brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 0 points 3 months ago

If you say so.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Democrats aren't authoritarians. It's a bad comparison. Democrats are always fragmented, it's virtually a defining characteristic. Post-Biden unity has been quite unusual.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The fixation is because there is no clear line of succession. If he fails, who steps in? They'll splinter and fragment. They'll still be deplorable, but less effective when not united behind a single authoritarian leader.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 20 points 3 months ago (7 children)

None were leftist, and only one got as far as violence.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

You may be right, but it seems to me that sleeper cells need direction. Otherwise, they'll interpret their ideology divergently. They may block progress pretty effectively, but it'll be hard for them to make gains in a shared direction.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is all true, but there's not clear line of succession after Trump, so they'll splinter. Redirecting the fervor to some new dear leader will take a long time. The Trump thralls are entirely invested in him alone.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 27 points 3 months ago

As I've said elsewhere: I wonder what controls Mozilla has in place to prevent gradual takeover of their board by those with an interest in removing Firefox as a competitor. We've watched the sleeper cell in the Supreme Court transform that body into an illegitimate partisan puppet. Mozilla's actions over the last few years would make much more sense if it were being manipulated into self destruction.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This was also my recent experience on PopOs!

[–] brianary@startrek.website 21 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's literally impossible to fully boycott Amazon, I've been trying for years. Even if you buy elsewhere, often you'll find out after the fact that Amazon does the shipping or payment processing.

We should nationalize their monopoly or break it up.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago

Not only do [the old trucks] only get 9 miles per gallon, they’re also noisy, smelly (I have to close my window every day when the mail truck comes around), have no air conditioning, hard to stand up in, and their only safety feature is mirrors that constantly fall out of alignment. AP also points out that nearly 100 LLVs caught fire last year – a common event when it comes to internal combustion vehicles.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So it sounds like you don't believe progressive taxation works. I guess that's an understandable viewpoint. But if you think complexity is the problem, I have a hard time accepting your assessment of me as naïve. People that want simple solutions to complex problems are showing the lack of sophistication that defines naïvety.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 0 points 4 months ago

When did they last get their way via shutdown? Usually it costs Republicans politically.

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