What does the second line say under the first line of 1203 restaurant? Can’t make out the first word

Which is why liberalism in a not so democratic country can do little to stop this type of decline. Too non violent, too careful, too scared

Ideally one would vote out authoritarian candidates, but what to do when it’s a taboo to criticize electronic vote counting? Vote counting on electronic platforms run by the very people the liberals oppose? Vote counting supported by a steadfast belief of state governments not being corrupted, and not being in cahoots with the wealthy families running said platforms?

“There are safeguards”, ”I trust in the process”

Then when voting fails what to do but use free speech to oppose what is happening?

“Surely they will allow my voice to rise and be heard and I can use reason”

Yes people will hear you but it won’t do much.

I started in world, realized I was not a good fit, and transferred my first few months.

World is great for some. Many coming from Reddit will feel comfortable. Especially USA middle class liberals who do not vary their news and don’t think too hard about certain things

When I worked with customers I found having a slightly unpleasant look, while working hard, propelled me into stock. They had to be very desperate to use me at the front.

My secret power was sucking up to management though. A combination of unfriendliness to some and subservience to others is hard to do for many

The Enola Gay is still mildly radioactive, so I can’t help but think “Hot gays in your area ready to bang”

Also his father was involved in an organization called x, which was fascist

Not yet another protocol invading me brain!?? For all I know the different pattern of signal does things to my delicate nets.

I already had to contend with the fridge and garage door

The only way to grow political parties is with local offices first. Thousands of dog catchers being networked together is a powerful thing indeed.

No harm in petitions and top down efforts if it gets the idea off the ground. Then the idea had to take root in the ground.

It’s that grassroots which powers what you want. It’s broke. Any efforts at political reform has to use it. Anything that does not attempt fixing it becomes a money maker only, at best, for a few people who know how to grift.

One of the reasons I hate to get on social media is pictures of people flaunting their wealth.

The bad part is four things:

• the op either deliberately or legitimately did not understand what was being said
• the vast majority of the comments just read what the op wrote and not what was said
• having this many comments out of whack with this many upvotes gives ammunition to the bigots
• this is a tech forum ??

Ok:

• list of donors that are not all left
• parent organizations that get money from above
• mozilla gets money from parents

Op latches onto one donor; pulls some other stuff out , and the crowd goes wild

The original op took some things out of context, Ford, last I checked, was not a bastion of the left. He names big donors.

Then he describes how that money trickles down; and the last I checked the not so polite description is more accurate than not.

I don’t mind people bashing bad guys here; and I’m sure this fellow has spent years raiding your hackles. But some people like me, it’s just embarrassing to read

Oh dear, here I go.

Do you have reading skills?

I understood what he said. Strip out some rude terms and it sounds accurate. The comments here sound like someone shouted “squirrel” to a pack of rabid dogs.

I also lack common sense and am posting this comment. In my feeble defense I really don’t know the guy, and suspect he likes baiting others

However true, nature abhors a vacuum, so there will be actual journalism coming from unlikely sources: and not just tech.

I study history a lot, also I’m older so I have the perspective of two or three generations now.

Things have normally been not the idealized concept of Disney princess goodness in government. Evil shits normally have been doing stuff for as long as civilization has existed. So all this is not new.

What is new, and makes this newsworthy, is the masks have fallen off. Those masks and idealized fantasy much of the population indulges in took decades, generations to build up. In many ways this is a very rude culture shock.

The other reason this is important now is the climate is rapidly collapsing while the trade systems have reached unprecedented complexity. So a group of particularly thuggish people rising to power in several nations at once, as they tend to do with regularity. May have epic and disastrous consequences! It’s a really bad time for this to happen

Smells like non technical reasons

My home instance is starting to do some of this, it’s talked about a lot in https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/div0

Word press code, and plugins, do not sanitize out of the box. You have to call an additional function, each time, that is not provided automatically. Many home made plugins miss that; many popular plugins used to be home made ones

Legacy systems still handle more traffic than modern ones, I’d wager