Secret service makes that pretty hard

Yeah, Fascism isn’t great at surviving long term, the problem is how much damage it can do while it is in control.

They value the in group more than being correct, so it’s really hard for them to pass between leaders. Not to say it’s impossible, but historically it hasn’t worked well.

We’ll be lucky if it’s just 4 years now

Yeah, but the president has pardon power over the dc courts.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/apply-pardon

I mean yeah, but as long as they do it in dc, is there anything they could really do?

Yeah, but he can just pardon them.

It’s absolute immunity for “core constitutional acts” and presumed immunity for every other official act.

The ruling also said trump can appeal rulings on if specific acts receive immunity, so they can overturn a ruling they don’t like.

For legal reasons my answer is no.

Nobody hears about them shutting down oil factories, attention getting stuff is why those are talked about.

They never do any actual harm either, like Stonehenge was cornstarch, it’ll all be gone the next time it rains. They paint the glass in front of paintings, not the paintings themselves.

Many European countries have better police, but the systemic critiques still hold. You just have functioning systems to mitigate their worst behavior. The us has something called qualified immunity, which effectively makes them immune from civil penalties.

To explain why many Americans don’t like cops, here’s some fun stories from the last few years:

Misissippi police buried 215 people in an unmarked mass grave, at least some of which were killed by cops. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/families-in-disbelief-after-hundreds-of-bodies-found-buried-behind-mississippi-jail

Crime dropped when the NYPD went on strike https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/opinion/half-the-police-force-quit-crime-dropped.html

Multiple studies have found police have a domestic violence rate significantly higher than average averagehttps://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/

The Los Angeles sheriff’s department is run by violent gangs. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/06/the-la-county-sheriffs-deputy-gang-crisis

Wym, both took the correct action?

On the brink of death

They’re probably on windows

When you normally delete a file, it doesn’t actually delete it, to save time it just marks the space as free, so any new files can be written into that part of your drive.

But the actual data just remains there until a new file is written to the storage.

SecureErase does the second part without making an actual file.

Normal delete:

File: 01010101 -> no file:01010101

Secure erase:

File: 01010101 -> no file:00000000

Eh, even then it’s a gold mine of information on you if your PC ever gets a virus or stolen.

Encryption would help, but not for all scenarios.

You are playing into this issue of voting taking up more time than it deserves just as much as anyone you’re criticizing. Time wasted on debates about if you should vote or not partially happens because you’re making a big deal out of not voting instead of engaging in direct action.

Not substantial enough changes unless you’re capable of overthrowing the state. Direct action works best when the state is mostly uninterested in what you’re doing, it’s significantly harder if the state is actively opposed to what you’re doing.

Voting isn’t about solving everything, it’s about making it slightly easier to do direct action. Participation in bourgeois elections is important precisely because it’s never going to get rid of capitalism. It’s the one method of slightly influencing the systems used to opress and undermine working class struggles. You aren’t going to fundamentally change anything by voting, but elections influence how openly and strongly the state opposes direct action.

You don’t throw away a tool just because it doesn’t have much impact, you just use it where it can be slightly helpful.

Obviously the tunes aren’t there, each toaster comes with compressed toast and expands to replace the bread. That’s why they stop working eventually, they run out of toast.