themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The actual total in your own link was 5.2 million for executives. The 88 million is, again, the entire salary base just in 2021. Assuming they still had 700 employees (which is a current figure, not 3 years ago) that's still about 120k apiece for everyone else.

I can't tell if you're just being disingenuous or you really can't read your own sources...

[–] themoken@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That salary number is all ~700 employees, not just "executives". That averages to about 150k apiece, not unreasonable for what is probably mostly tech workers.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've only used Jellyfin, what does Plex do better for the non-expert user?

[–] themoken@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

It's possible that it's not supported on your arch.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago

I agree that a primary probably still ends up with Kamala and would probably just be the illusion of choice. The DNC would close ranks around her in the name of Biden's legacy, just like they did for Biden back in 2020 when the vote was splitting in Bernie's favor, and in 2016 when it was obvious they just wanted to coronate Hillary and move on.

That said, even with a rigged primary, putting your candidate on the debate stage to address your constituents instead of skipping directly to fellating non-existent centrists in the general would have been good.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago

Cheers to that, fellow Texas drunk

[–] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Texas is incredibly resource rich, even if the people who live here are generally fuck faces.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I mean, fuck Elon and Tesla but if you're spending money on a car you're giving it to a bastard one way or another. The CEOs of Ford, BMW, et. al. might not be making asses of themselves on the global stage, but I'm sure they're still horrible. Even used cars run on gas 99% of the time.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

Everything on that list is typical neoliberal Democrat tinkering around the edges while the world burns.

It's not that the individual ideas are bad, it's that they have no vision of a better future for most people. Where is Medicare For All? Where is tuition free college? Where is anything that isn't just a bandaid for a specific paper cut when the whole goddam country is being devoured by fascists and corporations?

That's the meat I'm talking about - something that millions of people on the left could vote for in self interest. What we got was meat for checks notes non-Medicare diabetics.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago

Israel is currently genociding Palestinians under a Democratic president, they didn't need Trump's approval for anything. The bulldozers are already running, the people are already having their lives destroyed.

Again, I voted Harris for harm reduction, so I see your point about Harris possibly being better for Gaza in the long run, but it's not "kill my friends now" or "kill my friends later" it's "kill my friends now" or "kill my friends now and maybe, just maybe, stop sometime around the midterms when it's politically convenient and only if Harris doesn't need to keep getting the fascist vote". I don't blame Gaza voters for looking at that choice and holding out for what they really want, which is "stop killing my friends now".

[–] themoken@startrek.website -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Those Palestinians were going to lose their land, families and lives either way. Biden has done nothing to stop Israel, neither would Harris. She made it abundantly clear that "protecting" Israel was more important than stopping genocide.

Gaza didn't cost Harris the election. Maybe Michigan, but even that's a stretch. Democrats lost ground in literally every demographic other than 100k+ income because, again, they campaigned to the right and offered absolutely nothing to the left.

If Harris told any other assumed Democratic group to fuck off this hard, nobody would be surprised they didn't vote for her. If she ran as pro-life to court Trumpers and her support from women collapsed we wouldn't be screaming about them getting in line, we'd be talking about Harris betraying those voters. This is no different, it just affects a far smaller voting bloc that people feel comfortable scapegoating.

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