Today the mob has merged with the financial elites. Crime pays better when it’s legal.

It’s almost like the gang thing was all bullshit.

Pretti literally had a handgun in his wasteland. Lots of people on the left have guns. Also, based on polling and recent special elections, lots of right wingers are getting fed up with ICE too.

It’s absolutely astounding to me that nobody has started using these freaks for target practice. I’m not saying it’s good or bad, but it’s damn odd. Of course that doesn’t keep them from playing the victim.

I think it’s some form of Stockholm syndrome that people bound up in that ecosystem just love being pounded in the ass by Microsoft.

The existence of cameras and the linking of those cameras to a central monitoring system are two very different things. Ring cameras are part of that system. Most business and even traffic cameras are not.

As I said, I’m pretty confident I can get anywhere in my small city without being identified, except through tracking of my path that would only be possible because of ring cameras.

I choose to carry my phone in my pocket, and I can choose not to carry it. I can even choose to have someone else carry it north while I go south.

I can go anywhere in my city on foot or a bike and be entirely untracked by anything, except those damn doorbell cameras. At most I might be picked up by a traffic camera or two, but I can do any number of things to not be recognized, but not if they can follow my movements back to my house. Those cameras fill the last gaps of untracked freedom of movement.

You don’t get it. It’s not about just one camera. They have the whole network and can run facial recognition and licence plate readers (that go well beyond just reading plates) across all of it. They don’t just know that you left your house, they can track everywhere you go. Some courts have made that illegal for cops to do, so they just outsourced it.

Your camera is just a small piece, but it’s a piece you control. Nobody should be throwing that shit up to the cloud. It’s incredibly damaging to any kind of civil resistance movement. Stalin could only have dreamed of the kind of mass surveillance that Americans are just freely providing to our oligarchy. It’s fucking dumb.

That ring camera is still absolutely a privacy threat, if not to you, than to your neighbors. Ring is partnering with flock on mass surveillance with facial recognition. That camera belongs to ICE just as much as it belongs to you, if not more since they can have AI “watch” it 24x7.

Anybody who calls themselves a libertarian without specifying “left” or “socialist” is a right winger. There are no exceptions.

From a legal perspective, there was no trial and therefore no conviction so we must presume innocence.

From a rational perspective, none of these boats are remotely capable of reaching America across open ocean. They would have to refuel multiple times to do so, and still probably couldn’t make it. That’s just one of many reasons why the accusation is ridiculous.

Trump didn’t want the deal. He wanted to end the filibuster then use domination tactics to essentially cancel the midterms. He’s only talking about caving on the subsidies now as damage control for Republicans.

including a plethora of unions

If there iwas anything that pissed me off more than the Democrats abandoning support for workers it was union leadership doing so.

I solved that for most of them by going AMD with my last upgrade. No more binary drivers solved most of my issues. All that’s left is really the anti-cheat kernel garbage. For that I just decided fuck it. I found it easier to stomach changing some gaming preferences than the Microsoft ecosystem.

I finally went 100% Linux and I’m never going back.

It also doesn’t make sense to call for Schumer to step down without a plan for who is to replace him. Not a lot of Senate Democrats would be any better, and there is no reason to believe any of those are interested.

Well, I’m waiting. You made quite the charge there. How did I betray my values? How did help bring Trump to power?

You don’t get to call yourself “left” when you help bring Trump to power.

And how did I do that exactly?

More like a last minute concession. There is no point to an endorsement when it’s clear the die has been cast.

Nope. First of all, the Trumper tactic is always to overturn the game-board. They don’t give a shit about goalposts. Second, the goalpost was “line up and support Mamdani” which you actually moved to “endorsed Mamdani” which is not the same. Their endorsements were nothing more than concessions. It was last-minute realignment to position themselves to benefit from the win, or at least not suffer as much embarrassment. It was never support.