You also make it costly to the hotels as the non-ICE patrons find somewhere to sleep that isn't hosting ICE agents and having noise demos as a result.
Nobody is coming to save you, you must save yourself. Nobody is ever going to be more interested in your liberation than you are.
If it makes you feel any better I once woke up to trucker comms being projected over my pc speakers
Yeah its whole thing is that software gets outdated but like ...?
A) The latest ICE vehicles are equally tech'd out the wazoo, infotainment is 1:1 and mechanically they've even phased out gear shifters for ones completely controlled by electronics.
B) Software doesn't just stop working, it's hardware that becomes obsolete. Windows XP still runs the same as it ever did on the right hardware. There are servers around from the 90s that are still running software written in programming languages that don't exist anymore. If you always run the same software on the same hardware (as you do in automotive; most vehicles don't require more than 1-2 OTA updates per year, purely for bug fixes, and each one has a unique build specifically made for its hardware) there's no reason the two should ever lose compatibility.
C) Reliability is a major factor, taken into account by OEMs, that isn't nearly as high stakes for other tech sectors. An $800 phone dies in a few years, so what, the buyer has most likely already moved on to the next generation. A $35K car dies in a few years, you've probably lost a good number of buyers for life and definitely screwed them over in terms of resale value. Phone OS crashes, whatever, just restart it. Automotive software fails, well people's lives could very easily be in jeopardy.
It's not the modular, one-size-fits-all, update-till-the-hardware-fails, move-fast-break-things approach taken in lower-stakes computing. To liken it to a smartphone is completely ridiculous.
I wonder... do we have any kind of cablegore or tech gore community around here?
They're literally fighting to the last soldier; and the soldiers are either kidnapped into fighting for Ukraine, or fleeing (to Russia more than anywhere else). With or without US military aid, which has been greatly reduced, that's not a winning combination.
Fascism provides a specific permission structure for genocide that isn't present in other systems. That's not to say genocide didn't happen before the term was coined, but that the characteristics of fascism; nationalism, racial supremacy, military supremacy, victim complex, out groups, scapegoating, disdain for human rights, etc.; tend to be present anywhere that genocide is present, and genocide doesn't just happen because some "genocidal regime" found its way into power.
Whether or not you need their permission to make the policy; you need the people's permission for it to stand, because ultimately you need the people's voluntary compliance in order to carry it out. Otherwise you undermine your own system and generally incite resistance against it.
You might feel that way, but committed ideological liberals would strongly disagree with you.
Fascists and their enablers are not our friends.
What we've learned is that no politician is ever going to hold themselves or their class members to account, even if it comes at a great cost to their constituents, unless it's for cynical reasons. We have to organize at the grassroots level in order to make sure our representatives are representing our interests. They just aren't going to do that for us, despite all the money that goes into making us think that elections alone could ever fix this.
Can you say anything about privacy?
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Whether it's happening quietly or out in the open the effect is the same. Look at all the anti-trans laws that were passed under Biden. The rhetoric is only thing that has changed.