While I agree with your points completely, keep in mind the results of primaries are not legally binding in the United States. Political parties are legally considered private organizations with the right to determine their own nominating rules.
Voters need to show political parties there will be consequences if they rig their game. The simple act of voting shows someone likely give enough fucks to notice and do something should that happen.
They’ll absolutely try to sway a primary, as they have before, but they won’t have the bollocks to completely deny the will of their constituents so long as those same constituents care enough to tear them down should they try.
Failing to engage in the democratic process in the smallest way possible, simply voting, is a clear way to signal that you’ll do nothing if they tried.
100% agree. If you have a problem and can’t be arsed to do the bare fucking minimum about it, then STFU.
Same for the models X and S. The S was actually a decent car. Sucks to own one now.
I’m excited for you to start Expedition 33. I recently finished it and loved it.
I just bought an LG TV, rooted it, and disabled all the spyware. It went from one of the worst TVs for privacy to amongst the best.
You’re correct. Their primary shareholder is The Proton Foundation, which operates as a non-profit, but the company itself, Proton AG, is for profit.
While MREs taste gross, they’ll stay edible until the end of time. I think that’s a fair trade. The McRib is just gross with no upsides.
I’m married - stop trying to seduce me.
Controlled opposition. Not all of them, but enough, particularly at the national level. The 2021-2023 majority wasn’t enough. The 2009-2011 super majority somehow wasn’t enough. Establishment-aligned candidates run on milquetoast platforms addressing only a handful of token issues, and often just to roll policy back to much how it was prior to Republican lawmaking. Not the real, sweeping change clearly needed - because that would harm the financial interests of their primary donors.
FWIW, I’m not an American. This is just what I saw whilst living there and what we see in the news. Constantly.
Since criticizing the wrong team is often met with the bizarre assumption one is a Russian troll encouraging Americans not to vote: go vote for the best candidate, but remember that political engagement shouldn’t begin and end at the ballot box. The US needs far more than whinging online.
Same. I genuinely cried when I found out. I’m not usually the type to look up to celebrities, but I always admired Patrick Stewart as an actor and a person. Knowing he’s gone makes the world feel a touch emptier.
About the stupidest Ai idea I’ve heard yet. Whose photo album is comprehensive and representative of their lives? Social media types take curated photos to send a specific message. The rest of us clutter it up with cat photos, images of items we don’t want to forget, memes, and photos from others thrust upon us by applications like Viber.
Barney and Gwen Stefani ate mine as well.
All shitty things, but none of them a war crime.
66% attendance being a record high is so disappointing.
Jimmy Carter was alright. The rest were awful.
It’s startling how fast disinformation organically spreads. I saw disinformation being spread on Lemmy, presumably by actual people, within a day or so of the push to oust Hakeem Jeffries.