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Yeah, after gaslighting and alienating voters, which led to Trump getting elected. I feel like he should be called out for handing the elction over to Trump on a silver platter, because that's exactly what he did.

Me and a lot of others were pointing out that the Republicans were worse, and that's why we wanted Democrats to pick a candidate that the voters actually wanted. Your revisionist history is a bad faith attempt to shift blame from those that refuse to learn why they keep losing elections to a fascist party.

Which fascist talking points? That genocide is unpopular? That screwing over the working class was a bad idea? That alienating your voter-base during an election is a bad idea? That putting up a candidate that were in clear cognitive decline was a bad idea?

If the Democrats had listened to us, instead of handing the election to Trump on a silver platter, we wouldn't be where we are today. We spent all our time calling out Biden and the Democrats specfically to avoid getting Trump reelected. The Democratic leadership are the ones that told us to fuck off when we tried to get them to stop making obvious mistakes, and start running serious candidates.

lol, no. He got kicked out right when it was obvious that he was in severe mental decline. Everyone knew he wasn't fit before the debate, but after his disasterous performance during the debate, everyone had to admit that the emporer wasn't wearing any clothes.

Of course it matters. Everyone backing the clearly and obviously mentally unfit Biden is why Trump is in power. Maybe if the Democrats had admitted what was obviously true from the beginning, we wouldn't be stuck with Trump.

Only because he did such an embarrasingly and obviously bad job. Maybe his party should have been pointing out that the emporer wasn't wearing any clothes, instead of pretending that he was qualified.

You mean the ethnic cleansing that Biden also supported?

Yeah, maybe Biden should be called out for that.

Yep an Administration is more than just the president. It's the competent people that surround him.

Yeah, having a bunch of anti-worker, pro-coporate, war-mongers led to people being desperate enough to vote for Trump. Maybe Biden should have done something about that when he had the chance, so that people wouldn't be so disenfranchised with the Democrats that made Trump seem eligible.

What part? Pointing out that the Democrats clear failures led to Trump being elected?

It seems like people who point out why Trump got elected should be taken seriously instead of being dismissed. Maybe learning and avoiding the obvious mistakes of the past is a good idea.

The current president is doing terrible. But Trump wouldn't be president if Biden hadn't been such a terrible president.

Maybe Biden should have fought for the people he proposed to represent, so that everyone wouldn't be so desperate to see the system burn down that they were willing to vote for Trump.

The same Biden who hung on desperately until the last minute? Until he was forced out after being insanely and obviously unfit for the position?

The same Biden who refused to act against when a dictatorship knocked on his front door? The same Biden who sacrificed the "good of the Republic" because he cared more about holding on to power than the cared about fighting against fascism?

"May have..."? It was pretty clear early on that Harris wasn't popular. Maybe if the Democratic party had actually given a shit about winning, we wouldn't have Trump as a president. But the Democratic leadership cared more about propping up a terrible candidate like Biden than they cared about keeping Trump out of office.

Why not shit on a terrible president, and a terrible candidate that directly led to Trump getting re-elected? Maybe if the dems had been willing to call out their own, we wouldn't be where we are now.

lol, you mean the guy that gave hand-outs to the rich? Lets be real: He was forced out because he did such a bad job during the debate that the rich could no longer deny how bad of a job he was doing. Spin this any way you want, but he got the boot because he was in clear cognitive decline.

Patient gamers represent! The older I get, the less I care about FOMO. The less I care about FOMO, the happier I am. It's a beautiful cycle.

/me goes back to playing snes games on an emulator

It's always been super spotty for me. Sometimes it doesn't work for a few hours, sometimes for a few days. It usually ends up working again after a bit. I ended up moving to mostly using yt-dlp instead, as it's more consistent. I don't know of a more reliable phone-option tho :(

I use LUKS and backup to a usb-drive that I have at home. I rsync those backups to my work once a week. Not everyone can backup to their office, but as others have said, backing up to a friend/family member's house is doable. The nice thing about rsync is that you can limit the bandwidth, so that even though it takes longer, it doesn't saturate their internet connection.

I love it when I have a mouse. It's terrible on modern touchpads though :(

I've known plenty of them. They sign up specifically because they want to do this job. Rember the dumb bullies from school? Imagine what happens when they grow up.

As someone who grew up fundamentalist-religious and right-wing, but then got out of it, it's becuase of a few things:

• You'd have to restructure a lot of your world-view, and that is very hard. You have to take a fundamental part of how you see the world, discard it, and watch a bunch of other values and beliefs come crashing down. Rebuilding from that is scary and hard.
• You have a lot of social investment as being part of the "in-crowd" of your community. A lot of your friends/family/colleagues/social-circle all keep reinforcing your beliefs. This makes it hard to step away from those beliefs, because you feel like you are betraying that community. Many communities will indeed abandon you, especially if you go to the "other side". You suddenly have to become the enemy that you've been rallying against.
• Sunk-Cost fallacy: You've already spent so much time and effort in this belief, that youre really hoping something will happen, and your faith in the person or system will be justified. Eventually it'll pay off if you wait just a little longer. Of course, "wait a little longer" ends up being years and years, and at that point you have more compounded mistakes that you have to admit to. This makes you feel like a bigger idiot than if you had just admitted your mistakes up front.

tl;dr: It's a cult!