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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 05:03:14 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Bill Hunt

   @krusynth Tech alone won’t save us. If the only tech we have is Big Tech – if the only mixers we have to plug our microphones into are the ones owned and controlled by oligarchs like Elon Musk and if the the only privacy we have are what they and their governments afford us – then nothing will save us. So having the right tech is as important as everything else. Master’s tools, master’s house and all that (with apologies to Audre Lorde).

   • Bill Hunt (krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 05:03:15 JST Bill Hunt

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     Tech is not going to save us. Mastodon is not going to save us. We cannot science our way out of these problems. No one else is coming to help.

     We can only change our habits and retake what power we can. We must choose empathy, kindness, and love in the face of hate.

   • Bill Hunt (krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 05:03:16 JST Bill Hunt

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     We also need to get used to paying for our news, and getting that news from smaller, independent offerors. Control of the media is one of the greatest benefits that the folks in control have today.

   • Bill Hunt (krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 05:03:16 JST Bill Hunt

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     As an aside, if you're a person that produces sperm, I STRONGLY recommend you schedule a vasectomy as soon as humanly possible. It's very likely that soon the reproductive rights of women will be taken away, so it will be up to men to be more responsible. It's a painless procedure and typically is covered almost entirely by insurance. I didn't pay a dollar for mine. They're generally reversible. Recovery takes about a week. Let's make this the norm, friends.

   • Bill Hunt (krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 05:03:17 JST Bill Hunt

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     Every single liberal needs to examine their comfort and start making changes. It sounds cliché, but we MUST stop giving money to corporate interests that work behind closed doors to disempower us. Every WaPo or Times subscription cancelled reduces the reach of that misinformation. Every cancelled Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta account reduces their power to buy politicians.

     And for fuck's sake STOP WORKING FOR THESE COMPANIES. Don't build weapons for your oppressors.

   • Bill Hunt (krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 05:03:18 JST Bill Hunt

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     The biggest failing of Dems has been to eat a load of shit handed to us by the DNC. The current mainstream Dem party has the same goals as the Rs, amass wealth for corporate interests. They cannot be trusted.

   • Bill Hunt (krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 05:03:18 JST Bill Hunt

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     Liberals spend too much of our time fighting amongst ourselves over definitions rather than coming together cohesively as the Rs have done since the Tea Party. We need a new, aggressively liberal policy plank focusing on equity and decolonization, and to refuse to accept ANY candidate that does not adopt it - new or incumbent. The Rs did this and won, over and over.

   • Bill Hunt (krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 05:03:19 JST Bill Hunt

     It is easy to point fingers at the hubris of the Dems. The DNC's nepotistic hegemony is certainly to blame for the failings this morning.

     But if we want change, voting will NEVER be enough. We must use systems thinking to break apart the machines that hold us hostage. We have to control the flow of capital, and the flow of information, to choke off those in power. We must starve them of their resources. And we must take deliberate steps to protect the most vulnerable among us.