Cory Doctorow is rightfully enraged:
This is all downside. If Google complies with the order, it will constitute a privacy breach on a scale never before seen. If they don’t comply with the order, it will starve competitors of the one tiny drop of hope that Judge Mehta squeezed out of his pen. It’s a catastrophe. An utter, total catastrophe. It has zero redeeming qualities. Hope you like enshittification, folks, because Judge Mehta just handed Google an eternal licence to enshittify the entire fucking internet.
That’s not what I said at all. Do you believe that the people have no power to influence dem policy? That there is nothing that could have been done to change the outcome of the 2024 election but successfully convince people to vote for genocide, stagnant wages, raising rents, funding ICE, etc?
Common sense would tell you that you can influence your peers much more easily than you can politicians. We see that every election. And you “helped” this past one. Thanks for that
Bro you are talking to people who literally worked for campaigns or at least phone banked in this thread, we are telling why we were unable to convince people, and its because of the dems dogshit policy and “we’re republicans but more competent” messaging.
It would be trivial to get people to vote dem if I could say “We ended the genocide, Trump plans to resume it” or “before Biden was in office, ICE was throwing children in cages. They no longer exist. Trump wants to fund them again” or “How much are you paying for health insurance? <candidate> pledges to pass free healthcare day 1 if the party gets 50% in congress”.
Great job. You all convinced the Democrats AND Trump to end the genocide. That’s why it totally ended (because we totally could stop it any time anyhow) and we aren’t a hopeless fascist dictatorship now.
Yes, the dems could have unilaterally ended the genocide at any time by simply cutting all aid to Israel, as they are required to do by law, and gotten every anti-genicide voter. But they chose not to, and here we are.
And yet they didn’t end it (setting aside that weird assumption). It’s almost like your plan didn’t work and we also got Trump, precisely as many of us were telling you would happen.
Unless your plan was to get Trump in office. In which case you succeeded. And it’s obvious that was the plan for some of you.
Nothing we could have done would have made genocide popular. We didn’t cause Trump, the DNC did.
So you do think your plan worked then? Or did it fail exactly as we predicted and I just described?
It was our only chance, since you can’t make “eat shit and also genocide” palatable. Your and the DNC’s plan of telling people not to try to get something that could actually win worked exactly how we’ve been saying it works since fucking 2016.