No plea deal. No jury. This seems weird.

What the fuck is up with all the Zionism in this comment section? Holy fucking shit.

Zionist.

First of all, fuck off Zionist.

Second off, this is more a matter of, “why are the Democrats letting AIPAC influence the primaries when the same donor is generally opposing our candidates?”

And to actually address your comment of “they go low, we go high” - literally if you read the first paragraph of the article you’d see he was only referring to primaries. Just as a heads up, Republicans* don’t participate in Democratic primaries.

*Except for Centrist Democrats, and especially sex offender Cuomo.

I sympathize with these kids.

To their parents: hahahahahahahahahaha

Thanks! She’s been doing it mostly on her ereader, I didn’t realize it should hook up to a computer but that makes sense!

The punchline was right in the drawing.

There are no good white basketball players, my friend.

Hell yes! Its easier to get a new job when you have a job so if its not right, fuck em

Text Zohran. He listen.

Biden was the most progressive president since at least 1981.

Many people felt he wasn’t progressive enough. The current primary elections are swinging far more progressive than their equivalents in 2018. It should be expected that the next democratically elected president will be more progressive than Biden. Whether they will be progressive enough and effective enough to create long lasting power like when FDRs New Deal dominated politics from 1933-1969. If you do enough damage to the economy, a generation will learn.

Similarly, it took two world wars to learn how to prevent a 3rd, in the relative short term anyways.

Memories remember differences. Trumps second presidency is much worse than his first. It will be more memorable. People are becoming more engaged.

Its entirely possible this is the end of the US as we know it, but its also entirely possible that this era will usher in a New Deal-esque progressivism that a generation remembers for life.

If the US survives Trump, I believe the country will be changing for the better longer term.

Lack of voter engagement makes progressive populism policy hard to pass. If there’s a sense of “we’re the most free country in the world, things may not be perfect, but things are better than they would be elsewhere” then the engagement required for change won’t happen.

If things are worse than a year ago, then people might start realizing the government isn’t working and be forced to be more engaged which allows more populism progressive policy to rise to the top.

Climate change is similar, it’s been talked about for so long that until it gets to be nearly unhabitable many people won’t get on board with its existence. But when they do they’ll be fully on board.

Whether the rubber band will bounce back before its too late, idk, could snap. But if we survive.the worst change, the good change will come.

DAMION: Security via obsolescence

I mean, sure, I could have had a more specific search. I just assumed that DDG was privacy focused and more or less gave the same search results to everyone.

My states midterms happened months ago, and weren’t particularly newsworthy then. Let alone now.

Given the newsworthiness of Michigan, especially, and 4 other states last night, I would have expected to see results skew towards the trending news story as opposed to old, largely irrelevant, results that skew towards knowing who is performing the search.

It’s backwards of my expectations with the product. And based on my understanding of how search engines operate, youvare more likely to catch search engine bias with broad sweeping searches, than you would with hyper specific searches. As an example, this search was able to identify that DDG biases location over relevance/newsworthiness. Which is why I asked about it in the community I did.

I wasn’t complaining about the effectiveness of the search, rather the privacy concerns.

This makes sense, thanks! How precisely does an IP address give me away? State level, metropolitan area, city, street?

If I hated gay people and ran a food bank, I would want to accept as much money from gay rights organizations as possible that way they have less money spending towards gay rights. It’s common sense.

But I guess common sense is incompatible with Christianity.

New to Lemmy. Is this common from this instance?

I’m no fan of the dem elite, but I’m still a believer that if we’re OK with incremental change and we’re active at all levels of government that we can motivate others to re-engage and take back what’s ours. That doesn’t mean that we wait till we can vote again and try better next time, it means we start creating the society we want to exist. Building up local politicians, and supporting the hell out of places that support us, hell, even supporting the hell out of places that aren’t supporting us right now but have the structure to support us.

Oh sorry, I didn’t understand your last comment and assumed. Guess it made an ass of me.

I actually saw some praise on Flock today on Facebook. Youre probably right

Got it. Youre on the all or nothing boat to hell for everyone.