Qualla Boundary at all.

I ended up finding Tsalagi Soquo Ugidahli (Cherokee One Feather)—a weekly newspaper and the "official multi-media news source of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians" (per their Instagram).

I follow them on their socials to keep up with the news and to learn about Indigenous history, language, and wildlife in Appalachia.

ALT

It feels like this is the biggest story to still be flying relatively under the radar in the anglophone press. If a single phonecall from a racist pig American can get hundreds of your senior engineers and their families, who are only there to oversee factory construction up to spec, rounded up and sent to the Gestapo torture dungeons then suddenly it's an open question if any Korean, Japanese (and indeed eventually potentially even European) firm will ever feel safe directly investing in the US ever again

hey anon

please tell me you didn't google "US literacy rates" and then make the funniest possible mistake one could make in that situation