Exactly. I can’t see this having no component of political strategy and influence.

Trump is going to crash hard once all the horrible stuff he’s (very very likely) done comes out. At which point he’ll be extremely toxic andand anyone “true to MAGA” but seen to have pushed for “the truth” will have good political credit with that base.

But also, I think people like Boeberts or Taylor Greene are true believers, to a strong degree. They believe in lots of absolutely fucked up shit, but they are also unwilling to compromise on defending nonces, which is one thing we can agree on and respect them for.

So, a mix of both I’d say.

I know the USA’s media landscape is extremely fucked but still, I’m amazed “starving socialist beasbeasts” isn’t called out for the raving lunacy that it is.

Mussolini too, hence “Benito’s earlier work”. Not sure it makes much of difference considering the end result.

I think you’re missing the point.

“and we are thereforerenaming the project Joséer González”

Terrified Pro Max.

Terrified Robespierre St Just.

You’re completely failing to see that people refusing to vote are not people who “don’t give enough of a fuck”. Sure, there apathetic people out there, but it’s a gross simplification to think only people who care vote. Or that people who vote care. For many, that’s their one and only participation in participative democracy.

Would you argue that Alan Moore, who wrote Watchmen, V for Vendetta and other cult and politically relevant graphic novels, does not “give enough of a fuck to use his voice”?

OK, I think you missed all the points I made. Never mind.

Oh shut up already, voting systems all over the place have been messed up for ages (Electoral college? First past the post?), proper blank voting (obviously) denied or defanged, opportunities to create alternatives denied years ago, usually by existing parties which are often so entrenched and converging to the right anyway that simplifying to “you can’t complain if you didn’t vote” sounds like the moralising of a first year uni student discovering PolSci.

I vote against shitty candidates and in local elections. I’m under no illusion about its effect and fully respect election boycott and those who refuse to vote.

If you’re not happy about the results of an election, the first to blame are those who voted for the shitty candidate and their policies, not those who said thanks, but none of the above.

I fear at this point the two are not even incompatible.

The blessed generation.

The main advantage of NixOS containers, to my limited understanding, is that since they are built by Nix, all dependencies are updated with nixpkgs (no woefully out of date stuff in one of the layers of the container image) and you can pin these if you need to.

I’d like to understand the differences and similarities between the two better too though.

This is a perspective than can only be held in a political system that has devolved to a two-party system.

If you step out of that, it stops making sense. A democracy allows for people to express their actual opinion. Anything less than that is not a proper democracy. I’d argue there are no “third parties” in a proper democracy.

You might be saying that the American regime is illegitimate, it’s unclear.

Entirely agree. The people responsible for trump getting votes are the people voting for Trump.

Tactical voting is bullshit of the highest order and the undeniable sign of a fucked up political and voting system, not some sort of political astuteness.

If your voting system can’t allow people to express their true choice, you should throw it away. Yes, that means the majority of voting systems around the world are bad and need to be changed. Getting people to recognise that this is even an issue in the first place is a huge battle.