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All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation (www.404media.co)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Eezyville@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The state and local is where most of the progress is going to happen in the next 4 years. They control a lot more than you think - even including running elections for federal office. Pay attention to all your local elections - they are going to matter a lot

EDIT: While I'm here, going to mention there are local elections in some localities across the US tomorrow (feb 25th) in parts of California, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, & Maine

Here's a substack post with more info about those local elections

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ballot measures. Write them if your state empowers them. That’s where the democracy will happen.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Until pedo-prez and nazi-musk determines that it's hurtful to gafam.

Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it's actually a good news but I can't help myself these days.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Local and state officals can enforce laws on their own without federal involvement

Assuming everything is doomed to fail is exactly what Trump and Musk want from you. They want you to stop fighting or trying because you might realize they are weaker than you think. Don't do their work for them

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Assuming everything is doomed to fail is exactly what Trump and Musk want from you.

You're right, my bad.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it’s actually a good news but I can’t help myself these days.

Hope you'll take this criticism as honestly given, and not meant as an attack, but you're not improving the quality of Lemmy with these kind of posts.

May I suggest, instead of making a comment and apologizing for it in the same comment, you just don't make the comment at all?

It really sucks having to push through these type of comments.

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah you're probably right, I'll try to shut to fuck up next time. It's just that these asshole a ruining every god damn thing I believe in so I can't help to think they'll come for this too. Here I'm doing it again... I'll go serve myself a huge glass of wine to celebrate this good news, it's almost 5 anyway.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

What we need is a gloom & doom venting megathread (I almost misspelled it as "negathread," LOL).

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Hang in there brother/sister, times will be better again.

Yes it'll be a long 3 years 11 months, but still, even the laziest people usually figure their shit out at some point and change their course appropriately, and vote differently.

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is also nice because every state doesn't have to pass this kind of law for it to help everyone else. Companies are often willing to have california specific models of their products to comply with California specific laws, but if enough states have right to repair laws it will hopefully be easier for companies to just have all their products be compliant.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Trump will ruin it with an executive order.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

New Trending Term: "Died In Committee"

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

They're good at introducing them, just not as good at passing them.

There's room for a lot of politics between introducing and passing a law.

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