pronouns: she/her
i don’t see the problem with this tweet (assuming that it’s true, which feel free to correct me if it’s not)
a very cursory search shows Rage Against the War Machine is a Libertarian Party event, which means at best right-wing libertarians and more likely outright fascists who are cynically using calls for liberty to immiserate and oppress minorities. good on the PSL for attacking them.
he has been doing the maga communism grift for several years now, and recently thrown in with the “American Communist Party” along with Infrared and Midwestern Marx. literal nazbol shit
the process, in brief, goes something like this:
this can be very frustrating to begin with, but after a few tries you will start to see some improvement, and maybe even something you actually like.
the lead dev has gone on the record that using singular they in the documentation is putting politics into his project, so i expect it to be possibly technically interesting (emphasis on possibly), but no effort put into accessibility and with a fucking horrendous dev community.
i think the way they want it to be understood is “if elected, i will so thoroughly address all of the issues you care about that you don’t have to vote on them again”, which is kind of reasonable until you try working out how that would happen
Slim Shady
that’s an ergonomic nightmare. the keyboard is too high and the screen is too low. if you use that for more than a couple minutes at a time your shoulders will hate you.
a “fun” game i like to play is when i encounter an anarchist writer i’m not familiar with is to search for the author plus age of consent/majority/adulthood/etc. this pretty reliably brings up a good reason to disregard their entire body of work.
youtube makes a lot of money off of nazi(-adjacent) content. it’s a core part of their business model at this point
our possessions tie us to our past, and it’s to our benefit to choose those ties carefully. how does having those big troves of things you will never look at again make you feel?
i mean, the way the supreme court has operated historically (and especially in the last few years) means they can delete basically any law they don’t like, but you are correct that the decriminalisation of homosexuality is only based on a court verdict. many states never removed the relevant laws from their books, so they could in theory be enforced again if the court changes their precedent.
people who love keeping live fish in their house
i know you probably know this, but in case anyone has not made the connection, 23andme (and related services) are trying to make real the link between ethnicity and biology which is the fundamental project of (psuedo-)scientific racism. once you have tied ethnicity to a certain set of DNA markers, it is much easier to argue that certain ethnicities are inherently certain traits, which is doing racists work for them.
ethnicity has always been a social and cultural construction with only incidental correlation with biology.
it’s white supremacist settler colonialism with a healthy dose of anti-semitic conspiracy theory
to go back to the original post, where she is getting angry at zionists (presumably about the genocide israel is doing), i care much more whether you are doing anything about it than what emotions you have about it. different people work differently. i’d rather someone contribute to a local org and be ignorant of global struggles instead of spending all of their time getting angry at people online so that they contribute nothing.
i’m talking about trying to break a habit that you find negative in your life, and some specific things that can help with that, not saying that you should do these things on this site.
the general advice people have given here has been pretty good, but i want to share a couple things that have worked for me to disrupt these kinds of negative habits:
If only 1% were sampled to vote and it was done so in a reasonably unbiased way, your results would be 99.999% in line with the average American’s opinion/wants.
you are vastly overstating the accuracy of polling, and making a system with a hugely glaring way to game the system. if you thought the voter suppression in the us is bad now, wait until you see the stupid fucking political games being played with the sampling rules in your proposed system.
This is pretty common among conservative books (and other media more generally). It’s produced to give people who already agree with it confirmation that they are right (“It’s in this very authoritative book!”), not to convince anyone or convey new or interesting information.