Pointing out that the Democrats are bad is not the same as saying 'both sides are the same'. Sure, Biden is infinitely better than the alternative, but it would be really nice to have some actually good options instead of just lesser evil
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There's a million valid reasons to criticize Israel without any antisemitism… but if you make a generic "jews bad" comment and specifically mention a time period that goes before ww2 it gets pretty sus
TLDR: privacy law won't pass because it would limit the government's right to buy "commercially available data" on anyone without a warrant
This includes location data collected from cell phones that are capable in many cases of tracking people’s physical whereabouts almost constantly. The data is purportedly gathered for advertising purposes…
A government that actually cares about privacy wouldn't be debating 'should we be able to buy that data', it would be asking the real question 'why the fuck is it legal to collect and sell that data?'
Even if we pretend that data will only ever be used for ads, it's still not fucking OK for advertisers to stalk everyone everywhere 24/7 (and every use other than ad stuff is probably worse)
A more educated populace benefits everyone.
Except Republicans. They "love the poorly educated"
Real life the board game©
Our planet is on fire. The Nazis are back. Most of us are wage slaves. Women are going to prison over their physiology. Multiple nations are currently at risk of being wiped off the map…
Conservatives care about all of those actually relevant things, but they're trying to make them even worse.
Of course that wouldn't be very popular, so instead they just scream about what's in people's pants and their voters eat it up
Don't make "hit" the new "slammed".
The headline makes it sound like a fistfight, turns out it was just one post on the TwitterButDumber site
I was disgusted by the XML at first, but it's a readable query returning a sane JSON object.
Meanwhile, I'm mantaining Java code where the SQL is a perfectly square wall of text, and some insane mofo decided the way to read the resulting list of Object[] 🤮 is getting each column by index… so I'd switch to SQXMLL in a heartbeat.
It's not one sentence "no taxation without representation", it's the two groups of people "no taxation" and "without representation"
Meta has no interest in being part of the fediverse, it only wants to eliminate any posible competition.
The usual MO of buying the competitors isn't posible on the fediverse, so the way to do it is embrace, extend and extinguish
Defederating is important because is Metastasis is allowed in the fediverse it will consume the fediverse, and then we'll be right back at the corporate social media we're trying to break away from, with the surveillance, ads and nazis being welcome as long as it's profitable
And if they did manage to impeach Biden over whatever they're making up this time… so what?
45's first impeachment did nothing, so couldn't the sane people in the government just ignore a hypothetical biden impeachment and continue business as usual?
Mind elaborating a little more? Why do you think limiting violent abusers' access to murder toys is bad?
trump might be president in 2024. That sucks, but most of the damage has already been done (supreme court, senate, etc).
It's very optimistic of you to assume the damage is already done when he's literally promising to replace the entire government with loyalists and weaponize the judiciary system against all the "vermin" as soon as he's reelected.
Might as well show the dems that they have to run a candidate that supports the rights of civilians all around the globe
Except by then there won't be any more elections
Again
Yes I know that both options are terrible and the system is fucking garbage, but if you refuse to vote for the lesser evil you're not taking some moral high road, you're just enabling the worst evil
Refusing to make a choice is still a choice.
The only options are: status quo that doesn't do the bare minimum against genocide, or an actual fascist who is literally promising to do more genocide.
Yes I know that both options are terrible and the system is fucking garbage, but if you refuse to vote for the lesser evil you're not taking some moral high road, you're just enabling the worst evil
I will never stop being mad that “literally” got a new dictionary definition that’s literally not literally
"You only have another 2 or 3 months of unconditional support for your genocide before we start calling you out"
Lol the trump x Haley comparison is irrelevant
First because she never really had a chance to win the primaries against the maga cult
And second because even if she did, being part of the republican party these days is more than enough reason to assume she's a fascist asshole. Does it matter if she's a slightly less bad fascist asshole? (And if you wanna reduce it to "everyone I don't like is all the same" that's fine with me)