astronaut_sloth

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Those who stayed home hold some responsibility

Second most of the responsibility, actually (actual Trump voters take the most responsibility). They screwed up, and now we're all paying the price.

But now we have bigger fish to fry. There’s a constitutional crisis on, and a united front is needed against the right.

Also true. If Trump voters and non-voters realize that they screwed up badly and want to work to fix it, then we need to accept their apology, forgive them, and let them stand with the rest of civilized humanity in countering Trump, Must, and their goons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

A friend who works in the federal government found this on reddit and is passing it around. I quite like it.

For those who don't know, all federal workers received an e-mail entitled "Fork in the Road" asking them for a deferred resignation. They have not taken kindly to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I appreciate the feedback! It's already 8.5x11, but I didn't think of what it would look like in greyscale. When I tried, the blue and the red looked almost the same. (Side note, the roundel being only the star and "wings" actually had an interesting look that I may play with more.)

Here's an update. I agree that putting the roundel in the center looks better. I also made a version with a blue border and red writing. In greyscale, of course, they look virtually identical.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

So, I liked your idea, and I threw together something pretty quickly. I was using a stylized omega at the bottom, but it wasn't really working (to my eye at least). Instead, I threw on the U.S. air roundel from World War II. My thinking is that it's A. a distinctly American symbol, B. Evocative of fighting fascists, and C. Different from the current roundel (which has a red stripe), but similar enough to be recognizable comfortable.

I'd love some feedback. I've got another couple I'm working on, too, that can be ready to share soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

This is a great point, and I love the idea of picking specific issues! I do think some general "Fascists beware" style fliers would be good, though, at least from perspective of making them feel less secure. But I see what you mean that "fascist" doesn't really meet the mark and could be misinterpreted. What is a less loaded term? "Trumpists"? "MAGAs"? (MAGAT is too loaded and negative)

 

Long text post incoming!

Any popular resistance movement dies in the cradle if people feel isolated. Isolation breeds inaction. Therefore, to make people feel less isolated, word needs to go out to the general public to build solidarity and make them feel part of a greater whole. Resistors are not alone! It also has the psychological benefit of making oppressors feel surrounded (and rightfully so).

Therefore, to get those who want to resist motivated, we must advertise our cause. Thankfully, we live in a modern age where designing good looking graphics and printing them has never been easier.

The best information campaign will rely on guerilla tactics. Put posters up in heavy traffic areas outside, at work, in your neighborhood, on public bulletin boards, wherever needed to get the message out. One priority place would be inside government offices. There are plenty of federal workers who are resisting. If they put up even a few, we can psychologically terrorize the fascists, and this will force them to focus inward and divert from the rest of society.

Of course, these will be damaged or destroyed, whether intentionally or not, so we must be ready to replace posters as that happens, especially if it's ripped down.

Design: This, I think, is paramount. To attract those who may not like the current actions but are hesitant to really resist, it is important to use American symbology. Don't let the fascists take our flag, our symbols, our iconography. These things bind us together as Americans, and it can have an inspiring effect. We are all part of the greater whole.

Also highly important, make sure the designs are good. Marketers, graphic designers: that's your cue. If your an amateur, get the opinion of a trusted friend on a design.

If you don't have the time or ability to design, just take one off the internet. Therefore, I propose that we make repository of resistance posters on the web. Domains are cheap. VPSes are, too. It can also serve as a virtual poster.

I'd love to hear your thoughts. If you have some designs, post 'em, print 'em, and distribute 'em!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ah, gotcha. I didn't go too deep into the code, just did a cursory look. I think it's still an interesting concept.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Great stuff! If anyone knows any federal workers and contractors, please pass this to them over secure methods. Most of the suggestions presented are in the context of office workplaces, and the most effective people will be those people.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Agreed! In my little online ecosystem, there's been a number of stories of federal workers resisting, cities teaching people their rights to thwart ICE, etc. Since that may or may not make it out of certain bubbles, we should be boosting stories like that and sending them around so others don't feel alone and do feel empowered to resist.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Just based on my initial understanding of the situation, it looks like pilot error on the part of the helicopter. So, Trump's not wrong; he's just an asshole, and him injecting himself into this is counterproductive. Conspiracy theories relating to this is just...stupid.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don't know why this is getting downvoted. It seems like an interesting concept for certain use cases, and it looks like it's just a tiny team.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That's actually an interesting point, and it dovetails with something else I read recently. The right has correctly diagnosed much of our society's ills, but many are too ignorant or indoctrinated to identify the correct solution. Instead, many have fallen in league with the fascists because they've been duped. (That's not to say that many on the right are just simply fascists and bad people because too many are.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

These warning signs have been manifest for decades at this point. The seeds were sown long ago, and now it is time to reap what we as a society have sown.

 

Way to go Chicago! This was really great to see! I'm glad we are taking care of our neighbors.

 
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Look, if these complete morons on the Right want to vote against their self-interests and America, they are beyond help, and all I will do is keep working my a-- off to make sure people understand this.

What we have is a failure to communicate on the Left.

The truth is these people support the America-attacking blowhard because he stirs their cold blood. He makes them feel good about looking backward instead of at all the possibilities ahead. He makes them feel good about thinking they are the only thing that matters and that they have somehow been cheated out of their dark, empty lives.

They don’t want to make America better. They want to make everybody else’s lives worse.

All they are is angry, and have finally found a lewd, racist conman who can put a megaphone to their tantrums, and deal the rest of America plenty of pain. He has no goddamn answers for them or us.

What we have right now is a MASSIVE messaging problem.

From the minute the Biden Administration took power it worked like hell to tackle a global crisis that was exacerbated by the previous administration. I mean, holy s--- even infrastructure got done, and do you know who has benefited most from that? White people.

If that didn't resonate, it’s not because it didn’t happen. It’s because too many people didn’t know about it.

 

Gov. Pritzker welcomed Jen Psaki to Chicago in the best way possible

 

Interesting research from Anthropic. I'm looking forward to reading follow-on work, and I really hope that this will be tested on open source models (like Mistral) to confirm the method.

 
 
 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1577242

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Here is the actual paper to read as well. It's outside my field, but it seemed interesting: https://www.aging-us.com/article/204896/text If anyone has a bit more experience, I'd love to hear more.

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