Blooper

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[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

The comment directly below this one reads like propaganda straight from Moscow. I'm very glad to see it down-voted. Blaming blatant authoritarianism and extremely dangerous rhetoric on "old people" seems like a pretty obvious diversion from the actual culprits: the entire Republican party who is sleepwalking into a legit second coup attempt. They're losing political power and have abandoned the idea of democracy. The fact that they're unable or unwilling to drown this Nazi rhetoric in the bathtub speaks volumes. They are openly supporting authoritarianism. Not "old people". Republicans.

[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, one of the two parties makes posts like this to make stupid people say "both sides" whilst said party passes laws to suppress black votes, discriminate against gay folk, and ban abortions.

Quit trying to "both sides". It's what stupid people say.

[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Meh, only the Libreoffice kids

[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's addressed in the article actually. They had to program it so as not to cheat when they found it actually trying to cheat.

[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What car did you end up getting?

[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I've always said that about one of my big reasons for buying an EV several years ago. By the time I'm in need of a replacement battery, it will be better in virtually every way - safer, faster to charge, higher capacity, lighter, and (potentially) cheaper. The first replacement battery might not be much of an improvement, but my 3rd might be light-years ahead.

[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They still do! Fastest wireless charge in the West.

[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's different because you seem to be saying "workers should be able to be incredibly vulnerable to the whims of employers because employers should be good people". The other guy's response to that is "why would we ever assume employers are going to be good to their employees absent any mechanism to enforce said good behavior?"

[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The fact that it's nearly impossible to get liberal policies past a Senate where representation is heavily skewed in favor of Republicans does not equate to a conspiracy that the tiny margins Democrats are still sometimes able to eek out are then intentionally sabotaged. That's some conspiratorial BS. The simple fact is that Dems are playing a rigged game and always have been. Both-sidesing the parties when one of those parties is full of literal Nazis is simply ignorant and requires a lot of mental gymnastics and outright ignorance to get onboard with.

[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I was talking about you.

[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This is why we don't feed trolls

[–] Blooper@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While I agree with your anger and frustration, in sure you recognize how dangerous of a precedent that would be. Instead, we should be going full RICO on the entire Republican party.

A huge chunk of the elected officials on that side of the aisle are actively working to subvert democracy in the US. Endorsing Trump in an official capacity should absolutely be seen as a participatory activity in that context and those elected officials who have engaged in that should be held to account. The justice department should be looking to use this as a sledgehammer if they want to crush the rampant fascism sweeping the Republicans and their base.

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