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  • Her platform had plenty that progressives agree with! Progressives need to not act like toddlers when they don’t get everything they want; we’re only going to move to the left gradually. They need to stop asking everyone to treat them like the prettiest girl in school and instead start understanding that politics isn’t all or nothing. We almost got Bernie, gradually. We could have potentially gotten someone like him if we didn’t let Trump catapult US politics so far right in just 8 years. (Yes I know the the Republicans have been moving in this direction since Reagan, but the acceleration in the past decade is crazy)

    I don’t buy that any progressives looked at both platforms and avoided voting in good faith. That’s absolutely ridiculous. It makes no logical sense at all. Anyone who did that is simply not progressive. That’s not a no true Scotsman argument either; it’s just bananas that anyone who agrees with progressive ideas would let Trump win.

    Think about what you’re saying. If a politician doesn’t bend over backwards for progressives we should let fascism win? What the fuck? People love saying Republicans are voting against their own interests. Well, progressives who don’t vote are also voting against their own interests by abstaining.


  • Harris shouldn’t have needed to reach out to progressives. We have two parties in the US. We have one vote only. Progressives had a choice to say “let’s let Trump win and move the country significantly further right” or “I like most of Harris’s policies and something is better than nothing”. The choice for progressives was crystal clear. Let’s not pretend otherwise. The progressives that didn’t vote let everyone down, including themselves. Their argument is completely invalid when you look at the real world in front of us.

    If anyone calls themself a progressive and didn’t vote in this election, I have news for them: you’re not a progressive.



  • Better than Trump wasn’t her platform. I will die on this hill because I’m so sick of this. Look at her platform. What is too far right about her platform? Tell me specifically.

    No her platform and campaign weren’t the biggest problem. The way you’re talking and everyone is parroting that was. The “everything or nothing” people were. The left sows its own apathy.

    And, regardless of all of that, regardless of the fact that her platform was actually good, the idea that you only get to look at her platform in a vacuum is a complete joke. The idealism of the left is fucking us all. This isn’t a theoretical exercise. You realize Trump wants to pull out of NATO? That the right wants to outlaw life saving medical procedures? You realize real people are going to actually, without hyperbole, die because of this election?

    We’re in a fight against a Christian fascist state right now. Miss me with this bullshit. I would have been 100% motivated to vote for a turkey sandwich. This is all such a joke and this narrative is infuriating. The left is constantly acting like a bunch of toddlers kicking and screaming because they got the wrong ice cream flavor while the right marches towards the end of everything I thought we believed in.




  • The GOP was maybe mad, but more importantly to me the people who actually study voting systems for a living were “mad”, and the people who hurt their favored candidate by voting for them were likely upset.

    Ignoring that the outcome was maybe what I would have wanted, it is definitely pathological that you can hurt a candidate by voting for them. Quoting the Wikipedia:

    The election was also a negative voting weight event, where a voter’s ballot has the opposite of its intended effect (e.g. a candidate being disqualified for having “too many votes”). In this race, Begich lost as a result of 5,200 ballots ranking him ahead of Peltola; Peltola also would have lost if she had received more support from Palin voters.

    What do you find wrong with those other systems? RCV is also not “one person one vote”. Approval voting is used in the UN and neither seem to have some of the pathologies of RCV.

    Bit of a late edit here, but isn’t “one person one vote” basically the description of our current problem with voting? All of these systems are trying to solve that issue.





  • As long as it’s installed on a device you control it’s pretty easy to sniff TLS traffic from an Android application, even if they’re pinning certs. I do this all the time for work. Frida makes it extremely easy, even giving you the ability to edit boringssl if something important is happening in native code. I’ve had to do this a couple times.

    If you don’t have root you’ll have to recompile the application though which could matter if you need the signature to not change, but that isn’t a common requirement.

    It’d be nice to have a better way to test though; I’ve wanted to check out Waydroid. Some coworkers just use an emulator which works great if it doesn’t need specific hardware.







  • Did you read the article…? They’re saying it is illegal to offer money to register to vote.

    Though maybe some of the other things Musk was doing were of murky legality, this one is clearly illegal. See 52 U.S.C. 10307©: “Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both…” (Emphasis added.)