LibertyLizard @ LibertyLizard @slrpnk.net

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You know they're going to start making ads out of these now.

Great post and clearly explains the appeal of politicians like Mamdani which have shocked the conventional political leaders. Despite being left of conventional US politics, Mamdani appeals to these non-aligned voters by speaking to the real issues they care about, and importantly, they don't care about his more left stances. This means there is no need to do things like abandon the defense of trans people, Palestinians, etc. to appeal to the center.

However, I think this does raise some important questions for how this winning political coalition (left+nonaligned) can govern. These voters don't have the knowledge or interest to develop concrete policy preferences--they care about attention to their economic issues first, but they also expect results later. This is why this group embraced but later rejected Trump and Biden. And it's why our country seems to be caught in this policy yo-yo between incompatible visions of America. Because the non-ideological voters aren't getting what they need, so the only thing they can do in the next election is throw the bastards out.

So, if a party can actually deliver lasting economic benefits to these voters, they might be able to forge a relatively long-lasting political rule. But how to do this is less clear because the economy is hard to manage and not directly under the control of political leaders. Things are too gridlocked to push through radical changes that have a chance of really improving things, and policies that are small enough to be passed won't have a big enough effect to mollify people who want prices to go down. I predict Mamdani, despite running a brilliant campaign will fail to overcome this problem.

I see, so he's not criticizing MLs as a whole, just the large number that don't follow their own principles. That makes a bit more sense.

However, from my perspective I've hardly ever met any that seemed to have consistent principles. The only core idea seemed to be whatever China does is good. So it's a bit interesting that Palestine is finally able to break the illusion for some people. Kinda the same for a lot of former supporters of the west. I guess seeing the brutality so clearly makes it harder to swallow the lies we're inundated with.

I thought so, but the way you phrased this seems to be implying I don't? Do you want to elaborate?

Is bad empanada not a ML? I thought he was.

He seems to have an impressive ability to be hated by absolutely everyone.

It's in reference to this: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5613610-mamdani-dismisses-osse-jeffries-primary/

Yeah this kinda BS happens all the fucking time. Lotta people get screwed by the so-called justice system and few people other than the victims and their families even know it.

You are not well-informed on this topic. Yes, there was a protest, but the government retaliated harshly against those who participated.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/11/1148251868/china-covid-lockdown-protests-arrests

And I mean sure, most Chinese support the actions of their government... but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that this is only true because they don't have access to true information about its brutality. And no one around them is allowed to criticize it. This is classic manufactured consent.

Moving military funds into food aid would be extra effective considering that world hunger is largely created by military spending.

If only there was some way we could have known he wasn't a good guy. Like if, for example, he had famously said it's good for the economy to poison poor people. Or if he had resigned in disgrace as president of the nation's university top university after making bigoted comments and involvement in a case of fraud. Or spearheaded the deregulation of the finance industry that directly led to the housing crisis. Just hypothetically, if someone had done all those things, no sane person would invite them to be on one of the most important and powerful corporate boards.

Right?

Climate change is going to force migration from certain areas. Whether that happens through a planned, humanitarian process or through crushing poverty enacted by insurance markets is up to us.

My group has had not one but multiple independent adventuring grannies over the years.

Maybe not. I just don't think saying threadiverse works fine is completely true. We have lots of issues here and there.

I don't know if I would say it's working fine. If you don't clear your cache regularly the main page takes like a full minute to load.

Hopefully it's fixable but this is a level of performance most internet users would not tolerate.

Yeah this is a tricky one. Modern gold standards are to use cameras to recognize pedestrians and cyclists to give them intersection priority. This is a big benefit if designed properly but video data this way poses a huge privacy/surveillance risk.

I suppose maybe there would be a way to process the footage locally and delete it as soon as it's no longer needed but that's going to require a lot of oversight from the community to confirm.

No, even if we just destroyed their wealth, it would be helpful because they would no longer be bidding up scarce resources like land, corrupting our politics, etc.

Why are all these Nazi shitheads joining Lemmy all the sudden? Same asshole or what?

Fuck off. No one wants to hear your disgusting bullshit here.

The bot was correct for once. Japanese aucuba. The spots are variegation which is typical for the variety and nothing to worry about.

I just want to explain the very clever double entendre here because I'm not sure how many people will get it.

Skunk cabbage is notable for blooming in late winter, even when snow is still on the ground. How can a flower bloom in snow? Well, it actually generates its own heat, which can be enough to melt the snow around it and allow pollinators to reach the flower. This heat can be extremely important to early season pollinators, since they can rest and warm up in the flower even when it might otherwise be too cold to fly.

So that spathussy really do be hot.

Always seems to work so far!