Fair point. I do agree that the mainstream electorate skews skews further right than terminally ill online leftists. I just think running a robot over a populist against another populist was a severe miscalculation by the DNC, regardless of how well he polled. Hillary had the charisma of a wooden board and a lot of baggage. Polls are useful to getting a pulse of the people at a moment in time. Many polls showed Bernie outperforming Hillary against Trump. The context matters. But I hear you.

Does your dad do lines of coke and run a casino?

Pug. Long time fan here but I’m curious if you’ve read “Shattered” yet? It is a well researched book about the inner machinations of the Hillary campaign and goes into depth as to what / how things went horribly wrong. I used to think like you, but the reality is it’s a bit of column A and a bit of column B.

Tl;dr: even if Bernie had polled well among mainstream voters, it would have taken mountains to move the whale that is Hillary. She had ties to every corner of the DNC. It’s not totally that she had to rig the primary, but it was a fools errand to run against someone as powerful and well connected as her.

They all have that big energy to march and protest though. I don’t get it.

My parent spidey senses are tingling. Besides the ADHD, is there anything else happening in his life? Major life change (changing school; new friends, etc)? He may not feel comfortable vocalizing yet if there is in fact something affecting him

Hey guess what? They pretty have the same minimalist ui. Way to miss the entire point I made

Also, I never mentioned Photoshop. Open any standard drawing app that was developed recently: Procreate, Infinite Paint, Krita, Fresco. Look how straightforward it is to start working. Look at the Ui. It doesn’t get in the way.

Edit: oh no the FOSS evangelists are not feeling it. I get it. I use a lot of FOSS apps for work. That doesn’t mean we have to be evangelical in our defense of FOSS. Recognize there are issues and we can work to fix them. Don’t get so defensive, Lemmy. My god.

Yes, as an artist I will choose the path of least resistance. Open any new drawing app today: Procreate, Infinite Paint, Krita, Fresco and look how clean and easy it is to get right to the point and start working. Now open GIMP and pull my eyelashes out already. The tool should not get in the way of the task. I’m with Steve Jobs on this, sorry. Computers are means to an end. For some they can be hobbies. Linux exists. Have fun.

Edit: oh no! The FOSS evangelists are not feeling it. I get it. I use a lot of FOSS apps for work. That doesn’t mean we have to be evangelical in our defense of FOSS. Recognize there are issues and we can work to fix them. Don’t get so defensive, Lemmy. My god.

If you think Photoshop has anywhere near the learning curve that is GIMP then I’m sorry. There is nothing I can do to convince you and this conversation is dead in the water. If something free was on par even slightly with Photoshop, then a whole industry would have shifted over to avoid the burden of costs. There’s a reason the potato shop UI hasn’t changed in 20 years.

Barf. Or maybe, just maybe, we have other shit to do rather than spend hours trying to figure out how to do one thing in Gimp. It’s great that YOU’RE passionate about tech. Some of us have other hobbies. Imagine that holy shit

It’s on Frontpage CNN and The Guardian.

My dude, you’re a lefty as much as Magats are patriots. It’s all performative fellatio

Where are you getting all this from? “first world privileges”?? Why do you feel compelled to make stuff up? Why don’t you ask me what I want? Hint: it’s been mentioned several times in this thread. It’s because you, masquenox, have nothing to offer apart from gate keeping and calling everyone you dislike ‘liberals’. The left has plenty to offer but is hampered by imbeciles larping as 21st century leninists. Case in point… Do better

yes m’lord. Goddamn this is cringe

No, I don’t. I want the left to give me anything as stated…many…many…times before.

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I can count on your comfortable endless preaching from behind the keyboard, that’s for sure :'(

No, I understand fake cosplay from lame ass losers with no practical agency when I see it. Its all theater.

The electoral system is not going away overnight. You can build the new world while lending a hand to those in need.

If you can’t be bothered to cast one ballot on one day of the year to help your brothers and sisters, then that betrays a level of callousnoss and sociopathy I want no association with. And I see all too often in this crowd. It’s quite sad.

I’ll meet you at the front line, but I’d like to see you there first. Oh wait, are we still cosplaying?