Aatube

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[–] Aatube@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

could you explain how this would lead to corruption? and at the least, it's better than electoralism, which is US democracy

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

how is this oniony

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago

assuming they can fight off the revolutionaries who just overthrew the much bigger government, that is

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago

Apparently that's only for blob storage (now "object storage), not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 12 points 23 hours ago

That's privilege escalation for you. 7.8 is pretty high.

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 1 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

You can only gain power if you manage to take it from others, who won't just bolt away and surrender their agency. Instead, for the hungry you say, authority should be enough for such self-actualization. The difference to power is that instead of forceful mandates, authority is enabled by well-earned community trust, which is far more gratifying (and revocable).

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The compressed binary blob is just a 160 B ELF when uncompressed. I don't think you can do much with that.

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure how much of it is obfuscation and how much of it is golfing. Ze golfed it so ze could make the pretty valid "just 732 bytes python script" claim.

The compression could very well be just a way to write a binary in Python plaintext. ChatGPT claims it just attempts to sudo, run /bin/sh if that succeeds, and exit if that fails.

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

If organizing has gotten to the point where an anarchist revolution has happened, then enough of that spirit will be left so that the people are brave enough to stop those who try to create property again out of nothing. Anarchy is governance by society and social pressure instead of government force.

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

(fwiw note that this was a case of Sovereign Citizen tax protesting, not tax striking/resistance. i couldn't find info on Tea Party supporting this though the movement is tangentially related to SovCit)

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

During the standoff, a number of supporters were camped outside his home and were encouraged to record any attempt to take Brown from his house. This policy of opening the door to supporters led to the successful arrest of the couple by United States Deputy Marshals who disguised themselves as supporters.

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Anarchy is also the abolition of property and profit incentives.

 

War tax resistance started long before the internet — in people’s living rooms, where you had to know someone who was already doing it in order to get involved. [...] Last spring, Jacoby, who had never been a tax resister before, took over for an older woman who ran the group for 40 years.

In extreme cases, tax protesters could face wage garnishment, property seizures or prison time, though criminal prosecutions are rare, according to University of Chicago law professor David Weisbach. “They don’t often do that, but they can. And so it’s a form of civil disobedience that comes with all the consequences of civil disobedience, which is that you are subject to legal sanctions, and they can be quite severe,” Weisbach said. “It’s certainly one way of protesting, but it’s a risky way, and it could be a very, very costly way.”

Weisbach said the tax protest movement isn’t necessarily about making a dent in the federal budget. “The whole point of civil disobedience is to change people’s views about the matter,” he said. “Martin Luther King, that’s what he did. They march on a bridge, they break the law, the law was unjust, and they changed people’s views about race. But did he directly change a law? Not so much. He changed people’s views, which caused laws to change.”

(Posting here not because I think it's funny, but because it seems like satire exploring extremes of protest that aren't mutual aid and on such overground groups that have been around for so long. Satirical actions need not be reprehensible.)

 

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