Thank you for the blast of sanity. Older versions of windows were pretty shit, and the newer versions offer tons of improvements right next to the fresh horrors they bring along.
Sometimes it's not worth going through the courts when you can make it obvious that you're going to make it more costly than them just rolling over and giving you your money.
Now, that's not to say that you don't give those emails to the proper regulation authority afterwards as well, because they still need to stop doing illegal shit.
You should write, 'As I already mentioned in the following email' if you're feeling smug. It feels good to type that on a mechanical keyboard.
I've always been partial to the "bitch, can you not read" variant, "As per my previous email", with a few "see below"s and highlights where necessary in the original email. Tends to get them on the right track. Especially if they were stupid enough to CC half of the management chain for either of you.
My favorite was the day the office golden child tried that because he was feeling froggy (he also didn't like me because I didn't put up with his office shenanigans), and he got a "we will discuss this offline" from his direct manager after one of those with plenty of documentation that the fucker was just sandbagging. Asshole was smart enough to never try that shit with me again though!
he exposed that under a determined enough man with enough popular support behind him
Well good news, he's not actually that popular. I'm baffled that he's still got an aggregate 47% approval rating, but even faux news' poll has him down to 44% and he was only above 50% in poling for less than a 2 weeks after he came into office.
And that's all before the most recent news about the medicare/medicaid slashing. And ahead of the coming wave of layoffs due to the economy slowing down. The policies he's trying to enact are going to (slowly) erode what support he still has as his base realizes just how fucked they are.
You mean aside from attacks on trans people, immigrants, citizens who they suspect are immigrants, starting to make a list of autistic people (probably to put us in camps later), wrecking the economy, taking away entitlements to give to his rich cronies, and emboldening white supremacists and neonazis with his audible nazi dog whistles and general behavior?
How exactly does blaming your neighbors create meaningful change?
I don't know, short of trying to show people the errors of their ways in tacitly supporting a fascist. But what other options do we have? Lie to them and say "it's totally not your fault that trump was elected, even though you chose not to put forth the bare minimum effort to stop him"? I get that electoral politics isn't enough (and we all need to be out in the streets doing what we can to resist), but I'm tired of pretending that the third of the country that's checked out of politics isn't also responsible for the people that get elected while they chose to abdicate their responsibility as a member of the voting public.
If this was your neighbors dog is shitting in your yard and not cleaning it up, would you blame the neighbor for their choice (leaving shit in your yard you have to deal with because they couldn't be bothered to pick it up) and try to help them see the error of their ways, or would you ignore the shit entirely and hope they do better next time?
I don't care whether you think it's right or wrong, I am asking how it actually helps improve the system.
Turning your question around, how does ignoring the culpability of nonvoters in election outcomes improve the system? Do you think we'll see an improvement in turnout if we ignore that republicans only win through voter suppression and don't point out that encouraging not voting is one of their preferred strategies?
Increased participation is one of the best ways we can get out of this hole, and I'm really tired of people supposedly in my side constantly getting own goals with this kind of rhetoric.
That’s oligarchy apologetics bullshit to keep us from changing the system.
Or, you know, I'm being realistic about how things work in the real world. Or do you think that letting the fascists win is going to change the system for the better?
Whether or not you think its 'oligarchy apologetics bullshit', 2/3 of voting the population either explicitly or tacitly supported this shit. So yeah, I'm going to blame the majority for the outcome of a majority vote. Ignoring that fact is just going to make getting any meaningful change that much harder, and its hilarious to watch people justify their inaction in the face of the result of their choice.
Republicans have long lied about people not showing up to immigration hearings, and now they're doing their best to give people a fantastic reason to not show up.
Lol, so you're not siding with the humans then. At least some of the aliens aren't space fascists....