I think people are dissuaded by a few factors.

The first is obviously it’s very difficult.

The second is you’re almost certainly going to be caught. All the resources in the country will be spent finding you.

Also, and I think this is potentially the most important, is the result isn’t worth it. It’s not a “cut off the head of the snake” situation. Trump isn’t the end of this. Hell, Vance might be even worse. If Trump is murdered he becomes a martyr. That’s not what you want to happen.

It’s not going to improve anything, so why throw your life away attempting to do something nearly impossible?

I think the only option for killing Trump that has a good outcome is someone in his cabinet or in a senior position in the military does it to stop him from doing something. Anything else probably strengthens his base.

Reducing other’s freedoms because they’re bad for you is something I’d consider evil. People should be allowed to make choices for themselves. If you think they’re harmful than you should try to educate people, but you shouldn’t try to make them having a choice (which you were allowed to make) illegal.

“Guys, some people just joined the Nazis because they wanted them to be less racist! You can’t just say all Nazis are racist!”

I’m pretty sure they aren’t allowed to by Hasbro. They’re making a Virtual Table Top for D&D with subscriptions and micro transactions, attempting to make that how you play D&D now. If Larian made BG3 compete with that, but without all the bullshit, then they’d lose.

Also, anyone looking for something better, or to get away from Hasbro, Pathfinder 2E is an actually well thought out game where you have to memorize a lot fewer exceptions and crap. It just makes sense and works how you’d expect.

Yep, and seeing as the USCG has been able to actually reach recruitment goals in the modern day, it probably worked great to get people into it.

It could also be the 20 years of pointless war that made people not want to join other branches though, while the Coast Guard has a very different mission. It could possibly have nothing to do with her, but I’m sure it played some role.

You don’t have am answer, so I’ll tell you what I’ve been told; that all we can do is put ourselves in front of the harassment. If it starts happening, call them out. Yeah, you might catch some shit for it, but it’s not something that normally happens to you or me most likely.

For example, I frequently play a game called Squad. It’s a light mil-Sim, and as you can imagine there are a lot of very annoying misogynistic men. If a woman speaks and people start being annoying, I’ll try to step in and take the heat instead. It’s not a great solution, but the goal is to not let them think everyone is accepting of it, and maybe let the woman (or other higher pitched voice person) just play the game. I’d rather be the target for once instead of the same people always being the target.

Sadly, some men need to hear it from other men that they need to treat women as just people, not as a different thing.

I don’t think women would want you running their women’s community though. That’s something they need to do on their own probably.

I’m a man, but I’ve been on the internet for a while. It literally always happens. This isn’t a Lemmy issue. It’s an internet issue. I assume it’s because people are mostly anonymous, but anywhere that has men and women, if the thread gets popular enough men will join in. Some of those men will be assholes who make themselves offended by the fact women are discussing men.

As long as you can’t verify accounts are actually women, this issue will persist. There’s not a good solution besides just having good moderators who deal with all the bullshit, but that’s hard to ask from someone for free.

The only choice is probably to make what you want to see, and then hope for the best but prepare for the worst, or accept it’s not going to exist. You can either let them win by letting harassment shut down communities or deal with them. I’m not saying you should force yourself to deal with the harassment though, because I’m sure it’s awful.

The point of DEI stuff is basically when you have multiple equally qualified people, you choose the one that brings more diversity to your work force. Diversity is very useful. People from different backgrounds will come up with different solutions to problems. You may get a solution that wouldn’t have been thought of otherwise.

DEI is usually not hiring under-qualified people. That’d be stupid.

(I’m a straight white man. I’m not saying this from a position of benefiting from it.)

It doesn’t actually qualify as DEI, but it’s not like definitions have ever mattered. Trump got rid of the (first female) commandant of the USCG, presumably because she’s a woman, or maybe because she went after sex offenders. To my knowledge, she wasn’t a DEI hire or anything. She earned that position, as much as anyone has.

Once you’re at the protest you can talk in person. Sure,. Maybe organizers need some form of communication (and hopefully they do it securely), but otherwise there’s no need. You can just speak with people. People have been protesting far longer than cell phones have existed.

Even people willing to take risks and be martyred should do it in a way that advances the goal. They shouldn’t try to let themselves be tracked and watched/arrested in private away from the protest. If you’re being arrested it should be forced to be in public and made into a show.

Knowing how the US works, he probably won’t get to interact with humans. He’s being charged with terrorism, so they’re trying to make sure he can’t easily be accessed.

It’s like people playing game online. It’s always hackers why they lost. It’s never something to do with themselves.

You were banned because of the actions you took. Accept responsibility and internalize it. Maybe you can improve as a person. Blaming it on someone else only ensures you’ll always be wrong, but you’ll never realize it. You’ll just be shunned by everyone and think it’s everyone else’s fault.

There’s a difference between being conciliatory and letting them exist in the space. They should be called out whenever they do something wrong/stupid. They should also be allowed to exist here and we should try to correct them. We don’t need to pretend they’re correct or reasonable. We just need to expose them to different ideas that they wouldn’t otherwise see.

They literally can. I don’t know if you’re just ignorant, but the supreme court has the authority to interpret the constitution and decide what it “really” means. If they decide that the 14th only applies to people exclusively under US jurisdiction (like they’ve indicated is the plan) then that’s the way it is. It doesn’t matter how shitty or blatantly wrong their argument is. It only matters what they decide, and whatever they decide becomes de jure fact. There’s no legal method to counter it.

DARE worked on a lot more than just you. It even worked to get a lot of kids into drugs!

They have to do drills to make sure the shooter is ready.

Sure, but the thing these are replacing are powders, so it’s actually shipping more water (and plastic).

Russia is also full of Nazis, in case you forgot. In fact, most militaries have way too many Nazis, because they like to have an excuse to kill people.

I know where I’m posting this, and it’s likely going to be ignored at best, but you don’t get to just pretend like it’s only other people.

Here’s some information, but I recommend you also find more on your own, as an excercise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism_in_Russia

Dmitry Valerievich Utkin, co-founder of the Wagner Group. Tattoos, for reference.

There’s plenty more to see. Nazis are a problem everywhere, and the authoritarian state of Russia certainly isn’t immune.

He may have spoken the truth, but that’s not why they hated him. They hated him because he was a black man fighting back. It was breaking the status quo that was the issue, not truth. They never cared about that, for or against.

I stopped long before then because the content had turned into garbage. There’s too many tech content creators out there to watch his company’s click bait crap.

If I hadn’t already, I would have stopped then though.