@dingus @Bipta
Are gen z likely to be uniformly iPhone users?
That's like the most conformist thing that I have ever heard. The study results are that 21%(F) 25%(M) find having an android phone is a green flag in their partner, while 7%(F) 6%(M) have it as a red flag, so it's not that bad as far android/iPhone is concerned.
@alignedchaos @mister_monster Republican House blocked what now?
You mean Senator Mitch "whaddya do if another justice needed to be appointed to fill a vacancy in an election year with Trump in office? {giggle to himself} I'd fill it" McConnell somehow used the Democratic held House in '20 to fill RBG's seat with the help of Republican minority?
@kier and in some countries like US, Canada, the Philippines, Australia (probably other countries that I've not been to), there are people who live in areas that definitely are not rural, are aping the rural aesthetic when they don't have any excuse to be so car dependent
@SoylentBlake @maniajack direct democracy isn't anywhere close to a panacea and doesn't address the neoliberal mindvirus that you identify as the root cause. Individuals voting on legislation won't be much better than the representative "democracy" we have now, with most of the adult population determining their vote on tribalism not any effort to take a deep dive understanding in the content of the legislation. We'd end up at Idiocracy before fascism but that's a mob of dictators instead of one
@kier @kingludd there's a cultural harm that you're not a real man/'Murican/Christian/conservative/etc if you aren't living a life of the non-cosmopolitan by riding a bike or interested in anything else other than car-dependency and all the ancillary things that come with that, since that starts to bleed into the suburbs and even urban areas. There's white-collar workers doing their morning commute in full-size pickups telling themselves that mass transit is for dirty poor people not therm
@JustinHanagan @Son_of_dad the inability of fediverse from catching on is less to do with any on boarding process for new users, but rather that people have grown accustomed to their gilded cage and pre-existing fully developed network. I'm still on FB, simply because that's where I can still connect with some friends and family. I don't have all of my cousins' phone numbers, and friends from college or HS still post big life events on FB (found out over the years about 4 HS friends died).
@Son_of_dad @JustinHanagan
Since you didn't read it, here's the screenshot of the guide I it's entirety
@Tak @Pipoca both the US and the UK have fptp single member districts for national legislature, so the expectation would be that in the UK parliament they'd only have Labour and Tories, no 3rd parties representing regional issues, just wings of the duopoply serving that purpose. But the difference isn't derived in that both have FPTP, but that the US has a media environment that propagates binary choices, BBC still strives for viewership but not the extent that US MSM does via oversimplification
@sentient_loom @cabron_offsets Sanders has been put into a trance of feeling "heard" by Biden while being neutered in any chance of delivering real material benefit to the people. His career as being a truth-speaker from outside the elite, he's shot his shot to do some real good and will probably retire next year.
@Kalkaline @TokenBoomer I didn't subscribe either, but the single-party state and city of New York isn't welcoming to small democracy. The article is from December 2020,and prior to the unreasonable ballot access reforms that culled the candidates for governor from a handful in 2018 to only the duopoply in 2022, a first time in generations for a state that has fusion ballot for over a century going from one of the most reliable minor party accessible states to that of the least accessible.
@CrimeDad the low homelessness is due to the highest rate of public housing outside of self-identified socialist countries. The first several decades public housing was primarily for relocated squatters and shanty inhabitants, but since the 1980s they've promoted it for middle class and upper middle class improving the public housing stock.
@Doomsider @wlh0242
Just like Hitler, Trump never got a majority of popular votes