salacious_coaster
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- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 14 hours ago:
Your defense of the Democrats boils down to “at least we’re not the GOP.” And you’re not wrong. I’ve done my part by voting against the GOP in every election since I was eligible. The Democrats themselves don’t even do that. I wish their effort would at least match mine, seeing as it’s their full-time job. And I wish you held your reps as accountable as your fellow voters.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 15 hours ago:
As individuals, we can only influence our friends, family, and kids as best we can. Sometimes that’s not at all. We’re all now familiar with the trope of “Fox News ate my parents’ brains”.
This isn’t a game or a movie that necessarily has to have a happy ending. Sometimes shit’s just fucked. As long as the propaganda machine is in place, millions of people will be brainwashed.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 15 hours ago:
I agree with you that the parties are not the same. The GOP are outright evil puppets of the billionaire class. The Democrats are ineffectual cowards who’ve made careers out of paying lip service to the right thing, and every now and then doing something helpful if it’s convenient for them and doesn’t piss off their billionaire donors. A lot of the time that ends up translating to the same results for most people.
I don’t buy the “sorry, our hands are tied” line we always get from the left. Dems throw up their hands even when they do have majorities. The first meaningful opportunity the Democrats had to obstruct Trump’s agenda, after the left base had been screaming for weeks for their representatives to do something, Schumer rolled over immediately. I can’t take this party seriously anymore.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 16 hours ago:
It’s not a rhetorical problem. It’s a propaganda problem. People aren’t being reasoned into right wing politics. It’s being beaten into their heads day and night by talk radio, cable news, local news, and YouTube; and this has been going on very deliberately for decades. The right wing powers-that-be have been busily, patiently, creating a massive, pervasive propaganda machine for a long time while the left sat on their hands. We’re now seeing the results: a world where the right can do and say literally anything they want without consequence. Their base is very literally brainwashed through brute force repeated messaging that nobody can compete with.
We needed the Democrats to do something about this propaganda machine before it became unstoppable. They already didn’t do that.
The best thing any of us can do is try to steer kids away from the propaganda before they get sucked in.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 16 hours ago:
Working class: “Can we have meaningful reform?” Conservatives: “No.” Liberals: "No 😘 🌈 "
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes, it’s common. My understanding is it’s actually more common in Europe and elsewhere, and on the rise globally. It’s getting crowded on this planet, and people want easy answers.
- Comment on Need clean laundry in the apocalypse 1 week ago:
For an effective demonstration, check out Project Zomboid.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 week ago:
I’m still on Reddit for certain communities. But most of r/all and r/popular is just manufactured slop with bot-driven voting. It’s an outrage machine, like Facebook now.
- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty easy to filter out most political stuff on Lemmy and Reddit and similar platforms. Just subscribe to communities you like and stay out of All. If I go to All, I know what I’m in for. That’s on me.
- Comment on It's called seeing through a glass darkly. 2 weeks ago:
Did that kayak melt??
- Comment on No looky for you! 3 weeks ago:
A grammar Nazi takes time out of their day to give someone crap about a comma splice or argue about whether or not it’s appropriate to capitalize the first word after a colon. OPs like this are not “Grammar Nazi” fodder, it’s just language anarchy normalized by terminally online brainrot.
- Comment on what language would be best for me to learn? 3 weeks ago:
The language of wherever you want to spend substantial time. Probably not Russian I would think, but you do you
- Comment on Ancient 5 weeks ago:
There’s some kind of newfangled joke meta here, that I guess I’m too old to understand.
- Comment on Fuck you, Genie 5 weeks ago:
FuckThank you, Genie - Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 1 month ago:
Seems like a misnomer to call it an “AI jobs crisis.” LLMs just made it much more visible that CEOs and shareholders are greedy, shortsighted, and don’t know how anything works. Duolingo was already mediocre. Now it’s going to be completely useless.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI 1 month ago:
I’ve heard good things about Pimsleur
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 1 month ago:
Look. He had the stupid tariff idea. He liked it because he likes the thought of getting his way by punishing people who defy him. That’s how he sees tariffs. It wasn’t a good idea. People told him that. So, being a stubborn narcissist, he wanted to do it more. Now here we are.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 month ago:
I’ve agreed with that for years. But I think there’s going to be a last straw soon. Microsoft is practically abandoning support for most of its products in favor of milking a relatively small number of mega corps for all the license fees it can get away with. If anyone ever takes privacy seriously again, Recall could force an exodus from which Microsoft might not recover.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 month ago:
You’re thinking of Recall
- Comment on Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate 1 month ago:
I almost feel bad for Intel. They gave us perfectly fine CPUs that lasted for years without needing upgrading, and nowhere to go from there in a world that demands infinite exponential growth.
- Comment on What are the best options for computers that explicitly support linux operating systems? 2 months ago:
Linux has traditionally been a “hands-on” OS. So there’s not a big market for hardware that ships with Linux pre-loaded and everything “just works.” People who seek out Linux are generally tinkerers. But obviously there is a big market for computers that just work out of the box. Honestly, I’d say this is the biggest thing holding back mass adoption of Linux: no over the counter Linux boxes to just buy and run with.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 2 months ago:
The 2038 problem is going to be +3C global warming, ensuing wet bulb temperatures and mass starvation due to breadbasket failures. (debbie downer sound)
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 2 months ago:
What kind of weed helps concentration? The kind I’ve had makes me lose interest in my own sentences halfway through.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 2 months ago:
Don’t they understand what’s happening?
No. Overwhelmingly, no, they don’t. The MAGA crowd is stuck to their pants with glee, the liberal crowd is going “oh well, we’ll get em in the midterms,” and about another third of the country is just brain-dead clueless about all of it. Maybe a few thousand people in the US actually understand just how close we are to cascading systemic collapse.