You do know the American political compass is special among political compasses, right? Compared to Europe (or even Canada), our definition of “moderate” is their equivalent of “conservative”. Likewise, our “left” is “center”.
Wishing the already-not-left Democratic Party starts shifting even more right is wishing for a two-party system where the options are conservatism and fascism.
You’re totally right. We don’t have a two party system, we have a system where only two parties are large enough to win any kind of influence.
Only if you don’t say “no homo” first.
From what I have seen said about him, Pierre sounds like the Canadian equivalent of a Republican. If that’s true, kneeling or bending over would be the more applicable description of what he would do when facing Trump.
They sure are doing what they can to “make america healthy again”… by trying to permanently reduce the number of people with health conditions.
That’s fine, he’ll just ask Trump to start a non-trade war to save him /s
It’s still worth signing anyways, but realistically, 250k over two months is not something they’re going to listen to.
That is a lot of people if you’re looking at it in absolute numbers, but it becomes an easily-ignored drop in the bucket when you compare it to total population and growth of the movement over time. It’s less than 0.1% of voting-age citizens (or 1 in every 1000 people). Ignoring the fact that petitions are always front-loaded in signatures and quickly lose steam, if it kept going at the rate it’s going, it would take over a year to even be 1% of people. Even by 2028, that would still be an insignificant amount of votes thanks to the winner-takes-all electoral system.
There’s simply no incentive for them to care.
Yeah, that’s the problem unfortunately. Tearing down and replacing FPTP with PR on a national scale is not going to happen when the only parties capable of changing it benefit from not doing so.
I would like to hope people can put their differences aside for long enough that they can build up grassroots movements leading to a third party that actually wants to fix the system. With everything going on recently and decades of politicians intentionally sewing division between the working class to strengthen their own positions, I’m not so optimistic though.
There is no such thing as perfect security, but there’s a big difference between trying to obscure something confidential between two parties (a password) and trying to obscure information that by design must be shared with other parties (an email address).
Outside of diligently using disposable alias addresses, obscuring an email is an exercise in futility. The biggest point of failure in security is the human, and all it takes is a single person to leak it. With all the people that need to communicate with Musk over email, the opportunity for that to happen is far higher than the chance of something like someone successfully cracking a hash.
That’s security through obscurity, and it doesn’t work in the long run.
I wonder what other aspects of civilization we can obstruct with debris from irreversible deployment of immature tech.
You’re thinking too far ahead. We already destroyed critical thinking and civility with debris from irreversible deployment of social media.
You have to go vote for the better of the two parties, because they are substantially different
South Park was a bit ahead of the curve, but they put it quite well: you’re voting between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. Neither of them are what you want, but you’re stuck picking one of them.
While the current Democratic Party is still leagues ahead of the Republican Party, they’re not a party that actually cares about the layman either. They spent the last election trying to court conservatives, they refuse to act as an opposition party to Republicans, and the leadership keeps fucking over progressives.
What we need is to throw away the winner-takes-all voting system that created a two-party system where neither party has to care about representing their voters. First past the post crushes any chance of a real opposition party from being successful, and both Republicans and Democrats benefit from that.
Voting for the lesser evil is a moral obligation, but don’t forget that you’re still voting for an evil.
I know the image is a meme, but LLMs are actually subtly racist.
Another way of looking at it is that it is a worthless statue made from evidence of counterfeiting and forgery.
concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of people’s needs.
Irregardless, that describes the exact opposite of Elon. He’s concerned with personal compensation at the expense of people’s needs.
Billionaire unelected bureaucrat oligarch. FTFY FTFY
Unfortunately.
People expect the Democratic Party to oppose authoritarian and socially regressive policies, but the Democratic Party isn’t an opposition party. They do the bare minimum to look Not as Bad as the Alternative™ so they can avoid having to promise to change things that they benefit from themselves, and anything beyond that is dismissed as not worth even attempting because of hypothetical Republican stalling.
They had well-liked progressive candidates like Bernie and they went out of their way to screw him at every opportunity. And they’re still going out of their way to screw over progressive members among their ranks. It’s disgraceful.
Grep? Nah, he probably fed it into a LLM and asked it to find any word with “trans” in it.
Exactly! You get it.
Country led by Russian asset doesn’t allow others to act against Russia. That sounds correct.