You didn’t answer my question

What lessons from history were overlooked?

You’re right it’s not specific to them. I’m talking about Dems because the thread is about liberals feeling obligated to vote Dem to stop Trump.

I might argue that using fear to gain/maintain power is a thing that all powerful people/institutions do. It might be a feature of all hierarchical power structures. Anyway, it’s gross every time

Good for you for being informed enough to know about all those things. They’re all good things. But they don’t move my needle. They’re much too small. Probably nothing could compare to a genocide but these don’t come anywhere near close.

Straight-up student loan forgiveness could’ve been huge. We bailout big companies all the time but Biden fumbled student loan forgiveness by going small. National abortion access would be great but there’s no way they’ll get that passed.

You assume that voting will make a difference but it won’t. Not only because most of us don’t live in swing states but also, because voting doesn’t change American politics. Biden showed us that. Hell, Obama showed us, America is still gonna be it’s ugly self no matter who’s in the oval office.

I refuse to keep pretending that a blue guy in charge is meaningfully better. They just talk nicer and give the people here a couple more things.

I want everyone to demand what they actually want, not settle for the guys who seem better than those other douchebags.

Your proposal is terrible lol

You’ve got your head on straight. Screw these attempts to guilt you into voting how someone else wants you to

1. Your vote for president likely doesn’t matter unless you live in one of a few states
2. The Dems love that they can just scare you into voting against Trump rather than doing things that would excite you to vote Blue
3. They love you caring more about Trump than Gaza or Cop City or Haiti
4. There’s WAY more to vote for than President

Agreed bc I hate holding that thing! I only needed it to be a handheld for me to carry around the house and the ergonomics killed that possibility. Even with a grip on it giving it more bulk it’s still awkward to use the thumgsticks and hold the system

They’re certainly colluding to screw workers and consumers as much as possible. It benefits them to work together against the working class.

I’m playing Palia. It’s a cozy single/multiplayer survival-ish game. I love that it has very low friction. So far I’m having a great time playing while I listen to podcasts or YouTube

Yeah feature parity made sense in the beginning so the S didn’t get left behind but at this point its place feels secure to me. It’s the cheap option. I think most gamers understand that and accept the trade-offs that are inherent in that choice.

Every time we get more horsepower they mostly devote it to graphics that look slightly more spectacular. Booooooring

While we’re at it, let’s scrap that system that uses cops to protect capital. Put the people at the top of that system on the bottom of the new one

It’s plenty sane, just not built for the success of regular people.

Today I learned that IBM is still a major thing

It’s corporate-speak that means nothing. The same company “focused on it’s core business” today will buy something unrelated sometime later and say it’s “poised for growth in a growing market”.

I think the poll question was about support of the new government’s policies. I can’t answer the second question as I have no idea how this poll was done.

The world is way more exploitative than you seem to recognize. I suggest researching unequal exchange.

“Beyond this, outright corruption has also played a part in maintaining the postcolonial order. Françafrique has comprised countries notorious for human rights violations, including Niger. Subservient puppet leaders ignored democratic progress in return for massive aid programmes. Bribes have been paid via arms deals and other help with security, and – of course – in hard cash that has been laundered.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/05/niger-crisis-france-empire-africa-coup-colony

It seems to me that neither side deserves support but the west deserves less. The people of the country seem to support to coup by a wide margin.

The difference is that the west outsourced the war to the Africans. It’s probably costs more than direct intervention but they get a compliant country that they can use for profits and whatever else, and none of the risk to human life. I wouldn’t call that progress, just neocolonialism