Never, the answer is never. Never criticize, just bend over and take it just like the Republicans do. No choice, no voice, shut up and support the politicians who support the billionaire class.

Source: I have been seeing this same song and dance for 25 fucking years.

You know why Republicans get support? Because they at least lie and say they are supporting common people. Democrats give us this wishy washy bullshit of “well we did studies and we can’t really make that happen” and fucking nobody wants to endlessly be told “no, we can’t” by a bunch of policy wonk nerds.

Pixel 6a users got a big change to their battery life, on the other hand.

… But gone are the days where the back of the phone pops off using only your thumb and you can just swap batteries.

I always took panel 3 to be dad seriously considering giving Calvin his wish.

Mine was already previously refurbished and ineligible for the program, which is why I’m seeking out another option, sadly. I already checked.

iFixit (at least the US site) has been out of stock for Pixel 6a batteries for a few months now. I started looking when news of this update was coming down the line. Anyone got a dfferent suggestion than iFixit in the meantime?

It’s not a nice thing to have to embrace, but it’s true. When Vera Papisova spent a year undercover dating right wing men, this was her takeaway, too. That part of the reason they get so radicalized is because rational people have a very hard time wanting to even try to see good things in them and socialize with them at all. Yet that isolation promotes exactly the radicalization we’d like to see less of in our society. Continually saying “no, fuck them” feels right but builds more and more echo chambers where these people are only talking to other highly toxic people in a spiral of enabling terrible thought-patterns.

It’s extremely valid to feel like “why would I waste time on these monsters?” because they are indeed monstrous. Yet, we have to have a growth mindset and believe people can change, and not just believe that, but give them opportunities to change. Continuing to isolate them in right wing communities where the only viewpoints they are exposed to continue to radicalize them is not working. When they say “the liberals gave me no choice but to turn to the right” what they actually mean is no liberals or leftists would take the time to talk them down from their own idiocy, so they continued to lean into it out of pure spite, not reason. They like to call people on the left “snowflakes” but these people are so fucking broken and hurt inside and so deeply just want to be accepted that they will chop off their own limbs in an attempt to somehow teach us a lesson, as long as we get hurt, too. Desire for acceptance is literally what drove them into the MAGA Cult. They are broken and hurt because we did not accept them, despite the fact that they are too stupid to see how their own behavior is why they are not accepted.

I know many people here think the solution is to go whole hog and crack down harder on this than we did on the South during reconstruction. Unpopular opinion around here, but I disagree. I think that will create more young conservative people, because what they will see is a wide swath of people being vilified and potentially put to death by the state for their political views. They won’t think “gosh those views were so dangerous they must be snuffed out” they will instead erroneously think “they must threaten the broken system that is hurting us to be snuffed out, therefore they must have had some positive ideas.” We don’t live in a system where people trust the decisions of government or of large groups in general. Putting them all to death (especially without trial) will just radicalize a whole generation of young people who will question why the things those people thought were so “dangerous.” That doesn’t mean there doesn’t need to be consequences for being a part of this, there absolutely has to be, but the penchant for retributive violence on the left is going to harm things more than it will help things, in my personal opinion. It’s like the US War on Terrorism. Did killing people indiscriminately win hearts and minds of the Iraqi people or did it radicalize a whole generation against the US? Because I am pretty damn sure it was the latter.

Medicade Gatorade, let’s call the whole thing off.

Verbal.

Me with every new Linux installation:

My network looks like George Foreman’s kids names.

Anyway I use Ubuntu to make other Linux users mad. Stay mad, nerds.

¿Por qué no los dos?

The ol’ Dirty Sanchez

Fedoramaxing officepilled jobcel

States rights? Never heard of em

Besmirching Elmo’s good name. 😞 Awful.

even Oscar the Grouch has cleaner hands than this whole admin, and that motherfucker lives in a garbage can.

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The best suggestion anyone could give here is to seek out professional help because this question is way way way too big and serious for the likes of Lemmy.

He’s literally at a fundraiser with a bunch of pro-business fucks giving this mealy-mouthed speech. He literally expanded all the worst parts of the Bush admin which are now being pointed at US citizens like mass surveillance.

No he didn’t explicitly vote for it himself, but he admitted himself that if he had run in the 80’s he would have been considered a Republican. For fucks sake, “Obamacare” was actually “Romneycare,” can we stop acting like the entire party apparatus as a whole doesn’t deep throat big business? Because it fucking does and it doesn’t matter if he didn’t directly vote for that himself, he’s still part and parcel to the people who make it this fucking bad. That’s literally the people he is giving a speech to here.

The point is its “vote blue no matter who” until it’s against the pro-business centrists in the Democratic party, and then it’s “fuck you, we’ll run independent and split the vote to let a Republican win!” because they only say that it’s important to not let perfect be the enemy of good when it comes to corrupt fuckheads who don’t give a single iota of a shit about working class people. They’re happy to drop the facade when someone like Mamdani gets in, they’d rather a Republican win than someone with real plans for change.

Because they are the ones who care about shit like environmental regulations and not polluting our cities to make new housing, especially when so much property is being held and unused by an investor class who refuses to release it until they have a profit on the deal. I have lived in two northwest cities in the last 15 years where the downtowns are barren with empty buildings that could be sold, torn down, and built into apartments. But noooo in each city they’d rather clearcut the wooded areas and build there instead all the while whinging about environmental regulations making it costly.

Whatever the fuck happened to that Eminent Domain shit? Why aren’t we using that for the good of housing people?

Hope and change was always a lie to just get into office and then hand it all to businesses. I mean fuck the ACA insurance mandate was basically holding citizens hostage and forcing them to pay healthcare insurance providers whether the insurance actually left them with enough money leftover to use their “access” to healthcare or not.

Fuck all the navel gazing about how it would bring insurance costs down. A public option would have done more.