People should start filming and livestreaming all this shit asap
Haha internet goes [Error 404]
(Shoutout to Briar, an app that lets you communicate without the internet, very useful for an organized group of protesters)
Isn’t that basically what signal already does or is there something I should know about signal?
No.
Signal, while is End-to-End encrypted and cool, but it requires the central server. If the government shuts down the internet, you can’t organize your protest
But Briar does not require a central server and lets you connect via internet (via tor), bluetooth, or share between devices connected to the same wifi.
Imagine a protest where everyone is using Brair (and have added everyone as contacts), they could create a forum and one message from one end of the street can travel across the entire swarm of protesters, doesn’t matter if the government shut down the internet.
(I mean… at least until they figure out what y’all are doing and they start jamming bluetooth signals… 🤔 but even then, jammers have limited range, especially at the bluetooth spectrum)
All data is on your device (and all other devices the forum is shared with), there is no central server to take down content.
Don’t take your phone to protests.
Depending on you goal.
For leaderless anonoymous protests, and you want to stay alive, sure.
For organized groups that are willing to take some risk and be martyrs, its worth considering.
Use a custom OS (like Graphene OS), turn on airplane mode, use bluetooth to communicate via brair. Its much harder (but not impossible) to track people this way.
ACLU has an app for police encounters that sends it directly to them for if the cop tries to delete from your phone
Unfortunately that app is for an old version of Android and I can’t actually download it on my phone. It has a lot of negative reviews saying it keeps crashing or freezing which sucks because I’d really like an app like that that works.
I truly believe that anyone that believes that it’s already happening will have their beliefs cemented, the people that reject any notion of fascism will reject it, and the people that are on the fence are too old or too dumb to actually make an informed decision
Nah. All we need to believe is some text on a picture. It’s all true!
My friends in gov are experiencing this stuff. Emails telling them to report all DEI contracts or face consequences. Shits real.
Right? I work in a company that has a lot of government contracts, I’m just a janitor, but it’s known I’m trans… do I count as a “DEI Hire” ?
Yes. Anyone not a white cishet Christian male is a DEI hire. There will be some exceptions for straight Christian women for a little while, but they’ll be targeted soon enough and put to pasture with the other breeding stock. Moo.
People still have no idea how bad it’s going to get. People are still acting like this is just normal bad, a unfortunate moment in our otherwise decent system and society. This is not the reality. Things are going to get bad. This isn’t doomerism, this is reality.
Please, take the necessary steps to secure and provide for you and your loved ones, and genuinely consider developing some kind of exit strategy. Do not downplay this until it’s too late; be prepared before the sky turns red.
One of the biggest lies of my life is hearing, “never again”. It’s happening again and nobody is stopping it. Everyone is asleep at the wheel.
Yeah, that’s why the whole Trump program to “Report any suspected DEI hires” is so scary.
It’s straight up a call to report any
jewstranspeople to the secret police.Though I wonder what they would have done if they found any “DEI Material”, especially since it’s hard to quantify.
Where I work we have instructions on the walls to legal immigrants warning them that discrimination is illegal and what their supervisor is and is not allowed to do. The rules apply to everyone, but the way they’re written it sounds like they’re ESPECIALLY there to make sure folks from out of town don’t get lied to about what the laborforce is REALLY like.
Would that count as DEI? I don’t know, I’d assume so because it makes reference to people who aren’t male or white and that’s all “DEI” seems to mean.
It doesn’t actually qualify as DEI, but it’s not like definitions have ever mattered. Trump got rid of the (first female) commandant of the USCG, presumably because she’s a woman, or maybe because she went after sex offenders. To my knowledge, she wasn’t a DEI hire or anything. She earned that position, as much as anyone has.
And even if she was a DEI hire she probably would have qualifications for the job because the point of DEI is to hire diverse similarly qualified workers. Trump pretends that DEI just means anyone who is not a white male is a DEI hire
Yep, and seeing as the USCG has been able to actually reach recruitment goals in the modern day, it probably worked great to get people into it.
It could also be the 20 years of pointless war that made people not want to join other branches though, while the Coast Guard has a very different mission. It could possibly have nothing to do with her, but I’m sure it played some role.
They added the
Aletter for “Accomodations”, so the disabled is also getting this treatment.Accomodations? That’s not good
Yeah, America is a overtly fascist nation now.
Always was. 🔫
For the younger generation, yeah, probably, for us older folks, we still remember a time when America at least kept the veneer that we were better than Nazis.
Ima just post a comment I left on another morally nostalgic commenter:
Well, we started out with a genocide so terrible Hitler idolized it and called it “The First Great Cleansing”. Also, you ever seen this image from the 1940’s? It’s in Madison Square Garden.
Also, when did America join the fight against the axis powers? Oh, 2 years after the war began? Only after Pearl Harbor? You’d think a country so moral would join the fight against genocide quicker.
America was never a good, decent or moral country.
Henry Ford was a Nazi. Ringing any bells?
More questions for the American Moral Supremacists:
When were black people welcomed into the citizenship and regarded as equals?
When did women get access to bank accounts?
What happened to the buffalo?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_the_United_States
Yeah, welcome to every fucking nation ever. Show me a nation that’s been completely and utter clean with no mass genocides or atrocities and I’ll show you a god damn unicorn that shits rainbows.
No one is going that America was a pristine fucking nation that has done no wrong outside of these Nazi Republicans but if you think that a single moment like this with these Nazis supporters being in the minority defined America even at that time, you need to read a history book. Also just because America was hesitant to join the war since you know the great depression, still reeling from WWI, among other factors doesn’t mean America was all “Go Nazis! Go!” that you’d like to paint America. Again, read a damn history book.
But hey, you feel free to think that America was always full of Nazis and never made any progress, there isn’t anything I can say that will change your mind about that anyways.
Regardless of what each of us thinks about the history of America, America’s got a very public, very vocal, and very much Nazis in power now and it’s going to suck.
Could your point be shortened to “what about it”? I think so…
Nice excuses. I won’t be making them though. Those excusals got America to where it is right now. Turn the other cheek, nothing is bad because everything is bad. No progress, no looking back.
Just anger, right now.
Shoo pigeon, I don’t want to play chess with you.
Too much acronyms for me.
What is VA?
Probably Veterans Administration, a federal agency that would be expected to comply with the executive orders.
Veterans Administration
Yeah, I got an email in my gov address encouraging me to disclose any DEI stuff within the next ten days without any penalties or face penalties of it’s discovered after that.
It’s important to resist this in any way you can. One of the strengths of democracy is that because so many people are part of government, it requires a lot of people to participate in making dictatorship work. It can happen, as in Russia or North Korea, but it isn’t supposed to be easy.
The first step I’d suggest is to establish private communication with others in your department so you can coordinate a response without your supervisors knowing. A mass walkout/general strike in the case of firings should be a consideration.
Is it illegal to disobey an executive order? It’s not a law so what happens if one refuses to comply?
Executive orders have the force of law, until courts shut it down.
So its not illegal as long as the court side with you in the end (but you might still get fired if you are a government employee that disobeyed orders)
looks at the composition of the supreme court
ohh… right… 😖
In the words of the late great David Lynch, “Fix your hearts, or die”
They’re literally going to schools and going “Papers, please”.
Ring any bells?
There are women and people of color in the Trump administration. I think people need to start reporting him for his DEI hiring.
Hey am I crazy or an asshole because I want people to be judged on the content of their character not the color of their skin?
You can want it all you like, but history has shown that that only works on paper.
Maybe someday that’ll no longer be the case, but that day isn’t today.
So you don’t have a dream.
No one is hiring on the content of anyone’s character. I get the sentiment here but it doesn’t work. No one is stopping them from hiring two people aside from greed. Stop blaming the worker and start blaming the employer that had to be forced to even look at people outside of straight white men.
A company that didn’t hire the best employees would suffer and fail. Their competition would hire these people then put them out of business. Go capitalism and the indivisible hand?
This only works if you assume that a company can only be successful with the best talent, and that simply isn’t true. Disney is massively profitable but its ranks are filled with nepo-hires, idiots, whatever - all kinds of “not the best.” We like to pretend that business is a purely pragmatic and as such integrity will automatically occur based on the profit motive… but that just isn’t reality, at all. In reality business is personal, and crony, and human-driven, and so many other things that keep it miles away from being the pragmatism you’re implying.
This is why businesses are full of unskilled nephews, old business school friends, etc.
So framing this as “DEI” vs “merit-based” is flawed as fuck because “merit-based” was never actually on the table.
So why fight for “DEI”? fight for merit based. Fully fund education across the country. Make it illegal to ask things like photo,sex, race, age,name, access to social media, requiring drug test on the application for being hired. Fight to Increase workers rights. But instead you are wasting all this energy into what? Another way to divide Americans and the rich owners of capital laugh and cheer.
Let’s establish some frameworks here.
First, I want to clarify that I am not “fighting for DEI.” Instead, I am dismissing the narrative that frames the current situation as a conflict between DEI and merit. This perspective is not only misleading but also fundamentally incorrect.
It’s important to recognize that the existence of one initiative does not preclude the existence of others. For example, free school lunch programs do not conflict with disaster relief efforts. Similarly, DEI initiatives do not conflict with other movements aimed at creating a more merit-based system.
In terms of my personal opinion, if pressed, I would find it challenging to label DEI as simply a “good” thing, likely for reasons similar to your own. Life is complex and nuanced, and we rarely encounter straightforward solutions. However, I do see DEI as a significantly “better” approach, which brings me to why others might “fight for DEI” as you say.
Life is inherently complicated and often an uphill battle. When starting in the muck, seeking a solution that keeps your boots clean is unrealistic. While we may desire perfect solutions and easily identify them, implementing those solutions is a different challenge. The powers that be often resist change because they benefit from the status quo. Therefore, when pursuing progress, we sometimes need to consider compromise for the sake of achieving meaningful impact.
So, we are not discussing merit versus DEI; we are comparing the status quo to DEI. In this comparison, DEI represents greater opportunities for a lot of individuals who have been unfairly excluded. Yes, this does not solve the greater problem nor does it address it in an equally or means-based way and yes this potentially introduces additional disparties; these things are true. DEI does not solve social inequity nor does it suddenly represent a “fair” system. But it pretty objectively is an improvement on the deep cronyism and gatekeeping of the existing status quo. It’s not good, and it’s not fair. But it’s BETTER, and it’s MORE FAIR.
We may not be reaching the summit of the mountain with DEI, but we are certainly elevating our position.
I hope this provides some clarity. However, you may find a more passionate advocate for DEI can offer a more satisfying answer.
Yeah I’m not reading this. 😂 Good luck maybe you can be a pilot someday and live a kickass life.
Genuine ignorant childish behavior.
Big man can speak up to whine but can’t put in the work to read a couple paragraphs.
Legitimately pathetic.
The military and VA already promote shitbags, liars, and asskissers of all colors anyway. What’s the difference
