[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 35 points 1 week ago

Right wing morons and shills can't exactly base their arguments on how much better Republicans are, so they come at it sideways with this bullshit.

Well, jokes on them because "the left" isn't made up of complete morons like they have in the MAGA movement. Despite neoliberal whining to the contrary, the left has been consistently the most reliable voting demographic the Democrats have, and that's despite the fact that the establishment shits on us at every opportunity.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 33 points 3 weeks ago

"Sir, this is Four Seasons Landscaping".

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 33 points 2 months ago

Something like "Drumpf"?

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I was in IT back in 2001 when the Code Red virus hit. It was a very similar situation where entire enterprises in totally unrelated fields were brought down. So many infected machines were still trying to replicate that corporate networks and Internet backbone routers were getting absolutely crushed.

Prior to that, trying to get real funding for securing networks was almost impossible. Suddenly security was the hottest topic in IT and corporations were throwing money at all the snake oil Silicon Valley could produce.

That lasted for a couple years, then things started going back to business as usual. Microsoft in particular was making all sorts of promises and boasts about how they made security their top priority, but that never really happened. Security remained something slapped on at the end of product development and was never allowed to interfere with producing products demanded by marketing with inherently insecure designs.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 33 points 3 months ago

Elon will be fine with his massive bonus that he totally earned for all the great work he's done for Tesla.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 36 points 3 months ago

You seriously have no idea what you are talking about. Biden is not canceling his trip to Pennsylvania, he is just not speaking at the convention. The people on strike are the administrative staff for the NEA that is hosting the conference, and they have thanked him for "respecting our picket line and upholding union values!"

The revised agenda for his trip has not been announced, but that's hardly surprising with everything involved in last minute planning of a presidential visit. It's almost certain though that he will meet with the union.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 36 points 3 months ago

A smart move on Biden's part. A neurological evaluation isn't a test that is going to come back with a positive or a negative. No matter who took the test, there would be a wealth of statistics for dishonest actors to distort.

I suppose he could take a simplified screening test like Trump did, but that was not done by an independent neurologist.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 32 points 3 months ago

the only one who decides if he continues is Biden.

Got it.

Biden is who we need to vote for to keep our democracy.

Um, what? Vote Biden to save Democracy, and fuck you if you want a different candidate.

I'll vote for Biden's corpse in 2028 if it's still the only way to keep Trump out of the Whitehouse, but give up the "save Democracy" schtick. That ship has sailed. Democracy is dead, and it's not just the Republican's fault.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 35 points 4 months ago

You would be surprised how many on the left own guns and know how to use them. Also, while military membership leans conservative, they do not tend to like Trump.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 36 points 4 months ago

From what I know of history, they seem pretty Christian to me.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 33 points 5 months ago

It's almost like they're acting like a public corporation.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

For all the carnage that's happened and all the carnage that's about to happen, we need to (rhetorically) beat the neoliberals over the head for the 2020 primary. I don't know if Bernie could have stopped any of this, but at least our hands would be clean. Fuck the notion that neoliberals are somehow "good enough". They throw us a bone from time to time, but ultimately the only thing they are capable of generating in the long term is absolute disaster.

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