Kagu

Uhhh.... whatever helps you cope I guess?

I admit my comment might not have been the clearest but I do feel like you're talking past my point.

To reiterate: If you decide to 'vote blue no matter who' you are granting the DNC your vote, which at the moment is one of the few points of leverage you have to get them to change policy positions, for nothing. But I admit, maybe getting them to change policy positions isn't your aim. I don't know for sure.

It is my aim, and the aim of the uncommitted movement and Palestinian liberation groups in the country as a whole. Using that leverage, by telling the DNC we will not simply grant them our vote unless they put forward policy positions which we favor, is good politics. It has little to do with whether Trump wants to do away with elections and declare himself God Emperor. You can still vote for the democrats come November, but refusing to use said leverage and/or running cover for the DNC by asking that criticisms are withheld until after the election is at best poor strategy or shows that you don't care about the policy changing.

A secret third option where we use the leverage we have, withholding our votes, to pressure the administration and campaign to move its position from "Don't like it, but we gotta do genocide 🤷🏼‍♂️" to "Ok we will stop giving the genociders weapons and pressure them to withdraw from Palestine".

Y'know... Maybe before we lose that leverage and they inevitably take our votes for granted because we spent all our energy justifying why voting for the blue genociders was better than voting for the more enthusiastic red genociders.

I follow Derek on twit and his historical context for menswear is really interesting. Dunno why a fashion community is downvoting a fashion think piece tho lmfao. Is this just IG WDYWTs but for guys who are too cool for IG or sm?

Man... the red scare really did a number on the American psyche...

This comment section better remember that you can't even order from McDonalds anymore without creating an account online. Hell, as of a few weeks ago I can't even update apps on my personally purchased smart TV without creating a fucking account and letting them link my email to data they already have from Experian (all US companies btw). Tiktok is just a fucking scapegoat so y'all wont push for actual privacy protection laws.

If Tiktok gets sold to a US company nothing will change about their practices the CCP will just buy the data from a 3rd party vendor owned by a US LLC.

Unless they get subpoenad by a district court and the C suite is willing to go to jail for not disclosing it.

Also the US govt already has asked for built-in backdoors to iPhones and the like. They even have highly complex de-anonymization algorithms for data that almost every American with a credit card is giving to their "private" bank so we can have FICO credit scores and venmo.

The private ownership isn't doing shit for our data protections.

Leaving aside the actual political substance of your comment. Don't you think it's a bit... Head in the sand to assume anyone who disagrees with you is some "Russian troll"? I know we all exist in social media bubbles, myself included, but my social circles and my online circles all share "radical" concerns about the administration and country in general but it generally comes from a genuine desire for our politicians and therefore country to be and do better. We're all Americans just like (I presume) you.

I joined lemmy.ml cause of the FOSS stuff but I'm learning it comes with a reputation I didn't know about.

Do you have a link handy for further reading on this? I knew the heritage foundation has been terrible since inception but I didn't realize how much sway they've had historically. I thought that influence was new