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How do people not understand that Biden is not changing direction on this and that even if he did the damage is already done for many?

There is no “appealing” version of the Biden admin. The only realistic long-term strategy is allowing zionists to become politically untenable. Democrats in a position of privilege need to experience the consequences of their dead end politics, they simply cannot be made to understand any other way.

This election is already lost to the extreme right, regardless of who wins. The best long-term option is to aim for what will most quickly lead to reform within the Democratic party. The “lesser of two evils” strategy has been tried for 40+ years and has only resulted in failure after failure.

The only thing that could make it more trustworthy is to have a picture of Zuckerbergs empty-eyed alienoid face there trying to approximate a reassuring smile.

Unfortunately the only way I see Democrats coming around is by demonstrating to them in material terms that zionists cannot win elections, that there’s a certain point beyond which you cannot vote shame democratic voters into supporting or overlooking this kind of evil.

I’m not someone who wants Trump, I personally am in a group that will be directly and severely effected by a GOP presidency before most, but the only way to get the Democratic party on a track for a future that isn’t just “not as far right as the GOP” is to let them learn that neoliberalism is an abject failure and has no future. That it’s unteneable to hold people’s rights hostage as a threat.

If the party doesn’t realize that then we are going to just continue sliding further to the right until a few cycles from now it’s the same as if Trump had won anyway.

God damn lemmy is disgusting sometimes.

Any media that depicts children as sexual is promoting pedophilia, which is harmful to real children. Children are not sexual and should not be depicted that way, people who have pedophilic desire need psychological help, not to be placated by catering to their fantasies. Catering to their fantasies emboldens them to act.

Nope, not comparable. Sexualizing children’s bodies is wrong and should be stopped wherever people try to do it.

It also normalizes pedophilia, whether it’s an avatar or an AI rendering of a child, it’s part of an abusive culture that should be confronted.

I kind of wonder if Bluesky, while it is sus, will help get people more comfortable with the concept of federation, which will lead to more people looking into federated platforms

Why the hell were they discharged from the hospital with life threatening head trauma?

I try to avoid using apps and services run by tech bro cultist nutters if I can.

Dorsey is as toxic as Elon or any of the other silicon valley douches, he’s not as loud about it.

“Are you sure? A promotion will cost us more money.”

“Oh right, fire that man!”

I was in a similar position to you in my twenties, I spent a lot of that time working in bars and restaurants simply because it was what I knew and because I was totally uncertain about the future and felt adrift.

By my mid twenties I was just really tired and soul sick, so I saved up a bit of cash and then hitch-hiked around the US for two years, living out of a pack, mostly outside. It’s an extreme course that I don’t necessarily recommend for everyone, but I think I needed to get outside it all so I could really assess what was important, what I was willing or not willing to deal with etc.

When I finally came back, I went back to restaurants, but with a new sense of scale and possibility about life. A friend I worked with moved to an IT job, and suggested I should apply. Before my period of wandering, I would’ve probably passed the opportunity up feeling like it was too unfamiliar, but my mindset about risk had changed completely by that point and taking the job was a no brainer.

That job led to a different career trajectory, it’s not my dream career but it made it possible to afford a modest home with my sister and to create a lot of security. Goals that seemed out of reach became more realistic, and as I seize on those goals the opportunities tend to compound and it gets easier to plan the future.

The thing to understand about your twenties is you’re afforded the ability to make mistakes and experiment, to take risks. Some people know what they want right out of high school (or it’s decided for them) and sometimes those people do have a very clear course laid out and the means to achieve it. That’s not the case for everyone, and it’s ok to tackle life at a pace that makes sense to you in your context.

The only suggestions I would give is to use your twenties to just take sensible risks and do stuff, even if something seems too big to tackle take a run at it anyway. Pursue opportunities actively and eventually one will stick. You’ll meet a lot of failure or dead ends but that’s perfectly ok and normal because you’ll be learning something each time and honing your life saaviness. Failure can be painful, but it’s good, particularly in your twenties when you’ve got so much time ahead of you. Just be careful of accruing debt, that’s sort of the main thing that can screw you a bit.

It’s got everything a body needs

The great irony is that the far right-wing Israeli government has made Israel the least safe place for jews. Not only that, but they’re undermining their own colonial project – this war is doing exactly what zionists were desperately trying to avoid; prompting the greater public to draw a more clear, accurate line between “jewish” and “Israeli”.

As much as the death and destruction is horrible and needs to end immediately, I think this kind of thing was the only way the rest of the world was going to wake up about what has been going on in Palestine for the past 70 years.

"Never again…unless we’re doing it to someone else "

Does Tencent actually make games though? I thought their whole schtick was just buying up smaller IPs and teams via their network of subsidiaries, milking the products dry and then abandoning them if they fail to be easy money makers immediately.

I don’t post comments so they can be commercialized by others, I post it for the sake of sharing and discussion. People need to stop pretending LLMs are the same as human beings, they aren’t comparable in purpose or their learning and data usage methods.

Yes, being uncertain or waiting for back-up when you’re out-gunned and alone is one thing, but Uvalde was unforgivable (which I assume you’re alluding to).

These Lone Star, Thin Blue Line dipshits with Punisher patches and stuff cowering in a corner while an unarmed mom wriggles out of handcuffs, hops the fence into the school and saves her kid.

Uninstall Edge with admin CMD prompt:

1. cd %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Microsoft\Edge\Application\xxx\Installer

(Change the xxx to the version of your edge)

2. setup.exe --uninstall --system-level --verbose-logging --force-uninstall

And then uninstall Chrome and use FF instead.

So the person being threatened was not exercising their right to speech? I really think you need to re-read what I originally wrote, you seem to think I’m saying something I’m not.

My commentary was concerning motivation. The chinese student was motivated to threaten violence by the exercise of a right.

Sort of, I think you might need to re-read what I wrote.

The person targeted by the threats was exercising their right to speech and the chinese student was attempting to stifle them on behalf of a foreign government.

It is a speech issue for this reason. What made it illegal here in the US was the added threat of violence. If the student hadn’t threatened violence but still tried to prevent them criticizing the Chinese government it would still be about attempting to prevent speech, just not a legal issue.