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  • Dem Senator Says Party Needs to Stop Attacking ‘Oligarchy’ and Focus on Losing ‘Woke’ Reputation

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  • I'm bored with you so best of luck in our shared future hellscape. I definitely LOL'd when I saw you weren't American.

  • Gen Z is very underwhelmed by congressional Democrats

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  • My comment wasn't based on a body of research other than high school us history and some political science classes in college. Agree completely that modern day boomers are not progressives, I was thinking more specifically about the social progress of the mid-late 20th century and how many more people we've agreed to include in the conversation than ever before. Hell, women couldn't vote 106+ years ago. Now we have gay and trans people in Congress, we've had a black president, women mostly have rights to their own bodies, etc etc etc. The boomers were, broadly, part of those social changes, though clearly they didn't all agree, just as they don't now.

    A lot of those wins are getting erased now, by DOGE and others, and there are way more old people at protests than I would expect to see. I'm simply suggesting that the older generations remember the feeling of making progress in a way that younger generations haven't. It's probably hyperbolic but it feels like we've been slowly regressing, on balance, since Jeb Bush was the governor of Florida and fixed the 2000 election results for his brother George Dubya.

    Tl:Dr you don't know the value of what you have now until it is gone, unless you've gone without before.

  • Dem Senator Says Party Needs to Stop Attacking ‘Oligarchy’ and Focus on Losing ‘Woke’ Reputation

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  • Stalin, I hate engaging with commies, but I can't resist a good pun.

    The left doesn't have a cohesive platform, nor any political power. Your indignation is not righteous, and your sentiment does not inspire. US politicians are generally idiots, yes, but I disagree that calling for a more moderate path in the face of a populist criminal was a bad take. We are seeing it play out in real time, and we're all in the same boat so I hope you're enjoying the ride.

  • Dem Senator Says Party Needs to Stop Attacking ‘Oligarchy’ and Focus on Losing ‘Woke’ Reputation

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  • I'm not God, I'm just a regular person.

    I provided instructions for trolls in my post, but you seem to have missed that part in the bits you quoted. Despite my policy on feeding trolls, I'll repeat that I'm not endorsing the actions of the Netanyahu government.

    If you want to put your head in the sand and pretend that foreign intelligence isn't influencing nearly every flavor of social media on the internet, that's on you.

    I believe your understanding of how voting works is flawed. A vote only matters if it is cast. Withholding votes does not motivate politicians in any democratic system in the world. The math simply doesn't work.

    As you've clearly come to understand, the uncommitted movement was an abject failure. That you continue to cling to the idea that it failed due to rational progressives makes me wonder if you are a troll yourself.

    Uncommitted is not how political shifts happen in the United States. Increasingly it is single issue voters like you, who don't like how a candidate positions on a single issue and chooses to abstain or vote for the other side. To be clear, that's your choice and I wouldn't fault you for standing on your principles if you weren't simultaneously complaining about the outcome of standing on those principles.

    As it is, you promoted a failed political strategy that, not wholly but certainly in part, led to the reelection of Trump and the MAGAs. I voted for the candidate who would most plausibly bring about a less horrific end to the Gaza conflict. This was NEVER about dismissing concerns about a group of people on the other side of the planet, it was ALWAYS about making the best choice for THIS country.

    I think some part of you knows that, but I totally understand being irrationally angry with the world, random internet commenters, whatever. Shit is getting crazy out here, and tbh we all need each other more than ever. Please take my deepest apologies if the truth of what I'm saying is upsetting. Progressivism has never been about getting everything you want in a perfect candidate, it has always been about compromising in order to achieve incremental improvements. You don't have to align with that view, but your passion certainly would be welcomed.

  • Gen Z is very underwhelmed by congressional Democrats

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  • Younger generations are more exposed to social media and disinformation that the older generations dismissed decades ago. Boomers also had the experience of fighting for and gaining rights during their lifetime that are now being taken away again. Unfortunately, they largely failed to teach younger generations the value of those fights or the tactics by which they were fought, so many young people don't understand the implications behind a lot of these cultural shifts. Time is a flat circle.

  • Dem Senator Says Party Needs to Stop Attacking ‘Oligarchy’ and Focus on Losing ‘Woke’ Reputation

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  • You're pointing to a Mossad coordinated disinformation campaign as evidence that Michigan is a good spot to look for popular national support? The campaign designed to create a wedge issue in the 2024 election by simultaneously driving disinformation down politicians' throats while stoking anti-Israel sentiment among progressive communities?

    I'm not saying it's a bad take because obviously I can't prove to you that Mossad played a part, but think about the result of the "Uncommitted Movement" and who in Israel benefits by having Trump in office.

    Disclaimer for the incoming troll replies: I'm not pro-genocide, I'm simply in favor of choosing the best of possible outcomes, of which Harris was clearly a better outcome for Palestine. Can you even imagine her announcing the Riviera of the Middle East?

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  • Arguably the only potential PHI is the association between provider names and individuals, but with the current clown show running HHS, I'm not going to hold my breath and wait for accountability here.

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  • Also don't forget they're planning an IPO this year to massively accelerate the enshittification. Surely their investors wouldn't demand that this biometric data be monetized.

  • Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government

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  • Oh I see here that those were your top tier gas station tier graphics. Your eagerness to share knowledge that gets you excited is commendable and people like you are what makes Lemmy worth using. I hope you have a terrific day.

  • Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government

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  • Idk if you made those technical diagrams yourself but I genuinely enjoyed them.

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    Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’

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  • When you see people on Lemmy casually joking about eating the rich, they're talking about you.

  • Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow

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  • The term op-ed is literally short for "opposite the editorial page", and the idea is that it is an opportunity for opposing viewpoints to be brought into the discussion for consideration. The fact that the author is a moron does not besmirch the quality of the Guardian writ large.

  • France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools

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  • Motherfucker how long do you think humans have been around for? Okay, sure, soap has been around for like 6k years, wow, such a long time. Modern humans have been fumbling around figuring shit out like an untrained ai model for the last 60k-160k years. Quick math shows us that for somewhere between 54k and 154k years of our history as a species, no soap. MILLENIA!

    Drinking water: you're making a distinction between clean, as in unpolluted by chemicals and other substances, and cleaned drinking water, which has been processed by humans to make it fit to drink with a lower risk of causing illness. Clean water has obviously been around for eons, but cleaned water, as I believe OP was describing, is a much more modern concept.

    Showers: "try skipping a shower for a day"? Motherfucking neckbeard no, shower every fucking day. Try it, people might find you somewhat less repulsive until you open your mouth.

  • What Eddy Burback got wrong about his phone... [Discussion of Fediverse as an alternative within]

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  • Agreed. As with most things, the answer is neither black, nor white, but some shade of grey.

  • DHS ends ban on intelligence activities targeting people for sexual orientation, gender identity | Snopes

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  • Didn't know about this previously, thanks for the info

  • Trump tariffs: Elon Musk calls Peter Navarro 'dumber than a sack of bricks'

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  • Peter Navarro is 420 friendly? Had no idea but tracks.

  • What Eddy Burback got wrong about his phone... [Discussion of Fediverse as an alternative within]

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  • I disagree. Most people are able to self-regulate in more instances than you give credit for. In instances where someone is unable to do so, I would agree that a full prohibition probably makes sense; such as with alcoholics who are unable to stop themselves, but this is not the case for most people.

    Interruptions - fear not the notification, for you hold the power to calibrate your notifications to the level that suits you. I'm particularly aggressive about disabling notifications and especially notification categories that do not add value, and you can too.

    Resisting - many humans have reported experiencing even more enjoyment engaging in activities they enjoy if they delay their engagement until meeting a predetermined goal. If you know that scrolling through your favorite app for 5 min will give you a dopamine hit, you can choose to delay using the app until after you've completed a chore, for example, and that may offer enough incentive to complete more tasks than you might otherwise be able to perform.

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  • I've been assuming it's because they truly have no idea how this tech works

  • Booker Today During His Ongoing 22+ Hour Filibuster

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  • Okay buddy we'll at least he wants to keep the fascism over there.