Jiggle_Physics

well that is good to hear.

I mean, it is the FBI, after all

yes, that was the amount I was responding to

either using it to serve a small network or the old video games

I am just a sentient blob of meat living in a human world

how vulnerable are canada's conservatives to the disease of "stolen elections" that happened in the us? Is there specific legislation, or other structural mechanism, that would stifle this?

oh yeah, of course. It is only when people actually lose their job that they can sue over this. This stuff also takes years to shake out, so trump won't be there to shield them when it starts either.

Oh, I am sure it is an psych tactic, they use it for hiring interviews and stuff, and I know they know it doesn't work, like, in the way it is supposed to. So I am pretty sure it is a tactic to make them sweat, get them nervous, get them off their balance.

Well, since they do not work, this will just end up being a lawsuit generator

remember when clint eastwood argued with an empty chair, in place of obama, because he wanted to have a performative version of creating an argument to win while in the shower? Well turns out the empty chairs, where someone is actually supposed to be to hear out their constituents' concerns, is the republicans. However, people outside of that group knew that all along.

He is white, but queer. It isn't only people of wealth privilege that fall into this. I think it may be the majority that don't understand this type of threat assessment. The cabbie got here, he won the lottery, his life is likely a lot better, in a lot of ways, and none of this has impacted him, or anyone he really cares about, at least not yet. I bring up the middle class because their resources are crucial to making change happen.

It is because most of them are not being affected by it, at least not yet, especially the ones with resources to do things.

Very recently several people and I had a conversation with someone we have known via a shared common interest space online. The guy has a decent tech job, lives in a nice apartment, and is 10 minutes from his office in downtown Seattle, and is always discussing, and showing, the new camera equipment he is experimenting with, the new computers/pc components he is playing with, and the expensive software suites he uses for his hobbies.

This conversation started because he disclosed that he truly, actually, honestly, did not believe that anyone in the west gave a shit about the genocide in Palestine, and that it was all just social points. This kicked off a long talk about he truly does not understand activism, he doesn't believe that grass-roots social movements exist, outside of being a way to earn social points, and does not believe that people can empathize with people they have never met. He openly said he doesn't care about what is happening because it doesn't really affect him, the worst that will happen is his hobbies will get more expensive until trump leaves office. Not only this, discussed that that was the general consensus among his peers. He even provided anonymized group chat, text, etc. screen shots to prove it wasn't just him projecting onto the people around him. Everyone in this guy's life, at least publicly, professed these same feelings.

He represents a large swath of the middle class. They are comfortable, can not relate to anyone they don't know, in any real way, and are not, or are only superficially, affected by this stuff. This leads them to believe everyone else is the same. He, and it appears everyone he knows, never once considered anyone actually gives a shit about any of this, and those affected are just fall in the margin where people get hurt by change, and there will always be that margin. The example given was a should he be freaking out about getting shot because a margin of people in the US do, no of course he shouldn't. He also does not understand how this can become something that affects him, like he intellectually realizes if something happens, it can be anyone, but he is not able to actually believe this stuff could actually happen to him. This is why populations sleep on tyranny until it is too late. A huge portion of them are unable to look at what is happening to other people, and apply that possibility to themselves. So they have to be stomped by the boot, before they realize they need to resist getting stepped on by it.