So, OS-level age-gating is going federal, which will effectively kill your rights to device ownership and what’s left of free speech and expression.

Enjoy your free speech while you still have it because this is a clear attempt to erase that right.

SOPA never died, it just went into hiding until time to reemerge, and now’s that time, this is basically SOPA in a save the kids trenchcoat.

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    In the land of “stay strapped or get clapped” your idea of resistance is joining a soup kitchen or tool library lol

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      It’s a step that contributes which is better than nothing, though of course this is supplementary and more is needed

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        It’s an action that accomplishes nothing towards the stated goals but makes the person feel good about themselves.

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          No one can fight fascism when theyre worried about their immediate tangible needs. No one can fight much of anything when theyre worried about their immediate needs.

          Its really hard to organize with people if you dont have ways of being connected to them. Its hard to have the needed trust. Its hard to network and know the right folks to have a connection the the right person when you need them. All sorts of community service help attend to these functional needs.

          If you can’t see value in feeding folks in your community I’m glad you’re not part of mine, you sound like a POS.

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            Feeding people is great, pretending its some kind of ‘resistance’ is laughable.

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                Hunger and widespread discontent are exactly how you get a rebellion but you’d know that if you ever opened a history book.

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          Soup kitchens contribute to mutual aid setups, which are vital for subsistence and resistance movements against established institutions.

          It is directly something that accomplishes movement towards stated goals.

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            Let me know when a soup kitchen topples a government institution. Until then all I see is cringe larping as a resistance movement.

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        My expectation is that Americans will continue getting fucked by their government because the only ones interested in ‘resistance’ will ladle at a soup kitchen about it

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          My brother in Christ look up the aforementioned SRA. You look like an idiot.

          Not even gonna engage with the argument that feeding folks in your community isnt valuable resistance. Thats dumb as fuck.

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            How dare I not be familiar with every single local acronym you lot have.

            Anyway let me know when a soup kitchen or tool library topple anything with your resistance larp

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              There are people missing from my community. Folks I love are afraid theyre unsafe. But being an asshole about it on the internet from far away seems more fun to you I guess.

              You seem like a piece of shit, and you’re transparently arguing in bad faith if you’re gonna ignore 50% of what I said just to mock me for suggestions that people get involved in their community

              I hope you’re able to figure out how to grow as a person, take care.

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                Enjoy your larp but be safe, genuinely don’t want any more of you getting shot by ICE.