And as we all know, it's always better with some lubricant, really helps the process along...

Yeah, LaVey (Church) had a bunch of weird stuff in his writings, including the salad dressing test in The Satanic Witch.

So you're agreeing that the message you're sending is that you're totally cool with fascism and an effective end to the legitimacy of elections.

Noted and thanks for the confirmation.

One more - tankie accelerationist who thinks that there will be some mythical bloodless uprising or just outright doesn't care that hundreds of millions would die in a collapse of the US.

Which I guess fits as a mix of 1 & 2, with a sprinkling of tankie on top?

Who cares?

Locally, I have third party candidates that have made it to various offices. Do you think a new federal level party just magically appears?

Seriously, what part of this do you not understand? Because I don't think you're jumping to wild conclusions here, I think you're achieving teleportation levels here.

The DNC does not matter.

You have TWO choices for president. Full stop, no discussion, that's reality.

One option, and that's a possibility.

The other, and that possibility disappears.

The fact that you don't recognize that is, to me,a huge problem for the upcoming election.

The comments criticizing the instance for ‘folding’ against legal request better have ready 100k USD for retainer of a top copyright legal firm, with even more ready for a lengthy and expensive legal battle.

I hope you're not going to take this the wrong way, but I want to be clear - this is not at all what is involved in legal services or remotely the costs involved. Generally speaking, the review of a claim like this is an hour or two at most. You can also preemptively review these concepts with a lawyer, and get a handy-dandy letter or two to be used as a common first tier response (which also handily dismisses the majority of claims, which tend to be bunk). Several hours at least.

Costs for lawyers are typically in the $100-$600/hour range, with very few (top partners at large firms) getting into the $2k-$3k/hour territory. A lawyer with a specialty in intellectual property is going to land smack in the middle of average these days, around $250-$350/hr.

A $100k retainer, or any retainer really, is unnecessary. The actual costs for some basic legal support are about the low range in costs for a month of operation of their servers ($900-$2200/mo per their own public costing statements through opencollective).

Forget anything else in terms of piracy communities or anything else. Speaking with a lawyer to cover the bases is a smart decision - remember that there have already been issues like CSAM that have cropped up. A bit of up-front smarts and a couple of hours with a lawyer pays dividends. The reality is, them making guesses - and immediately backing down to any request - is a problem for anyone using their servers. Its a real concern, don't be dismissive.

Its currently in the negative, so I don't think the support is there. Just early upvotes.

Actually questioning the validity of a claim before proceeding to give in, for starters. Maybe seeking legal help from one of the many advocates out there.

If the response is an immediate white flag being raised, then anyone who posts on lemmy.world who has any semblance of risk now or in the future is fully at risk with lemmy.world. How is that assertion wrong?

Does 'not immediately folding under even the slightest request' require tor?

Does communication publicly before a decision with large implications like this require tor or hiding your identity?

if being gay became illegal in NL for example, and there would be laws to prevent talking about gay people, then we'd have to either no longer tolerate such content on our platform

Yes, you are repeating exactly why this is concerning to users, and why I'm personally no longer on lemmy.world. It can't be trusted.

This whole thread and not one mention of Sorcerer's Apprentice or the national treasure that is National Treasure?

For shame.

They've just posted.

It's not a good explanation. The only thing that changed was their own minds.