Wandering Adventure Party

@panmanphil @carsten The strike is designed to show economic impact. People can't vote at the ballot so they vote with their dollars. Business closing voluntarily show solidarity. Business that stay open risk outing themselves as accomplices.

@kichae Oh yeah, I have the same issue. My typing on a touchscreen is /atrocious/ and I constantly hit the wrong row for certain letters. I fat-finger the space bar instead of /n/ all the time, so I frequently have stuff like "I'm Goi g to be lat3" and so forth. The worst part is that it generally knows what I mean and just... doesn't replace it.

But it will replace "if" with "of" every single time regardless of context, and then fight me when I try to correct it.

@pluralistic been noticing this for a long time.

It's wild how so many things I use on the daily worked so much better even 5 years ago even though the underlying technology supporting them have gott3n better.

Autocorrect is the most obnoxious example of this. On iOS it's almost unusable because it only makes a change when it's clearly wrong, and refuses to fix my actual spelling mistakes.

@Phosphenes @EndicottAuthor @anolandria Bolsonaro and Yoon were ousted by democratic means before they'd had a chance to subvert those institutions and aren't relevant to this conversation. As for Pinochet, there's an entire Wikipedia article called "Armed resistance in Chile (1973-1990)."

@Robo105 @anolandria I would argue that forcing them to declare martial law early would be more disruptive to their plans than singing kumbaya in the streets.

Not that there's been anywhere near enough "in the streets" to begin with. We're debating the finer points of peaceful protest in the context of a nation that simply doesn't care enough at the moment to put up *any* kind of protest.

@Robo105 @anolandria I don't think you understand - the administration is going to use martial law as a scalpel, not a club. They're going to shut down major cities in swing states in November on election day in order to maintain their hold in the Senate and claim governorships. There have been no pretexts whatsoever for the times they've deployed troops in cities, they manufacture that after the fact. They always do. Those were dry runs and they worked perfectly.

@EndicottAuthor @anolandria how many fascist regimes has nonviolent protest toppled?

Nonviolent protest only ever works when there is a credible threat of actual violence. When those "ceding power" can point to a nonviolent movement as the reason. MLK isn't effective without the specter of Malcom X.

You can't nonviolent your way out of violence.

@Robo105 @anolandria It's incredibly naïve to believe that protesting completely peacefully doesn't "give them an excuse." Did you or did you not just watch them gun down an innocent woman and then call her a domestic terrorist?

Let me be perfectly clear: they will declare martial law when and where they want. They are not waiting around for someone to shove a cop or block traffic.

They haven't yet because the majority is still passive and going about our lives. Check back in November.