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  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldGoddammit Texas!
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    5 hours ago

    the sound bites you hear about voting are intentionally misleading: you have to show up with an id to vote here too and that’s not where to controversy lies; but the soundbites are setup to make it sound like it is to engender the reaction you’ve shared.

    the controversy is registering to vote; not voting; and the conservative states intentionally make registering as heavily bureaucratic as possible in the hopes of minimizing the number of people who can successfully finish to process of registration.

    they’ve also dedicated hundreds of millions on dollars to understand and enact policies to keep the poor and minority groups from voting.

    usually democrats sit back and let republicans openly do it, but sometimes democrats do it themselves; the democratic governor of california just made automatic voter registration illegal; just as the conservative states do.








  • eldavi@lemmy.mltopolitics @lemmy.worldIs Kamala 2024 Clinton 2016?
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    3 days ago

    Something lost on blue maga from the article:

    But tell a lie incessantly enough, and you start to believe it. And you can’t help but feel that Democrats really do believe that they ran a great campaign that would and should have won, if only it hadn’t been for the dastardly villains who pulled the rug out. This year, they seem determined to prove that thesis.

    And here’s why trump has a real chance at winning from the article

    So much for that. For weeks now, it’s been clear the Harris campaign has decided that it’s going to rerun the Clinton 2016 strategy on the off chance that that year really was a fluke, and that Trump really is so hated that Americans will have no choice but to vote for his opponent. It didn’t work in 2016, but this time . . What does that look like in practice? It looks like dropping the “negative” label of weird and performing civil disagreement instead. It looks like giving up on exciting the party’s progressive flank — actively thumbing your nose at them, in fact — and explicitly pivoting to trying to win over Republicans instead. It looks like rolling out white papers and policy positions that few will read, while rarely talking publicly about what you would actually do when given the chance at a public forum.





  • i know i couldn’t do the same and i struggle to understand why it’s amazing or why he did it.

    did this guy have sort of trump like distortion field that made him believe he was the chosen one or did he do something to earn his fame? what was he hoping to accomplish by going back? was he expecting to pull off a napoleon and that people would join his side on his return?

    i don’t expect a constructive response from you based on your post history in this thread; but maybe someone else can edify me since google makes him look much worse than the american media.






  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlThe Dislike to Ubuntu
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    18 days ago

    Professionally/commercially they’re MILES ahead of Red hat, Oracle, or Suse.

    Personally/free they do weird shit that usually doesn’t seem make sense on its surface if you’re not getting paid to learn it.

    Take snaps for example: flatpak/app image/whatever makes more sense if you only care nothing beyond getting/running the software; but in a professional setting where you need third party info for something like an sbom or some sort of industry compliancy, snaps make it easy.