Here in my area, of rural east Texas, the only safe shelters for dogs, that I know about, are already at capacity and cannot take new ones.

I’m all for finding homes for stray dogs or even having people feed community strays.

But life is complicated and there are no nice options to deal with some dogs who pack up and become a menace.

When people tell you who they are, believe them

It cannot change as a nation. Any movement for federal reform is a lost cause. Certain states and municipalities could change, and that is where the future is for some citizens.

I’m too triggered by all the comments here, not a single one is less triggering than the other

I would prefer my privacy software to be developed by people like this, rather than people who are calm and flexible

Increases of purity testing is a symptom of being ineffectual. It is frustrating being a socialist when things fall apart and there are no real plans of action.

What do people do when they feel powerless?

I noticed a difference between two sides is that one is groups that messed with local politics and the other is personalities only.

This is because most local politics, and organizing for socialism at a community level, collapsed in the last two generations.

I don’t have numbers in front of me, but I think only a slim minority of contributors make money off their work. And those that do make money often can only do so because of the earlier, unpaid, work by others which caused the projects to be valued and widely used

Very cheap, but the cost is not only money but influence: billionaire politicians can be swayed by a measly million dollar bribe. The money is more a social norms thing in those circles. A token

Crowd funding cannot exert influence. It is not corrupt, does not own slave factories or stifle tens of thousands with unethical behavior.

The open source developers should unionize against the large corporations not paying them. A virtual picket line, and collective bargaining

Middle America has a lot of unmet needs, with a horrible health care system and food insecurity. Most will gladly embrace anything that may help.

What many see as crazy politics is a desperate attempt to latch onto anything remotely promising.

Exactly

one that can’t really stand up to imperialistic powers in the real word

Which is why I am communist and not anarchist. To fight capitalism one must organize much more than anarchy movements could .

TIL Nintendo will perhaps give money, to the American administration, for unknown reasons

“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones”

Most of the sites you are talking about use mail services run by oligarchs and large corporations. I’m pretty sure 95% any mail you receive is stored and scanned by multiple governments.

And unless the mail is double encrypted on both sides it’s going to also be read.

Republican efforts to suppress voting and the democrat “get out the vote” initiatives have much in common.

In some states voting matters, in most it does not. And federally it does not.

Seen in this context both efforts are a type of grifting and scam. No different than other political rabble rousing.

Pretensions USA is a democracy makes reform that much harder. And both parties do this well

This assumes the USA is a democracy at the federal level. Where votes by people matter.

Many states use election machines, owned by oligarchs, whose operations are a closed book and are not regulated. Coincidentally those states, both red and blue, fail tests approved by the United Nations to detect tampering of votes.

Those states make the other states, that actually pass the tests, irrelevant.

What makes democracy, in the USA, unable to curb the even the very gross problems today is not the people doing the cheating.

But it is the people who refuse to call the cheating out (by addressing the real issues), and more important the majority of citizens who absolutely do not see this as a problem. It’s only when this is addressed can the actual issues of a real democracy be looked at.

Even then, real reform is hard to do in a democracy. Especially one so large and out of control as the nation we see now. So any reform has to be not using the ballot box.

A boycott actually could help.

I think It is hard for elections to push any reform. And that is for countries with actual democracy.

Socialism can only be achieved by non democratic methods

If you use tor, the browser will suggest the site when you get on a Reddit page, at least using old Reddit, if you don’t have the suggestions turned off in settings ( by default they are on)

I have not used Reddit it in two years , but it used to work ok in tor onion URL