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  • I think you should pause to interrogate the statement “freedom to own slaves.” What do you think ownership is? Who enforces it?

    If passing a law that takes away ownership is “authoritarian” in your eyes, what about the enforcement of ownership? Doesn’t the state enforcing property rights also take away certain freedoms? Not just with the obvious example of slavery, but in general.

  • I agree with the statement. But my vision for a peaceful future isn’t a perpetual Mexican standoff. Nor do I like the idea of political power and representation being directly proportional to one’s intent and capability to do violence.

    Also, if owning firearms is a requirement for civic participation, what you’ve really just done is institute a tax that goes directly to gun manufacturers.

  • For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars, and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man... for precisely the same reasons.

  • Yeah, Valve has put a lot of effort into bridging the compatibility gap for Linux. Most of that work could also be ported to macOS, but they just don’t care.

    It’s a shame, because getting 32-bit to 64-bit compatibility working would help Linux as well. I don’t know how much longer distros want to keep supporting 32-bit libraries, and some distros have already dropped them.

    That said, macOS compatibility seems like a non-sequitur for an article calling Steam a “time bomb.” DRM is definitely the bigger issue here.

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  • We’re talking specifically about people who want a more progressive candidate who won’t back a genocide. No, I don’t think such people are likely to vote for Trump.

    People with leftist principles aren’t equally likely to support all candidates in an election. You have to take the sampling bias into account.

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  • I have yet to see a single cogent explanation of what not voting for Biden in the general election will accomplish.

    End the genocide? No, we’re likely to just get more genocide.

    Put a more progressive third-party candidate in power? Only if everyone gets behind the same extremely popular candidate. No such candidate exists.

    Send a message to establishment Democrats and liberals in general? Sure, it would send a message. Exactly how many Palestinian, Ukranian, and American lives are you willing to sacrifice for that, though? Assuming such a gambit even rewards you with a positive outcome in another four years.