It’s definitely tricky. When a community gets large and busy enough, though, that will probably be a worthwhile risk.

The shutdown would potentially give Trump leeway to indefinitely furlough federal employees.

They have only commented and don’t seem to be a subscriber.

Related topic: Having to click through page after page to find a subscriber in the subscriber list is clunky as hell. I’d like to see a search feature there.

I think the point the author was trying to make was that a movement needs an unambiguous and clear escalation plan. We use statements like “Democracy is under attack,” but balk at the idea of escalating past rallies and marches.

Escalation doesn’t necessarily mean hardcore disruption or violence, either. One path to violence would be promoting candidates for office or moving to recall GOP legislators.

Counterpoint: “Why Protest Events Are Not A Waste Of Time” https://www.thoughtco.com/why-protest-events-are-important-721459

It’s a great video, but it unfortunately has been shown to be ineffective at improving the self-awareness of fascists (https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/8/14/16143782/dont-be-a-sucker-propaganda-charlottesville-nazi-racism). I even tested it with my MAGA parent, and they identified strongly with the minority groups portrayed in the film.

Is this not treason? An utter betrayal of the Constitution, to illegally retaliate against a legally-present person for exercising his protected rights?

Oh, would you look at that! I very happily eat my words; it just looked like there wasn’t any federation going on over there earlier. Happy to be proven wrong.

In either case, eventually we will probably close this community and shift over to the communities hosted over there.

It is a mirror of r/50501, but it’s also the official 50501 Lemmy instance. I don’t believe it is federating.

That’s not graffiti. That’s art.

There is an official Lemmy instance over at https://50501.chat/ as well.

Holy crap, that’s my bad! Gonna fix it right now

This just means they can use the information you input in order for Firefox to work the way you expect it to. The purpose of the information collection is clearly stated:

to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

Any country that claims to be “morally superior” is lying. There are always compromises.