Most of his wealth comes from federal largess in the forms of grants, loans, contracts, and tax breaks.

All good 👍 and the EFF link you posted is a good jumping off point as well.

I didn’t say the EFF isn’t also knowledgeable, nor that we are more knowledgeable than them in all areas.

But we also didn’t just pull things out of our asses 3 seconds ago.

lemm.ml is “a community of privacy […] enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers,” and, after over a century of US state propaganda, repressions, purges, and assassinations upon us, communists might know a thing or two about militancy against US state power, including protests.

To be fair, he has a security detail and a fortress home.

RemindMe! 10 days

The falseness of it has been well theorized by Antonio Gramsci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony

The Fascism of Common Sense

In one of those two, the workers do have real power, and in the other one they have no more power than workers in any other capitalist state.

hierarchy-destroying bastions of freedom

You seem to be under the misconception that we have freedom, but unless you’re in the big club, you don’t.

• [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
• “Bourgeois Democracy”: What Do Marxists Mean By This Term?

Protests that upset the US federal government are serious business. Garden-variety privacy won’t do.

Why not Signal? » Good Alternatives

🤣 This is the way the empire ends: not with a bang but a blockchain.

Why not Signal? » Good Alternatives

#!/bin/sh

# Get the original RSS feed URL from an Apple Podcast show URL.

podcast="$1"
id=$(echo "$podcast" | awk '{sub(/^.*\/id/, ""); print}')
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=%24id" | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl'

There seems to be a bug in Lemmy that messes up the script’s rendering a little, but you’ll figure it out.

Interesting! You extract the ID from the link (e.g. the 1258545975 from https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/citations-needed/id1258545975) and then:

$ curl -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1258545975' | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl'
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/rss
$

I’m not sure those links will render RSS feeds. I just pulled them from my Apple Podcasts app. None of them are exclusive to Apple, though, so if you’re not in the Apple ecosystem you can still find them.

• Citations Needed
• Behind the News with Doug Henwood
• Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
• Macro N Cheese
• Geopolitical Economy Report
• The Deprogram
• Actually Existing Socialism
• Revolutionary Left Radio
• Guerrilla History
• This Machine Kills
• Tech Won’t Save Us
• Bad Faith
• The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
• QAnon Anonymous
• TrueAnon

If Biden and Harris enforced the Leahy Act, all you would have heard from the right is that Democrats are antisemites who protect Hamas terrorists.

We don’t give a flying fuck what “the right” would say; we give a fuck about stopping genocide.