I’d be more likely to believe that his staff posts things and he’s only somewhat aware of what it means.

Maybe they will offer a commercial-free subscription service.

They want a presence on your phone, collecting any data the phone OS allows. They want to send you notifications. They want to prevent you from exerting any control over the experience - you can’t block ads for an app as easily as you can for a webpage… and if you help anyone else mess with an app, you are literally committing a felony.

Republicans are beyond hypocrisy. We need a new word for their consistently bad faith, disingenuous lies.

They are basically just human scarecrows with firehoses irrigated up their ass and out their mouthes, violently spewing a never-ending torrent of flaming horseshit.

“No Republicans are acting in good faith” doesn’t mean “only Republicans aren’t acting in good faith”.

I wholeheartedly agree that “It’s not politically wise” is often a bullshit excuse.

However, when you are an openly socialist mayor in the process of overhauling numerous aspects of city laws and regulations, opening a war on additional fronts is risky. The US public is tired of more of the same, but that doesn’t mean we live in a post-Red-Scare society.

From what I understand, he’s focused on improving conditions in NYC to demonstrate that the policies and theory are effective and accumulate some public wins. If he doesn’t play nice in the meantime, national Democratic leaders might find ways to prevent him from getting many victories in NYC.

Similarly, going to war with the NYPD would likely lead to them purposely doing a shit job to make him and his policies look bad. Police unions have done it multiple times. Again, he’s looking accumulate good will first so that the public will stay on his side when the NYPD pulls that bullshit.

Normally, I’m in favor of organized labor… but using that power to protect corruption, racism, and the capital class basically makes them class traitors so get no sympathy from me.

Mamdani literally, strategically avoided a fight with Hakeem Jefferies (as well as the NYPD) because it’s not the time.

Considering the Senate was meant to be a collection of representatives hand picked by the rich, you are not far off…

I mean… https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/old-man-yells-at-cloud

Wouldn’t be surprised if this bullshit goes all the way to the SCROTUS and gets the fascist rubber stamp.

…and if you do, hoooooo boy. I hope you like a coup, because you are going to get a coup.… or sanctions… or a blockade… or all three.

It’s because politics are dominated by the priorities of the wealthy. It’s by design. Successful candidates of the people are a literal political rebellion against the way the system is supposed to work, at least according to those in power.

In retrospect, my point was slightly tangential. I was lamenting the fact that the system itself is designed in such a way that anyone who wants to run for office is incentivized to seek funds from those with wealth - they must kiss the ring. It’s meant to ensure that only capital-approved candidates ever make it onto the ballots. Only massive organizing efforts can push through that barrier. If you piss enough people off, they’ll overcome such barriers and that scares the ever-loving shit out of the rich who know what’s up.

They’ve made it so you have to kiss the ring in order to participate in democracy.

That’s honestly how it has been, since the writing of the constitution, for the entire country…

The ring belonging to the rich, of course.

one of his colleagues, the Democratic senator Cory Booker, offered his “thoughts and prayers” to the former Republican majority leader, but added: “This is just unfortunately an issue of politics in general: people don’t know when to gracefully step aside.”

Fucking lol. It’s been time for the vast majority of Congress to step aside and let actual representatives of the people take power. That goes double for most Democrats, who put up more of a fight against the “radical left extremists” then they do against literal fucking fascists and genocidal Nazis tearing this country apart. I’m frankly surprised Booker managed to get Netanyahu’s cock out of his mouth long enough to give such a lengthy statement.

“Things used to be worse” is, in no way, helpful to me. I’m not selling fear. I’m living in it. Am I starving, am I being raped by a feudal lord, or am I being tortured by a king? No, and I’m aware I’m not.

This changes very little about everything happening right now… and frankly, it’s ignorant of you to assume that runaway technofascism or a decade or two of runaway climate change, the effects of which we are only theorizing about, won’t leave us in a world just as hostile as humans have faced in the past.

In my mind the ideal product maintainer for an Lemmy approved product has to be part of the LBTQ+ community, has to be some people of color, atheist, vegan and must subscribe to the EXACT same flavour of leftism the individual Lemmy user has sold his soul to.

Maybe I’m in the minority here, but as long as the maintainer isn’t a hateful person championing movements I consider grossly immoral (fascism, racism, lgbtq+ hate, hypercapitalism, etc.) or committing acts I consider to be grossly immoral (abuse, rape, torture, human trafficking, etc) I’m happy to support a good product.

most stuff they use was created by people that they would absolutely hate in person.

This is largely true. If it’s a personality thing I don’t mind, but deeply held beliefs and actions are another thing entirely. I’m trying to change where my money, time, and effort gets spent to avoid enriching or benefiting fascists that want to immiserate, harm, or eliminate from existence me or those I care about. Unfortunately, I sometimes have to pick my battles… which is kind of fucked up when you think about it.

To be fair, I also hate to be left alone with my own thoughts for even 1 minute… I’m just considerate enough to use headphones.

Obviously their part of BLM… because… <gestures broadly> you know …and that’s basically ANTIFA!

I would be absolutely shocked if these cameras had any actual impact on these kinds of experiences. They’re more likely to use it to track “ANTIFA terrorists” (aka, progressives) with it than improve the quality of your business ride.