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"South Koreans reversed a martial law decree in just 6 hours, showing how ordinary citizens and politicians can take fast action to uphold democracy."

Let's put it like this. If you're at a party and it's full of assholes, it's quite reasonable to leave and go to another party.

"Everyone's security plans and situations will always be different, which is why we often say that security and privacy are a state of mind, not a purchase. But the first step is always taking a look at your community and figuring out what's needed and how to get everyone else on board."

"I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening."

Specification for quote-posts (and otherwise linking to existing AP objects) in ActivityPub. Currently implemented in some projects (*oma, Frendica, etc), planned for Mastodon.

"I’ve been trying to describe what I want my life to look like. The idea is that if I’m armed a better understanding of what I’m aiming for, I’ll be able to make more informed decisions that more intentionally lead me towards my goals for my life."

One tactic to counteract the spread of propaganda. The problem is we need better firehoses to be able to keep up.

"The supreme irony is that what reactionaries call “taking the red pill” looks a lot more like swallowing the blue pill in The Matrix—choosing to accept a prefabricated narrative rather than engaging with the complex, often difficult realities of democratic governance and human freedom."
"Yarvin didn’t just critique democracy—he rebranded submission as rebellion. He understood that direct arguments for authoritarianism wouldn’t persuade most Americans, so he framed democracy itself as the “blue pill” illusion. His trick was simple: make obedience to elites feel like an act of radical defiance." And of course there's the additional irony that The Matrix was produced by two trans women, and has been hijacked by people who promote both transphobia and sexism.

"It's particularly fascinating to me that what I experienced as "America finally having a much-needed moral awakening" presented to people like Andreessen as "radical Marxism". If nothing else, that shows he's never actually met a radical Marxist, and doesn't have a solid take on what that really means."
I've come to the conclusion that most terms right-wingers complain about don't have solid definitions in their minds, but are rather scare words that expand to cover whatever they want to complain about today.