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All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation (www.404media.co)

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

The state and local is where most of the progress is going to happen in the next 4 years. They control a lot more than you think - even including running elections for federal office. Pay attention to all your local elections - they are going to matter a lot

EDIT: While I'm here, going to mention there are local elections in some localities across the US tomorrow (feb 25th) in parts of California, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, & Maine

Here's a substack post with more info about those local elections

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

Ballot measures. Write them if your state empowers them. That’s where the democracy will happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

My state is gerrymandered to death which is probably one reason the right wants to push everything to the states. Easier to divide and control.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trump will ruin it with an executive order.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Think of the profit that would steal from the big corps!

[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Until pedo-prez and nazi-musk determines that it's hurtful to gafam.

Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it's actually a good news but I can't help myself these days.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it’s actually a good news but I can’t help myself these days.

Hope you'll take this criticism as honestly given, and not meant as an attack, but you're not improving the quality of Lemmy with these kind of posts.

May I suggest, instead of making a comment and apologizing for it in the same comment, you just don't make the comment at all?

It really sucks having to push through these type of comments.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah you're probably right, I'll try to shut to fuck up next time. It's just that these asshole a ruining every god damn thing I believe in so I can't help to think they'll come for this too. Here I'm doing it again... I'll go serve myself a huge glass of wine to celebrate this good news, it's almost 5 anyway.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What we need is a gloom & doom venting megathread (I almost misspelled it as "negathread," LOL).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Hey, that's not a bad name...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, my doom and gloom tends to sneak out as sarcasm, and other people may not be as amused. Negathread is a good idea

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Hang in there brother/sister, times will be better again.

Yes it'll be a long 3 years 11 months, but still, even the laziest people usually figure their shit out at some point and change their course appropriately, and vote differently.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Local and state officals can enforce laws on their own without federal involvement

Assuming everything is doomed to fail is exactly what Trump and Musk want from you. They want you to stop fighting or trying because you might realize they are weaker than you think. Don't do their work for them

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

Assuming everything is doomed to fail is exactly what Trump and Musk want from you.

You're right, my bad.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

New Trending Term: "Died In Committee"

👀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

A classic term for decades

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

They're good at introducing them, just not as good at passing them.

There's room for a lot of politics between introducing and passing a law.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is also nice because every state doesn't have to pass this kind of law for it to help everyone else. Companies are often willing to have california specific models of their products to comply with California specific laws, but if enough states have right to repair laws it will hopefully be easier for companies to just have all their products be compliant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or pretend to be compliant in the classic Apple way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How did you come up with that username?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's the number to the new emergency services lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Haha that explains where you got the number from, but still have no idea how you remember it. I suppose they do provide a helpful jingle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Moss, the character with the fun hair, said it best. "well, that's easy to remember".

Granted, he forgets later in the episode...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A monumental win for repair warriors; corporate gatekeeping faces a well-deserved reckoning.

😺😺😺😺😺

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Also great for the environment. Replacing a part is significantly better than the waste products and energy used in recycling facilities.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I need Louis Rossmanns input on this.

These parasites love passing laws that hurt the taxpayer looking at you, ACA...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"states rights rabble rabble rabble" -Republicans, usually. But not now it appears.

Except when an EO appears on dumbfuck's desk barring it because his eunuch demands it

[+] [email protected] -24 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Who cares? The US is over, folks.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't do Trump's work for him by spreading apathy and dispair. He wants us complacent and to forget the power we have. He is far weaker than he seems so he has to project absolute power. Don't give anything to him for free

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I am not American.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Trump will also harm you. Plus we could use all the support from our friends that we can get

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

We will not be friends again until you overthrow fascism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

More likely it will lose superpower status and just become a run-of-the-mill large size developed country like Britain or Germany.

Living in a run-of-the-mill developed country isn't actually bad - in fact the best places to live in the World in terms of median quality of life are all pretty run-of-the-mill places.

Granted, judging by what I saw living in Britain, the whole post-Imperial hangover does screw things up significantly for a century or two compared to similar countries that were never top dog.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The British pedon has been driven into poverty quicker than American one...

They got NHS at least tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

True.

That said, British days as an Empire were almost a century ago whilst the US has been entering that phase for a decade or two at most.

IMHO, the closer a country's past as top dog is, the more wealth is still floating around from the old days and the less the local elites tend to squeeze the local peons to maintain their status, and the riches from the gold old days are a lot more depleted in Britain than in the US, whose currency is still the main reserve currency of the World (though less and less so since maybe 2 decades ago), which would explain why impoverishment of the average person was faster and deeper in Britain.