TreeGhost

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Absolutely, but for now the best thing we can do is show up and vote and call out these misleading polls for what they are. The larger the margins are, the harder it gets to try to cheat through the courts. Of course if there is a big blue wave, we'll hear that it itself is evidence that voter fraud happened, in which they will justify with these slanted polls.

I think the other silver lining is that when it comes down too it, Trump doesn't have a large enough base that is willing to stick thier own necks out in a misguided attempt to "save" democracy. Trump.didn't get the numbers he wanted on January 6th and he won't get them this time either.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

You literally just described American healthcare. I don't know where people get this idea that you don't have to wait to see a doctor here. I've had to book doctors appointments months out. And specialists can be 6+ months of waiting.

I think the Americans that say otherwise actually don't try to go to the doctor on a regular basis. And if you press them on why, they'll admit it is a fucking hassle and worried about the bill if they need to actually get something done.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Just because you don't know the rules doesn't mean they are unwritten.

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2024-Delegate-Selection-Rules.pdf

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

They did hold a primary. You might have not liked how they ran it. I had my own issues with it as well, but they did and once those votes are in the pledged delegates have to honor the winner from it, which Biden was. Tell me how they could have just taken it away from him without him stepping down again?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Do you know how Democrat canidates are picked? Biden already had enough pledged delegates to win the nomination.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Aren't all of the misogynists already voting for Trump? I think just being a younger woman candidate could energize the younger voting base.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So they say, but they also just said the president had immunity for official acts. If Biden did this while at the same time urging Congress to pass judicial ethics laws, who could stop him? Hell, expand it to the federal court system and tell the committee to move fast and prioritize the most unethical judges in key positions and either the Republicans have to play ball with Democrats on passing judicial reform through law or the remaining sane judges reverse a few key decisions to unfuck our current judicial quandary.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I'm no legal expert, but could he possibly form a judicial ethics committee to investigate supreme court justices. On any evidence of violating ethics, he could sign an arrest warrent to remove them from the court.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The only reason I make the bed every morning is because we have dogs that like to lay on it when we aren't home and there is nothing worse when you are crawling in bed at night and finding dirt or sand all in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I've wondered the same thing. Maybe a the Enquirer did a catch and kill payoff to the neighbors when it happened?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't have V-Rising, and I'm sure a lot of this stuff is hardware dependent, but according to a couple of reports on ProtonDB, there might be a kernel bug causing issues with it.

https://www.protondb.com/app/1604030

I just installed bazzite on my LCD Steam Deck this week and it has been pretty solid so far, but obviously the hardware support for it is top notch thanks to Valve. I didn't have really any issues with regular SteamOS either and just wanted to try something a bit more customizable.

And really Linux gaming on the Steam Deck feels like cheating, especially compared to trying to run games via wine before the proton days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The claim was that billionaires shouldn't exist and that to get that amount of money requires exploitation. You are the one taking that to mean that they are automatically morally bankrupt. I have broken down my more nuanced take that you seem to mostly agree on, so I guess I'm not sure why you are continuing to push on this one point. No one has called for actually punishing billionaires for this in this specific comment chain; I know that opinion is all over elsewhere, but that's not relevant to what we have been discussing.

Personally speaking, I'm doing okay under the current system, I recognize where my labor is and has been exploited and am lucky enough myself to get by with what leverage I have. But I recognize that I'm just one bad accident from losing my livelihood and not being able to provide for me and my family. And if the wealth gap continues growing, then billionaires, or the owning capital class in general, should be worried about violence against them. And if that day comes, I for sure ain't sticking my neck out for some fucking billionaire.

At the end of the day, we can disagree on messaging, but I'll leave that to proper organizations to get the message right and try to support them when I see them to hopefully turn things around before it turns to violence. But we're not going to convince anyone here by just getting the perfect message for the masses.

You are right that we seem to be talking in circles, so I'm done here. Going to GI back to enjoying the rest of my weekend and I hope you have a good one.

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