enbyecho @ enbyecho @lemmy.world

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For the little people.

Oh pullleeeeze. Musk is not "autisc", much less autistic.

I don’t miss dial-up internet,

Nobody "misses" 56kbit/s.

I don’t even like the sound because it’s just digital screeches

When I hear that sound now I am very briefly returned to the excitement I felt in the 90s. It was an age of wide-open possibilities, free from commercial influence. Full of patience and anticipation.

Oh well.

Aren’t rural people more republican leaning?

In some places only slightly. Like 55/45. So it would still affect Democrats.

Edit: I mention this because a lot of folks tend to assume rural areas are almost exclusively Republican and that's very far from the truth even in super red states.

while lazy ignorant old people

Ignorant, yes, by definition. But voter turnout among registered Republicans has historically been pretty high - often higher than Democrats. There's a few breakdowns of this but I found this older analysis quite interesting: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/voter-turnout-2018-2022/

And there's evidence that higher turnout benefited Republicans this year: https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-voter-turnout-republicans-trump-harris-7ef18c115c8e1e76210820e0146bc3a5

So we should just accept that and pay them off rather than putting in mechanisms to prevent that and hiring people who are motivated by something other than the payout?

It might seem like we have no choice but we do, collectively, hold the power of the purse here. And I think this post is a great example of that.

Never underestimate the laziness of a disaffected but mostly not quite yet starving population.

tl;dr: Patience, grasshopper.

Do you live in a cave?

What you are describing is blackmail.

"Pay us exorbitant salaries or we'll be forced to embezzle the funds"

Do they think we are stupid?

Oh wait... never mind.

Kids, don't be morons.

Gotta be honest. That's just a really silly thing to say.

It is de facto open border if all border crimes are pardoned proactively.

Is that's what is happening or going to happen?

I think your username needs to check out.

They are not open you... you... you... [redacted]

I'm really warming up to the idea of Biden doing some other "official acts" before he departs.

a stinky turd that they’re going to throw in our face every time someone brings up any of their lies or nepotism.

They already had the stinky turd and were going to throw it anyway. They have many stinky turds. Much throwing!

He should pardon himself for everything before he leaves office

He doesn't need to. Presidents have immunity for "official acts". Womp womp.

Lots of great ideas here!

"See" was the wrong word. "learn of many years after the fact" seems a better fit.