mattyroses

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mattyroses ,

Yes. Plenty of states didn't even hold primaries. You think it was just a nice coincidence they didn't pull Biden until after the primary anointed Copmala?

mattyroses ,

Trump is the symptom, not the disease

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Yes. You need to look at the cost of stocks in constant dollars to avoid measuring inflation.

The Little Free Fibre Libraries of Vancouver

A local, independently owned yarn store partnered with the Little Free Library Project to create free fibre libraries around the city, providing yarn, needles and other fibre arts supplies to the community.

A screenshot of a map of Vancouver, Canada, featuring about a dozen locations where there are Free Fibre Libraries.
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but because of its citizens.

You mean the same people that have elected Trump twice now?

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found the goat fucker

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Defending goat fucking isn't a good look.

Seriously, Why GIMP Dev(s), Why??

Honest to gods, this conversation happened today, and it may have cost me a job opportunity. The customer was super impressed with my menu design and animation, and wanted to know who we got it from. When I said I did it, their face lit up! Too bad as soon as i said GIMP, they weren't interested anymore. Has anyone else ...

Picture of post from my Bluesky of a convo between me and a customer... {Convo between me and a customer today: "neat menu, i really like it." "thanks, I made it." -me "Really? How?" "I used Gim... and an online program, Canva to animate it." "Im sorry, Gim?" "Umm, GIMP. It stand for GNU Image Manip..." "GIMP?? Like the suit?" "No, not like the suit." why, gimp dev!? }
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mattyroses ,

Gimp's sleeping

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glad people are using Linux. That said, does anyone else cringe like hell at how everything is "my journey" now?

mattyroses ,

do you guys really say that that often? I'm tail end of GenX, so I don't talk to you guys that often

mattyroses ,

I think the Digital Euro is going to be a better idea long term - taking off the hidden tax of payment processor fees is going to make businesses and people richer.

mattyroses ,

I mean, the proletarinization of the petit bourgeois isn't exactly something nobody predicted . . . https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/f33e0616-7b5d-4648-a8c4-a3fab8c744c8.jpeg

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There's a reason that the White Rose is celebrated by those who find non-violence worth sacrificing any results to.

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Uh this is saying that the right wing people yelling they needed guns to stop government tyranny are going away with it. Your conspiracy theory shit isn't even responding to the right comments.

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Yeah, SRA member, I don't disagree. But just talking in terms of that comment.

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Is it ads for paid users as well?

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"don't blame me, I voted for 90% Hitler!"

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No third party candidate could have lost as bad as Kamala did. Presidency and both Houses.

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Normally I'd be fine with them voting 3rd party

Wake up babe, it's the most important election f our lifetime again.

Democratic apologists have literally been saying this for 26 years. Your strategy of Vote Blue No Matter Who is what brought you to this point.

You want to just have the problems go away without any struggle. And it's not gonna happen.

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She was running for Presidency. And lost. Badly. As her party lost both houses.

Pick any third party, they won just as much as Kamala did - and didn't spend a billion and a half to do so.https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/391ba027-02fa-42ea-af90-9fdc349ea7b7.jpeg

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I mean, yeah, I've won as many delegates as Kamala ever has, so . . .

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That's the point - my candidate didn't need $200 million to do just as well as Kamala did in results.

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Meanwhile Kamala had all the press, and made no waves and had no chance, losing even the popular vote to an insane game show host and disgraced former president.

She did manage to grab and waste the space of opposition, ensuring the GOP victory was complete.

No, it's not baseball. In baseball, when you fuck up this bad, people don't die. Here, they do. And you hogs are chomping at the bit to do it again.

Me, I'm personally fine - I saw the way this wind was blowing when Biden won the primary in 2020, and started making plans to leave the US then. Which I've already done.

mattyroses ,

Because, yes.

We can jump into Gaza, or just start with . . . https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-tough-migration-pitch-border-points-shifting-national-mo-rcna172850

Though it doesn't really matter, since your centrist neoliberal ate shit and lost anyways. Is there a German word maybe for when you sell your soul and still wind up broke?

mattyroses ,

I didn't say they would've won, stop moving goal posts.

I said they couldn't have lost more than Kamala did. Because it was a binary thing on three counts?

Did she win the Presidency? No.

Did she keep the Senate? No.

Did she win the House? No.

No matter what you think of Claudia De La Cruz or Jill Stein, it's just a simple fact neither one of them could have given a worse outcome than that one. And given the resources Kamala had, that's particularly pathetic.

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I'm saying it's literally impossible for them to have performed worse.

So talking about how third party candidates "can't win" is nonsense, since the Democrats apparently can't win either.

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They didn't have a better chance though - they lost to a historically bad candidate. Multiple times.

The Democrats are a problem precisely because they occupy the line of resistance to the GOP. You want to stop the GOP, you've got to stop their enablers first.

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Ah shit, I can't get through the blue screens!

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Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes across Berlin ( www.theguardian.com )

Named the Kartoffel-Flut (potato flood), after the highest yield in 25 years, the bumper crop has inspired one farmer to organise a potato dump on Berlin, with appeals going out around the German capital for people to come to various hotspots and pick them up for free.

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that

"It would be a shame if protesters started wearing safety glasses, hard hats, respirators, and gardening gloves, all of which can be found at the hardware stores. It would be a shame if they started using traffic cones (the kind without the hole in the top), upside down buckets, or other improvised lids to contain teargas by placing them over the canisters. It would be a shame if protesters learned that police scanners are legal to own in the US, allowing them to learn where police are moving, and what routes they intend to take. It would be a shame if they discovered that these scanners can be used to send as well as receive, allowing them to flood the scanner frequencies with noise. All of this would be a terrible, terrible shame. *It would be an awful shame if you copied and pasted this, so that they couldn't delete the original and all linked posts (again)."
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mattyroses ,

Also make sure you do not purchase high powered laser pointers from Alibaba. As those could accidently damage the optical scanners of police drones and robo dogs.

mattyroses ,

Golly, seems like lots of people don't like you

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It's far more clear this time around who is doing what to disrupt the status-quo

Voters seem, with good reason, to hate whichever party is currently in power is another easy way to read this.

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for the first time in 30 years

Dean had the 50 state strategy in 2006. Which paid off in 2008, with the largest Dem win in generations.

That of course was quickly squandered.

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It wasn't really Dean - though as an ex-Deanite, maybe I'm biased.

Dean was elected in spite of lots of the Democratic establishment. And they did oppose Obama (for little reason it turned out, he didn't block them).

With Obama, who I volunteered for in 2008, I can say for sure lots of the support thought that we were cleaning house of the Dem leadership, only to see Larry Summers and the like immediately brought back in. My big question is really if the fix was always in, or if Obama got push back and immediately gave up. Either seems likely.

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in my experience, it's liberals, not leftists, doing that more often

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I don't disagree. Class Rules Everything Around Me.

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Exactly. We saw just this in both Ukraine and the actions of the Houthis. Human aircraft have become very expensive battleships of the air.

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What, you want your planes to stay in the sky, even when it rains? Picky picky.

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"hey guys, I know we're saying that Trump is an existential threat to the US, but leaking documents to stop him would violate norms. So we won't. We'll just blame the left when we lose."

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Thanks for reassuring us there's no point to electing Democrats to stop the GOP agenda or politicians.

mattyroses ,

Enjoying your tea party with your little straw man?

Of course I "blame" the GOP for their agenda. But the GOP doesn't pretend to oppose the GOP yet fail to do so.

The Democrats do.

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I am talking about the Epstein files coverup

Yes, the one enabled by the Biden administration.

Whether that was through malice or incompetence is immaterial.

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