PhilipTheBucket

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 11 minutes ago

With sympathy, panicked thoughts about what to do next, and quite a bit of horror? Absolutely.

With a casual blaming attitude, waiting for someone else to make it better? Sure, they're allowed to, just like I'm allowed to tell them to go fuck themselves.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 points 14 minutes ago (1 children)

I wasn't talking about Hasan Piker, really. I don't agree with him, of course. Let me put it this way: If he'd flipped it around and talked about what a good strategy it was for Trump to get all his followers heated up on lies and ready for violence, get billionaires and media to go in the tank for him, and coordinate with enemies of the US to destabilize our democracy in order to get elected so he could keep kicking out the safeguards and guard rails once he's back in and firmly above the law, seize on any imperfection or compromise in the Democratic side and play it up to the point that a whole bunch of suckers on the left buy into it and depress the vote so he can win, and unfold whatever's coming now... well, if he'd said that, then he wouldn't be wrong. But looking at it purely from a standpoint of strategy, in this context, is missing a massive other aspect. Talking about the Democratic strategy, which I think Piker is probably doing sincerely here, is missing the point in the same way. Even talking about how elected officials can get the support of the voters seems like it'll probably be almost a moot point by 4 years from now.

What I was talking about was OP and the little gang of people who've been spreading the narrative that the Democrats are the worst thing, basically indistinguishable from fascism, and are now having trouble hiding their eagerness to double down on assuring everyone that it's all the Democrats' fault and this whole thing was inevitable. If any of you guys are inside the United States and honestly believe this, have been withholding support until something more to the your liking comes along, thinking that is a good way to make progress... oh my brother, just you wait, and I hope it's not too bad for you, when it comes.

That's why I posted the meme. If OP's really in the US and on the left, they're going to be learning a whole bunch of new songs to sing over the next couple of years, I think.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 points 49 minutes ago

A tool for wiping free RAM space offers several benefits, particularly for enhancing security, system stability, and performance

What?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 21 points 1 hour ago (7 children)

I don't even care whether your attitude is, "Oh no, we fucked up," or you go with option B which is what you're saying. If you have to wonder whether you're gloating or not, then fuck you.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 1 hour ago

Google says it went from "0" to "100", hovering from 50 to 100 for a lot of election day. I have no idea what that means.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 17 points 2 hours ago

No. She lost because a massive Russian and US-fascist campaign corrupted the state of the media until people couldn’t tell up from down.

“I care so much about the Palestinian people that I have no choice but to become ‘unexcited’ about the only candidate of the two who doesn’t actively want Netanyahu to exterminate them even harder” is yet another example of the nonsense-logic they managed to get into the conversation. If Biden had been taking a hard line on weapons shipments, the big catastrophe about the left candidate would have been something else. I can almost guarantee it.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 14 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

“Even aside from this genocide, it’s been difficult to get Harris to take a firm stand on other things I’m concerned about like trans rights; having some sort of meaningful, humane immigration reform; and taking a stand on climate change,” Meghan Watts, a North Carolina voter told The Intercept last week. She was deciding between Harris and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. She ended up leaving the presidential section of the ballot blank on Tuesday.

Edit: Just in case I need to clarify what meaning I take from this, I think this person has diarrhea where her brain should be. How can you blame Kamala Harris for not “taking a firm stand” when you won’t even take a firm stand on whether or not the US should become Nazi Germany? When it would have cost you nothing at all?

Even if you don’t watch the news or anything, you were there for 2016-2020.

Edit2: I thought about it a little bit more, and I don't think that anymore. I think this person is made up. 0.4% of the voters picked Jill Stein in North Carolina. I doubt much more than that know who she is. I don't know what percentage of those 0.4% thought about picking Jill Stein but then decided to leave the ballot blank, but it's probably even smaller. I think it's pretty unlikely that The Intercept happened to pick this person out of the 248+ they would have had to go over in order to find that voter, and asked her only to coincidentally have her spout this perfect narrative. It's too neat. Maybe it's true, and they just found the perfect victim who could articulate the narrative in perfect form, but I'm skeptical.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 17 points 3 hours ago (9 children)

Not to say I completely disagree with you, but searches for “did Joe Biden drop out” spiked on Election Day. A lot of people think Trump wrote all the checks for Covid aid out of his personal checking account. A vast swath of the American people simply have no clue what’s going on, what anything is or what’s about to happen.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 12 hours ago

Yes, although it's usually safer to let one person specialize in each. If you try to cross the streams, you can introduce instability. Your head-slapping genius can turn into a megalomaniac over time and drive everyone off the project. Your genius business guy can turn out to be an absolute loony, and persuade everyone to work on a project that makes no sense and will never work. It's better if everyone picks a lane.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

At the end of the day, any team that's trying to accomplish a technological task needs:

  • Sysop
  • Genius
  • Head Slapper
  • Business Guy

As long as you've got those four roles covered, you're probably good. You can have other people assisting, but if any of those isn't covered, you're in trouble.

It looks to me like LW has the first one covered and none of the other three. Their system administration team, whatever else is going on with the place, is killing it.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

It's made with Mermaid.

If you mean what decision process is behind it, or what the point is, I couldn't tell you. It just looks weird and alarming to me.

There's no money. And it's not the right way to build a strong and successful community. So why, then, are they doing things in this fashion? The longer you look, the weirder it gets.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 14 hours ago

Can you DM me the usernames of the people involved?

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