Basically I was lured in (or “ideologically groomed”) to fascism, and as people around me started to go more mask-off, I thought I need to leave ASAP or I cross the point of no return. Then I had to learn that conservatism wasn’t about “moderate nationalism” but “power for power sake”. Then I had to learn, that communism wasn’t bad because of the lack of nationalism but due to the authoritarianism part. So first I became an “edgy liberal” to address the “rampant political correctness” of “the left”, then I learned that socialism can be much more than Kádár-era work morals and the secret police torturing people until they admit to horrible crimes.

Former fascist/conservative here, the whole “you will grow out of progressive politics” is both a Reagan-era lifestyle marketing gimmick, and a passive ultimatum saying “you either cease your progressiveness or you won’t live to an old age”.

I have a feeling, that the tech sector has enough kompromat on a lot of important people to keep the bubble from bursting.

Or they somehow win 2028, normalize all the evil fucked up shit of the Trump admin, then the 2032 republican nominee wants to reintroduce racial segregation and stripping women’s voting rights completely (Newsom and Harris made gay marriage illegal already, because it was deemed “too liberal”).

It’s “Iraq is using PS2s to build ICBMs” all over again…

There’s a lot of astroturfing online in favor of online censorship and inacting online verifications.

Read a bit into this. That’s not how teens write.

One could just hard-fork Chromium…

If it bursts, that is. I have a fear that people behind AI have grown so savvy of the bubbles, that they have a complicated plan to avoid it, and artificially uphold it with the help of bribed/blackmailed politicians.

Still in the files, but in the “LET ME IIIINNN!” kind of way.

He’s in the files…

Hypocrisy is a feature of their worldview, not a bug. Them getting excluded from so-called “common morals” are just signifiers of power.

They’re like the cruellest of school bullies, that’s why they’re also accusing of ordinary trans and gay people with being pedophiles, while their own are being involved in child sex trafficking. The cruellest thing any school bully can do is convincing the teachers that hitting back was worse than them hitting first, while continuing to torment their classmates.

Breaking news: Fire is hot.

Then get ready for people just making slop libraries, not because people are dissatisfied with existing solutions (such as I did with iota, which is a direct media layer similar to SDL, but has better access to some low-level functionality + OOP-ish + memory safe lang), but just because they can.

I got a link to a popular rectpacking algorithm pretty quickly after asking in a Discord server. Nowadays I’d be asked to “vibecode it”.

Hungarian here. Yes.

Some yes, those whose only political view is “America bad”, and doesn’t think about the potential fallout of the US disappearing from the world.

When the Soviet Union fell apart, the USA and EU filled its place for the most part.

If the USA falls apart, get ready for traditional Chinese medicine and faux gay conversion therapies pushed by Russia to get mainstreamed by the WHO.

I can understand if someone, to reduce harm, voted (or will vote) for Kamala Harris. Sometimes I even think that would have been the obvious choice, but she and Biden didn’t do the obvious of arresting diddler Don. I cannot really think the same with Gavin Newsom.

But the other person was fat and trans! /j

Because if anyone remotely left did that, Trump would have sent in the National Guard.

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That explains the rise of the far-right.

Finally, the people’s girlboss leader!