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  • I swear your short-sighted goal of overthrowing the system has resulted in millions of Americans marching goose step and lining trans children up for the slaughter.

    Those kids had already been placed in that line by the system you're defending - half the states in the union had already been targeting them while democrats were at the helm, and now the democrats have the audacity to be blaming their loss on being too trans-friendly.

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  • it was voters who ultimately put them in office

    Guess I'll just repeat myself:

    "they still need millions of people to go to the booth and make that choice, and nobody has more control over voter enthusiasm than the democrats themselves"

    If you want to play games with abstracting agency away from the people who had control of the entire situation, go nuts. But not only did the democrats have every opportunity to make the case for themselves, but they also dug the grave they're now laying in by building their platform around AIPAC money (and large corporate donors) to begin with.

    The democrats simply cannot win with the political machine they've constructed anymore.

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  • enabling the greater evil is a failing of the people who voted against their interests

    Democrats enabled the greater evil by ignoring the interests of the constituencies they needed to win. It doesn't matter if the lesser evil is objectively the right choice - they still need millions of people to go to the booth and make that choice, and nobody has more control over voter enthusiasm than the democrats themselves.

    This is nobody's fault but the democrats.

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  • I'm not accusing anyone of being pro-dems, I'm pointing out that this line of reporting is intentionally misdirecting anger at voters - who can literally only react to the policies and governance of the democrats as they are - instead of the democrats sabotaging themselves for thinking they could have their cake and eat it too.

    Thinking that the democrats could participate in a highly-publicized genocide and not lose any voters is folly, but then turning around blaming the voters for the loss of votes is beyond hubris and well into delusion. Anyone with eyes could see this loss coming from a mile away and was screaming at the democrats to change course.

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  • I'm not assuming you're pro-dems, I'm pointing out that their loss is entirely attributable to their own political mis-calculation on top of their efforts to gaslight Americans about their roll and knowledge of the crimes being committed on their behalf.

    Blaming voters for reacting to the Democrats' policy decisions - including the moderates they alienated - is simply yet another attempt to obscure the facts that lead us to this moment.

  • Can someone explain the significance of quantum teleportation in qbit architectures?

    From what little I understand, it relies on quantum entanglement instead of electrical current to 'pass' logic states between qbits in different physical space, but I'm wondering why (in this case) they still need to be connected by fiber optic cables?

    I thought the point was that it didn't need to pass signals over physical media, and that was valuable because it was instantaneous and secure, but now it's sounding more like conventional computing...?

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  • People here still blaming this on minority voters are deafeningly silent on party leadership holding the coalition hostage over AIPAC funding

    Stop directing your anger at people being robbed of basic representation instead of political actors who are gleefully accepting blood money to turn against their constituents and a blind eye to genocide

  • I love the irony here but this is 100% meant to bait counter protestors with guns to show up to the next one, especially in Wisconsin, and especially with the current administration that has no problem holding a double-standard (liberal protestors with guns are dangerous, conservative protestors with guns are patriots).

    Leftists don't have the same privilege as white conservatives do walking around with an open carry. I hope anyone bringing their firearm to a protest understands the risks involved and is ready/willing to use it if things escalate.

  • Ordinarily I would be sensitive to accusations of america-centrism, but the US has a tendency of bullying their allies into following their regulatory measures so I don't think this is just a US problem.

  • Which would increase their effort to chase it down and make regular people avoid it.

    Not that it would deter you, but the network would essentially stop growing and no longer be a real competitor

  • It would probably be something like: "any social media site made available to US users must verify user identities and legal name and age and comply with US agencies' requests for user information. Violators will be subject to penalty, including but not limited to economic sanction and imprisonment"

    Yes, there would be ways around it and yes, there would be nations who would not enforce it, but there being legal barriers to operating an instance would basically kill its adoption for normal users. I'm really tired of people saying 'you can just get a vpn' as if most people would go to any length at all to share memes with friends. The fediverse is already too complicated for most people to adopt before having to circumvent region blocks.

  • Idk man, Rubio and the entire US state department can get roasted by just about anyone on the planet and I wouldn't bat an eye.

    If someone runs up and kicks that man in the nards, i'm gonna laugh - doesn't matter who's doing the kicking.

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