nickwitha_k (he/him) @ nickwitha_k @lemmy.sdf.org

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I'd say it's to embolden police and violent racists, in hope of helping encouraging their race war to destabilize the country so that they can divy it up.

The interesting lack of forethought from the oligarchic billionaires is that their billions mean nothing without the US dollar and NYSE. The majority of their hoards of wealth are not backed by anything tangible that could be of use in the event that the US dollar ceases to be relevant. I suppose that this kind of thought isn't likely to occur to sociopaths that were born with platinum spoons in their mouths.

We are boycotting Amazon products until they make another season of The Expanse

With the time skip, that's going to be a long boycott.

I suppose I tend to think of it more as a Lisp interpreter that's capable of self-extension.

0.7M more people who the government needs to handle logistics and civil infrastructure for. It's about trying to exhaust the war resources in ways that don't directly influence the war in Ukraine's favor.

According to OpenSecrets, about $100k to Nikki Haley and Kentucky GOP.

Prove that they are irrelevant.

It is vitally important, not just in elections but also in life overall, to recognize that not all possibilities are equally likely and to use available data to evaluate them.

For example, it is possible that a white rhinoceros might come down the hall and join me for a spot of tea and biscuits. I can, however, safely say that that is almost definitely not going to happen, based upon these data points:

• I do not keep any white rhinoceros in my home.
• White rhinoceros are not native to this continent and are classified as near-threatened (a major improvement from their previous near-extinction).
• White rhinoceros average between 1700kg and 2300kg. My home was not designed and built to support that kind of moving mass. Any white rhinoceros walking down my hall would likely fall through the floor.
• White rhinoceros, while generally docile and gregarious, are not known for enjoying tea and biscuits.

Yes, this is a exaggerated caricature. However, data with even more clarity is available surrounding election outcomes. Betting on a possible outcome without any evidence to suggest that it is likely is foolish and betting on an outcome that one knows is unlikely, while increasing the likelihood of an outcome known to be harmful to vulnerable people is detestable.

Going to have to disagree there.

I've not had a Brother printer so, can't say from experience. My Epson Ecotank needed a driver to work. Setting it up on an RPi 3B with a CUPS server took care of it.

Some of me would probably survive. Having experience in agriculture would help there. Also, with enough of me, we might be and to keep some power generation running, as long as manuals could be found. The adaptability of AuADHD could help in a lot of ways... But the AuADHD of AuADHD would probably cause some of me to make silly oversights that on such a grand scale would get many of us killed.

On the plus side, shit would be pretty peaceful and I could get some good rest.

This. Alternatives mean that they can hold monopoly and jackup prices on a whim.

Simplified: 3 > (1+1) but 3 < (1+1+1+1)

Questions?

Because the built-in networking stack on printers is garbage and having to install drivers on every client sucks.

This is the way.

Printer manufacturers: Of course your printers need to be connected to the Internet... For... Reasons...

That is literally how the mathematics of elections work, whether you wish to believe in reality or not.

Have you done anything to fix it? Yes. I've supported efforts for electrical reform both locally and nationality.

Are the democrats doing anything to fix it? The leadership of a primarily neo-liberal party that likes the status quo and sees little opposition from the left in primaries? No, I don't think they currently are.

Nows the time. Not during the election.

Here, we have some agreement and common ground. Now is indeed a much better time to try for change than a general election. However, with fascists in power, free elections are likely to no longer occur for the foreseeable future. So, demanding resistance from elected officials and building community is vital to weathering this storm that was avoidable.

Now. I see that you have not responded to my request for what you have done, after my response to your accusatory question. Care to do so? Or are you just JAQing it?

They have run the same strategy every time because it is what the data informs them that they should. They want to get elected (and maintain a neoliberal status quo) so, they listen to those who vote for them.

When leftists refuste to vote or "protest vote", the data points do not suggest to those making decisions that they should change course. No. They, possibly intentionally, embrace survivorship bias. Those that didn't vote are considered unreliable voters and removed from who the party decides to represent in their policies.

Is it bullshit and fundamentally fallacious reasoning? Yes. However, the party leadership is more concerned with keeping their cushy jobs and insider trading than any socially progressive philosophy (remember that most current Dems have been in office since before their party supported same-sex marriage). The data to them says "you can't count on votes from the left but the right always votes", so, court them to keep getting elected. And Dem leadership is intrinsically linked to participation in primaries and outside of elections. Their jackassery is actively enabled by people sitting them out - once doesn't get a seat at the table if they don't show up.

To add to the above, leftists refusing to even try to transform the Democratic party puts all of us in a precarious position due to economic (neo)liberals history of consistently siding with fascists.

You want to talk about statistics? Lets talk about the studies that have shown all parties in the US are far more likely to suggest to suggest pro-corporate legislation than legislation that helps the people? It's literally over 90% of the time that the corporate interests get chosen. The people who say voting doesn't matter have been right for 20 years. It's only now that we have this MAGA movement there's actually been a difference to the average American.

And this is only possible because of a lack of political engagement. If progressives, leftists, and center-left consistently showed up in the primaries, we'd be able to shift the party. Instead, they don't and thus communicate to the party that they accept the chosen course.

And no, California voted it's ass off because of the senate race. The same people who vote blue there though would happily vote homeless people into concentration and death camps, literal quotes from around town are like, "I just want them to go away, I don't care what the government does with them". And every one of those ballot questions was framed in light of the homeless issue in ads. Homeless people steal, we need to bring back tougher sentences, Homeless people are lazy so once they're in prison we need to teach them to work, rent controls mean the area goes to shit and homeless people move in, medical nonprofits aren't giving the money to homeless people so we need to force them to use the money.

Sadly, not entirely correct. About 1.7M fewer Californians voted than in 2020. That would have been enough to change the results in all but the rent control and mandatory sentencing initiatives. And, I'd suspect that if any amount of the energy that went into trying to convince people not to vote or that the guy who promised more genocide would magically do less went into outreach and education on the initiatives, we would have overcome the corpo influence.

All of it was bullshit, but the very same people who voted for Schiff ate that shit up.

All of that was indeed bullshit and anyone that didn't vote Schiff in the general was either not voting for viable opposition to fascists or actively supported fascists. Dedicating a fraction of the energy spent hating on Dems and repeating foreign influence campaign propaganda would have likely been able to at least educate enough people to make a difference. Instead, the state that is seen as the must progressive state in the country passed measures supporting slumlords and preserving the institution of slavery.

There are several quotes and sayings about assumption that would for well here but I was unable to find sufficient attribution of happy with them.

So throughout your life time, election after election, you saw people not being represented by their choices in the voting booth and you did nothing?

Let's see. Some things that I have done:

• Wasted over a decade on the mistaken belief that these on the right were acting in good faith but shaped by ignorance.
• Attempted to build bridges with tankies in hopes of fostering good will and avoiding a repeat of the murder of anarchists, if The Revolution does occur, before concluding that they were also not acting in good faith on account of censorship of dissent, inconvenient historical facts, and unwillingness to stand by LGBTQ+ people oppressed by governments claiming to be communist, as well as their embracing human sacrifice of the must vulnerable through the cult of anti-electoralism/accelerationism.
• Volunteered for local organizations, generally focusing on drop-out prevention, practical skills, and cultivating self-determination for at-risk youth.
• Volunteered with local organizations to support STEAM education and encourage youth interest.
• Participated in every political primary since I've been able to vote, attempting to pull the Democratic party to the Left, with next to no support from fellow leftist.
• Coped with previously untreated mental illness and neurodivergence, as well as early and late childhood trauma which has led to maladaptive coping strategies and psychological scars that will likely have me in therapy for the remainder of my life.
• Acted as caretaker/sole income for a family including a spouse with a disabling mental illness.
• Provided what support I could for a trans sibling who did not know they had gender dysphoria until recently, and instead were misdiagnosed with BD, treated with unhelpful meds and therapies. And for whom I've been trying to create contingencies for reduce the chance of violent death, something that the likelihood of has skyrocketed, thanks to non-voters/protest voters.
• Coped and tried to assist with several family unrelated clusterfucks.
• Advocated for leftist policies.
• Signed petitions for initiatives that help those less fortunate and privileged than myself, even if it means increasing taxes.
• Spoke with people gathering signatures for regressive petitions to try to dissuade them from continuing.
• Consistently voted for every ballot measure to support education and vulnerable populations.
• Donated to primary campaigns for progressive candidates.
• Donated to general election campaigns for candidates opposing fascists.
• Donated to local environmental, health, and civil rights non-profits.
• Donated to local non-profits supporting alternative education and preservation of practical skills.

Your turn.

What have you done in your lifetime? Any of it guided by real-world data on likelihood of effectiveness in improving the human condition and protecting the most vulnerable? Or is it mainly informed by dogmatic "knowledge" from theory and the writings of authoritarian dictators cosplaying as communists?