On the one hand, I suppose that depends on who is defining “basic human rights.” I’m pretty sure the Trump Convoys would claim that’s what they were doing.

On the other hand, the question was on riots, not on rights. Not all riots are justified.

This is the same as any major conflict. People want to try to work thing out without violence. The times that does happen are unremarkable. The times it doesn’t happen, we can judge later weather it was the right thing to do.

If voting could stop fascists, then in 2020 when Joe Biden got more votes than Donald Trump, he would have been president. There would have been a democrat in office from 2021-2024. And your fantasy world sounds nice, but it’s not what happened here in the real world.

Is this some kind of advanced sarcasm? Because I’m not understanding what you’re trying to say.

I can’t recall a single time in history where voting has defeated fascism.

Fascists mostly start by winning legitimate elections. Defeating fascism with votes would just look like Clinton winning the election instead of Trump.

You might as well say that you can’t recall a single time when having a visible security presence stopped a robbery.

I thought the whole point of Linux was that there was one for everyone? A computer itself is an incredible potent tool, but most people just want to use Facebook and YouTube.

How’s that working for you? I’ve got a surface, and I like it, but I know that Windows is not exactly an efficient piece of software.

Agreed, but that was kind of the premise of the discussion, I think.

Unless you have a keylogger installed.

Thanks! That is sensible. I thought it was inputting something about their methodology.

Which seems to be “ask the nearest clown car, and use the worst idea.”

I didn’t. I what to know why people who know more then I do think it’s a problem. The process is called “learning.”

I’m missing something. I often use asterisk to indicate multiplication. Clearly you guys are seeing this as implying something troublesome, but I don’t know what.

Of course, I also wouldn’t trust me to decide tax rates, so there’s that.

To a certain extent, yes.

I used to do a dirty job. I spent most days trying hard to minimize the amount of grime I got on my hands. Some days it got past the wrist, despite my best efforts, and at that point, I would just give up and dive in.

Seems pretty straightforward to me.

If I’m gonna be shit on for being unethical no matter what I do, (because that is no option to not consume under capitalism for most of us) I might as well be unethical in a way that brings me a little happiness.

This is also a lovely example of why it can be risky to damn with too broad a brush.

Some people just process these things better by forcing themselves to put them into words. Journals, for some people are not written to be read, but to be written.

I was like they in high school. Wrote out my thoughts. Lose-leaf paper in my binder with me other school stuff, so they didn’t survive more than a few months. But the writing was the point. No-one was ever going to read them, not even me.

if you have legitimate concerns about the government coming after you, you simply do not keep a diary. At all. Not even one where you promise not to write anything incriminating.

It’s amazing how difficult this concept is for some people.

And yet Trump lives. I guess that proves the theory wrong.

I’ve never been so disappointed to have a conspiracy disproved.

You need a standardized banana, not some random banana.

I love it.