In regards to Musk’s businesses it might be considered a mercy for his kids to not inherit them…

Bipartisan is a really bad sign. My money says this is not going to be aimed at actually addressing the underlying profit motive that drives big tech to purposefully promote misery through their algorithm designs, instead it will be further restriction on users freedoms and privacy.

Israeli fascism is not a result of democracy…it’s a colonial project born from the pre-war mentality of Europe and the preceding centuries of monarchy and despotism. It is, fundementally, anti-democratic.

Israel and the US are indeed different. The US, regardless of its problems with its right-wing and the right’s support of Israel, is not an apartheid state and there is meaningful internal opposition to the far-right in the US (unlike Israel, or Russia, or China).

You’re trying to conflate democracy and capitalism, which really makes me question your motives.

This is illustrative of why I have no faith in Israel to actually behave as a liberal democracy the way its allies pretend it is.

It’s not just that they temporarily have a far-right administration as part of some cycle between liberalism and conservativism, the population itself is overwhelmingly far right and supports apartheid. The only thing that upsets them about what’s happening in Gaza is that the Israeli government clearly doesn’t care about getting the hostages back. The wholesale slaughter of innocent people does not bother most Israelis in the least, many of them see it as a positive.

There is no internal opposition to the far right in Israel, and the country should be geopolitically categorized the same as we categorize Russia, China or any other hardcore authoritarian state. It’s not a democracy.

The contexts are really different. Boris played up his “harmless eccentric” facade, but Trump isn’t going to benefit from looking whimsical or whatever, no one would buy that from him. No one sees him as some mad genius.

Reality is people are pretty tired of weird in their politics, which is why in this context I think it’s potentially a good approach.

My sense of the general sentiment is that people don’t have time for weirdos at this point, we’ve had 8 years of weird and now we’ve got real problems facing the nation and the world and can’t be mucking around with a bunch of troglodytes like Vance who think only married people who own property should be citizens or whatever bizzarre Gilead type ideas conservatives have for the country.

He’s got brainrot for fascism. Weird guy.

Some talking heads on NPR were discussing the economy and how this was “the first time Millenials were seeing inflation” and how the economy is just waiting for consumers to “adjust”. This in the context of them also basically saying there needs to be more unemployment so wages don’t get higher.

It’s like victim blaming or something, corporations went on a price gouging spree during the pandemic and now we all have to learn to deal with it so Wallstreet can go back to business as usual, and they’re getting all pissy that people’s response is simply finding ways to spend less, instead of giving up their last nickle.

Funny how they never talk about corporations needing to tighten their belt or “adjust their expectations” to paying higher wages.

It sounds like the film is still pro-religion in the end, odd that it is receiving such backlash.

Places like Egypt and other middle eastern countries definitely need their Richard Dawkins moment (even though I don’t think he’s a great person), but I don’t think this is it.

Because the term “woke” when used as a criticism is literally just a dog whistle for racists, misogynists, and homophobes.

Lol, he has to do outside rallies because he already screwed over all the indoor venues in these areas during his last go round and no one wants to host him.

He never pays the venues and it’s coming back to bite him in the arse.

RDP is kind of limited because it’s a virtual session. It’s useful if you only need to do stuff while you’re actively connected but you can’t, for example, remote in and start an app or process going and then disconnect and have that app continue. When you d/c your profile is essentially logged out. Your activity also can’t be viewed by a user on the remote system, if you needed to collaborate or assist somehow.

UltraVNC has worked ok for me for windows systems. It has some of that open-source clunk to the UI, but is pretty straight forward and does what I need.

I think what Trump’s following kind of reveals is a sad truth about humans generally; about a quarter of people are very stupid and very susceptible to cult-think. It doesn’t always manifest as support for a politician, it could be anti-vax beliefs, or racism, zionism etc.

Wherever you are, about 25-30% of people are simply not equipped to think critically, and that stupidity is activated or weaponized under various conditions, most often during times of economic stress or social chaos. People who can’t understand the complex causes of a problem are easy to manipulate – you give them a simplistic answer.

“It’s the jews” or “trans people are the root of your problems” etc.

It can happen anywhere because a certain demographic of people are just dumb, and there’s no way around it other than trying to reduce human suffering across the board and making it less likely that anyone is struggling.

He’s one of Pelosi’s acolytes, so yeah, just another right-wing democrat.

That’s rich coming from a guy who just hosted a genocidal, racist fascist at our capitol. Fuck Genocide Joe and his psuedo-concern about human rights.

I’ve never been a Harris fan, but her laugh is just kind of “normal human aunt” sounding to me.

I guess it sounds weird to Republican ears because it’s not hyper-repressed and rigid? When a conservative tries to bring up weird laughs all that comes to mind are the likes of DeSantis or Tucker Carlson who laugh like they’re having the wind stomped out of them with a steel-toed boot.

Did he not win both terms?

Dems don’t lose the next election because the right-wing is racist, they lose when they fail to listen to their base and try to gaslight their constituents. The energy created when young voters, progressives and independents are given a reason to go out and vote smashes any kind of advantage the GOP tries to glean from playing the bigotry cards. Clinton was not that reason.

People need to let go of this idea that Democrats’ job is to appeal to the right and be conciliatory. Conservatives don’t vote democrat, regardless of how far to the right the Dems go. They only play up the swing voter fantasy to weaken democrats and get neoliberals going off on a wild goose chase for votes they’ll never secure while at the same time neglecting and demoralizing their own base.

I think there is a real issue with Americans that want the moon and if they don’t get it they throw a tantrum.

Wanting someone who treats climate change with the seriousness and urgency it deserves is not asking for the moon. Wanting a functioning healthcare system is not asking for the moon. Wanting bodily autonomy is not asking for the moon. Wanting your politicians aggressively pursue a policy that was already implemented and proven to halve child poverty is not asking for the moon.

The narrative needs to stop that progressives are demanding “perfect”. Basic center-left policy should not cat5egorized as excess. That narrative is what brought us to this crisis we’re in, all the compromises on the most basic left wing positions. The “asking too much” narrative needs to end, people need to keep demanding and making themselves a thorn in the sides of neoliberals every time they try to drag the overton window to the right.

I’m voting for Harris, that’s my compromise as a progressive, I’m not going to stop criticizing the democratic right-wing or stop demanding better policy though, that’s not part of the deal.

I wouldn’t say extremely happy, I think he’s too fixated on corporate welfare at the expense of progressive policy, but it’d be good enough as a stop gap.

She definitely needs to be more aggressive on climate change mitigation though, as far as I’m concerned it would be hard for a president to be too radical in that regard. Biden should’ve been pushing hard for the Green New Deal. Putting aside all other political battles against fascism, we are in deep trouble with the climate.

I was planning on voting Uncommitted on the presidential if Biden stayed in (and voting down ballot, obviously).

The only way I wouldn’t vote for Harris at this point is if in the next four months she comes out as some insane zionist as bad as Biden, which I really doubt she will.

Firstly, AIPAC has no relationship to the truth, they’re only there to disrupt the truth.

And no one said she shouldn’t be honest about her positions, but it’s still politics and we can all pretty much guess where she stands on Israel already; not as far left as anyone wants her to be, but not as right-wing as Biden/Trump. That’s the best deal we’re getting this cycle as far as I’m concerned.

But again, I’m not going to tell anyone who feels they can’t vote for Harris if she’s not strong enough in her condemnation of Israel that they need to vote for her. I just spent the last 6 months being told that I need to accept Biden’s genocidal policies and it’s pointless to threaten the party with a non-vote, I would never turn around and do that to other voters because it’s bullshit.