brianary

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I'm thinking more about the plurality of Americans that aren't on board, for whatever stupid reason. Until they are convinced, destroying the system won't really stick, if it's even possible.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/one-third-of-americans-agree-with-trump-s-poisoning-the-blood-comments/ar-AA1suf7p

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Any solution that starts with purges is bad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

If you say so.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Democrats aren't authoritarians. It's a bad comparison. Democrats are always fragmented, it's virtually a defining characteristic. Post-Biden unity has been quite unusual.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The fixation is because there is no clear line of succession. If he fails, who steps in? They'll splinter and fragment. They'll still be deplorable, but less effective when not united behind a single authoritarian leader.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I guess the chicken and egg may have appeared at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's an explanation of Wilhoit's Law, really, which will always resonate with misanthropes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I've always called Word documents and PDFs "dead-end formats" (DEF). Once you export your data to them, there's no reliable way to retrieve your data from them for further transformation like you can for YAML, JSON, XML, HTML, Markdown, &c.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (7 children)

None were leftist, and only one got as far as violence.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago

I had that computer, and it was much more than a calculator, unless you mean a modern programmable one. This one could be programmed in BASIC. It also had a receipt-sized printer you could get.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NQheo52J3BM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You may be right, but it seems to me that sleeper cells need direction. Otherwise, they'll interpret their ideology divergently. They may block progress pretty effectively, but it'll be hard for them to make gains in a shared direction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I thought it was interesting and original until the pointless cat scene and the complete lack of an ending.

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