100% with you on the note about actual primaries and hopefully some actual progressives this time.

I’m just tired of the people arguing that even come November, a vote for anyone other than Harris was somehow still a better choice.

I certainly wish she wasn’t the nominee, and the whole no primary was shady af, but once she was the candidate in the general election, she was the only viable choice for anyone who wasn’t an accelerationist or anti-western psyop.

People like you are either intentionally bad faith actors (of which Lemmy is ABSOLUTELY INFESTED with), or willfull naive about the realities of the world.

One more time, a little slower this time, the reality of the situation was that come November of 24 the choices were absolutely clear. No amount of whining about how it SHOULD have been changes that.

Unfortunately enough people were misled, chose to light it all on fire, or were too naive to make the right choose in the general election that we all (globally) need to deal with the consequences.

Trump because America’s president, but definitely the world’s problem.

Nope, it’s still the voters at the end of the day. And fuck off with that “majority of votes don’t matter”. It’s as much of a bullshit argument as “both sides are the same”.

So going with harm exponential growth in the short term was the better choice? Sounds like a grown up choice making to me.

Want to reduce harm? Make the republicans unwinnable across the board so that actual progressives can differentiate themselves from the rest of the Democrat party. Party in-fighting is great when you have the margins to not lose to the fascists.

As I stated over and over come November 2025 there was only one choice (unless you are an accelerationist/anti-Western/psyops operative).

All the would’ves, could’ves and should’ves don’t matter anymore when you’re at the ballot box.

My point is that anyone who says they didn’t like Harris when she was literally the only viable choice come the general elections must therefore be totally fine with Trump, because that’s what the actual effect of their decision was.

All of this idealistic backwards reasoning they are using to somehow absolve themselves from having fucking Trump as the president is just foolishness.

Ours laws as written maybe, but certainly not in practice. How can you argue that the outcome of our laws show any adherence to rule utilitarianism?

No because 1) he won so any votes not going directly to him didn’t matter in the end, and 2) Republicans tend to fall in line and vote R no matter what versus idealistic leftists and accelerationists who won’t vote for anyone unless they 100% align with their views, and interesting that the hard line for them is Gaza, not any of the other catastrophic outcomes from the Trump presidency. Almost like these were disingenuous arguments to begin with.

You know who fucked up the most? Non-voters or people who threw away their votes in the general election.

That’s a DIRECT result that brought about the Trump presidency

Sorry to burst your bubble, but capitalism isn’t going anywhere in the US. You’re in a tiny echo chamber if you think that the wholesale destruction of capitalism is even a viable choice.

Absolutely. Yet they hide behind bullshit excuses about how they couldn’t support Harris when they KNEW having Trump win would be terrible for America, and therefore great for their own personal goals.

Fuck those disingenuous trolls.

Funny how linking this comment to your previous one in this thread proves that you don’t give a shit about the “lazy argument” about voting 3rd party. You know it was detrimental to the US and directly supported Trump, which you (rightfully) concluded is negatively impactful to the “American empire” as you call it.

Stop being a disingenuous troll.

Here’s the thing, in the reality that existed in November 2024, there were only 4 choices. 1) Vote for Trump, 2) vote for Harris, 3) vote 3rd party, or 4) don’t vote at all.

Simple math and logic dictate that at that point in time ANY ACTION other than voting for Harris was supporting Trump.

Argue all you want about the two party system being terrible, the distribution of Electoral College votes per capita over states being wrong, the impact of freezing the House seat numbers, or anything else related HAS NO IMPACT on the general election.

For the record, I hate all of the items I mentioned above, but NONE of that mattered come November.

Anyone disputing this is either a disinformation psyop/bot, a champion of a US downfall, or a complete moron.

One note Gaza Gaza Gaza. I don’t hear you fucks ever talk about all the other suffering in the world due to Trump and his regime, just Gaza.

Almost like your arguments are all bullshit and you’re just shills for all parties who want to tear down the Western world.

If you were eligible to vote in the US general election, and you didn’t vote for Harris in November, you helped Trump win. Simple as that.

Don’t worry, I’m sure this paragon of wisdom would come up with another excuse of why they would pirate the game even if it did have a discount.

Let’s get Democrats controlling all three branches of government for more than 30 seconds to start.

And then when you wake up from the dream world where both parties a completely rebuilt, you need to vote for your actual choices.

If the Republicans never have a chance of winning again, it becomes much easier for the actual progressives to differentiate themselves from the more centrist Democrats.

Bringing dogs into places where dogs don’t belong. No your energetic little puppy is not a trained service animal. Even more annoying when they walk right past signs that say no animals. Obviously the rules don’t apply to their little ball of fur.

That and people using their car’s hazard lights as an “I can park here”

I loved “the voice” effects of the 84 version. The new “voice” sucked.

Something about the resonating/reverb sound effect of the original felt so cool. Like a nagging command or idea that just bounces around in your head and amplifies with its harmonic frequency until it truly compels the listener.

There’s a difference between using AI to help you code and pure vibe coding. The latter is how you end up with slop, but the former can absolutely speed up skilled developers.

Same is true across the board with AI use. It can easily be a force multiplier for people as long as you don’t turn off your brain and slop away.

I certainly agree with your point on the jerk reaction, but given some of the guttural hate people have for AI, even though I don’t agree with his tactic to deal with it, I can certainly see the frustration.

Using AI to help code doesn’t necessarily mean completely vibe coding.