Maybe, but I don’t really need it. I’ve got a 2U box mounted in the basement with a Synology DS920+ w/ 48Tb in SHR2 and a mini Asus running Ubuntu doing my heavy lifting.

assuming you aren’t on Windows

This is the tough part.

I had a 2011 MacBook Pro sitting around some years ago I had upgraded from and I offered it to my brother for his kids to use because of the built in child controls they could setup. He just told me a few weeks ago they were done with it and asked me if I could wipe it or tell him how to do it could be recycled.

I took it back, put Mint XFCE on it but I can’t give it away to anyone I know because it has Linux on it. I’ll probably get a display cable for it and run it as my torrent box.

everytime ppl hate murican corpos more

FYI, SONY is a Japanese multinational corporation.

US, Xfinity Mobile,$60 for 2 lines, unlimited talk, text and 5g data but you do have to have another Xfinity service to be able to buy their mobile.

If you’re in favor of ending qualified immunity though, then it’s a good thing. This means the state AG has lost and they can get it on the ballot to allow Ohioans to vote on the issue directly.

Nope, it’s a state issue. This can’t go to the US Supreme Court because it’s not federal.

I truly hope you’re wrong and am optimistic about what I’m seeing but I think we’re still at a tipping point. The next few months will truly be critical for the country.

We’re in for a rough ride no matter what.

On this I think we agree 100%. I don’t expect this to ever be the America it was before ain’t my lifetime, maybe ever.

And oh yeah, I totally have so much power as an individual to drive the piss ass politics in a country of 330 million.

Maybe your knowledge of Nazi Germany is lacking, because not everyone was a fascist there either

Would you say you’re taking issue with someone making a broad, generalized statement about a group of people based on one commonality?

I haven’t defended them. I disagreed with OPs broad generalization and offered an explanation and an example as to why. You may not like or understand why, but there is a distinct difference between defending a person or people who knowingly and willfully violate someones rights under the US Constitution and the law and recognizing that a person is not inherently bad simply because they have a job at an organization.

Let me be absolutely clear: calling me a Nazi is not only wildly inaccurate, it is deeply offensive and unacceptable. That term carries the weight of real historical atrocities — genocide, totalitarianism, and hatred — and to throw it around so carelessly shows a staggering lack of respect for history and the people who suffered under that regime.

Disagreement or difference of opinion is not justification for slander. If you have a criticism, make it with integrity and truth — not with baseless, inflammatory accusations. This kind of rhetoric doesn’t win arguments; it poisons them. So unless you have something factual and meaningful to say, I suggest you stop cheapening serious words and start behaving like an adult.

Buddy, I don’t know how much clearer they need to be before you understand that they WILL start coming after American Citizens

this shit WILL get violent before we’re through

I’ve seen a lot of this type of rhetoric lately. It might be true but it seems a lot like wish fulfillment to me. I’m not convinced of the doomsday path that you seem to be and I truly hope it doesn’t;t devolve into violence because that will be a losing proposition for all. I’m optimistic that there’s a path forward without violence but I actually think the hardest part is yet to come. It’s going to be the long term reform once the immediate rot is removed.

A fascist is an advocate or follower of the political philosophy or system of fascism.

A janitor is a person whose job is to clean and maintain a building or property.

A janitor can be a fascist but they can also just be a janitor.

If you want to claim that any level of culpability makes a person a fascist then I’d say if you’re American and of voting age you’re a fascist because you have culpability in what’s happening right now. If you’re a user of any American corporate product where that corporation contributed to the current administration then you’re a fascist because you have culpability.

I’m aware I used the term. It was just an additional thought I had that kind evolved and dovetailed in throughout the number of responses I got that occurred while I was replying to you.

I do hear myself and I’m not engaging with them currently. I’m engaging with people on Lemmy at the moment.

The truth is you don’t know what would happen if they came after me, neither do I. I suspect I’m very unlikely to be a target but I think there’s a pretty good chance I’d maybe end up in a position where I’d have to decide whether to intervene on someone else’s behalf, if this continues long enough.

Don’t tell me to feel as sorry for Tesla owners

Who told you to feel sorry for them?

someone’s Tesla resale value or those who work for ICE in any capacity.

Who told you to worry about someone’s Tesla resale value or to worry about people who work for ICE?

My whole, and only, comment was that I disagree with the broad general statement that any person employed by ICE is a bad person. I don’t think it’s that simple and convenient.

I’m not a huge fan of how much use Nazi is getting lately either. I was implied as being a Nazi in another comment by a user and that is extremely offensive. Nazis called Jews vermin among other names, 47 uses terms like gang member, illegal, and rapist to talk about immigrants. These terms are just ways to buffer and dehumanize the subject you’re talking about.

It’s interesting you used this and everybody jumps to Nazis since The Office references the Bund.

I’d think comparing ICE to the Bund or the OD would be more apt since those were at least American arms of the Nazi organization. Plus there’s the roundabout connection between what’s happening now and McCarthyism through what happened with the Bund and the Special Committee on Un-American Activities.

I don’t disagree with anything you wrote until your edit.

I find your edit offensive and I am reporting your comment as I don’t really appreciate the implication that I am a Nazi or would give a zieg heil salute.

I won’t be dragged into a straw man argument by someone trying to get me to justify Nazis. I also won’t be baited with a false equivalence question like what is the difference between Nazis and ICE. That’s why I gave the definition answers.

I guess I don’t have the purity of all the other Lemmings here to be such an absolutist.

Nazi noun Na·​zi ˈnät-sē ˈnat- 1 : a member of a German fascist party controlling Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler

ICE abbreviation noun: ICE; singular proper noun: ICE 1. (in the US) Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

You’re making a lot of assumptions. I’ve thought about what I would do if I got a visit from ICE. I actually pulled my gun out of the safe and cleaned and oiled it just to make sure it was in good working order. I think if they came to my house I would refuse to let them in and if they tried to force entry I’d use any force necessary to defend myself. That said, if there was a list of citizens to be rounded up I suspect I’d be pretty far down on it.

I don’t think things are normal in the United States however I don’t believe logic, reason, and rule of law no longer apply. Courts are still in session where I live, cases are still being tried, police are still on the streets and enforcing the laws.

My example that you incorrectly called a “straw man” was to demonstrate that making such a broad statement catches people tangentially related who might be stuck by circumstance. I realize a fictitious example isn’t the best but hoped it might help illustrate the point. If it’s easier to consider what’s happening with Tesla and Tesla vehicle owners that’s kind of a parallel. There are people who have had a Tesla vehicle long before the current craziness with Musk that may now find themselves caught in the middle simply because some years ago they bought a car that is now being associated with Nazis.

I never said it did. Lemmy is (or was) supposed to be a place for civil discussion. It’s not really about right or wrong, especially on topics like this because so much of it is opinion based. That’s why I stated my disagreement with the broad statement that was made and elucidated about why.

I don’t know that there’s an argument to be made either way which one is “right”. I however reserve my anger for those that have earned it. As far as I can tell we are all largely on the same side of the core issue, I have no desire to lash out and target my anger at you or the OP. If I could have some time with members of this administration it would be a different situation.

Apply the So What principle: So what if I, as a private citizen, make a judgement about people who work for a government office? What’s the practical impact for this oh-so-unfairly-maligned hypothetical person you constructed? Nothing.

It’s a hypothetical so I’m not sure how you’d measure it but you’re certainly creating a division and fostering an us/them mentality. What purpose does it serve to make a broad statement that’s backed only by emotion and supposition that anybody associated with ICE is a bad person? Other than to make you feel better and more righteous?

Now, what’s the practical impact when a government agency denies due process to people when it unlawfully detains them? Oh, yeah, that does seem like a real and substantive impact, doesn’t it?

It sure does! And we should all of us be against a government that does that. I think I could get on board with a statement like “Any person that knowingly and willingly helps the US government deprive any person of their rights in violation the US Constitution or the law is a bad person”.