Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

The Southern Poverty Law Center has a new report on White Nationalists attending the New York Young Republicans Club.

There, Majorie Taylor Greene #MTG said if she and Steve #bannon had organized Jan 6, they'd have been armed and won.

NYYRPC President Gavin Wax spoke and said, "We want to cross the Rubicon. We want total war."

Also attending was Don Jr, Jack Posobiec, Peter Brimlow, Jason Kessler, and members of the German AfD and Austrian FPO far right parties. #nazi https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/12/11/white-nationalists-other-republicans-brace-total-war

77% of Black Americans say voting is a right for every U.S. citizen and should not be restricted, as do 63% of Hispanic Americans and 66% of Asian Americans. White Americans are divided: 51% say voting is a right, while 48% say it is a privilege.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/22/wide-partisan-divide-on-whether-voting-is-a-fundamental-right-or-a-privilege-with-responsibilities/ #PewResearch @sociology @politicalscience #BlackMastodon

Sardines

@stux Elon Musk has always been like this. He was a Covid denier in 2020 and pushed Chloroquine just like Trump did. Every lie that the Republicans pushed, he pushed back in February/March of 2020 and beyond. #Mastodon #News #ElonMusk #Twitter

Another radio on the way! #qrp #CW #MorseCode #amateurradio #hamradio

@AbandonedAmerica

Wow! I dont really ride bikes, anymore, motorized or not, but i have always been in love with the little Honda 50 that had pedals so when you ran out of gas you could pedal to the station. some of those look about that era!

An abandoned motorcycle sales and repair business. Hundreds of bikes were left inside when the owner died.
Gallery/info: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/kohls-motorcycle-salvage

#vintage #abandoned #photography #history #art

This. First is a letter by a little girl named Madeline.
Followed by the official response on Unicorn Licensing. 🦄

The danger from the extreme right is terrifying.

The responsibility of politicians using the megaphone on every type of discontent, Covid, migration and Russian-style views of the Ukraine war is huge.

Time to push back !

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/07/german-police-raids-target-far-right-reich-citizens-movement

I got laid off 2 weeks before xmas. If anyone is hiring let me know! I’m a tech!

@shuttersparks @davidaugust Probably right. No matter what the platform, things that you post on the internet are forever.

*** Why disinformation needs to be stopped BEFORE it spreads! ***

Let's be super clear about why you need to stop disinformation *before* it is widely amplified. Every study looking at this that I've seen shows clearly that misinformation and disinformation -- usually by virtue of their alarmist natures -- have vastly greater reach than any attempts to correct the falsehoods after the fact.

Efforts to use accurate information to "answer" misinformation and purposeful lies are either disbelieved, ignored, and shared to a dramatically lessor extent. Meanwhile, the liars and conspiracy promoters move on to their next topics, and their next victims.

It's like we're being water boarded with stupidity.

In Peru, a populist president attacked Congress & tried to violate the constitution.

He is now under arrest.

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In the US, a populist president attacked Congress & tried to violate the constitution.

We let him steal top-secret documents from the government & continue to attack both Congress & the constitution.

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In an unexpected turn, we've found ourselves blocking the official #RaspberryPi instance today, basically until they put an adult in charge of it.

If anyone really wants to learn how a relatively beloved and respected brand can burn a staggering amount of good will in record time, @aurynn has written up a very good case study of the event:
https://eiara.nz/posts/2022/Dec/09/a-case-study-on-raspberry-pis-incident-on-the-fediverse/