It wasn’t even necessarily the majority. Not back then, and not now. What happens is that normalcy bias stops even people who oppose the regime from acting against it until it’s already too late:

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

— Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

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Or when they commit a crime while black.

Every difference between digital and vinyl is caused by vinyl failing to faithfully reproduce the original signal. It may be “pleasing” signal degradation, but it is degradation nonetheless.

As for the analogy about different headphones, I don’t think differences in quality of the amplification/playback hardware are necessarily tied to the recoding medium playback mechanism itself. In other words, you could just as easily hook some vacuum tube amp up to your CD or FLAC player if that “warm” sound was what you were going for.

there is a difference in sound.

Yeah, there is: vinyl is objectively worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist–Shannon_sampling_theorem

Up to 8 points, depending on whether playing with tech that was already old at the time counts. For example, I’ve never used a typewriter to produce a document, but I’ve pressed the keys on one to understand how the mechanism works.

The one with a sliding metal thingy had a floppy magnetic material inside it just like the bendy one.

He’s talking about it now to maximize time spent normalizing the idea in the minds of the public.

It’ll go directly from “nah, it’s just an idle hypothetical” directly to “so what? We always knew this was the plan and haven’t done anything about it, so it must be okay” without stopping in the middle for “holy shit, this is unconstitutional bullshit!”

Every state is at risk of having this happen with the federal government the way it is, and it’s not so easy to emigrate to some other country.

The “4” guy is simping for billionaires, who will buy the forum and censor the other guy for calling him out as a “dumb fuck.”

Good. All the major centralized/corporate social networks are Nazi bars now anyway; nothing of value will be lost if they can no longer exist.

Remember that the Fediverse could survive instances having legal liability for user-posted content because each user could run his own instance.

Despite a court order blocking such deportations, Barrios was sent to El Salvador, and his current whereabouts are unknown.

FYI, it’s way worse than just “deported to El Salvador”

from https://tribune.com.pk/story/2534767/why-the-us-deported-venezuelan-immigrants-to-el-salvadors-mega-prison :

Why were they sent to El Salvador?

Under Trump’s deal, El Salvador will detain the deported individuals for one year in CECOT, the largest and most restrictive prison in the country.

The prison, which can hold up to 40,000 inmates, was designed to house El Salvador’s most dangerous gang members.

The decision to send the immigrants to a foreign prison system instead of their home country is unusual and highly controversial. Critics argue that deportees should be sent back to Venezuela rather than to a country where they have no legal ties.

See also:

• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-to-know-about-the-el-salvador-mega-prison-where-trump-sent-hundreds-of-immigrants
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-detention-abuses-rcna197125

Of course not; vandalism is wrong! 😇

Besides, it would be relatively ineffective anyway, since “just glued on” (with substandard glue) suggests that it would be relatively cheap and easy to replace. Hypothetically, in order to maximize the cost of damage, a vandal would target the rear quarter panel, since it’s typically part of the car’s unibody and thus one of the most laborious panels to fix. That would be really wrong.

Realistically speaking, we can’t “support” them in the sense of making them safe from those threats. Not unless we’re recruiting people to volunteer to be their bodyguards, anyway.

Sadly, the most practical way to counter this would be to threaten them for not doing their jobs, but it would take a lot for such threats to counterbalance the ones from the MAGAs and, of course, we would be targeted by the regime for persecution for making them instead of protected from it.

The fascists aren’t afraid to engage in widespread intimidation of judges to get what they want. Unless we’re willing to intimidate them even harder to force them to have the courage to do their jobs properly, they’re going to fold out of cowardice.

Jail. Them. For. Contempt.

Nobody who’s bought a Tesla in the past few years is “innocent.”

Link, please?

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Remember that whole “Constitution-free zone” thing the ACLU has been harping on about for a decade or so now? The shit happening right now is why we should’ve heeded the ACLU’s warnings.