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- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 5 hours ago:
Out of the two and only two choices Americans had (thanks, first past the post), she was overwhelmingly and objectively the best.
But yes she was weak on Palestine and that was bad. Ranked choice for actual third parties, please.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 5 hours ago:
It’s like not commenting, but with more effort.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 5 hours ago:
Nazis do this dumb thing where they go “hey that small and therefore relatively defenseless group (badassness of individuals aside) is the cause of all our problems, let’s kill them to solve everything!”
Surprisingly, it never works.
So they do it again with somebody else, and somebody else, and somebody else, until everybody on earth is killed by nazis or somebody stops them.
As for why anybody is dumb enough to fall for it in the first place…it’s anybody’s guess.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
This of the core of the problem. Github energy.
Fine for a hobby. Not good enough for a public-facing product.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
It’s owned by facebook, it’s irrelevant.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
It will, but it still has that countdown timer over its head.
The future is the fediverse, some yet-to-be-invented non-corporate equivalent, or offline.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
The actual center, which never moves even as extremists come and go, would be a little to the right of Elizabeth Warren, though not by much.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
If the internet has a future, it’s on the Fediverse. We work around capitalism to avoid enshittification, or we let it defer our future further.
In the meantime, the Fediverse needs to get shiny and intuitive. The sign that something is cumbersome and hard to use is people saying “it’s not that bad”.
- Comment on Weekends were a mistake says Infosys co-founder Murthy 3 days ago:
They were a mistake.
Take the week off, work for two days on the weekends.
- Comment on Million dollar idea 6 days ago:
Stop censoring fucking like a cunty assdick shitbitch, please and thank you.
- Comment on RIP 6 days ago:
New is the old new ❤️
- Comment on USA President term limits 1 week ago:
He gets two terms, whether they’re split up or not. This is his last term by law.
He’s probably just going to stay anyway, because Republicans have managed to infect government with the kinds of losers who would back something like that.
- Comment on Bowser Defeats Princess Peach in Mushroom Kingdom Election 1 week ago:
No.
Bowser is cool and fun.
Does not apply.
- Comment on Iraq to lower age of consent for girls to just 9 years old and allow men to marry young kids: ‘This law legalizes child rape’ 1 week ago:
Republicans better catch up, Project 2025 is falling behind.
- Comment on This might blow up in our face 1 week ago:
We could have been so much better.
- Comment on I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised 1 week ago:
he could not, in fact, summarize it
- Comment on So this is how liberty dies... 1 week ago:
Wrong energy. Both.
Nazis want to be darth vader. Calling their actions appalling makes them feel like that. Calling them the little baby bitches that they are, and pointing out that fuming and threatening violence in response is exactly what a little baby bitch would do, destroys their cardboard badass theater.
Hell, even Anakin Skywalker–literally Darth Vader–was a whiny little bitch in the prequels! That’s who they are, and people who mention it help everybody see what they’re really dealing with.
Look at the man behind the curtain, folks.
- Comment on Are there opposing institutions to things like the Heritage Foundation? Are there liberal policy think-tanks? 1 week ago:
George Lakoff is practically a one-man think tank
- Comment on Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you 1 week ago:
This made my dick black and gay and now it lives in Palo Alto.
- Comment on sad 2 weeks ago:
cough cough news media
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 2 weeks ago:
It starts with fury. Everything is beyond messed up over there.
Add in: anger funnels focus. Tunnel vision. It almost feels morally wrong to think of another thing. Anger helps you in a physical fight, so this makes sense. Also, ordering lunch while your neighbor’s house burns down is kinda dickish.
Add in: first past the post voting. This is the big clincher. It forces two party systems mathematically, and most people understandably haven’t heard why.
Factoring in the information in that video, you realize your choice really is Harris or Trump. Third choices get transformed into a vote for the candidate you dislike the most. So you take the best option.
Take away the knowledge of first past the post, and you have every reason to think that third parties will work if you all just had some spine and imagination, god damnit. You resolve not to let yourself be one of the ones who sat by silently while horrible things happen!
Cast protest vote thinking it makes you one of the people who actually helped, not realizing first past the post transforms that vote into a vote for trump, and everybody keeps fighting instead of watching that video and letting the facts it points out inform what they do.
- Comment on Is it okay to continue to work for a (non-defense) federal government agency under an administration hostile to my own moral and ethical beliefs? 2 weeks ago:
The resistance infiltrating the enemy base in disguise can get a lot of work done. Especially if it’s long term and you don’t even need to sneak around.
Even just a low level functionary who’s not a nazi or a terrible person makes my time dealing with a government agency better. There’s not an automatic moral imperative to bounce.
- Comment on Is it okay to continue to work for a (non-defense) federal government agency under an administration hostile to my own moral and ethical beliefs? 2 weeks ago:
The slightest effort at extrapolation makes this whole idea monumentally short-sighted.
- Comment on Is this what every election is like? 2 weeks ago:
Not even a little bit.
And you’re probably not gonna get a point of comparison, because it’s looking likely to be one party rule by the absolute shittiest american embarrassments forever at this point. At least until America does some stupid shit globally and gets themselves invaded by a united band of good guys down the road.
- Comment on Can Trump pardon himself even though he did criminal stuff outside of office? 2 weeks ago:
Trump and his party are nazis. Nazis suck because they bring the law of the jungle into civilization.
The law of civilization is cooperation.
The law of the jungle is, can I physically do it.
Republicans basically exist to shout, burn their own house down (also yours), and celebrate. They’re going to burn the checks and balances.
- Comment on Trump's eligibility 2 weeks ago:
It’s simply a nazi infestation.
And then this weird limp dickness in the Democrats that compromising and doing nothing is the cure for cancer.
Vast numbers of people maliciously paused their duties in a thousand ways to let him through. They installed him, is how he got eligible. Because you’re absolutely right, he was and still is ineligible in a thousand ways.
And then the cockroaches came out of the walls.
- Comment on For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? 2 weeks ago:
Late 2015.
- Comment on True Story 2 weeks ago:
L like
Pronounced “yike” as in Spanish. This is called eliding.
- Comment on True Story 2 weeks ago:
As long as progressives (and correspondingly, everybody) gets nothing, we’re good 👍👍🤘✊
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
It’s actually likely to be better as long as trump waddles on. He’s just so god damn bumbling that even with all the cards, he’ll find little ways to not get his shit done.
Mind you it won’t be enough, and it will be god damn fucking horrific. But decidedly less smooth while Narcissism Jones keeps grabby-handsing the wheel from his handlers and derailing his own goals.