Have you ever been to the U.S.? We can't all drive 3,000 km. We live in a country with drastically lower population density than European countries.
obvs
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The U.S. is pretty much as big as Europe.
It's not easy to drive thousands of kilometers to get to their mansions. These marches happened all over the place, in major cities and capital cities.
I think we should change our strategy here. Let the currently popular instances be popular, but instead create a site to suggest lemmy instances and then randomize the order they show up in the suggestions.
Don't try and pull people who already have accounts from the existing instances to build the smaller instances. Try and direct the incoming growth to the smaller instances, instead.
Aim for growth instead of cannibalism.
I haven't been banned from Reddit.
I want Lemmy to succeed because I want to interact more with people who are not from the U.S., and I don't want to use platforms from the people who were sitting behind him on inauguration day.
Since Elon feels that he can interfere in Reddit and since Reddit seems open to letting that happen, that's a good sign to me that I should limit my use of Reddit and should use alternatives instead. Lemmy seems to be the most Reddit-like of those alternative platforms, so here I am.
They predict -3.7% if yesterday was somehow the end of it, but we know it's not.
-3.7% would be a dream compared to what's actually likely.
The possibility of a situation like this is why people never succeeded in repealing the second amendment.
And whether or not we agreed with that fact, it is likely to have some effect on the situation now.
This time may be different because the police may have a lot greater reason to join the people than they did in the past. The police's retirements were also wiped out, and the police's family members are a lot more likely to have been affected by those tariffs. I think it's too pessimistic to say what you're saying, because the number of people affected now is significantly greater.
An uprising seems likely, and an attempt at brutal suppression also seems likely, but the United States regime has also made enemies of almost every other country on the planet, and the groundswell of people is very large. The number of people in the protests today was massive:
https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/
If you see the sheer numbers, it's enough to give hope.
This puts creative workers in the same boat as all other employees who do work once and don't continue to get paid for it afterward.
And for anyone who would take this as an argument in favor of the wealthy exploiting people, no, it's not. It's just pointing out that it's more typical for humans to be exploited, and the fact that there used to be legal protections to protect people who did creative work but there haven't been protections to protect others is very interesting.
Well it won't be after the next one!
Unfortunately, there have been a lot of Dred Scotts of our time.
Dobbs, Trump v Anderson, et cetera.
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Absolutely.
Looking forward to April 19th.