I have one but it is not well-funded.

Keep rationalizing. Maybe one of these days you’ll convince yourself that things aren’t so bad.

I didn’t know you could sign lease terms that long

We’re all going to die. We were already all going to die. We signed our own death warrant when we knowingly allowed omnicidal fascists to take control of the most efficient death machine mankind has ever devised. Or maybe not, history is weird. Maybe a meteor evaporates DC and the country balkanizes. The only thing I’m sure of is that there’s no way out of this that involves a glorious uprising of the organized left. We couldn’t organize our way out of a paper bag.

I feel like desktop as a service might work pretty well in a world where municipal fiber was commonplace but it’s the damnedest thing, the billionaire aligned politicians banned it in a bunch of places

Well they’re not gonna do anything anyway, so I might as well.

This is what grinds my gears about getting into discussions with people who take your position. I do not have to make apologies for the undemocratic first-past-the-post system, or the undemocratic electoral college. Had more people voted, the fix would not have worked. Rigged elections can be overwhelmed, especially when they are being attacked from the outside.

I am thinking about what I’ll do when I can’t vote anymore. And it does not involve common cause with people who do not understand basic strategy.

I can’t take you seriously, man. You don’t appear to understand how power works, or how movements work, or how organizations work. You will never convince me of this idea that somehow not voting for the lesser of two evils in the general would have improved where we find ourselves right now. I will never convince you that Harris, flawed status-quo neolib that she was, would have been much less bad than unrepentant fascism. This conversation is a waste of my time, and yours (however much that’s worth). Have a good day.

e: misspoke

You better chase after that other poster, because that’s not something I ever said.

You will never be the swing voter, but the only way your vote doesn’t count at all is if you don’t cast it. The republicans have fought for half a century to suppress voter turnout, and sadly it has worked. Throwing up your hands and saying “well, if they don’t want me to vote I suppose I simply will not vote” is worse than useless.

I’m not sure where you are getting this delusion that I chose any sort of strategy. She was a shit candidate. If I could have stopped them from anointing her, I would have. They didn’t ask me. My best option – everyone’s best option – was still to vote for her, because the alternative was worse.

Do you think voting works like betting?

Yes, I am vote shaming. You don’t seem to understand that you had two options. Harris could have been the second shittest candidate to ever run for the office and she still would have been a preferable choice. I think that by failing to oppose mask-off fascism in this admittedly tiny but still quite meaningful way, you do bear some small amount of blame for the state of things.

To wit: If you couldn’t hold your nose and vote for a bad candidate to stop the candidate who everyone knew would be much worse, I do not want to form a coalition with you and I certainly do not want to climb into a trench with you.

The reasonable choice was to vote for Kamala out of sheer harm reduction. Throwing a hissy fit and taking your ball and going home because you think we should be playing a different game helped nobody.

I wrote a term paper once about how twitter would enable citizen journalism and lead to a more informed public and a healthier, more direct democracy. I got an A.

I was a pretty huge fan of Zune and I still miss it.

There’s the Democrats I know

Quick reminder to anyone reading, since the other reply here implied implications about what is to be done: whatever your opinions on violence may be you should never, under any circumstances, suggest that yourself or others should or will commit violent or illegal acts in your own country or countries that your country has extradition treaties with.

The revolution will not happen on Lemmy or any other public forum. You can only hurt yourself and your fellow travelers by posting violent threats or incitement to other illegal activity. Do not post credible threats. The cops can and will show up at your house.

Hell of a shot at a moving target, and if you miss that bullet is going to bounce and hit something or someone you weren’t aiming at. Technically possible, but very unfeasible.

Oh hey, this reminds me, I really need to cancel that before it renews

What leads you to believe I’m the one being blocked? Anyone can read any message posted on here. Look, I ain’t trying to upset anyone. I was just curious. Have a nice day.