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Yes, there have been reports that ICE agents are grabbing people's cameras and destroying them. Probably the reason drones are banned over Chicago airspace right now also.

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They lived their life relaxing in a hot-tub. Now that their greed has made it a boiling pot, they're tossing their children in to burn and gaslighting them that they have a legacy.

and an expansionary monetary policy that fuels demand for housing and encourages property speculation. In addition, there is a lack of efficient tax regimes to counter speculation and a scarcity of affordable housing due to developers’ focus on expensive high-end projects.

This seems to be an issue where-ever there is housing scarcity. The root cause is landlords capturing the government. The answer is to decriminalize squatting. Cities with significant squat movements are more affordable to live in even for those who don't squat, because landloards know that if they don't find tenants quickly, they will have to deal with non-paying occupants, and may even lose their property due to adverse possession.

Without squatting movements, landlords will hold onto empty buildings for decades, creating neighborhood blight, and the costs of continued ownership of empty properties is offset by two factors. First, the ability to raise rent on their artificially scarce apartments that do get occupied, driving gentrification as only wealthier working people are able to afford to live. The second is the huge windfall from selling property as an investment that comes from the government forcing most of the externalities like the health and security crisis created by unhoused people, longer commutes (pollution, wasted time) experienced by workers who have to travel farther from the places where they are productive to find resonable rents, and police protecting their capital investments and evicting tenants for them.

Any tips for how to collect trailers?

No hills, also important :)

It sounds like an Mlem issue. RiotPorn is not the only com link in the post body that uses bang auto-linking from Markdown. The issue probably has something to do with the title including the strings 'riot' or 'porn' and your app's NSFW settings. @ericbandrews@lemmy.ml

Unsure what is up with your link for !RiotPorn@slrpnk.net but it is not working from the post.

I've looks into it a little, and it's working on my end. I've looked at the markup and can't find any reason why it would be giving you trouble. Is anyone else having issues with it?

Ziq should be more famous for the history of toxic behavior they've displayed in every anarchist space they've participated in, including in their role as the ruler of Raddle․me. Their use of sockpuppets to manipulate and bully has discredited and disgraced Raddle․me and should be the primary reason for their notoriety. Any notoriety as a source of anarchist theory is due to their own tireless self-promotion rather than the strength of their ideas. Their writing is intentionally obtuse, relying on idiosyncratic re-definition of words to create clickbait titles. They make poorly supported claims that are either wrong or communicated more clearly by better people.

When I encounter someone sincerely recommending their writing, I suspect more sockpuppetry.

JudgeSabo has decent receipts. Since Anarchism101 is unmoderated, I've posted it in AnarchismVsMarxism.

When he flew into Saudi Arabia, Burr’s nervousness crept back, but he was struck by the amount of local Western influence. “You think everybody’s going to be screaming ‘death to America’ and they’re going to have like fucking machetes and want to like chop my head off, right?” Burr said. “Because this is what I’ve been fed about that part of the world. I thought this place was going to be really tense. And I’m thinking like: ‘Is that a Starbucks next to a Pizza Hut next to a Burger King next to McDonald’s …? They got a fucking Chili’s over here!”

Saudis already consume American comedy without the endorsement of the government, and that is subversive. Traveling to the middle east to learn that they also have American fast food chains is not 'cultural exchange.' Culture is only flowing in one direction. Bill Burr demonstrates that for some people the values that make good comedy possible have a price tag, and that is the opposite of subversive. Cultural flow does not require American comedians to collaborate with tyrants in an Entartete Kunst of comedy.

Respect. I'm used to getting "You posted an ideologically bad article and you should feel bad" from liberals, and this went better than those conversations usually do. I agree your comments improved the post.

One of the strengths of this medium is that it's possible to detourne an article in the comments. On news sites, comments are an afterthought. Meanwhile on social media, most people read the title, many skip to the comments, and a very few read the article. This gives people who make comments on social media a lot of power. Instead of only posting content that exclusively presents my ideological frame, I post articles, pictures, and videos I found interesting, and that I'd like to see others engage with as well. It makes my day when I post something that gives a person a chance to shine who usually doesn't have a platform but still has something insightful to share.

I have my own ideals, but if I only posted content that was explicitly aligned with my politics, I would feel like a propagandist. Not that being a propagandist is bad, but it's definitely a tedious job. My politics are a bit fringe, and there's no way I would make 4800 posts over two years if they all had to pass an abolitionist purity test. I do this because I enjoy it, and I think trying to brow-beat someone into accepting all of my ideological positions and political goals is exhausting -- for both of us. I'd much prefer to spend my time creating a platform where a diverse group of people can find points of agreement through healthy discussion and build on that to solve their shared problems together.

I don't think the article was meant for you or me. You're expecting a lot from someone who survived all the filters that keep the kind of people who would say all the things you would endorse from becoming a tenured professor at Yale.

I think the article is worth sharing because he is sticking his neck out here. He's not going to lead the charge that will end capitalism, but every act that resists fascism is valuable. He's using his ivy-league platform to speak to other academics, who have been put through the same ideological filters. His words make him a target, and he's taking a significant risk by publishing. I don't mind signal boosting that energy, even if he doesn't go as far as I'd like.

No, but I will acknowledge it is insane and idiotic for me to spend time educating people who use Billy Madison memes to accuse others of lowing the quality of discourse.

How was the meaning of this word altered so dramatically in the United States? During the First World War, some of the leading Progressive writers began to use the word liberalism as a substitute for progressivism, which had become tarnished by its association with their fallen hero, Theodore Roosevelt, who had run and lost on a Progressive third party ticket. Traditional liberals were not happy to see their label transformed. In the 1920s, The New York Times criticized "the expropriation of the time-honored word 'liberal' " and argued that "the Radical-Red school of thought ... hand back the word 'liberal' to its original owners." During the early 1930s, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt duked it out as to who was the true liberal. Roosevelt won, adopting the term to ward off accusations of being left-wing. He could declare that liberalism was "plain English for a changed concept of the duty and responsibility of government toward economic life." And since the New Deal, liberalism in the United States has been identified with an expansion of government's role in the economy.

-- Daniel Yergin, The Commanding Heights

Rest in Power Assata

The use of the term 'liberals' by the Intercept is not meant to be synonymous with 'the left' -- its meaning in this context is the political mainstream of the Democratic Party and the left wing of the Republican Party. The term comes from the philosophy of 'economic liberalism' and adjacent to terms like 'neoliberal' and 'capitalist' but inclusive of people who engage in politics consistent with those ideologies without explicitly self-identifying as ideologues.

Milei is the guy who gave Elon Musk his novelty chainsaw. Fascism isn't an ideology in the traditional sense, and when a fascist-adjacent government actually becomes fascist is an exercise in individual discernment. Perhaps fascism is best described as a spectrum, and in that framing, Milei is pretty fascist. WSWS isn't wrong -- calling someone with significant fascist qualities who seeks out fascist allies a 'fascist' seems like a reasonable use of language.