And the time to call your senators and your House member at 202-224-3121 is this week, to tell them you want hearings on the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, a moratorium on armed drones for ICE and CBP to use inside the United States, an audit of ImmigrationOS, and an investigation into Stephen Miller’s financial interests in the contractor building the machine.

And if you want to help local and state officials push back against federal overreach, openstates.org will connect you to your legislators.

Like what. The. Actual. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. This. Country. Guy spends a long article talking about automated killing machines and the state already being violent against its own citizens with no real pushback and his answer is vote and telephone representatives??? It's no wonder the "left" in the US is so hamstrung with jokers like this trying to "rally" people. It's no wonder people get pipelined to the right for solutions when this feckless shit ends up as the public face of the "left".

I get that it could get him in trouble to encourage insurrection or something, but my god, at least be capable of directing people to a Marxist text or something. How is anyone supposed to take threats seriously in an atmosphere where clown publications like this redirect it into nothing more than partisan get out the vote campaigning.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

welcome to the compatible left

[–] LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I do have to ask where that term came from? I first heard it on this website, and it does fit the complacent leftists in West, but did it originate from this place?

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The CIA.

[–] LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

... wow, if you were not a member of this website, then I would have assumed you were joking with me. What in the world?

[–] VladimirLimeMint@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ben Norton has a video on this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O1sJ2uZ4aaQ

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

Western Marxism, also the CIA.

[–] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I have, for decades, been asking anyone to show me that my vote in South Carolina District 04 means anything, and I've never had a response from even the most fanatical Vote-Blue-No-Matter-Who lib. Democratic votes mean nothing because there are rarely even a candidate on the ballot, while Republican votes don't matter because all they get are candidates handpicked by the party. I have seen off-year election ballots that list a single Republican candidate for all the offices. South Carolina has two parties, the Republicans and the James Clyburn Party, both strong supporters of gerrymandering as it ensures their continued victory. It was the James Clyburn Party that ensured Biden's primary win in 2019.

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 5 days ago

That is bleak. It really illustrates how hollow the calls to vote can be.

[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 days ago

Their vote is the most important thing they have. It is the source for their insufferable smugness. Like a stone of power, their smugness draws upon it.

[–] shreditdude0@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I always think of the amount of times revolutionaries were exiled to Siberia or otherwise imprisoned for revolutionary agitation. These people ain't about any of that. I guess calling my bourgeois senator will do the trick, though. That sure worked wonders the last time they directed everybody to do that!

[–] LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I never really got that logic behind calling bourgeois representatives to follow the will of the proletariat (cannot they just ignore us? They have essentially been doing that for a couple centuries at this point).

Edit: There are definitely some situations in which calling your representatives is not a bad idea, but generally speaking, they have no reason (from a class perspective) to follow the will of the proletariat, so it is not as effective as liberals often portray it as.

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Edit: There are definitely some situations in which calling your representatives is not a bad idea, but generally speaking, they have no reason (from a class perspective) to follow the will of the proletariat, so it is not as effective as liberals often portray it as.

Yeah I mean, your mileage may vary, depending on who your reps are and what capitalist country you're in. But if you're at the point where the state is accustomed to wantonly murdering people without consequence and is looking into ways they can automate assassination of opposition, some bougie reps aren't going to put their lives and careers on the line to oppose it. They benefit far too much from it to see that as worth the time and energy, not to mention the risk. As it is, what do we see with, like, democrat leaders in the US and ICE? "Oh, they need to be better regulated" kind of language. It's absurd. In essence, liberals want a well-regulated doomsday machine. They aren't so much afraid of barbaric policy as they are afraid of barbaric policy targeting them too.

[–] LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 days ago

Yeah, they want to regulate the Amstapo when they are on their way to becoming the Gestapo, which is obviously an absurdity. Why would we want to keep a fascist rat nest around when we could just not have one? It is because they benefit from the rat nest, but they would rather have it under their control and for their interests.

[–] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Ever heard of William Timmons? Yeah, nobody has. He is the "representative" of South Carolina District 04. The guy has the IQ of a turnip. His rich daddy bought him the seat to keep him busy and away from the family business.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 5 days ago

Some people just can't fathom that they've been lied to all their life in regards to the american state.

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 days ago

Well, they did start with "it's the republicans doing it" so that's exacly the ending I expected.

[–] VladimirLimeMint@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 days ago

It's only not fine when opposite fascist party do it

[–] Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Seriously though, we do need to be well versed in electronic warfare.

[–] VladimirLimeMint@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Microwave, also blue laser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6XdcWToy2c

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[–] KrasnaiaZvezda@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fiber optics drones exist, you know...

[–] Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Fiber optics drones still have to find their targets