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PhilipTheBucket

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  • Department of Defense to be renamed 'Department of War' within week, Trump says

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  • Many issues at play:

    1. In the same way that a lot of people with powerful friends in the city depend on new highway projects, new community centers, new programs being set up, so that their friends can get paid, people in the US government with powerful friends depend on new wars so that everyone can sell weapons and continue to have good quarters.
    2. The US military benefits enormously from getting a ton of practice. We're trying to run an empire, and very often big militaries get lazy because their countries do so well that they don't really have to be scrappy, and people get complacent. War is so shocking and challenging that the only way to really stay good at it is to be doing it. And so, that's exactly what the US does.
    3. The US has its fingers in so many pies so to speak that all kinds of shit that happens globally we determine to be our business. Civil war in Syria? Holy shit, better make sure the right people win. Let's go fuck up some irregular forces that don't have helicopters or satellite support.

  • DNC chair: Democrats can’t be ‘the only party that plays by the rules anymore’

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  • The time to do that was 2020-2024, honestly. They had power. Now they're having to fight the whole fucking thing uphill, and of course Trump is going to make himself president for life.

    They should try to recover us to a democracy, IDK what the fuck the alternative would be. But the time to put Trump in custody was January 2021. Now we've got the exact same fight on our hands that that would have caused, but they get to be inside the castle shooting out.

  • It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

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  • Yeah, and I'm only supposed to use this bong for smoking tobacco. It said so very very clearly when I bought it so you know they mean it.

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • especially regarding linking (ever-so-slightly progressive) climate policy with blue collar jobs

    Yeah, the branding of the whole thing was pure amateur-hour. But he spent about a trillion dollars on climate change and blue-collar jobs, which he raised by big corporate tax increases. It's wild that no one knows that, and I'd call it a little bit more than ever-so-slightly.

  • It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

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  • Making a few digits worth of wrong division way down in the not very significant bits of the answer, is way better than encouraging all your users to use an LLM to generate the answers for their quarterly reports / tax forms / do we have enough food for the winter calculations. The Pentium division fuckup was barely worth fixing unless you were doing some kind of numerical analysis or simulation or something, which is why it slipped past all the testing initially. This is astronomically worse of a fuck-up.

  • AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees

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  • It is a good joke but you missed the chance to call back to one of the better gags from Space Quest 3 by writing "Yes / Yes"

  • Screen Sizes

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  • "Importance"

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • That will fix the broken system.

    That's what gets me about this whole thing. There's plenty of core of truth to the idea that the Democrats are very bad, although yes the alternative currently is infinitely worse. There are thousands of things that any given person could do to try to fix that or work for better things in American politics. Refusing to elect Democrats anymore, no matter what, is 0 of them, and will make things quite a lot worse.

    It's like punishing your child for bad grades by refusing to feed them anymore. One, it doesn't address the problem, two, it will make even the thing you say you are upset about and trying to fix, infinitely worse.

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • It's also relevant that Biden did more for blue collar jobs in the States than anyone since Lyndon Johnson. Along with climate change, it's something he actually took seriously and fought for, and achieved some success with, which made him a massive outlier in the party of Clinton and Chuck Schumer and all those assholes. How he got that through our current congress, I have absolutely no idea.

    And, of course, no one really noticed, because our media is awful and people on social media have no idea what they're talking about. Even the "sophisticated" left has still been talking about it as if none of that or the climate action had happened.

  • Mamdani Pounces as Leaked Audio Shows Cuomo 'Expecting Trump's Help' to Win

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  • Is it your impression that Cuomo is a liberal?

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • I also have noticed that literally 0 of the "we can't vote for Democrats, stop voting for them, that is the way to progress" strategists have anything to say about candidates to support before the primary, protest organizations to join in the meantime, anything generally productive that is outside of the general election they're so gung-ho about giving their input to.

    Right now would be the time to be looking around for good midterm or primary candidates who aren't corporate whores, talking up third parties or reforms that would make third parties viable, all that kind of stuff. Nope. Just "let the Republicans win" in the general election, and then, crickets. And now occasionally popping up to shit on Gavin Newsom when he's tangling with Trump, like a romantic partner who is grabbing on your arm and screaming "stop it!" while you're in the middle of a fistfight. Just fuckin' helping, the lot of them, from morning till night.

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • I'm aware that it has nothing to do with what you're talking about. I'm making a whole different point, directly addressing what you're talking about but from a different point of view (distinct from "what 'we' are talking about" in your parlance). That's generally how it works.

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • Back in 2023, when this article was written when we were trying to figure out who to vote for, it made perfect sense to talk about that. Now that people are talking about how to not get thrown into concentration camps for being a Democrat, people are talking about something different.

    The fact that one of the most infamous of the "anti Biden all the time" trolls elected to suddenly become nail-bitingly concerned about Newsom's progressive credentials, and repost this thing from a whole nother pre-CECOT era as if it was relevant, doesn't change what people are talking about presently, present tense.

    I'm aware that you would like them to be talking about various holes and nitpicks in Newsom's agenda and reasons why he is deeply problematic, and change the subject away from reasons why he is in the news, present tense. Who knows, you may succeed, it worked gangbusters in the last election and I see no reason to think it would stop working now.

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • I used to moderate some communities. I still do but I used to too.

    When did I allegedly ban you, and from where?

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • He’s also a rich, corrupt slime ball who has nothing but disdain for ordinary people. He’s not a good candidate.

    Completely agree with 100% of this. I hate that he's sort of the default "big white guy face of the Democrats." But also, I like that he's at least making some substantive effort to fuck up Trump's attempt to seize control of the country and throw all his enemies into the camps. I wish there were a few more people in power who were doing that. If he's only doing it because he's being a ponce who wants to make a name for himself, fuckin' great, I hope he gets turbo narcissism tomorrow and starts doing it twice as hard.

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • vote blue no matter who

    Literally the only time I hear this is from people on Lemmy who are trying to criticize some potential ally by being embittered.

    Nobody is talking about voting for Gavin Newsom. We're talking about it being good that he's irritating Trump by taking concrete steps to preserve our democracy. You would be the guy in the revolution who's constantly trying to root out "counterrevolutionaries" in the ranks and snitching people to the secret police because they're not revolutionary enough, right during the run-up to the big battle to see if the movement can even survive.

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • With all due respect, as I understand where this sentiment comes from, that is how Trump gained momentum and won.

    Trump gained momentum and won because the people in this country don't know their ass from their elbow in terms of what is happening, and their whole picture of politics is based on confusion and incredibly effective weaponized propaganda.

    You presented a child with a pretty unappealing fast food burger that had gone cold anyway, and a big lump of shit laced with (and labeled as) rat poison, and then he selected the shit and ate the whole thing. And your reaction is, "Well the burger should have been better." I mean, it's not at all an incorrect statement. But I feel like the way it played out should be automatic proof that the burger quality wasn't the core of the issue.

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • Here, let me draw you a pie chart of what happened in the election:

    • US media is awful: 25%
    • US political education is bad: 20%
    • Deliberate propaganda flooding into social media, such that a ton of Hispanics including undocumented immigrants voted for Trump: 20%
    • Democrats are corporate dogshit: 15%
    • People just don't care: 10%
    • Inflation / immigrants: 8%
    • Democrats failed to make a clean break, stand up for Palestine and unions, et cetera, and galvanize the activist left: 2%
    • Election fuckery: ???% but probably not 0

    I actually 100% agree with you that modern Democrats are horrible. Like I said at the beginning, I definitely don't like Newsom, and then you saw fit to lecture me about how I need to understand that he's not all that good. The problem is that our political system rewards people for being dogshit, and punishes them or casts them out if they are not. So yes, it's not real surprising that most of the Democrats are shit. IDK how people who seem so informed about politics and talk about it so incessantly keep being surprised by that apparently.

    We need to fix our political system. There are a million ways to do that. Some people are working on them very hard. We need to be in the streets, right now, we need to be working hard to make a future before we all wind up in the camps. Sure, let's replace Gavin Newsom WITH SOMEONE THAT WILL BE BETTER. Just shitting on him randomly is not going to improve the system. Neither did it for Kamala Harris, neither did it for Biden.

    I voted for Bernie. I voted in the primaries. I've been to protests. I've contacted my congresspeople. I did some volunteering in this last election. I honestly don't really know what to do. But it constantly pisses me off to see this lazy and entitled mindset where people are just going to sit back and let the whole place slide into the fucking ocean because our "left" party hasn't reached the point, independently, that they feel like it needs to have reached before they'll feel comfortable supporting, and so who cares what happens even when people are straight-up dying at the hands of the government.

    My sibling it's not going to get there on its own. It's American politics. It's fucking horrible. The DNC will not redeem itself just through people withholding votes. They'll shrug, walk across the aisle, and keep making six figures. They don't give a shit.

    Tell me: What activist organization can I sign up with? What can I do? I'm genuinely asking. I already know that spending time online shitting on the Democrats will accomplish fuck-all to save the country. It's just you and me wasting our ever dwindling allocation of remaining time wasting our fucking breath.

    So, okay, you're lecturing me on what I need to understand. Tell me: Who should I sign up with? How should I get involved? How can I fix this? If Gavin Newsom is a POS, then who should I be supporting and working for instead? And what on God's green earth is the point of spending any energy at all shitting on Newsom in the meantime, to suppress by one little sliver some of the outrage when Trump puts him in the camps because he's "not a progressive" and that's super important to remember right now? I mean, fuck it, don't answer that last part, you don't need to. But what should I do?

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • I've had multiple people on Lemmy tell me that Bernie Sanders is a Zionist, and they can't in good conscience support him.

    And yes, it's fake. I mean, some of it might be stupidity or useful-idiot-ness. But some of it is absolutely just people deliberately trying to hurt the left, and it's succeeding very very well.