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  • You literally posted an article about Stein being a spoiler candidate. That’s the entire point of the article, that her and the libertarian candidate could cost Harris the election. That’s “spoiling” the election.

    In order for a third party to win and dethrone the shitty reality of a 2 party system, that third party has to have the infrastructure of members in the house and senate so that if they win, people will work with them, and the party has to have people rally behind them. The problem right now is that there aren’t third parties currently in the house or senate, Independents don’t count cause there is no Independent party. And there isn’t a third party candidate people are trying to rally behind. It’s Jill Stein, or Cornell West, or Claudia de la Cruz, or Jasmine Sherman or others. It’s never one singular candidate. In order for a third party to win, it has to be 1 candidate. And people who advocate to vote for a third party need to decide on who that 1 candidate should be. Because otherwise you’re splitting your vote between multiple candidates, cutting your chances of winning significantly.

    If you think a third party should rise, fine. That’s understandable, the current parties have significant problems, what with one being nazis and the other not being as left as the populace would want. But unless you pick someone to advocate for and rally behind, your point is moot. You will never win.




  • Quick notes from an avid jellyfin user. When you have a show or movie or whatever you want, not get identified, there’s a simple identify option you can do on the client on a computer or phone by clicking the 3 dots on the media. You get to search and label it. The only time this hasn’t appropriately assigned metadata for me was for shows with duplicate episodes in one mkv or whatever. That did take a lot of renaming, which did suck and is reasonable to not want to have to do. Especially for massive libraries.

    I definitely agree about the roku client not having a marked as watched feature, that should be added.

    There’s a lot of work to be done but it’s not just being done in the basic edition. For instance, there’s plugins that allow the skip credits and skip intro functions you want. And there’s ones for fanart, and allowing other databases of Metadata to select from. There’s a lot of plugins and more are being actively developed rather often. Even I’m trying to develop a “continue watching” feature like from Netflix, but it’s going slowly.

    Jellyfin definitely takes more finagling than plex, i switched at the beginning of the year, but I’ve had multiple times since where my internet is out and because jellyfin is local network I’m still able to stream my media.

    So yeah. Just some info about jellyfin. I get wanting the ease of plex, but I’ve personally really enjoyed adding the plugins and fucking around with everything it has.




  • I know a ton of fellow trans folk in my red state, both directly and tangentially. All except 1 understand what’s at stake and are going to vote (the 1 understands what’s at stake, just isn’t registered to vote despite everyone in her life pushing her to get registered and vote). We get that if we don’t vote, we will be put in prison. And we all fucking hate when people try to say we shouldn’t be scared of Republicans being in power and project 2025 cause “they wouldn’t actually make you illegal and put you in camps.” Us trans folk are fucked if trump wins. Voting for Harris is our only option to be able to remain ourselves and free and alive.



    1. Dunno if you made this, ozma, but the women’s march that everyone focused on didn’t happen in 2021, it happened in 2017, the day after trumps inaguration. Sure, there have been ones almost every year since but the big one that drew the most attention was 2017. So if you made this you should fix that. If not then. I dunno. Just exist I guess.

    2. The people saying “why aren’t you protesting trump?” do not understand the point of protesting. Trump isn’t able to be swayed and Harris is, I definitely agree with that sentiment.

    3. I think the chants need to be better. Now I’m not a chant girl, but I still think they need to and can be better. The movement needs to focus on pushing Harris, and that doesn’t have to mean saying, “we won’t vote for genocide.” There have to be ways to push her that aren’t saying outright that you refuse to vote for her. Protesting during her speeches and events is great, but there’s better ways to phrase it. Even just shaming her by somehow saying, “Come on, Kamala, you can do better.” Again, I’m not a chant girl. I get the idea that the vote is all we have, but I don’t think it is. Public shaming is a powerful thing, and you don’t have to do that by saying you refuse to vote for her. Even in the dreamer protests back in 2012, they weren’t all being so absolute with refusing to vote for Obama. They were mainly focused on shaming Obama into acting through chants and signs that called out his bs and appealled to his humanity. Shaming works.

    4. This isn’t a meme, it’s a FAQ



  • Here’s the article I’m basing my comment on. This was from a week and a half ago I think? Maybe roughly 2 weeks.

    Quote I’m referencing: “Activists say they don’t expect a full-throated embrace of their platform — for the U.S. to stop selling arms to Israel — but say she must give them some indication that in a Harris presidency, U.S. foreign policy would shift.” They’re talking about how they don’t expect an arms embargo, but want change. This is talking to the leaders of the uncommitted movement.

    What you’re saying is a shift from what they said back when the article was written. Which happens but is moving the goal posts. Course the article isn’t that good at them talking about what they actually DO want. Good to know they said that in their meeting with Harris, I’ll remember that for future.


  • We were never gonna get an arms embargo. It would have been nice, but that wasn’t a thing that was realistically gonna happen. She’s still wants a ceasefire. Still thinks the things happening in Gaza are a “humanitarian crisis,” which isn’t saying genocide but is still more than biden really did. The uncommitted movement, even in prior articles on here, said they’re not expecting an arms embargo, just some sign that things will change. Like a ceasefire and some kinda peace deal. This is just her doing what everyone expected, including uncommitted organizers, supporting Israel but still pushing for change. Now, if the uncommitted organizers move the goal posts, that shows their not willing to compromise at all.


  • The article provides examples of anti democratic language and an example of a specific anti democratic comment from Mo Brooks. But then it says, “While members from both parties used antidemocratic rhetoric in their tweets, Republicans used it more frequently, by a ratio of more than 4 to 1. GOP members appeared to be targeting precisely the kind of voters to whom such language appeals strongly.” The article does not provide what the anti democratic rhetoric from democrats was. It never says that democrats have been calling for overturning an election or any of the examples that the article provides early on. Just says “well yeah, both sides do it, but Republicans more.” I’m suspicious that the anti democratic rhetoric that the democrats use is just calling a fascist a fascist. I guess I won’t know, though, since they don’t give me the examples they claim to have seen.