Elim Garak
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Well atleast he's going to get the prices down. Oh wait...
DOJ v. DEI: Trump's Justice Department likely to target diversity programs
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RamsayBolton
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I'm not going to lie. I didn't think I would see in my lifetime overturn of Roe vs. Wade, DEI, and Trump's plans.
I feel that the civil rights movement has been defeated.
What's crazy is: it peaked with Obama and that drove white supremacists insane. They activated and they got it done.
Spooky years and decades ahead.
IIVI
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Meanwhile, Reagonomics and Trickle Down Economics has been wrecking this country for the last 40 years.I'm not going to lie. I didn't think I would see in my lifetime overturn of Roe vs. Wade, DEI, and Trump's plans.
AOC had that post she made about how much both sides all throughout Congress take money from these big companies and how bad the problem is.
Knowing that, people need to get realistic: If the system is functioning like this underneath, do you really expect the government to be about “workers’ rights” and “for the people”?
Somewhere along the line it’s been heavily compromised and I actually think a lot of countries are going to lap us heavy and we have no way to recover.
I said it before, but I don’t think we’ll see the “peak” of America like we had it a few years ago again in our lifetime. Tech will get better around the world for sure as it will here, but people’s rights, freedoms, convenience, etc. will never be the same our lifetime. We have exponentially better tech compared to 50-100 years ago, but why are hundreds of millions of people down bad or living mid in this country? Well, because policies meant to keep people inconvenient, that’s why.
Like I said, we’ll be dealing with Reagonomics and Trump’s new policies. If we still haven’t got rid of Reagonomics after it’s been proven to be detrimental, when will we undo whatever the Republicans are about to do over the next four years and the last few?
Basically, our floor has been lowered.
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Citizen’s United was the nail in the coffin. Seeing AIPAC defeat Cori Bush by flooding a local election with millions showed the hand.
Basically National politics are held captive by big money and if they find you to be too much, they can dump money into a local candidate too. Unfortunately, this means that the work needed to fix things requires multiple election cycle wins. As you can see from the 2024 election, a shytty candidate can do a decade worth of damage and be brought right back in because of egg prices. Our rights have been traded to “ solve” today’s economic issues. All of the rampant profiteering, and the realities of post pandemic pricing clearly does not correlate to the majority of the population and now we walk right into issues that people 100 years ago went through. If we got the perfect candidates in the next elections, assuming they still exist, we still have to trust that anything that is not immediate will not be at risk by stupid motherfukkers who can only see what is happening today. I hate sounding like an elitist about this, but things that took years and a lot of blood shed to gain are being axed over every day problems. The only possible way to undo things would be something akin to a general strike. How many people have the appetite to do that in order to force change if it takes more than a couple of days? How many people have so little imagination that they would not even attempt to sacrifice a day to participate?
IIVI
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Yup. Unfortunately, the bolded is the hardest part.
In order for the bolded to happen A LOT of people have to make the RIGHT decision.
Unfortunately, there are A LOT of STUPID Americans voting. This election exposed that.
Democracy is great, but when it’s based on the majority and the vast majority are stupid then we only spiral downward at worst, get stuck or proceed at best with slow, inconsistent progress.
I said it before, but I don’t think the founding fathers predicted that this country would be this dumb.
“Racism is black peoples fault” was his comment essentially
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01-21-2025
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that President Donald J. Trump has named Commissioner Andrea R. Lucas Acting Chair of the EEOC. Lucas has served as an EEOC Commissioner since 2020, having been nominated by President Trump during his first term.
“I am honored to be chosen by President Trump to lead the EEOC, our nation’s premier civil rights agency enforcing federal employment antidiscrimination laws,” Lucas said. “I look forward to restoring evenhanded enforcement of employment civil rights laws for all Americans. In recent years, this agency has remained silent in the face of multiple forms of widespread, overt discrimination. Consistent with the President’s Executive Orders and priorities, my priorities will include rooting out unlawful DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination; protecting American workers from anti-American national origin discrimination; defending the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights, including women’s rights to single‑sex spaces at work; protecting workers from religious bias and harassment, including antisemitism; and remedying other areas of recent under-enforcement.”
“Our employment civil rights laws are a matter of individual rights. We must reject the twin lies of identity politics: that justice is measured by group outcomes and that civil rights exist solely to remedy harms against certain groups,” Lucas said. “I intend to dispel the notion that only the ‘right sort of’ charging party is welcome through our doors and to reinforce instead the fundamental belief enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and our civil rights laws—that all people are ‘created equal.’ I am committed to ensuring equal justice under the law and to focusing on equal opportunity, merit, and colorblind equality.”
President Appoints Andrea R. Lucas EEOC Acting Chair
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that President Donald J. Trump has named Commissioner Andrea R. Lucas Acting Chair of the EEOC. Lucas has served as an EEOC Commissioner since 2020, having been nominated by President Trump during his first term.
“I am honored to be chosen by President Trump to lead the EEOC, our nation’s premier civil rights agency enforcing federal employment antidiscrimination laws,” Lucas said. “I look forward to restoring evenhanded enforcement of employment civil rights laws for all Americans. In recent years, this agency has remained silent in the face of multiple forms of widespread, overt discrimination. Consistent with the President’s Executive Orders and priorities, my priorities will include rooting out unlawful DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination; protecting American workers from anti-American national origin discrimination; defending the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights, including women’s rights to single‑sex spaces at work; protecting workers from religious bias and harassment, including antisemitism; and remedying other areas of recent under-enforcement.”
“Our employment civil rights laws are a matter of individual rights. We must reject the twin lies of identity politics: that justice is measured by group outcomes and that civil rights exist solely to remedy harms against certain groups,” Lucas said. “I intend to dispel the notion that only the ‘right sort of’ charging party is welcome through our doors and to reinforce instead the fundamental belief enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and our civil rights laws—that all people are ‘created equal.’ I am committed to ensuring equal justice under the law and to focusing on equal opportunity, merit, and colorblind equality.”
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David Ho (@davidho@mastodon.world)
We got a message from the university to remove any use of "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
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@davidho@mastodon.world
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
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@can@mstdn.social
@davidho what are you going to do?
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@ajsadauskas@vivaldi.net
@can @davidho Can you send back an email asking if it's okay to put a trigger warning over words that sound like DEI words but aren't? That way, easily offended snowflakes white billionaires can make an informed decision about whether they continue reading?For example, an electronic engineering paper about transistors might say: "Warning: This paper contains electronics terms some readers may find confronting. Reader discretion is advised."If this is not possible, is there a list of recommended politically correct alternative terms for words like "biodiversity" that white billionaires will find less triggering?
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@markrprior@ohai.social
@ajsadauskas @can @davidho electronic engineering is going to get tricky if resistor or resistance is an issue.
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@chebra@mstdn.io
@markrprior @ajsadauskas @can @davidho You might think it's funny but it actually just happened with the cybersecurity term "privilege escalation" Lesley Carhart :unverified: (@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange) Satire has no chance in the age of trumpism.
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@MiriShuli@mstdn.social
@ajsadauskas Wait. First let’s deal with woman, women and female. Are we non-male? Or are we c*nts, pussies and bytches now?What is a female child? p*ssyette?Can you feel the anger?
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@enmodo@mastodon.social
@davidho just substitute it with Donald Elon Incels
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@Colman@mastodon.ie
@davidho all occurrences of the string or just in a social justice type context?
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@rhys@rhys.wtf
@davidho We simply must crack down on biodiversity to ensure that only the best and brightest, most meritorious organisms can succeed.
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@Dss@infosec.exchange
@rhys @davidho Well yes! If a parasitic orange slug can get to the top of the tree, there's hope for every eukaryote...
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@kristoff@m.krbonne.net
@davidhoWe've got some great universities here in Europe who are probably very interested in US academics who want to continue their work over here!
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@regenrohr@mastodon.social
@kristoff @davidho which brings even more turmoil to the labor market.Before now USA was a place to go for many German academics, since its nearly impossible to plan your life for longer than 1 to 3 years
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@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
@kristoff @davidho It would help if we increased the working conditions around here, though.Just because the academic environment in the USA is getting much worse it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to get a lot better.
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@JubalBarca@scholar.social
@juergen_hubert @kristoff @davidho Yeah, Europe isn't putting the investment or improved rules in to take account of the potential brain drain, which is very silly.
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@NatureMC@mastodon.online
@kristoff France already invited US-scientists officially. @davidho
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@kristoff@m.krbonne.net
@NatureMC@davidho We had a discussion on this here. Why not try to get some of the bright IT people from silicon valley who do not 'want to live under emperor Musk' to Europe.A lot of them have a student loan that is a real burden for them: pay one tenth of their remaining loan over 10 year from a EU fund if they come to live and work in the EU.
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@Dss@infosec.exchange
@kristoff @NatureMC @davidho China does it's best to encourage the fully funded kids it sends out into the world to come back once they've got their PhDs. Other countries could do well to take notice.
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@notsoloud@expressional.social
@kristoffYeah, but they should study up on local immigration laws first. It can be pretty difficult.@davidho
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@waywardsun@tech.lgbt
@davidho Sounds indeed like utter stupidity, but given the people driving this, might as well be booked under "not-that-collateral damage" or "not-quite-unintended side effects".
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@JorgeStolfi@mas.to
@davidho Whhich "university" is that?
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@Stege@rollenspiel.social
@davidho wow, i am stunned. I read the list with the 27 forbidden words already and biodiversity was not on it. But "diversity" was. Does this mean that even every larger word, that has the 27 in it, is forbidden too?
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@texhewson@datasci.social
@davidho it really is a case of the library being burnt down by people who can't read. I was reading about escalation privileges yesterday (a cyber security thing) but of course it includes the word privilege.
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@Linza@kamu.social
@texhewson @davidho See also: 4th century Roman empire
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@src_esther@mastodon.online
@davidho Don't remove but replace.
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@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au
@src_esther Don't remove or replace.Just make the text and background colour the same.@davidho
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@mmby@mastodon.social
@SuperMoosie @src_esther whoever flags this will be crawling the sites using automation, either using the source or using LLM agents to interpret the rendered site (which would be slower)if they're clever enough, they will save where they found the instances and automatically check whether they were removed and log the change, i.e. also find any 'workarounds' that might replace the instaces that were foundmalicious compliance would be to replace some letters of the word
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@androcat@toot.cat
@davidho The last gasp of the polluter class, a desperate power grab.Some people ought to save a copy of the pages, for the Shadow University.
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@BashStKid@mastodon.online
@davidho Ok, global search and replace to put a letter q in the middle of all Naughty Words and list them in the endnotes.
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@trantion@masto.ai
@BashStKid @davidho biod1vers1ty, privil3ge, etc
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@Dss@infosec.exchange
@BashStKid @davidho Not a bad plan.
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@sanpan@mas.to
@davidho What happened to our intranet? Well, most topics are influenced by such a broad variety of diverse parameters with the inclusion, but not limited to xyz...I had to delete everything.Does dispair count as a viable solution?
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@Thomaslindvig@mastodon.social
@davidho what can the federal government do, if a university sincerely wants to focus on some of these issues?
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@mkj@social.mkj.earth
@Thomaslindvig I suppose to start with the US federal government could cut a significant chunk of said university's funding.@davidho
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@hermann@chaos.social
@davidho When are people going to protest? I asked the same question to someone last week and was being answered, that people aren’t protesting because they’re afraid to do so. Is it really that bad?
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@zimzat@mastodon.social
@hermann @davidho I have yet to see a coherent objective for a protest, much less one that motivates the average citizen.In normal times we'd protest to rally Congress to Do Something, as they're the check to the President, or vice versa, but when the head of all branches are co-opted, who you gonna call? Protesting at the state level might work, but I don't see anyone putting forward a plan to make that happen either.The only viable avenue is economic protest. Maybe.
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@davidho@mastodon.world
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
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@can@mstdn.social
@davidho what are you going to do?
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@ajsadauskas@vivaldi.net
@can @davidho Can you send back an email asking if it's okay to put a trigger warning over words that sound like DEI words but aren't? That way, easily offended snowflakes white billionaires can make an informed decision about whether they continue reading?For example, an electronic engineering paper about transistors might say: "Warning: This paper contains electronics terms some readers may find confronting. Reader discretion is advised."If this is not possible, is there a list of recommended politically correct alternative terms for words like "biodiversity" that white billionaires will find less triggering?
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@markrprior@ohai.social
@ajsadauskas @can @davidho electronic engineering is going to get tricky if resistor or resistance is an issue.
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@chebra@mstdn.io
@markrprior @ajsadauskas @can @davidho You might think it's funny but it actually just happened with the cybersecurity term "privilege escalation" Lesley Carhart :unverified: (@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange) Satire has no chance in the age of trumpism.
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@MiriShuli@mstdn.social
@ajsadauskas Wait. First let’s deal with woman, women and female. Are we non-male? Or are we c*nts, pussies and bytches now?What is a female child? p*ssyette?Can you feel the anger?
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@enmodo@mastodon.social
@davidho just substitute it with Donald Elon Incels
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@Colman@mastodon.ie
@davidho all occurrences of the string or just in a social justice type context?
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@rhys@rhys.wtf
@davidho We simply must crack down on biodiversity to ensure that only the best and brightest, most meritorious organisms can succeed.
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@Dss@infosec.exchange
@rhys @davidho Well yes! If a parasitic orange slug can get to the top of the tree, there's hope for every eukaryote...
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@kristoff@m.krbonne.net
@davidhoWe've got some great universities here in Europe who are probably very interested in US academics who want to continue their work over here!
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@regenrohr@mastodon.social
@kristoff @davidho which brings even more turmoil to the labor market.Before now USA was a place to go for many German academics, since its nearly impossible to plan your life for longer than 1 to 3 years
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@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
@kristoff @davidho It would help if we increased the working conditions around here, though.Just because the academic environment in the USA is getting much worse it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to get a lot better.
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@JubalBarca@scholar.social
@juergen_hubert @kristoff @davidho Yeah, Europe isn't putting the investment or improved rules in to take account of the potential brain drain, which is very silly.
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@NatureMC@mastodon.online
@kristoff France already invited US-scientists officially. @davidho
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@kristoff@m.krbonne.net
@NatureMC@davidho We had a discussion on this here. Why not try to get some of the bright IT people from silicon valley who do not 'want to live under emperor Musk' to Europe.A lot of them have a student loan that is a real burden for them: pay one tenth of their remaining loan over 10 year from a EU fund if they come to live and work in the EU.
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@Dss@infosec.exchange
@kristoff @NatureMC @davidho China does it's best to encourage the fully funded kids it sends out into the world to come back once they've got their PhDs. Other countries could do well to take notice.
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@notsoloud@expressional.social
@kristoffYeah, but they should study up on local immigration laws first. It can be pretty difficult.@davidho
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@waywardsun@tech.lgbt
@davidho Sounds indeed like utter stupidity, but given the people driving this, might as well be booked under "not-that-collateral damage" or "not-quite-unintended side effects".
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@JorgeStolfi@mas.to
@davidho Whhich "university" is that?
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@Stege@rollenspiel.social
@davidho wow, i am stunned. I read the list with the 27 forbidden words already and biodiversity was not on it. But "diversity" was. Does this mean that even every larger word, that has the 27 in it, is forbidden too?
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@texhewson@datasci.social
@davidho it really is a case of the library being burnt down by people who can't read. I was reading about escalation privileges yesterday (a cyber security thing) but of course it includes the word privilege.
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@Linza@kamu.social
@texhewson @davidho See also: 4th century Roman empire
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@src_esther@mastodon.online
@davidho Don't remove but replace.
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@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au
@src_esther Don't remove or replace.Just make the text and background colour the same.@davidho
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@mmby@mastodon.social
@SuperMoosie @src_esther whoever flags this will be crawling the sites using automation, either using the source or using LLM agents to interpret the rendered site (which would be slower)if they're clever enough, they will save where they found the instances and automatically check whether they were removed and log the change, i.e. also find any 'workarounds' that might replace the instaces that were foundmalicious compliance would be to replace some letters of the word
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@androcat@toot.cat
@davidho The last gasp of the polluter class, a desperate power grab.Some people ought to save a copy of the pages, for the Shadow University.
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@BashStKid@mastodon.online
@davidho Ok, global search and replace to put a letter q in the middle of all Naughty Words and list them in the endnotes.
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@trantion@masto.ai
@BashStKid @davidho biod1vers1ty, privil3ge, etc
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@Dss@infosec.exchange
@BashStKid @davidho Not a bad plan.
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@sanpan@mas.to
@davidho What happened to our intranet? Well, most topics are influenced by such a broad variety of diverse parameters with the inclusion, but not limited to xyz...I had to delete everything.Does dispair count as a viable solution?
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@Thomaslindvig@mastodon.social
@davidho what can the federal government do, if a university sincerely wants to focus on some of these issues?
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@mkj@social.mkj.earth
@Thomaslindvig I suppose to start with the US federal government could cut a significant chunk of said university's funding.@davidho
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@hermann@chaos.social
@davidho When are people going to protest? I asked the same question to someone last week and was being answered, that people aren’t protesting because they’re afraid to do so. Is it really that bad?
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@zimzat@mastodon.social
@hermann @davidho I have yet to see a coherent objective for a protest, much less one that motivates the average citizen.In normal times we'd protest to rally Congress to Do Something, as they're the check to the President, or vice versa, but when the head of all branches are co-opted, who you gonna call? Protesting at the state level might work, but I don't see anyone putting forward a plan to make that happen either.The only viable avenue is economic protest. Maybe.
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