Biden’s polling low, the voters want things do be different… huh, better campaign on doing nothing different! What? They’re saying we’re doing a genocide? Well, better point out that Trump is gonna do a worse genocide!
That’ll be a great message, exactly the sort of thing that makes people excited to vote…
One of Biden’s last acts this month was to approve another few billion for Israel, and Harris said repeatedly she wasn’t gonna do anything different from Biden’s admin. It wasn’t gonna be better for those kids if she won.
you can get 100x gains by optimizing your code rather than throwing endless compute at your model
woah, that sounds dangerously close to saying this is all just developing computer software. Don’t you know we’re trying to build God???
It’s easier to sell people on the idea of a new technology or system that doesn’t have any historical precedent. All you have to do is list the potential upsides.
Something like a school or a workplace training programme, those are known quantities. There’s a whole bunch of historical and currently-existing projects anyone can look at to gauge the cost. Your pitch has to be somewhat realistic compared to those, or it’s gonna sound really suspect.
i like the implication that after the Dominion War, most of Starfleet is just sloshed on whatever that Orion beverage is
There’s not really one clean cut definition of fascism, mostly a lot of “I know it when I see it”
That being said, one definition I find kinda useful is; “Fascism is what we call it when an imperial power begins applying colonial policies to itself; the frontier comes home.” Germany had already been organizing concentration camps in northern Africa years before they started rounding up Jewish people. As a colonial power, Germany always had fascist policies, they were just directed outward.
By this metric, it’s hard not to see the US as a fascist power for… most of the latter half of the twentieth century? Obviously, outright colonization isn’t the standard anymore. It’s mostly mediated through international businesses, propped up by the occasional secretly-funded coup or even an outright military invasion. Those of us living within the official boarders of the US have just been privileged enough to not have to live with the negative consequences.
I’m not saying we need to sing them sweet nothings.
The democrats, as they stand, don’t offer much beyond maintaining the status quo. You can sing people’s praises or chastise them, but if you’re not offering any actual material improvements, then it doesn’t really matter what you say.
People said the same thing about not having kings
that’s not really a successful attitude for activating disinterested voters
like, it’s just not a realistic approach
…this is the only language I speak, im a disgousting monoglot tripping over all our french loaner words…
Why are you more angry at 1 person voting their conscious than you are at party leadership that had polling showing trump would win in August, yet still did nothing to turn approval around?
Every non-voter knew about Project 2025
I think you’re letting conversations online distort your understanding of the actual public.
Most people were not aware Biden had dropped out. Hell, most people who didn’t vote have been chronically checked out – they decided a long long time ago that it either didn’t matter or wasn’t worth the effort. Most people have no clue what Project 2025 is. That’s something only news junkies know about.
depends. lotta places pump you full of toxic preservatives so you can have a pretty corpse at the funeral. Then all those chemicals get buried in the ground 🫠
What if it started with the equivalent of the George Floyd video instead of Oct. 7
I just said, for years before Oct 7th, Palestinians held peaceful protests and the response from Israel was violence and death. If Biden was just waiting for an excuse, why didn’t he do anything in 2021 or 2022, citing these shootings?
Our media and our leaders just don’t care about the humanitarian angle here, Israel represents too much of an opportunity to move weapons and keep the money flowing to the industrial complex.
The rest of the democratic world isn’t working off a framework from the 1700s
Or how about you make laws that limit the influence any one person can have and remove money from politics so anyone can run and you don’t have bribes called lobbying?
Do you see a path forward to this that doesn’t somehow involve doing away with the current system that allows influence and money in politics? Don’t you think the people who benefit from this arrangement will do everything in their power to keep us from reforming it?
You’re not wrong.
But also, a people can only retreat from a superior force for so long. When every olive branch is denied, when peaceful action is responded to with force, when people are too exhausted to know what else to do – violence becomes inevitable.
Oct 7th is a great case in point. For years, Palestinians protested Israeli settlements and soldiers with peaceful marches. And the IDF responded by sniping at the peaceful protestor’s kneecaps. All with little to no reaction from outside news outlets and governments.
When people’s back is against the wall, when their only choice is between a long, drawn out violence at the whims of others OR a sharp, intense violence with some semblance of agency – you really can’t blame them for picking the semblance of agency.
We already know the NSA is keeping tabs on everyone
Eh. Trump’s administration has more in common with the previous and proceeding administration than they have in difference.
Now, Bush Jr was a truly vile presidency. A huge chunk of everything Obama, Trump, and Biden did wrong was started under Dubba. His administration continues to define so much of the 21st century
Yeah, duh. Of course he’s worse on this.
But it’s silly to act like “His version of the genocide is worse than our version of the genocide” is anything but a fucking exhausting and demoralizing conversation