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Not everyone, only the rich ones.

I remember Neil deGrasse Tyson, and it was a completely different attitude than anyone rich, no matter how technical or dumb they are.

Joe is a motherfucking asshole, nobody should listen to anything he says, or anyone else willing to go talk to him.

Even if you get vaccines, with an entire continent being absolutely ravaged, you won’t be safe, no matter how far you live. We live in an interconnected world, and do a lot of travel.

America has been fascist for a long time. Since the continent is so big, there was little neee for ‘lebensraum’, but oil and other natural resources were always taken by force and subterfuge.

Gun culture, flag fetish, pledges of allegiance, dunking on the poor from every side, criminalizing homeless… the rights have been vanishing at an alarming speed WHILE being a democracy, so just pick one person to stop the elections and you won’t notice otherwise.

This is me, but SteamOS instead of the mac.

They have not. As long as we fight, they will not get away with it.

I’m not saying they are not responsible for the outcome. But they voted for what they believed in. If you want to vote for your side, put effort into it.

I am not an american, I vote, and am very sad that elections everywhere go to the bad actors. And I realize that I need to do more so that better actors get more votes. Or this won’t change.

Don’t stick your head in the sand, oppose anything that threatens democracy, don’t just accept defeat.

I’m not an american, but I watch closely what’s going on there.

You enjoy for self-fulfilling prophecies and laying down.

Yes, obviously in democracy you need people to vote for you.

And in order to achieve that, you need to convince them to vote for your cause. If you don’t, it’s not their fault. They vote for what they believe, no matter how crazy and stupid it may be. That’s also part of the ‘rule of the people’.

You are completely misrepresenting what I’m writing, and I’m done discussing with you.

Have a nice day.

Re:btw what do you mean? It’s the same thing: you should be trying to change people’s minds, and be better at that, and I’m bringing your attention to it. You are a prolific poster all over the fediverse, so you can have a big impact on people. And I think you are aware of it.

I’ve known about the P25 for a long time, I’m well aware of its consequences. Burying our heads and losing our hope is the only way they can get away with it.

Kings have fallen, and we all should do our best to not create them again. That includes understanding those who voted for them. Ignoring the problem or its root cause won’t change anything.

I keep repeating this line in my head:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Those are the people you have to convince to vote, that’s all.

If you keep ignoring them, nothing will change.

This attitude is what brought the results. Ignoring masses to pander to billionaires is not going to win democrats anything. Pointing fingers to other side and announcing ‘we are better than them’ worked only once.

By understanding the problem potential solutions may emerge.

Doomerism helps the owner class, they need you to feel helpless and isolated. Don’t let them win.

Most voters don’t have luxuries of having time or education to make deep dives into issues, and are swayed by some nonsense.

And think what you like, it’s usually not something they choose voluntarily or consciously.

I can’t fathom how people point out how ‘pulling yourselves up by the bootstraps’ is BS, and then they point to tired, underpaid, health issue ridden public and say: “you should know not to vote for this!!1!”.

Then Harris panders to the right and the same people don’t understand how she could lose. Really?

AOCs voters said they are tired of the status quo. Something we all know and understand. And we know the DNC will never let go of the status quo. Where does this lead to?

I love this comment so much, that I upvoted, saved, and commented on it.

Bravo, good human, you helped to restore a bit of faith in humanity in me.

It’s also very Shody

How you still did not understand that this way of arguing won’t change anyone’s mind?

“Choose between slow sleepwalk to fascism or this rapid honest one”.

I can’t fathom why people put all the blame on the voters. Dems could a and should have done more. Harris got billion dollars for her campaign!

Biden pardoning his son is understandable, but a giant Fuck You to everyone else. He got his, now the rest will live with consequences.

DNC has fucked the USA again and again. How about some blame there.

Didn’t this fucked ask for 8 trillion or some shit?

Why is he donating a single mil?

What a cheap assfuck.

“You see what happen to one of you. Are you sure you wanna to through with this?”

It’s not like OpenAI cares about people anyway.

Fuck them, fuck Altman, fuck Microsoft.