I wanna keep #Fosstodon alive. This is our little space in this whole shitshow. One incident can't change the fact that this is one of the nicest #fediverse instances around. People talk about #foss and life, they listen even when they don't post, they engage, they look past your silliness. These are reasons enough to keep it alive. Let's not give up. Let's not fear the internet #mob. Moving to another instance just emboldens them. We shouldn't.
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@coreysnipes@hachyderm.io
Another example of #mob #rule. Let's not forget that this is the same bullshit that drove #WilWheaton away, and frankly shit like this represents the absolute worst part of the #Fediverse, full stop.
If you're part of any mob, if you're part of any #brigading, then I have two words for you:
Fuck You.
(This is a quote-post. My comments are not directed to OP but to the fediverse in general.)
RE: https://hachyderm.io/users/coreysnipes/statuses/114411524014876693
Hachyderm.ioCorey Snipes 🌱 (@coreysnipes@hachyderm.io)After *heavy* consideration, I have moved from Fosstodon to Hachyderm.
Short version:
Given public sentiment I think it will be easier for me (personally) in the long run to be here. I have mixed feelings about this.
Long version: https://coreysnipes.com/thoughts-on-fosstodon.html
It's possible in the next couple of months that riots will break out across the US due to shortages. A state of emergency will be called by Trump, with military force being used against civilians.
Just a fair warning, if these events unfold then you may want to stay home, or if you're crazy then livestream it all on X/twitter from your phone.
I don't know the future, but all signs point to this happening before summer.
Groner Land hat erstmal Ruhe vor Schmähungen und Aufstachlung durch 2. und 4. Gewalt, mal sehen wie lange.
Gespannt wer als nächstes durchs Dorf getrieben wird. Künstler*innen? Antifas? Streetworker? Obdachlose? #Mob #Göttingen #Diskriminierung
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"I’ve said before that Trump does not think of policy the way most of us do, operating instead like a low-level mob boss running a protection racket. Unfortunately, a bunch of rubes decided to give him another bite at the apple, and now the entire global economy has to pay up."
~ Marlon Weems
#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence
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The Journeyman. · Here Comes the Pain
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"The only legible purpose of the tariffs is for Trump to arrogate more power to himself: so that nations and corporate leaders and labor unions come begging him for relief, and so that he can shake them down."
~ Brian Beutler
#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence #Putin #PutinsPoodle
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Off Message · Fighting Means Fighting
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(cont.): "from the freelancing billionaire dilettante who is gutting American soft power to the vaccine-denying health secretary who is firing as much talent as he can. From the senior economics advisor who thinks comic books are good investments, to the senators who voted to confirm this cabinet of hacks, to the representatives who stumble over themselves justifying each new inane MAGA pronouncement.
But also, we have the government we deserve."
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“Vladimir Putin bet his life that American voters would be weak and decadent enough to return Donald Trump to the presidency. He was right. …
We have a deeply stupid government—from our economically illiterate president to our craven and foolish secretary of state," (continued in /4)
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence #Putin #PutinsPoodle
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The Bulwark · The American Age Is Over
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"Trump’s son Eric appeared to confirm that the tariffs are a shakedown when he posted: 'I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with [Trump]. The first to negotiate will win—the last will absolutely lose. I have seen this movie my entire life.…'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying
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Letters from an American · April 3, 2025
"It is not at all surprising that Trump sees the appeal in sanctions. It is no different from a mob boss moving into town and sending his thugs to every business on Main Street, roughing up the proprietors and asking for protection money so they don’t get pushed out of business. … It’s a mentality fit for someone repeatedly linked to organized crime."
~ David Dayen
#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying
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https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-03-theyre-not-tariffs-theyre-sanctions/
The American Prospect · They’re Not Tariffs, They’re SanctionsStop trying to place coherence on a policy that’s really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.
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@MAKS23 heeding his masters' call (yes, plural)
The law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will preserve a steady undeviating course; it will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, and wanton tempers of men. […] On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder to the clamours of the populace.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Speech (1770-12-04), “Argument in Defence of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials”
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/35602/
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#JohnGotti would have OK’d #Trump #Vance #mob hit on #Zelensky. President Trump, who once famously bragged that he’d be “one of the greatest” #mafiosi, put everything he learned in growing up around the #NewYorkCity mob in the 1980s to use during his already infamous #OvalOffice attempted shakedown of #Ukraine’s #Zelensky on Friday. America may never recover from the plurality of voters who wanted a Gotti-style strongman as president. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-zelensky-ukraine-mob-boss-20250302.html #corruption #politics #government
The Philadelphia Inquirer · John Gotti would have OK’d the Trump-Vance mob hit on Zelensky
Stay in your lane, you #MAGA #scumbag. You and your #despicables have turned #government into the #mob running #extortion #rackets. #TraitorGOP is a bunch of #sick #homicidal #reprobates.
#murderers
#bloodOnTheirHands
#RussianAgent
#traitor
https://www.yahoo.com/news/johnson-says-zelenskyy-may-resign-154233643.html
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With Trump the mob and its ways are now ruling geopolitics and world order. He has an offer you cannot refuse...
Trump needs to pay for this in the end.
A few impressions from today’s ride on board the gauge-changing #Interlaken to #Montreux #GoldenPassExpress
