.45, huh.

I think you, and many others, believe that US citizens have far greater control over our "representatives" than we actually do. We literally have no recourse (outside of the ammo box or absurd amounts of money) against a politician taking office and doing exactly the opposite of what they campaigned on, besides waiting for their term to be over.

Due to tons of laws built up over many years, the only way to get a seat at the table is money, and all the community fundraising in the world isn't going to outspend corporate interests.

Look, I don't have the time or the energy to debate club out all the issues with the US governmental system to the rigid expectations of everyone outside of it with an opinion. People make lifelong careers just trying to explain the mess to people living within it. You clearly have a strong opinion that the collective population of the US isn't doing enough for whatever metric you have, and I'm not even trying to argue against that.

I just think it's absolutely rich to try and assign blame to the proletariat for hesitating to throw their bodies on the corpse pile from thousands of miles away, or even from right here but sitting on your ass taking no action yourself. And no amount of admonishing, debate club bullshit, mental gymnastics, semantics lawyering, philosophy 101, specific individual cases where my generalized statements are untrue, or whatever anyone can bring to bear is going to change my opinion that "If you're so invested in this, grab a cheap plane ticket and get to work on it yourself instead of trying to guilt others into shedding blood."

I'm not denying the responsibility of the people, where we can effect change. I'm simply stating that the area which we can effect is small and not going to make news broadcasts. Basing your take on the will of a country's people on the multiple times distilled and removed news broadcasts that make it out is just silly.

This will be my last comment in this thread. It's clear that many people here simply want an easy outlet for their frustrations about the US government and have decided the populace is the problem, rather than the systems of wealth and social inequality which are global at this point.

You haven't been involved with politics at a local level, have you? Just the bullshit going on with flock surveillance cameras being pushed through is a good microcosm of how politicians don't face consequences for failing to follow their constituents will.

People should, but I'm kind of tired of all the keyboard warriors thinking that lack of blood on the streets equals lack of action and explicit approval, especially when they have no skin in the fight themselves.

It's some of the most absurd shit. "I don't see you actively hunting down child abusers, so you must be a pedophile" ass opinions.

It's easy to call for others to die for a cause, and that's a large part of what led to the situation we're in now. People sitting back and sentencing others to pay for their desires.

Why would doing anything to the mic mount stop your moving from creaking the floor? Could you also not just select the frequency the creaks are making sounds at and cut the volume of just those when they occur in the recording?

"People weren't willing to throw their lives away in the people grinder machine, that means they fully support the people grinder machine"

Fuck. Roving bands of empty robo taxis DDoSing local roads wasn't on my bingo card.

They at least used to be toggle-able along with all the ideologically driven features. But the fact they're in the codebase at all is concerning.

The base Lemmy software is made by the people who run lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, but individual instances are run by all sorts of people.

Some people take questions like "are you upset?" as an accusation, so they don't want to point that at others.

Not good, not terrible.

That plus the ever growing push for device linked personal ID on personally owned device feels like the real end goal. Governments can already snoop all web traffic. Now they want to close the gap on device level surveillance by pushing more and more people towards renting virtual devices with traceable payment methods. For people who don't, device link to personal ID means they no longer have any of that mess of having to prove ownership or who took the action.

Removing the tinfoil hat though, I really hope this causes cloud resource cost to drop through the floor.