LesserAbe @ LesserAbe @lemmy.world

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There's only one response: We've got to drop the big one. We have got to nuke the ocean.

Not sure why you're being aggro. I asked if this is part of their corporate identity. Zuckerberg went around literally advocating for that approach. Plenty of other companies are shitty without explicitly calling for that specific philosophy.

You're right people should have high expectations of crowd strike since it's a well funded company, and they should provide better support to the random project with a single maintainer.

That said, is there any indication crowd strike is a "move fast and break things" company? Sometimes people just fuck up, even if they don't have a crazy ideology.

What does that mean? Biden got more votes than Bernie

Thanks for your support! And very happy to see your success in France.

It's completely academic since no foreign military will set foot in the continental US, but a lot of our gun nuts are former military, and the ones who aren't still go to the range, join militias who run drills etc. This is literally their dream scenario. My uncle has a secret room in his house which not only has several guns and extra ammo, but also a crossbow, gas masks, items for barter. If we have a problem it will be like Italy's years of lead or another civil war. It won't be a foreign invasion.

You're right, superdelegates are bullshit. They didn't play into Biden beating Bernie, although they could have if it was closer. As I understand it the rules have been revised so that superdelegates can't fuck up the first vote, but could if there are additional rounds. Regardless they should be eliminated.

Point taken, thanks for commenting.

What does "without support" mean in this context? For any guerilla force even if they don't have nation state support, there are probably domestic groups that aren't combatants but who provide shelter, food, intelligence etc. If there wasn't anything like that available then I don't think resistance would last more than weeks. With even domestic support I think an insurgency could last decades.

It's frustrating that Bernie didn't win, and I think he has the best policies. Democracy works by allowing people to have input on how things are run. If I'm reading you right you feel like a lot of voters aren't properly informed. Isn't that on the candidates and their campaigns? If a candidate drops out and tells their supporters "I recommend you follow so and so now" it's on those people to do their research, but ultimately who are we to tell them we're wrong?

Democracy is a kind of error correction. Any one of us may be wrong, and we're all wrong about something. So distributing decision making across many people with different perspectives, experiences and reasoning processes is a way to guard against individual error.

Even with that process unfortunately many times the majority thinking has been shown to be misguided with time and new perspective. We can try to persuade and inform, and should. But many times our cause loses an election, and that doesn't automatically mean it's a conspiracy or cheating.

I'm a long time Bernie supporter, and as I said I'd like to see ranked choice voting because it more accurately captures voter's preference.

That said, how was the 2020 primary not democratic? If one soccer player passes the ball to another and they score is that manipulating the system? It's playing the game by the rules. What is the alternative to people dropping out of the primary? Should they be forced to keep running even if it's clear they won't win?

You're right that some rules aren't ideal. For example, thinking of this current primary my understanding is that if a candidate drops out, their pledged delegates are free to vote for whoever. That's pretty undemocratic since now the preferences of a bunch of voters is not connected to who the candidate is.

In the case of the 2020 primary, people did get to vote for who they wanted. To me it's not a conspiracy when candidates drop out because they see there's no chance they'll win and they want someone who is sort of like minded to succeed. It sucks because in this case it was someone who I didn't prefer.

But think of the recent French election - a bunch of centrist candidates dropped out after the first run because they wanted to make sure the far right candidates didn't win. That meant more far left people won. The far right in France were complaining that this was unfair. But all it really showed is they didn't have a majority of support in those districts, and the other "team" played the game better.

Like others here said, it's extremely unlikely an enemy would land sufficient soldiers to occupy America. If they did and assuming the official armed forces had been defeated (also very unlikely), the enemy could expect significant armed guerilla resistance.

That said, I think the appeal for Americans watching Red Dawn is that it's a fantasy where we get to use deadly force against our enemies and be completely justified. They'll tell you all our wars are necessary and moral, but our last "just war" that was even a little cut and dry was world war two. (And still plenty of ethical questions even there)

But here's a daydream where the bad guy has attacked us and imprisoned our families and it's time for payback!

As an aside I think that's the gimmick of every Quentin Tarantino movie: someone else did something horrible so now it's ok that I'm about to fuck them up in a gruesome way. (Kill Bill, Inglorious Bastards, Django Unchained etc)

When Biden beat Bernie it sucked, but the other candidates dropped out and put their weight behind Biden so it allowed him to get the most votes. That's not anti democratic, just strategy.

I'd say this go round will be much less democratic if Biden drops out, because registered Democrats more or less all voted for Biden and then all these party insider delegates will actually be the ones picking the candidate.

Don't get me wrong, I will still vote and advocate for pretty much anyone over Trump, but the Democratic party is not covering themselves in glory here.

In my ideal system we'd have ranked choice voting, so many people can run without risking being a "spoiler". If an individual doesn't have enough votes to get a majority, those votes will move on to the voter's second choice, then third choice and so on until someone has a majority of support.

You're right, and other intellectual "design" jobs will have physical or visible manifestations of the design process. In video you have a storyboard, set design. In music you have notation, lyrics, demo recordings, and so on.

Some neat ideas in there.

Holy shit

If you read the article I think the point they were making is that today's Republican party has no interest in connection to it's past or principles, or even to any kind of consistency or coherence.

What specific steps would you like to see Biden take right now?

Yeah, would have loved to see action before now. Still, what specific steps would you rather see this moment?

At least he's talking about it and maybe giving people hope that things could settle the fuck down. Lot of people probably voting against Trump, but would help to have more reasons to vote for Biden

Imagine shit hitting the fan if Congress passed a law limiting a clearly corrupt court and then the court "ruled it unconstitutional".

That isn't going to fly.

It's not even in the constitution that the supreme court can rule something unconstitutional, they just did it once early on and everyone went with it.