🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

Redoing this poll due to a suggestion by @kilroy_was_here ...

What name do you like best for a non-profit #FOSS community for Ham Radio? Think Apache incubator but for Ham plus other open-source services and resources for the community.

FYI I have both the dot com and dot org as well as the hyphenated and non hyphenated versions of the below. Please mention which variant you prefer in comments.

#Ham #HamRadio #Amateur #AmateurRadio #RF #Radio #Foss #Floss #OpenSource #Programming

@freemo well I looked it up - this is a barn on the main road connecting Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland (our three biggest cities). Seems the guy is a Klan leader; there's apparently also a burned cross, but I've never noticed it.

I too have never *met* someone who flies it, to my knowledge, but they're pretty visible anyway.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cincinnati/comments/1melwc

@freemo It seems to be located in an Italian museum: https://exhibits.museogalileo.it/bicycles/objects/FiremansBicycle.html

My new bike arrived!!! Now if the rain will just stop long enough for me to ride it...

#bike #bicycle

Happy 99th birthday to President Jimmy Carter. Sir, we are so blessed by your spirit of generosity, charity and kindness. What a noble and true life you have led and continue to lead! You and Rosalyn are an inspiration.

@TruthSandwich
It is a bad thing when both parties only talk the talking points and not solutions.

@freemo
The longer we keep a two party system the further we will keep this red v blue mentality. I wonder if I will ever see an independent sworn in before I die of climate change.

@louisrcouture

Not to mention both the parties int he USA support hte idea than prison should be a punishment.. So we put people away for decades with hte intent of them suffering in prison... So yes both sides are very fascist as this is the norm consequence for every law.

Other countries (not all) prison is seen as rehabilitation. Those countries are far less fascist.

@louisrcouture

> so rules are facist?

No, In my earlier post I explained exactly what sort of rule is fascist and what isnt... I made this clear and I know your a smart guy, but that means you just applied reductivism in bad faith in an attempt to argue in an intellectually dishonest way... Dont do that, you are better than that.

Rules that are

1) Having lots of them is more authoritative than trying to have the bare minimum needed... Having rules isnt authoritative, but when you feel you need to make rules for **everything** then it is more authoritative than a party which tries to find social solutions

2) When those rules carry with them harsh penalties they become more authoritative also.. Both the democrats and republicans right now support the death penalty for example. So both are very much authoritative in the severity they are willing to attach to their rules as well.

> Is it facism if the state won't let me sell alcoholic drinks made with orange juice and rubber alcohol?

That would be more authoritative (and thus more fascist) than a government that had no rule around that.

That said I never claimed all authoritative rules, are wrong.. There is a reasonable level of authoritarianism which is acceptable, and there is a qty that isnt. Where botht he democrats and republicans are the level of authoratarianism they exhibit is unacceptable.

@louisrcouture

Literally almost everytthing they do... They are "big government" (controlling people with lots of rules that carry with it violent threats).. as opposed to small government (minimizing how often they make rules or exert control).

The only difference is the left is fascist-left, they make laws that force you to sacrafice your own individual freedoms for the greater good, or get a gun pointed at you and jail time. The right is fascist-right, they too make laws that force by threat of violence as the norm.. but in their case their laws simply focus on personal freedom even if it is at the expense of the collective good..

Authoritarianism doesn't seem too much different between the two... which is at the heart of fascism.

Republican: fascist, authoritarian, Mostly rich old white dudes being racist towards blacks and telling them how they know whats best for them. Their politicians wear red ties

Democrats: fascist, authoritarian, Mostly rich old white dudes being racist towards blacks and telling them how they know whats best for them. Their politicians wear blue ties

#USPol

@AmpBenzScientist

You are thinking democrats.

Easy way to remember...

Republican: fascist, authoritarian, Mostly rich old white dudes being racist towards blacks and telling them how they know whats best for them. Their politicians wear red ties

Democrats: fascist, authoritarian, Mostly rich old white dudes being racist towards blacks and telling them how they know whats best for them. Their politicians wear blue ties

@TruthSandwich