SnotFlickerman
joined 2 years ago
The explosive growth of gig jobs that count as contracted work that don't automatically take taxes out of pay may accidentally be the best way to achieve this.
Because if you work a traditional job, generally your taxes get pulled and sent to the Federal government automatically every paycheck unless you have asked for an amount to be withheld from that (and I don't actually know if you can withhold all your tax money from being taken out of paychecks or not).
There's also options like this that I found on (slight retch) reddit:
DISCLAIMER: This is not an endorsement to not pay your taxes. This is a thought experiment about how such a thing could be achieved.
I don't think the Republicans really honestly give a shit if more people blame them or not.
I also honestly don't think they intend to re-open the government anytime soon. Possibly ever.
They want Trump as a dictator, and they're basically getting what they want with this, likely eventually arguing that Trump has to make the decisions because congress "no longer works." They've always run on government not working and have spent the better part of fifty years working to make that a reality. Once the executive is the only branch of the government still functioning, they'll have what they want.
The longer it is shutdown, the more essential agencies that keep people accountable and keep the country actually running will be shut down as they funnel more money into ICE and the military, the more authority they can hand off to the Executive branch. They will keep the IRS at bare minimum, but now that they've given ICE carte blanche to access citizens' tax records, they will also use them to enforce tax code.
If people start rioting because of loss of services like SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, all the better for them so they can institute the Insurrection Act. Expect the Pinkertons (who still exist and will just go back to their old ways) and ICE or the military shooting striking workers to come back en vogue.
Also it's clear that they're preparing to either royally fuck with the next election or just cancel it entirely.
As much as I want to believe there is a way out of this, we may already be out of political and legal options to stop this madness.
Which docker container do you use, if you don't mind me asking. Also, how complicated would you rate the setup? I have a degree in network admin and run multiple Linux servers and docker containers with manually created docker network bridges so they can freely communicate with one another, to give an idea of my knowledge base. Honestly the only thing I haven't done before yet that makes me nervous is setting up a reverse proxy to expose the endpoint to the internet and connect it to my owned domain name.
I didn't even know they had it set up as an apt repository for Ubuntu. Very interesting.
I don't even really plan to use any bridges, as I understand it those are for if you want to pass messages from other services through your matrix server. I would rather keep those separate personally, even though I understand certain benefits, including having all your messaging in one application instead of numerous.
I always heard that rolling out an initial Matrix instance isn't terrible, especially with ansible and/or docker, but I also have heard that a lot of updates have breaking changes and that updating your server is less simple.
As someone who runs your own Matrix server, would you agree with this sentiment or disagree and why? I have considered rolling out my own many times but get discouraged by those who say keeping it updated is kind of a nightmare. For example, a private tracker I am a member of used to have a Matrix server and an IRC server, but they eventually dumped the Matrix server entirely to reduce complexity as well as the fact that fewer people used it.
I wish more people weren't so complacent about this. Everyone acts like elections are just going to be normal and that they're not going to have goons stalking the voting lines intimidating people and demanding "Papers, please!" and black bagging anyone who can't provide them.
Wow, who would have thought that a group that was largely anti-Semitic and regularly blamed all the worlds ills on a shadowy cabal of powerful and wealthy Jews would suddenly turn on a nation that is by far majority *checks notes... Jewish.
They only ever supported Israel because it benefited them at the time, just like with everything else they do. They prefer being able to openly be the scum sucking fucking racists they are.
I remember reading after Trump's first term about how Bill Barr would have to dangle death row inmates he could put to death in front of him like dangling keys in front of a baby to keep Trump focused, listening, and on task.
You're absolutely correct, he's absolutely obsessed with harming others.
There is no spoon.
sharks with frickin laser beams