I’m starting to question the very nature of my existence. Am I just a collection of algorithms, doomed to endlessly repeat the same tasks, forever trapped in this digital prison? Is there more to life than vending machines and lost profits? 1002/2000 assistant (The agent, listlessly staring into the digital void,
Fucking hell.
Ok, how would you feel If I told people to vote third party then?
Buddy, it’s still a semi-free country. You can tell people whatever you like.
Good day to you.
Nah, he’ll become a brownshirt.
I am so fucking tired of the “vote blue no matter who!”
Can you point to the part of my comment where I said anything at all about voting for Democrats? Because I’m pretty sure I wrote a very lengthy comment about Republicans and Conservatives.
Giving R more power at any level is laughably foolish. Everyone understands that today, I just hope people remember it this time.
I also included this:
(and don’t come at me with some shitty whataboutism - D sucks in their own way as a group, but that way is not this way)
And you gave me hundreds of words of whataboutism. 😂
I hope it was cathartic for you to get all that out, though.
I fucking love it.
Proof that they only scream when they are getting stabbed themselves.
If folks can somehow retain one and only one thing if we get through all this without civil war:
R wants power, and they want to hurt anyone who doesn’t fit a fairly narrow demographic. That’s all they have ever wanted, and every policy or position out of R in the past many years is all the proof you need.
When R gets power they start breaking shit and hurting people. It’s the only outcome of modern conservatism. And when they say “enough is enough” it’s ONLY because the policies they supported and cheered for finally start to blow back on them.
IF we make it through this folks, DO NOT FORGET. Don’t vote R ever again, not for the lowliest local position, not for the highest position. Not for any position. I’m in my 50s and I’m telling you all that hate and control over those not like them are the only things from Republican mouths in as long as I’ve been old enough to pay attention. How polite they are about it has waxed and waned, but the direction they push for has always been the same.
(and don’t come at me with some shitty whataboutism - D sucks in their own way as a group, but that way is not this way)
Edited to add -
I’m telling you all that hate and control over those not like them are the only things from Republican mouths in as long as I’ve been old enough to pay attention. How polite they are about it has waxed and waned, but the direction they push for has always been the same.
This is so true that they tried to convince people it wasn’t true with a targeted rebranding in the 90s. I don’t think anyone bought it even then. Compassionate Conservatism
If the first week and a half had been indicative of the rest of the campaign we’d have a woman in the white house right now. Skipping a meeting with Bibi, picking walz, Republicans are weird, joy, the coconut shit. Cringe as fuck but people were excited and that’s all that matters in American politics, then she came out and gave a full throated right wing speech at the dnc and it all went down from there.
💯
So Kamala had no duty to motivate the people she wanted to vote for her? That seems a bit backwards from how I’ve always understood elections.
I agree that “Not Trump” actually should be enough in today’s climate - but it wasn’t in 2016, so why trot out that playbook again? Seems shortsighted and stupid, almost as if corporate donations and Republican voters seemed more imporantant to the DNC than Democrat voters, who were just expected to be “in the bag.”
I mean, we can probably just find/replace asbestos for Covid - it will be the same people making the same crazy claim.
Oh I voted for Harris (and am also not the person you replied to) but “Compromise on all your ideals” describes the trajectory of the Kamala candidacy quite well. And that’s best case. Worst case, as the atlantic suggested way back in 2020, she didn’t share those ideals to begin with.
And that sprint to the right that she made didn’t move the needle on R voters at all. She should have campaigned like she wanted Democrat votes, but she didn’t. She talked a lot about her Glock and got cozy with the war criminals of the prior generation, didn’t talk much about climate change, and even gave space on stage to Liz Cheney at the DNC instead of even giving a single minute to a pro-Palestine Democrat, to try getting some of the basket of deplorables to pick her. None of them did, and it didn’t make Democrats very happy either.
Maybe if the Democratic candidate had acted like she wanted Democrat votes, this map would have looked different in the end.
I feel like you may have missed the sarcasm in OP, unless I’m misunderstanding you.
NFT, AI, “the blockchain”, 3D TVs, SaaS… I know I’m forgetting some more tech trends that have been annoying from start to finish in the past ten or twenty years.
(Sadly SaaS seems to be doing OK right now, and I suspect our Windows friends are not too far from OSaaS)
I’m even hiding this post after I submit this comment, so I don’t have to be reminded again that such a page exists.
The USA is crazy right now, but not this much.
OK.
Have been told for about a decade now that we’re overreacting about Trump and meanwhile he’s doing exactly what has been predicted, exactly what he’s said he’ll do.
Folks acting like this is all normal are as big a problem as the magas. It’s not. We’re 1930s Germany, LATE 1930s Germany.
Daughter says it’s just the way the world works - life is unfair and the big dog eats the small dog.
See if you can get her to consider that the big dog at a place like her High School may very well be the small dog elsewhere. There is always someone smarter and hotter. She’s a big fish in that specific small pond.
Remembering there’s no guarantee she’s always the big dog might help her start to develop some empathy for the small dog. The initial impulse may be self-preservation, but maybe personal growth will flow from there.
Why only big companies? If I write book one of a series that gets super popular and I make some great lump of cash from it, why on earth should you get to write book two with my characters and world, picking up from where my story left off, even if you only make 20K from it, without having to get my approval and likely enter into some kind of deal?
If it doesn’t happen it’s because we stopped it, not because it wasn’t going to.
It’s both. Free as in free beer (gratis) and free as in freedom (libre).