This is truth. The old adage about throwing your vote away isn’t exaggeration, or even opinion. In a First Past the Post election, is just math. And math doesn’t care about anyone’s sense of moral righteousness.

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I imagine they’re planning to purge Austin.

… and now they’re already saying his bid is in trouble.

I’m sorry but, good? I understand that Israel is not innocent in this conflict, and I get that Palestinians have it hard, but what Hamas just did was an atrocity. If you think this is the time to pile onto Israel, the world needs to know your priorities

They might if it’s not really about the crime. They may turn on him simply because they think he’s becoming a liability.

No worries. This will not go on your permanent record.

It’s not you. I don’t want to say, “both sides”, because one side is clearly worse than the other, but these people are becoming what they despise. If you look at the worst kinda quasi-religious hive-mind discourse they used to have on /r/TheDonald, and shift it left, it would look like this.

I’m kinda disappointed.

Have my upvote. This post is getting hammered for the supreme sin of introducing nuance to a thread where everyone just wants to be righteously indignant. Most or us have parents who qualify as conservative, but not as evil. It’s like that.

I’m not sure what part of me calling this guy “evil” is excusing his behavior. I’m just saying it could be worse and soon will be. Don’t go looking for drama.

Everybody looking forward to this man’s departure don’t realize what joy the great state of Kentucky has waiting in the wings. As bad as he is, he’s actually put a stop to some of the MAGA world’s worst nonsense. I’m not entirely confident that crazy is better than evil.

Long term, yes, great for the planet. But shorter term, a shrinking pool of working aged adults are going to have to care for a growing pool of elderly. Additionally, the overall economy is going to contact before the age cohort imbalance takes care of itself. Same thing is happening across most of the developed world, but it’s happening faster in China, and they’re less developed to start with.

It hides the true cost of the meal and allows both the employee and the employer to avoid taxes on this part of the “salary”

Damn, that’s scary. I’m next door, in purple-ish Georgia, surrounded by cray-cray Florida, Alabama, & S. Carolina. And now Tennessee had lost the plot, too. I’m looking hard for some source of optimism.

I’m actually willing to accept that Hawley 's masculinity is under threat. I feel pretty good about mine, tho.

Russia is the largest country on the planet, with boundless natural resources. All they need to do is learn how to keep their armies within those massive borders, and they would be everyone’s favorite trading partner. Instead, they do … this. They don’t need to die. They just need to go home.

It’s funny reading people suggesting RSS on here as a way to replace Reddit. Aaron Schwartz helped create both of them.

I think that which 250k migrated will eventually end up making quite a significant dent. It isn’t the technophobic lurkers that make up the Lemmy early adopters.

Maybe we’ll eventually get the corresponding influx of tech writers.

“Pcmasterrace” did not start with Reddit.