Socialism isn't on the table. We're so incredibly far from that. Let me know when the revolution is coming and I'll be there for it... Until then we very real issues that we can make a bit better. Not good - we're totally fucked - but we can make things less horrible
There's a genocide in progress. We're going to go through a depression. We can tea party the Democrats to be more progressive... There's no time to build up something new
I can't impress on you enough how many people are going to die
It matters because the party isn't the people, it's infrastructure. It's buildings, it's support staff, it's mailing lists and payment processors
It's getting a special (often unfair) place on the ballot in all 50 states. It's 50 (often flawed) primary processes that follow local laws
And it's a banner. Not one people like, but it's one banner. A banner that theoretically stands for democracy and the common man
The left is not organized. Do we rally behind a fresh, ideologically pure banner? Which one? How long to work out which group is the best? How long until we can build up that infrastructure?
Fuck that. Winning is what matters.
The people are on our side for now, there's so much anger and energy. How long until they adjust to the new normal and go back to refusing to believe in a better world?
We have a chance right now. The next 18 months. In one sweep we can take a tattered banner and get in control - before people get cold feet. While they're still just screaming for someone to stop Trump.
We can use the momentum to unfuck our democracy once we take control, but we can't get distracted. There's no room for purity or lofty ideals. We have to take what is offered and exploit every opportunity. We have to use the system against itself.
Vote for the best progressive candidate we've ever had. This is not a compromise, this is hope. And to those that will ratfuck him - never forget, never forgive.
No, disappearing someone is a way worse subcategory of kidnapping
When you disappear someone, no one knows if they're alive or dead, where they are, or what's going to happen to them. They could be dead immediately, or dropped off at home in 3 years. Or they could be dropped off in Somalia with no ID and no money
The Democrats are going to try to ratfuck him, sure. They're never going to get the message
But this is how we clean them out. This is why AOC and Bernie are doing rallies - so that every seat that comes up is filled with a progressive. And this is a big seat
As for it being too late... Yeah, we're fucked. But we can still make things better. There's no reason to yield ground, maga is incredibly incompetent - they can be beat.
Abstraction is a trade off. You don't want to build interface layers between everything... It's a pain in the ass, and if there's a 1-1 relationship between parts of a system then you're basically putting in a minimum cost to modify that area in any way. So if you do it, it'll probably be once you've locked down the design pretty well
Game development is pretty different than normal development too. You have a lot of one off and lose ends based on creative decisions... You aren't building up on top of your system, you're building out
And frankly, it leads to a mix of mind blowingly good code and a lot of terrible code
So no, I don't think it's that easy. I think it's also a bullshit argument, and they should release the "proprietary" code when they finish supporting the game, or put in the time to make the interfaces
Think of how long making peace in the middle east has been this near impossible goal. It's even a trope in media to display super intelligence
He wanted his wall, not because he gave a shit, but he wanted a landmark. He wants the model Nobel peace prize, but he really wants to be remembered as this mythical deal maker, the peace president
And honestly? Aside from Gaza, for a little while it seemed like he was about to do it, through the power of open bribery and having a melty soup brain
If great white sharks count I think orcas would too
But yeah... Those are cool and all, but it's like asking me what my favorite kind of flower is. I see how they look cool, I see how others might get excited for them, but I'm just not that interested in them
But orcas have many different languages and cultures. They swim across entire oceans. Some of them started sinking yahts (for what I'm convinced is based on understanding which humans are destroying the world), but they never harm humans (outside of the ones driven insane by confinement)
They might actually be smarter than us, their brains are the most wrinkly in the world. They could have oral traditions going back as far as human history
You first. We're not on board with any of this