I wonder if there is a way without bloodshed. Would require a careful strategy and mass participation. Challenging, no doubt.

This is some seriously fascist shit. It starts with the immigrants because their legal protections are flimsier and it’s easier to convince citizens they won’t be targeted. But rest assured, this is just the beginning and we may soon see similar tactics towards dissidents who are citizens.

Can we find where this guy is? Can we free him?

I assume this will also be fought in court. Does the president have the authority to unilaterally revoke someone’s green card? Shouldn’t there be some kind of due process for this?

I can see why you would say this but the real issue in my opinion is not the annoying users, but the extremely intolerant mods and admins who will remove any factual information that is inconvenient to their narratives and ban you for trivial infractions. Even mild criticism or discussion of historical facts around the CPC or Hamas will result in an immediate ban, sometimes from the entire instance. It’s not possible to have healthy discussions on these instances.

I don’t mind discussing those ideas elsewhere but it simply can’t happen on Lemmy.ml due to the restrictive moderation.

Probably fine as long as you don’t talk about politics or anything related to China or other “socialist” countries. But yeah I get the feeling.

Someday I hope someone else will be running this project, or we all end up shifting to another federated software like PieFed or Mbin. You could consider contributing to those projects instead if you are wary of the lemmy devs–they’re all interoperable. But the idea behind the fediverse and open source software is that even the devs will have limited power, so I think we’re still better off than on Reddit, despite these issues.

First off off, it’s not true, and second off, I don’t want to answer questions about that. Lets focus on Rampart people.

Agreed. My sense was there was a disproportionate Jewish presence at Palestinian liberation protests I attended.

Hating entire groups of people based on assumptions that they are all the same is always ignorant and wrong. People just need to remind themselves of this no matter how “right” it might feel in a particular instance.

I’m a special snowflake and I don’t really identify with people in any particular area. Though I guess I do know my tribe when I meet them. But we don’t really have a name. Intellectual hippies maybe.

If I had to pick one then probably my neighborhood is how I would identify.

In theory, if we had perfect judgment then maybe this would be a healthy approach.

In practice I see a lot of people who think they’re doing this but are just caught up in their own emotions and are really engaged in bullying.

Sorry I didn’t reply I got busy but check out the Tule tree: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/el-arbol-del-tule-tule-tree

I’m growing one in front of my house. I like to imagine someday it will grow similarly large.

Where’s your proof?

I think it’s completely possible to delegate negotiations to a committee or even individual as long as the selection of negotiators is bottom up and has norms or procedures to keep then in line with the desires and interests of other interested individuals or groups.

However, I would not use the words hierarchy or chain of command to describe such a system as they naturally imply a domination by leaders over followers which should be avoided at all costs. Such negotiators should serve the collective and not vice-versa as is too often the case in conventional organizations.

Would be better to plan this a little farther out but I am already on a permanent boycott so I support this obviously.

Lol thanks, I’m an arborist and I was thinking everything I know about tree biology says this shouldn’t happen… but on the other hand trees are amazing so who knows.

Is this actually true?

Sounds like you deserve downvotes but I think it’s best to place them where they are earned, not just blindly downvote every post based on the user.

I found this article useful. We need to keep tabs on what the wannabe dictators are doing in order to oppose them.

Who is downvoting this? This is important news that will have large negative implications for these organizations.

Openly Marxist is just the start of it. Dude is utterly unhinged, so his theories don’t mean a lot to me unless they’re backed by evidence.