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2 days agoHoly shit the hopium you that keeps people going… 🤦🏽
Cops are not going to get physical and escalate with ICE, stop it!
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33·3 days agoIf you exclude non English language, you have to exclude their sales too… unless you’re suggesting the Chinese users that make up 30% of steam users don’t buy anything…
Nice twist.
My problem is that they’re always on the wrong side of history, and only start using the vulnerable as rhetoric after they can’t kill and maim them profitably.
They don’t serve us, they use as to serve the capitalist class.
Call them heroes and worship them?
Rare?
Democrats have a pattern of vocally opposing issues only after they irreparably solidify them.
In 1986 they helped pass draconian drug laws and mandatory minimums that supercharged mass incarceration, then decades later turned around and branded the “war on drugs” a moral failure.
In 1994 they wrote and championed the crime bill that funded more cages and longer sentences; only once whole communities were gutted did it become fashionable for them to “reckon” with mass incarceration.
In 1996 they joined Republicans to “end welfare as we know it,” slapping work requirements and time limits on poor families, then years later started admitting it deepened extreme poverty.
That same ’90s crew pushed NAFTA and the broader free-trade consensus that helped ship industrial jobs overseas, then reinvented themselves as champions of the working class once the damage was locked in.
They joined in financial deregulation at the end of the decade, tearing down New Deal banking walls, and after the 2008 crash, suddenly discovered the virtues of regulation.
On social issues it’s the same story: they crafted “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and passed DOMA, then only when public opinion flipped did they pretend they’d always been on the side of LGBT rights.
They voted for the 2002 Iraq AUMF and let Bush have his war, then spent the next decade calling it a catastrophic mistake.
They backed the 2006 Secure Fence Act to harden the southern border, then later denounced wall-style politics as cruel and nativist.
So no, Epstein Island wasn’t some weird one-off “bipartisan moment.” Bipartisanship is the rule whenever it comes to locking people up, bombing someone, cutting social supports, or serving corporate interests, and Democrats in particular have a long record of helping build the machinery first and only discovering their consciences after it’s too late to dismantle it. At least the Republicans consistently tell you they hate you to your face.
And what meaningful action are Dems taking to stop it?
That’s it, the pain is coming back now. I didn’t use docker last time I tried, I don’t remember the issues I ran into, but I was running Plex on windows vm with the library on a nas share mounted locally through iscsi. Don’t ask why, it was a good setup at the time.
Haven’t tried JF in over a year, but last attempt was full of errors. I’ll give it another shot.
Only reason I’m still on Plex is I have a lifetime pass, and it’s working. But it’s sure inshitifying every day… Remote play with plex pass is super easy, and plex amp was promising but replaced it with navidrome and so much happier. I’m ready to ditch Plex if JF is better now, I’ll install it next time I have time to mess with my setup.
Statement with no substance. What do you desire that’s not there?
Aside from the screen being softer and easier to scratch, name a practical difference between this and another 10" Android tablet…
If a 10" tablet meets your desires, and your desire to fold it and put it in your pocket, what’s left?
0·8 days agoHillary was probably the worse:
I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product… So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, ‘Make America Great Again’, was looking backwards,
Obama:
Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
John Kerry:
You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq
These are slip ups, if you search for coded ways they describe their opponents, you can find a lot more “low information” and “uneducated” examples.
Remember Joe the plumber? He was a reaction to republican voters feeling unrepresented as blue collar workers.
This kind of class contempt absolutely isn’t unique to Democrats, but their obsession with courting higher educated voters has branded their contempt for those who aren’t.
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Congrats on your vacation, I go on them also.
But you must realize bragging about not consuming when going on an environmentally disastrous cruise vacation is ironic, even if your aunt did the spending…
And how much did you spend on that cruise?
Is it anti Firefox progranda to literally criticize them for reopening human contributed content with lesser quality AI generated one?
Your response to that criticism is to bring up another topic (Firefox being open source) and calling everyone idiots?
Capitalism is inherently evil… it’s built on exploiting workers through economic coercion by rich capital owners who don’t, the labor is not rewarded as much as the hoarding of capital.
Still, we live in a capitalist society, and businesses can be not objectively evil, and we have to support those business and boycott objectively evil ones.
Jesus Christ you have reading comprehension issues. I’m not republican, nor am I telling you to vote for them.
You truly are homeless hopeless. When they finally turn your back on you, none of us will be left to stand up for you.
You’re just reacting, you’re not listening.
Uninsured skip doctors, ACA reduced uninsured. There are still too many uninsured. Insured still skip doctors, because deductibles are too high. Health insurance in the US is more accurately bankruptcy insurance, a lot of insured don’t receive sufficient healthcare because they cannot afford anything outside of an annual visit plus regular tests. Anything that needs a specialist is often put off until it’s an emergency.
Your citation is irrelevant to what I’m saying.
- "In Q1 2024, the estimated uninsured rate for the full population is 8.2 percent, which corresponds to 27.1 million individuals without insurance. "
Note that this is an estimate based on a survey. The ACA doesn’t provide a mechanism to tally the number of insured, and this survey tries to be representative, but could be way under reported.
That’s over 27 million people the ACA leaves behind, because it isn’t a sufficient system for the richest country in the world, where healthcare should be a right.
- “Over the past year, 22% of Americans say they have steered clear of some sort of medical care — including doctor visits, medications, vaccinations, annual exams, screenings, vision checks and routine blood work — because of the expense”
Again, once insured, people still skip the doctor because insurance deductables are insanely high.
- “Uninsured adults are more likely to forgo needed care than their insured counterparts. In 2023, nearly half (46.6%) of uninsured adults ages 18 to 64 reported not seeing a doctor or health care professional in the past 12 months compared to 15.6% with private insurance and 14.2% with public coverage.”
15% of insured Americans skip the doctor because it’s too expensive.
https://www.kff.org/uninsured/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-population/
You deserve better than the ACA, you should demand better.
What you don’t cite, what you claimed and what I asked you to cite, is how many people don’t skip going to the doctor because of the ACA.
Not zero, no doubt, that’s my point; it provides enough relief to stifle revolution. No where near 100%, which is what socialized healthcare providers.
My and many others’ lived experience tells us otherwise.
Where is this data you have? That says people actually use insurance and can afford the deductables?
Americans downvoting you because human rights to them is only what happens in America, not what America does to the world.