I actually already knew that, but maybe you can enlighten me as to why that has any bearing on the claim “Even if the House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will not be hell to pay with the base”?
“If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.”
From the article.
I am saying:
" Even if the House Democrats do none of those things, there will not be hell to pay with the base"
The reason I say this is because, even if they do none of those things, they will still constitute the lesser of two evils for all future elections. That fact, coupled with the base’s strong conviction to vote for the lesser evil, means the House Democrats will not have “hell to pay” with the base.
Crazy how people assume I’m not just because I say there won’t be hell to pay for the dems if they don’t kick ass, etc
The only thing that I said was that there will not be hell to pay for the Democrats if they do not enact any meaningful change. And, indeed, there won’t be, because if they did win this next time around, and they didn’t enact any meaningful change, and then next time around, when it came time to vote again, we would be having the exact same discussion, and I would be lampooned in the exact same way, for the exact same reasons that you’ve already laid out right here and now. And so very plainly there will not be hell to pay for the Democrats.
What would hell to pay consist of if not them not being voted for?
And so if you agree that we all must vote for the Democrats, for the presidential election, then I don’t see how that isn’t equivalent to saying there won’t be hell to pay for Democrats.
I didn’t tell anyone not to vote. Everyone should vote for who they want to. If someone wants to vote, then by all means, please do. Everyone should vote for whoever they want to vote for.
The only person telling people how to vote and being a dick about it is you.
“Hell to pay”
No, I think we’ll just get called Nazi-equivalent if we don’t vote for lesser of two evils were told to vote for the next time around, as it has been for 50 years.
Edit: And let me clarify before any other illiterate people get confused about it. If you want to vote for someone, you should vote for them. I am not telling anybody not to vote. Please go and vote for whoever you want to vote for - it is your very important right to vote in whatever way you like.
You’re just adjusted to the cool stuff so that it doesn’t seem cool, but like just a regular part of life. Notice that in most cyberpunk fiction, none of the characters really seem to think that anything is particularly cool or futuristic around them. After all, that’s just their regular life.
Hmmm yeah that’s fair. I wasn’t seeing it that way
I get that. I mean, that’s how I knew to come down here and say that it was misleading. But surely we can agree it’s strange to post something a year old on this particular community. especially something like this, that in context of what’s been going on with Discord really makes it seem like fresh news. Like, the 2025 part is only needed because the post is misleading to begin with
So so so so so misleading to post this when this will be interpreted as an event from 2026. Post should be removed IMO.
Same with my vizio!
This will also be quite the test for the Lemmy slopwarriors
At least for right now I would trust one that had the backing of the Graphene devs. Them and Signal are probably the two most rock solid trust sources right now. (Of course this must constantly be reevaluated)
Yeah by “switch to” they probably do mean flash. I could have sworn they had plans to ship Graphene phones but maybe that’s a later phase.
I love graphene, but I hope they’re planning to also roll out some very strong stock software - or else this will make for a very rough first impression on a large audience of normies and hurt graphene’s long run chance of success. The camera, gallery, and app store in particular will not come up to many users’ standards.
They are, but historically they’ve been at an unusually low price point for what they offer. I think the latest upcoming Pixel is the first to be priced more “normally”.
Bro, no offense but you’re the one not reading here. You start off with “so don’t get a fairphone?”, but indeed, grumpycat is not getting a fairphone. Surely people should be able to criticize products they don’t intend to buy.
And then later in this thread you tell them to buy a used pixel even though they don’t want Google hardware - they didn’t mention paying Google as the problem, but the hardware.
I’m not trying to hate or be a jerk to you, but maybe consider taking a chiller and more charitable tone with people, especially as you aren’t being as careful or exacting in your own posts and reading as you are expecting from grumpy_cat
My original comment was just a meme, it was intended postironically as I was trying to play off the obvious ambiguities in your post. I didn’t mean it seriously one way or the other, sorry for any emotional harm done - seriously.
Yeah idk how the investors could be so dumb. Well, I mean, I do. But still. Exactly as you said, AI companies can just… Steal the data they want. Sooo
Yeah I think most people get their beliefs as a package deal. For them its “either you’re XYZ or you’re not XYZ”. There’s no cognitive nuance to understand that someone might assert X but not Y or Z, etc. And so when someone comes along saying “I’m a Not-X” they suddenly go “oh, so you’re a Not-Z then too huh???”