The Dean Scream of Wow. Only it got him more famous and traction.

I’d be all for a “Department of Science and Technology” which would be about safeguarding citizen’s rights in the digital era, ensuring ethical tech practices, helps businesses and the government stay up to date with NIST standards, and making a national transistor backup in case we have a solar wind/flair hit us like the 1800s one that set electrical grids on fire.

It was one of the few things from Andrew Yang’s “run” for the Democratic Nomination that I was interested in and wondering if someone would pick up on it. (Now I know he’s a fucking centrist nobody)

Brainwashing.

He’s super-duper most pro-Labor, it’s why he acted like Ronald Reagan to federal workers, and didn’t even try to push for better protections for workers like LBJ.

Get fucked, Donald.

Democrat in office: I think it would be okay to have a member of the KKK and Q-Anon cult in my party.

Republican in office: Fuck the woke commie libs, fascists all the time.

Hey can we get an appointed member who’s not going to betray Harris and try to just privatize every thing in the cabinet they control? No? Corporate donors said otherwise? Oh well, maybe 2032.

• DNC invites Republicans to the convention, because somehow former fascists voting is a good look
• Harris talks about inviting Republican officials to her cabinet, because she agrees with literal Republican supporters in 2024

If Harris doesn’t appoint them, that’s good. If she tries to play to the genocidal fascists by adding them to her trusted team of officials, she’s more willing to work with them than the people they will hurt. Personally, I’d never work with the Neo-Nazi Party.

Is Harris a Republican? Nope. Is she willing to work with them? Yes, and any amount of leeway to the “Let’s bring Trump back to Office” Party is too much.

Beatings will continue until morale over dead children improves. Now go vote or you’ll have more beatings under the next guy!

We’ve gone from “if you don’t vote you have no right to complain” to “if you don’t dedicate time to running for office in matter how reactionary your area is, you have no right to complain.”

May I please have rent and food money since I will be needing to stop working to start campaigning for local officies? Can I also now have money for different healthcare that is tied to work?

I’ll happily give you links to donate if you put your money where your mouth is, I’ve been wanting to run for office in my deep red community. No guarantees they’d vote for a queer disabled leftist however.

When WannaCry was a major threat to cybersecurity, shutting down banks and hospitals, it was found that it used a backdoor Microsoft intentionally kept open for governments to use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack

EternalBlue is an exploit of Microsoft’s implementation of their Server Message Block (SMB) protocol released by The Shadow Brokers. Much of the attention and comment around the event was occasioned by the fact that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) (from whom the exploit was likely stolen) had already discovered the vulnerability, but used it to create an exploit for its own offensive work, rather than report it to Microsoft.[15][16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue

EternalBlue[5] is a computer exploit software developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).[6] It is based on a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that allowed users to gain access to any number of computers connected to a network. The NSA knew about this vulnerability but did not disclose it to Microsoft for several years, since they planned to use it as a defense mechanism against cyber attacks.

In real life, if I do not prevent someone from doing a crime that I am aware of was premeditated, I am guilty of not doing my duty. Corporations are people thanks to Citizens United, and governments are ran by people, so uphold them to the same standards they subject the populace to.

Because the NSA, CIA, and FBI love them. Vault 7, Magic Lantern, Intel ME and AMD PSP, Dual elliptic curve, COTTONMOUTH-I, ANT/TAO catalog, etc.

Hell, Microsoft willingly reports vulnerabilities and exploits to the government for them to use.

North Korea wishes it had this level of control on the goods its citizens willingly buy.

American Alphabet Soup backdoors good, Non-American Alphabet Soup backdoors bad.

We could just ban the idea “companies that have open vulnerabilities for corporate and government use” but that would benefit every citizen of every nation, so no.

If there’s a backdoor for the FBI, there’s nothing to stop Russia and China to also not use it. Same for a Chinese backdoor, nothing to prevent America from figuring it out. It’s why China bans American companies, and we’re phasing out Russian and Chinese companies.

It’s impossible for an open door to know who’s using it, and keys for a closed one can be copied and leaked. The safest way to garuntee noone else uses a backdoor, is to not have a backdoor.

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

Equally true with anything about Trump’s intelligence.

RFK Jr. and Joe Rogan are a form of ultra crank magnetism. I think if RFK picked Rogan for VP, the country would implode from an integer overflow of Weird-Stupidity.

Election interference is only when it comes from Russia. Otherwise it’s sparkling grassroots.

Like we did with Biden, and were called Russian bots, ChatGPT accounts, and other thought terminating cliches?

It would be wonderful to see pro-democracy and pro peace groups holding as much resources and influence as groups like aipac does. Being able to offer candidates that sort of security. The sad truth is we can’t.

We really can’t. AIPAC has the money if a country that gets unending support. Americans can barely afford rent. Americans are paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford sudden expenses, like medical care and bills.

This is intentional at this point. If the people who need to vote for you don’t have the money, but the corporate and international lobbyists can fund and sway the politicians more than the general public, it’s a win/win. They get elected, pay back the companies who got them into office, and the people who got them in feel accomplished, when neither the companies or candidates care about any of the voters.

Trump won because the poor and rural people who saw some dude talking what they wanted to hear, and he wasn’t bound to them, he was bound to thr corps and Russians donating to him.

To stop this would stop the income of Politicians across every step of government, local, state, and federal. Super PACs outweigh any of the members of Lemmy or the Fediverse. What we want doesn’t matter.

If we want to stop AIPAC, we would have to stop the same things that enable Russia to fund candidates. Republicans would keepto any money flowing, Democrats would want to keep any money flowing for them. Sensible people want less money in politics. Politicians don’t.

Lobbying is good for them, and bad for us. Lobbying defunds welfare, education, healthcare, and puts that money into the pockets of the wealthy.

And that’s not to say “both sides”, one party often has members who want to stop this. One party has a progressive wing, one party has a fascist majority. But both together will probably prohibit overturning Citizens United.

There is a million different references to books and media I could make here. The easiest and kinda laziest is: “We have always been at war with Eastasia.”

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