Well, only certain white people. The ones that are more equal than the others.

You have the option of not buying one if you cant afford it.

Not really, depending on where you are.

When I was barely above broke out of college, I had to buy a shit box just to be able to go to work, because the only job I could find in my field was >20 mi from where I lived and had no public transit options that wouldn’t add an hour of walking on top of how long the bus ride took. And that’s assuming clear weather, which we get for maaaaaybe half the year. I don’t know about you, but I’m not about walking for an hour in the blistering cold with spotty sidewalks in busy areas

So, while I could take the option of not buying a car, it would turn a <30 min commute into 2-3 hours one way on a good day. Buying a car was the only way not to lose >25 hours a week on work transportation alone.

“I am neither right nor left” is what Nazis say to hide that they’re Nazis, because they’re too cowardly to own up to it. Alex Jones tried pretending that for 20 years, and to no one’s surprise, is a Nazi and has tons of Nazi friends. He’s also been a bircher forever, so the naziness was never a secret.

I know I am not being totally fair here.

Honestly, I think you’re being more than fair in calling out someone who refuses to do one of the most basic actions to slow the roll of naked fascism.

Like you, I get the pull of not wanting to participate in the shit system and normalizing the shitty behaviors we’re seeing in government, but the fact of the matter is that this disengagement with electoralism is exactly the reason we’re in the situation we’re in. Too many people treat politics as a purity contest and are willing to take their ball and go home no matter the consequences rather than engage and vote for someone moderately distasteful even in the face of naked evil.

Fascists already have enough power to sway the system in their favour, to use the government for their ends. Voting is not change, it is harm reduction. It is trying to cede as little ground as possible to fascists for as much time as possible, buying time to effect real change before we are all disappeared and shipped off to some concentration camp somewhere. Taking real political action gets exponentially harder everytime the fascists get more power. And in the last election, they have gotten a lot more power.

100% this. I get so sick of supposed activists who can’t even be bothered to do the least amount of work reduce the harm against their per causes, even when one of the options is objectively much, much worse. The obsession with purity politics is one of the biggest weapons that can be welded against their cause, given that it can be used to break the back of popular support of someone they even partially agree with to let the right take power again.

Maybe one day we will collectively learn this lesson. But I’m not holding my breath.

Agreed. I probably paint the far left with too broad a brush, but I get so fucking sick of the far left accelerationists pretending like they give a fuck about anything other than destroying shit.

Have you heard of FetLife? Sounds like it might be what you’re looking for.

They gotta huff that copium so they don’t have to think about how their inaction helped turn a made up blue trans genocide into a real red trans genocide.

I almost find it hilarious how unhinged the far left is, but the hellscape we get to live in takes away all the humor short of the gallows.

So instead you allow worse through tacit support.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’ve gone through this song and dance before. I believe that electoralism has its place to minimize the harm to society, but plenty of others would rather hide behind their morality instead of supporting a bad candidate in the face of guaranteed worse outcomes.

as a trans abolitionist to refuse voting for trans and Palestinian genocide

The trans genocide is explicitly pushed by the people that were voted into power by 1/3 of the country and co-signed by another third who couldn’t be bothered to vote. I voted against it to protect my trans loved ones, and it baffles me that trans people wouldn’t even vote in their own best interests.

But I’m not going to bother engaging past this, as we both know how this conversation is going to go. Good day.

I can’t ever report the spam, it always says that I’ve already reported them

And that unwillingness to engage in silliness is how we fucking got the fascists burning the country down. Good thing people chose to be “serious” instead 🙄

Nobody ever laughed in my face or told all their friends or spread rumors about me, they just said no thank you and I moved on.

I was in college by the time you were in high school, and I totally had friends who had that happen. I don’t know if kids are more cruel now or if you had an exceptionally kind group of peers.

Also, the domesticated bees are generally honeybees. And unfortunately, honeybee and wild bees don’t fulfill the same rile, so even if we replaced wild bees with honeybees 1:1, we still wouldn’t be able to polinate everything.

I would argue it does, because he used his wealth to get a liver before he should have. Just because he has the means to be on the donor list in Bumblefuck, Egypt doesn’t mean he’s not jumping the line and taking an organ from someone who should have gotten it.

However you slice it, he used his wealth to steal a liver from a much more deserving recipient. He never should have been given the liver given how he destroyed his own, and it’s a shame he was able to buy a new one to destroy the same fucking way.

We need to stop defending this sort of behavior.

0 points, I lose

Man, you just made me sad by remembering that my local Pub D that didn’t give a shit about kids, dogs, or weird sex shit is closing down. Sucks cuz it’s the only openly LGBTQ+ bar in the area that I’m aware of.

You should be safe as long as you don’t use an elevator with/owned by an eccentric billionaire inventor.

So now we know how to instantly delist any project on GitHub.

Boring/repetitive work. For example, I regularly use an AI coding assistant to block our basic loop templates with variables filled in, or have it quickly finish the multiple case statements or assigning values to an object with a bunch of properties.

In little things like that, it’s great. But once you get past a medium sized function, it goes off the rails. I’ve had it make up parameters in stock library functions based on what I asked it for.

Those things aren’t mutually exclusive, and just because you don’t hear the media reporting on it doesn’t mean we’re not.

To no one’s surprise, the billionaire owned media isn’t reporting on the reports on the protests against the billionaire run kakistocracy.

This is why y’all are a joke. There are two links that link to tankies being tankies, but you gotta hold onto your ego instead of clicking a link.

I’m so done engaging with people like you

Because you fucking can’t. Intellectual honesty is something you’ve only read about LOL