I think you’re missing several things. First, if the phenomenon is accurate, and it is, then the burden is on you to figure out how to stop getting played. Don’t ask other people to solve your problems. Recognize your problems, and then work to solve them directly.

Second, the spoiler effect doesn’t exist unless you’re in a swing state. But how many Americans were told that they have to vote for Harris or they’re supporting Trump, when in fact their state was nowhere close to 50/50 so realistically they could have voted for anyone?

Third, there is no single leftist community. There are many different leftist communities that overlap and agree on various points. Also, you’re suggesting that leftists are idealist, but that’s not the truth. We all recognize the current situation, and we’re trying to make a better one, but you’re not. In other words, your cynicism has caused you to throw in the towel, and to accept the current reality as permanent, unchangeable, it sucks but there’s nothing you can do, and that’s certainly true if you believe it.

My friend, what you wrote totally ignores the passage of time. Everything you wrote is true if we only look at one election, and none of it is true if we consider the passage of time and how pressure operates. If the political party is not getting votes, if all of their candidates are losing, either they will disband or they will find different policies to push.

I think you need to look at the above the graph and try again, maybe with less f****** around and more using your brain.

Right. Bullying someone and making their school life painful is exactly the same as denying someone healthcare and killing them. Therefore getting revenge on a bully is equivalent to getting revenge on the healthcare company. Did I get that right? /s

Define AI. Then you’ll see that it has been used to fight fraud for decades.

It was last week.

Cars because they are so big, and ugly when in disrepair. Small scale hoarding is a small scale problem.

RTO was always an excuse to fire people. Fuck all the media outlets who pretended otherwise.

Stealing is when you take something from someone illegally. What you described, and what OP described, is not even close to that.

First, what was taken from who? Money from the government, let us suppose. But legally. And even if it were illegal, which it isn’t, what is the damage? Of course there is none. It’s still 100% moral.

Comically, this is such a mild example of the Prodigal Son. Didn’t folks learn this shit in Sunday School?

The reason is clear, of course. Corporate Democrats don’t want substantive reform in Washington, so they act sad but never take real steps to solve the problems we elect them to solve.

The question is not whether it’s personal gain. The question is whether pardoning someone after unjust prosecution is reasonable, and it is.

I also agree that he should be doing more, but nobody seriously expected he’d magically change on this topic, after all these decades in national politics.

That’s not what the term means. It is a historical term with a precise meaning, and that meaning is not synonymous with “unregulated”.

In a little hut that the chair lift operator of the ski area (closed in the summer, when I was there) would use normally.

I think Biden should have gone hog wild with shenanigans that Americans actually need 4 years ago, but you’re right that now would still be a good time.

How it looks is beside the point. If it’s moral then it’s moral, and people who are looking at it need to deal with it. As for what Trump’s sycophants will do, they’re going to do crazy s*** anyway.

When judges ignore plea deals, they are asking for people to strip them of power. That’s what happened here, the judge deserved what they got. If you can’t find justice in the courts, then to hell with the courts.

Bug-free Skyrim. That’s the only thing in the last decade I miss.

Just because it looks like people moved on easily doesn’t mean they actually moved on easily.

You didn’t tell us when he asks if everything is OK. That is a large omission, and I hope you can update the original post with examples of what led up to the question being asked. Also, what is the setup there? Are you working at Subway making sandwiches? Do you have adjacent desks? Do you show up to work with black eyes? We are left wondering what’s up.

Certainly anyone who repeatedly asks “Are you OK?” is exacerbating some issue, but I would be hesitant to offer any advice about what you ought to do without reading more details.

(In other words, the missing missing reasons applies here just as it did in the original scenario, for those who remember it.)

But that’s not what happened. If the lawyers are saying that some open source groups can’t work with open source groups in Russia, as Linus indicated, that doesn’t mean either group dislikes the other group. I don’t think this is a question of animosity.

It’s banning contributors but not contributions themselves. So there must be inconvenience but somewhat effective workarounds. That could be fun to see unfold.