We are bathed in a Douglas Adams SEP field.

No one will do anything if is or might be Someone Else’s Problem.

it’s a bad combination of lazy, cowardly

Unfortunately, I fear you just described a HUGE chunk of humanity. If we don’t figure that out, it’ll likely be the great filter that culls us.

First off, thank you for all your work.

Why this hasn’t happened yet

You set the bar pretty high for improvement.

The vacuums are expensive. The work requires multiple top-tier skill sets, and the people with those skill sets don’t generally have enough time to contribute to something this heavy

Somebody could just fork you and clone everything you’re doing, but it’s not like any users would chase someone else versus you when you’re the only one getting actual work done.

It’s also kind of poking the bear for these vacuum companies skirting along by selling user data.

Jesus, After seeing those awful ads against Mandami, Mandami could just have run this as his whole campaign.

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but I’d argue voting third party outside of swing states

absolutely, and i’m a fan of this, let’s get congress full of third, as long as it’s not libretarian third :)

know progressive policies get people excited. They’re not interested in being progressive. They’re only interested in maintaining the status quo and if stepping on you is necessary to do that, they’ll happily do it. Some of them will make a somber face on

All fine and dandy, but voting 3rd without the 3rd being actually viable is just voting 1st for the other side.

s are 2 extremes of this same pro-late stage capitalist status quo system so expecting anything to change by vacillating between them is an unrealistic non-starter.

I don’t disagree, but voting for a 3rd in a tw- party race will also be a useless non-starter.

The republicans have a strong enough, brainwashed base that will vote for them come hell or high water. Around 35% of people who will vote are seriously engaged on their side and will do whatever they need to vote for them. That’s a pretty strong hurdle to overcome

The democrats also have a contingent of Better Blue than Red and will vote for them no matter what.

The largest party next in line would be the Green party, and honestly, they’re barely trying. I mean the head of the party has investments in Fossil Fuel companies supporting fracking. AOC rightfully critisized them for a lack of organiztional development. It’s just this mess of funding going in and our for visibility and the dilution of the “not republican” vote.

So voting for a third party, at best, lets the republicans continue their destruction of the country and sends a message to the democrats that we’re tired of their crap, which has happened twice now with zero changes.

If you want us to vote for 3rd party, you need to deliver us a 3rd party with enough leadership to campaign and win it.

hmm, so the US citizens trying to get the Democrats to stop aligning with the Republicans should just stop because they’re indistinguishable. Got it.

Does calling his office actually do anything? Doesn’t that require him not to be a traitor?

hell, I didn’t even know who it was. Took a bit of footwork to find out :)

YES

galaxybrain is always an option

tbf, this meme isn’t particularly painting him in a great light

The plan is to lay it out there that they’re going to shut down healthcare plans and wait for money to roll in from all the insurance companies to stay in business. In exchange for the money, they’ll be allowed to operate anyway they see fit.

Shit, we’d be lucky if they went with someone as marginally craptastic as Newsom. We can’t put any candidate in if they have any chance of getting any of our agenda in; they have to be 100% right-friendly or they won’t even try.

TBF, this particular person didn’t say buy guy, they said be ready for them to inflict physical violence, and honestly, it’s reasonably likely. Maybe not on you, or me, but surely for many and it’ll be quite visible.

Think of a comparison between Trump and Bernie and the take away is that Bernie is the unelectable one…

Sorry, i have a hammer, you know how that goes ;)