#OR MAYBE YES THEY DO, YOU CERTAINLY DONT REPRESENT MY PROGRESSIVE VOTE WITH YOUR ARROGANT ASSUMPTIONS
[the above is just making an important distinction, not really yelling though the screen]
Reality includes nuance, recognition, and rationale.
How many threads and comments are you posting about local, state, and federal politics that are even more important than President?
What Congressional Representatives are you mad at about genocide support?
Who should we be voting for/against in primaries other than just Biden? What state lawmakers are supporting genocide and need to be engaged over it?
Where’s the rest of your outrage for the little things that matter more than the optical illusion that is the Presidential race?
Or, alternatively, just recognize that you are now part of a distraction meant to disrupt American politics, and your cognitive dissonance prevents you from acknowledging certain realities, one of which is that your echo chamber is just an echo chamber. We all have to learn that eventually, or we will reap what we sow. The last time we really experienced a ‘reap what you sow’ in a Presidential election was in 2000 with Bush v. Gore. We got Bush, we got 9/11, then we got Iraq and Afghanistan wars that threw real people and families, in this country AND more so in the countries we invaded, into a murder meat grinder as a way to feed a military complex rather than feeding justice for the 9/11 dead. That is OUR modern legacy that must never be allowed to resurge. I’d argue we got lucky with Trump’s first term in terms of a ‘reap what you sow’ scenario, he was far more of an incompetent greedy clown than a corruption evil genius than expected, but he seems to have come around to leaning in towards a much more focused corrupt evil clown this time around that will coincide with much worse consequences and outcomes for all of us if his circus act succeeds.
Not everyone is on the same page even among progressives, and here, you are seeming like another side of the same Trumpie coin by demanding the litmus test for conservatives Progressives be this sleepy corrupt demonic racist genocide Joe line-in-the-sand narrative that is blaringly, obviously, propagandized as commentary that will be reinforced to divide and dilute voters that recognize the real world danger of Trump and his rhetoric.
If genocide is what you are truly concerned about, wouldn’t a better focus of your internet-commenter ire and time be demanding change directly at Netanyahu and Israel’s government? They already had plenty of munitions and monetary support from the US for decades of suppression of the Palestinians’ self determination. Where were you 5 years ago on a seemingly ongoing genocide of Palestinians? 10 years ago? 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50 years ago when Israel was, based on a long history of not even just ‘liberalized/progressive’ media reports, accused of committing a genocide against Palestinians?
Biden is a half measure, but he’s the only half way acceptable option we have based on the system we live in. We aren’t going to have a civil war over this, and we can’t change the Constitution before November. Yelling at the sky does not at all fix anything. Offer solutions, and if there is one that is a better option than voting for Biden to prevent far more corruption from Trump, let us know now.
Libye : mise en échec d’une tentative de contrebande de 26 tonnes d’or
Le ministère public en Libye a ordonné l’arrestation de responsables impliqués dans une tentative de #contrebande de près de 26 tonnes d’ #or. Il s’agit de la la plus grande tentative de contrebande de ce métal précieux de l’histoire de la Libye.
Using Amazon, or Twitter, or Facebook, or Google, or Doordash, or Uber doesn't make you lazy. Platform capitalism isn't enshittifying because you made the wrong shopping choices.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Warships are used to protect the oil ships and bomb #Yemen but are not used to deliver #food#or#aid to #gaza because #Israel says no. Let that fucking sink. This blockade could have have been stopped decades ago but wasn’t and isn’t because nobody cares about #Palestine and the #palestinians As far as the west is concerned they have been a collateral for more than half a century.
Got an email from an investigator who I admire a ton & who worked on this case for a long time to help finally get Johnson exonerated & released.
"Jesse is faced with totally starting over I’m a world very different from the one he was taken from 25 years ago. His defense team is raising money to help him in his transition. You can donate at the link below."
“How the West was Lost” starring- Decades of Mismanagement, Corporate Raiders, The Forest Fire Industrial Complex, and sponsored by Global Warming. #ca#or#ForestFire#catastrophic#calfire#usfs
It’s basically coding challenges, with a story, and some silly christmas stuff, it’s a lot of fun :) I’ve been doing it #or 4 years or so now, really enjoyable :)
Oregon voters will soon get to decide whether to adopt ranked choice voting statewide
A victory for the RCV campaign in November 2024 would be a significant breakthrough for voting justice, as it would liberate voters in Oregon from being required to vote for just one candidate.
when CEOs get on earnings calls and brag about how covid, war, and scare-stories about inflation let them hike their prices and rake in never-before-seen profit margins, I think it's reasonable to blame inflation on greed, not on workers getting a couple of relief checks during the lockdown.
Amazingly, this is a controversial position! For more than a year, Very Serious People have dismissed the greedflation hypothesis…
Someone stop the ride, I want to get off (midwest.social)
Hamas tells negotiators it doesn’t have 40 Israeli hostages needed for first round of ceasefire (www.cnn.com)
Advent of Code
Maybe a bit seasonal, but the Advent of Code sub was quite popular on reddit. I suggest we make it a thing here on programming.dev.