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- Comment on chad 3 weeks ago:
Cuck your uncle?
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have anything more than life experience and anecdote to base this on, but I think the reason it feels that way is sooooo many more leftists refuse to vote than reactionaries.
BTW, thank you for having a discussion with me and not just a pissing match. I appreciate that.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
Ty!
And yeah, I understand how I could have been misconstrued as advocating “blue-no-matter-who”. So to be absolutely clear: fuck Harris, Biden, Obama, both Clintons, and all the other neoliberal asshats who helped suppress actual progressives from having power within the Dem party and in The US more broadly.
- Comment on We dunking on England again 3 weeks ago:
All our king knows how to do is talk in circles (well, and eat McDonald’s and rape children and blame immigrants for him eating McDonald’s and raping children).
- Comment on Your grammar lesson for today 3 weeks ago:
I have some hot takes regarding this scale.
68/20 isn’t chilly - it’s room temperature during Winter. (Also, 75/24 is room temperature in Summer and whatever-temp-it-is-outside is room temperature during Spring and Autumn.)
How can 78/25 be warm, but 28/82 (dry) is “little warm”?
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
Larger convo was about voting generally, not about the federal elections.
And my point was that voting can make an impact. To expand on that point, the impact is cumulative. If this year a bunch of leftists who normally didn’t vote decide to vote, we’ll get better local governments across the country. In the next cycle, the Overton Window will have shifted left and more elections, perhaps at the state or even congressional level will result in candidates who aren’t completely beholden to the bourgeoisie . The cycle after that, maybe we get a 3rd party candidate winning the electoral votes for a state. Or maybe enough states have shifted to the left that we get a critical mass on the National Popular Vote Pact and functionally do away with the electoral college.
It’s clear I’m not talking about you, since you actually vote. But I know for a fact that among the American left the idea of voting at all is considered cringe. And I believe these people are at best misguided and at worst finding a righteous-sounding excuse for not wanting to bother.
Also, my city is more like half a million than 14 thousand. And it’s got soooooooo many leftists. We would easily be the biggest voting block in the city if more of us actually bothered, because most of the rest of the population doesn’t.
Finally, this:
national is horseshit and voting there does “legitimize” the exploitation and capitalist system we’ll never vote our way out of
is nonsense. Not voting doesn’t register nationally has opposition or disapproval or dissatisfaction. It registers as apathy, and apathy legitimizes the status quo. If you want to make a statement in a national election, vote 3rd party. Write in a candidate. Do anything other than not vote.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
Additional points that were irrelevant, because they didn’t counter any of my actual beliefs.
And as to your question… what I usually hear from the leftists in my town is that any participation in the electoral process makes you a sellout liberal NPC genocide supporter. Or it’s “validating the current system” or some other such nonsense.
The simple fact is that local elections in my city are usually won by a few hundred to few thousand votes. Voter turnout is extremely low, even by American standards, there is almost always an actual progressive (and often even socialists) on the ballot, and they almost always come in second place. If even half of the leftist nonvoters came out and voted, these people would win, and even the soulless corporate shills competing against them would have to shift to the left to stay relevant.
It wouldn’t be THE fix to ALL our problems, but it would fucking help a lot of desperate people.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
You made so many incorrect assumptions in your reply I don’t even know where to start.
I never said to vote for corporate Dems, let alone stan for them.
I never said not to vote 3rd party. I do it all the time.
I never said that if leftists voted just in the 2024 presidential race that all would be fixed.
And you seem to have forgotten that we get to vote for more than just president.
If leftists voted en masse, my city would have a a very different local government from the one it has today - one that would create a base of power and solidarity to bring change to higher levels of government, and one that would actually take measure to protect us from federal goons.
So maybe engage with my actual point instead of the baseless image of me that you have in your head.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
I never said anything about voting for Democrats. You made a lot of assumptions just to come here and argue with me.
And there are no thoughtful reasons not to vote. Just excuses that try to launder laziness into righteousness.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know what argument you’re responding to. Talk about projection.
Anyway, you probably just saw my username and assumed I’m “one of them”. So let me say this real clear for all the bigots on Lemmy: we don’t get to decide where we are born, and we are not inherently responsible for the actions of our governments. Get it through your thick dumb skulls.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
If leftists didn’t refuse to vote “on principle” we would be in a much better situation.
- Comment on amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity 3 weeks ago:
Americans could afford to spend more on goods that are actually durable. And those who couldn’t would buy used items that actually are worthwhile because they were built to last.
- Comment on A little added bass to that song 1 month ago:
I want this to be a thing that happened
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 month ago:
They’re just louder because they don’t get what they want
And the rest of us do?
- Comment on Keeping it classy for my 1000th post 1 month ago:
I do a kickflip every time I try ranch.
- Comment on Keeping it classy for my 1000th post 1 month ago:
I’ve had homemade ranch before. Still tastes like ranch, which is the problem for me.
- Comment on Keeping it classy for my 1000th post 1 month ago:
I will have to take your word for it. I’ve tried many a ranch dressing that people swore was the best ranch and even people who don’t like ranch will like this ranch. I’ve never liked any of them. At this point it’s probably part of my identity.
But I’m glad you enjoy it.
- Comment on Keeping it classy for my 1000th post 1 month ago:
The only Uncle Dan I know is a pedo. Thankfully he never made me taste his ranch.
- Comment on Keeping it classy for my 1000th post 1 month ago:
Eww, ranch
- Comment on Deep Lore 2 months ago:
Imagine being on the Internet and censoring the word “fuck”. That would be fucked up.
- Comment on commitment 2 months ago:
What makes it a personal pizza is that it is eaten by a single person in a single sitting.
The one pictured is an American sized personal pizza.
- Comment on commitment 2 months ago:
a personal pizza
My fellow American
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Everyone tastes like something
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 2 months ago:
Lots of Windows users don’t even know they use Windows, so I don’t think this really matters, as long as the computer comes preinstalled with a user-friendly distro or their tech savvy grandson sets it up for them.
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 2 months ago:
But Windows 95 didn’t refuse to install itself on hardware that otherwise was capable of running it. Windows 11 will not install (without jumping through hacky hoops that could break at any time without warning) on a computer that doesn’t have TPM 2.0 even though it can run just fine on computers without it.
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 2 months ago:
I suppose they go hand-in-hand
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 2 months ago:
I thought Fascism was the end game of Capitalism.
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 2 months ago:
You can do it!!!
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 2 months ago:
Linux is Linux
Lubuntu is lightweight
- Comment on So... which one do I choose? 2 months ago:
Should be check boxes instead of radio buttons.