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Fellas, is it woke for YouTube to funnel viewers towards pro-fascist videos?

Unfortunately:

However, her veto is only symbolic as the prime minister's Georgian Dream party has enough members in parliament to override it by holding another vote.

Personally, I’ve yet to see a single American successfully use guns to protect any other constitutional right from government infringement.

The Battle of Athens is probably the most uniquely clear-cut example of what you're asking for, unless we count the American Revolutionary War itself.

Other successful examples mostly involve activists using non-violent protest to push for change, while using firearms to protect themselves from violent reactionaries that would otherwise murder them. Notably, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. For a modern example, there's various "John Brown Gun Clubs" and other community defense organizations providing security at LGBTQ events against fascist groups that seek to terrorize event-goers.

It's also worth noting that resistance is often worthwhile even if it doesn't result in unqualified victory. For example, the Black Panthers' armed cop-watching activities saved a lot of Black folks from brutal beatings at the hands of the police, even if the organization was eventually crushed by the federal government.

I have seen lots of examples like Waco and Ruby Ridge, where the government should have tried harder to deescalate, but in the end, everyone died. The closest example I can think of where the government did backoff was the Bundy standoff and all those guys were “defending” was their ability to let their cattle graze illegally on federal land because they didn’t want to pay for access like everyone else.

It sounds like you might be in a bit of a filter-bubble. I don't mean any offense by this, it's a normal thing that tends to happen to people. If the news sources you read and the people you talk to don't mention these things because it doesn't mesh with their worldview, how would you hear about them?

Strong gun control requires a police state, and it's advocates are okay with this. Some of them (mostly suburbanites and the like) just imagine that that police state will never be directed against them.

Others are capitalists that actively want to inflict a police state on the rest of us, for their own benefit. It's a lot easier to break strikes and enforce "work discipline" when the working class is disarmed.

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Are there any physical obstructions between the controller and the antenna? That'd reduce the effective range.

Ancaps: Government is bad because tyranny, we should get rid of it.

Also Ancaps: Here's how we can still enforce copyright, abortion bans, and racial segregation without a government! 🥰

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This would have been really useful to know about. I've committed to a certain level of wheel-reinvention for this event unless I get really stuck, but I'm sure it'll come up again in the future.

I love these memes that turn into threads full of vim tips. You really can do anything within vim. You can even exit vim!: !killall vim

I've never been particularly enthused about voting, but I don't think Obama-era arguments against it have aged well. At least in the US, the rise of Trump and the MAGA fascists makes "both parties are the same" sentiments look silly and out of touch. I read your follow-up too. While there is some truth to it, I don't think the argument is very solid. You seem to place a bit too much faith in liberal institutions as a bulwark against the fascists.

Overall, "voting isn't very effective, so what else are you doing" is a much better approach on this topic than "voting is bad so you shouldn't do it".

Sorry. From now on I'll stick to only posting Tick Talk videos.

The quality of their arguments doesn't really matter though, nor does it matter whether they're able to convince a majority of people. What matters is that they can reach the few people that will find their overall presentation intriguing enough to merit further investigation, and then pull those people down the rabbit hole. It's the same strategy that fascists use, just red-flavored instead of brown.

It also makes the space overall less appealing to your actual target audience, which is a cardinal sin of online community management.