You know you can do more than pressure them, right? You can get involved with your state party, which in turn elects the leaders of the national party. You can vote in the primaries and kick out corporate Dems. We know this works because it’s precisely how the fascists took over the Republican party.

If he gave a shit about the country, he would have voted to convict Trump back in 2021.

Supposedly Russia’s military comms were so terrible that they ended up adopting smart phones en masse and use plain old cellular and messaging apps like Telegram instead.

That’s only going to happen if the side in favor of democracy is given a decisive victory. Squeaking out another win isn’t going to be enough.

The only way to cut 2 trillion is by cutting Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. Literally. All of the rest of the government only totals up to 1.7 trillion in spending.

No, but the whole point of Doctorow’s Enshittification essay is that it inevitably will. In the same way animals keep evolving into crabs due to convergent evolution, social media companies will keep turning into shit because the market incentives push them that way.

Boffins coming up with a magical solution to a problem that they somehow know will 100% work despite having done zero experimentation or testing.

1.4 million is the last number the CDC published before they stopped tracking it.

A lot of them already did. By some calculations, enough of them died to COVID to swing the 2020 election.

Unfortunately, it’ll probably continue to exist as a way to launder foreign bribes to Trump. Even if Trump soundly loses, he’ll still be a useful propaganda mouthpiece.

It’s what has literally happened to ships that violated the Russian and Iranian sanctions in the last couple years.

You’re not doing a very good job of pretending to be a politician if that’s your answer.

The company would be prosecuted and the ship seized the next time it docked at port. If the company was based in literally any other country, nothing would happen.

There is no blockade of Cuba. It’s an embargo. There are no military ships blowing up anyone trying to trade with Cuba.

Pretend you’re a politician. You have two groups of people that want opposite things. One of them is reliable, donates and volunteers to help your campaign. The other is feckless and seems to always find an excuse to oppose you. Which would you try to please?

You are wrong. Some random guy said that on Twitter and people ran with it. It was never officially stated by Microsoft.

Every OS has a limited life span of support. Linux is no different. Every distro I’m aware of does 5 years or less of support vs Microsoft’s 10 years.

Following the law is for poors.

If it was just one guy and not a flood of them across multiple posts and social media, then I’d chalk it up to coincidence.

It’s one thing for Internet leftists to be saying it. It’s another altogether for Trump’s own Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to say it.