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What is the point you want to make?

PSL are basically tankies now and the Greens are fully captured by Russian oligarchs. Both are small enough that you're right, maybe it'll be easier to change them. However, I doubt it because in some ways they're more radical than the Dems so more set in their beliefs. Dems might be easier to change from within because there's already so many camps, it'll be easier to form a coalition.

Also, as much as I like Sanders, people need to let 2016 go. He knew the rules, he'd been in the Senate since 2007 and in politics since the 70s. Superdelegates were not some secret, Sanders knew he had to win them over too. Democrats didn't like him because he ran as a Democrat for the funding and platform, but was an Independent before and an Independent afterwards.

Ultimately, he wanted to use the Dems but didn't want to work for them. I have zero problem with him doing this, but I'm also not surprised the party leaders didn't line up behind him as the nominee. Same deal as Clinton and Harris, they knew the rules and that the game was rigged in Trump's favor through the electoral college (and sexism), and they lost. I don't have to like the result, but I'm also not going to say any of them were robbed. The only person that can legitimately claim to have a modern presidential election stolen from them is Al Gore because he actually won the nomination and electoral college. The Supreme Court changing the results is not in the rules that anyone agreed to.

The fuck are you talking about? First of all, primaries exist. Secondly, with only a few notable exceptions, Democrats favor single-payer. The original ACA was a government healthcare bill with a private option but Joe Lieberman was the holdout and gutted it. Stating otherwise is intellectually dishonest and deliberately ignorant, or at worst a malicious rewrite of history.

It's also, no matter how sad and fucked up, a local story whereas the killing of a CEO who has fucked over people across the country is a national story.

There's actually way more agreement than people think about what's broken in society and the causes of it, at least at a surface level. The problem is our differing views on how to fix it all.

They're doing it because the guy on the run crossed state lines. That makes it federal, so the FBI has jurisdiction and it's easier for them to work cross-border than the NYPD. It's getting more resources because it's a highly publicized case. I'm sure there's some pressure from some wealthy and/or powerful people as well to find whoever did it, but it's not surprising that the FBI is involved now.

Generally speaking, normalizing extrajudicial killing of people that aren't liked tends to trend in a bad direction.

Plenty of unelected people have a massive say in policy. We wouldn't get anything done if every bureaucrat had to be elected.

This specific unelected soon-to-be bureaucrat is fucking towel though.

Ok but no one is arguing Windows is encrypted. Google is specifically stating, in a way that could get them sued for shitloads of money, that their messaging protocol is E2EE. They have explicitly described how it is E2EE. Google can be a bad company while still doing this thing within the bounds we all understand. For example, just because the chat can't be backdoored doesn't mean the device can't be.

It's actually kjnd of the opposite: America has the dominant culture going back generations. It's just that culture is very materialistic, so people try to find something deeper. That's my theory anyway. Besides, most of us are immigrants and I think a lot of Americans want some connection to their place of origin.

I think it comes down to people not liking that Bluesky is controlled by a board. But that's what's needed for mass adoption: a group of people to be accountable.

In the U.S., the IRS collects all federal taxes and deposits them in the Treasury. The President submits a proposed annual budget and Congress spends entirely too much time appropriating the money from the Treasury to fund those parts of the budget it approves. There is no way to know what your tax dollars went to specifically because they go into a comingled fund that pays for all federal appropriations.

What national government anywhere in the world specifies the federal programs paid for by taxes on an employee pay stub?

Okay but there were alternatives to coal. There is no alternative to food. We need a better system, but the way to get there isn't everybody starves while we figure it out.

There is no world in which he doesn't know his impact. He's got a number one podcast in terms of listenership. He's an idiot but there's no way he's that far gone.

It's wild that he's become his character from Newsradio, minus the more fun aspects. Quite literally a shell of his former job.

https://xkcd.com/703/

While it's chemistry, there is a bit of an art to it, and you can be off by a bit and still have perfectly good bread.

Would he nice if that attitude persists for a while.