evan

evan, 6 days ago

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_October_Surprise_theory

evan, 6 days ago

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections

evan, 6 days ago

@virtuous_sloth I don't think there's been any news to this effect. Responses would be speculative.

evan, 6 days ago

@panos I don't think Democrats are spreading this rumour, no.

evan, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

@gutenberg_org I love this book. I read the Gutenberg version. Thanks for sharing it.

evan, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

@augieray

"I support this war so much that I'm going to ignore the position of the vast majority of my constituents and party members even though it endangers our chances of re-election in the Fall" is also a take.

evan, 6 days ago

@augieray I do not think my reply was significantly more glib than your original post.

There is a lot that can be done to win back voters who are turned off of Biden because of the war. For example, emphasizing the leadership role the US has played in the ceasefire process. Getting food and medicine into Gaza. Conditioning aid.

Blaming people who oppose ethnic cleansing for the return of Trump isn't it, though.

I wish you good luck with your effort!

evan, 6 days ago

@augieray Opposition to genocide is a peremptory norm or jus cogens. We don't get to opt out and say there are more important priorities. It's the highest priority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peremptory_norm?wprov=sfla1

evan, 6 days ago

@Amoshias @augieray there is a war.

evan, 6 days ago

@FLGLchicago @augieray so, first of all, I think it's defensible to say that Joe Biden is pro-war. He has voted for every major war since Vietnam, which he neither supported nor opposed. He did oppose the Reagan-era secret wars in Central America, which is to his credit.

evan, 6 days ago

@FLGLchicago @augieray the fact that a majority of Americans and a supermajority of Democrats oppose the war is easy to Google.

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/27/majority-americans-disapprove-israel-gaza-poll

evan, 6 days ago

@dneary thank you for exercising restraint.

evan, 6 days ago

@rndeon My "I do not consent to instruction via Socratic method" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt, which is explicitly what I do not want.

evan, 6 days ago

One of the most important things for me in the further development of the fediverse is that we don't have any obligation to mindlessly ape the commercial social networks. We can build social interactions that serve our own needs, enhance our relationships, and make our lives better.

I talked about this in 2020. I will bang on this drum forever.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/the-activitypub-ecosystem/933

evan, 7 days ago

@cydonian @Riedl 🐝🚙

evan, 7 days ago

I'm somewhat disagree. I hope there is a ceasefire and the war is a memory by then.

evan, 7 days ago

@jwildeboer Yes, I understand that. In the particular case of paid subscriptions, I don't think we need to extend the standard to make it happen. It's easy to handle the payment out of band, and controlling distribution so it only goes to paying followers is trivially easy. Nobody has enhanced SMTP and IMAP to include payments; it was never necessary.

evan, 7 days ago

@jwildeboer I also share with you the concern of having a supernode in the fediverse. Threads is going to be about 90% of the network when it comes online fully for two-way federation. The best way to manage that is to attract many other small, medium-sized and large networks so it goes back down to under 50%. In other words: the most sustainable fediverse is a big fediverse.