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Cake day: October 7th, 2020

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  • There is no Leftist party active in Congress.

    So, when you read/hear some USA politician being called “on the left” it should be taken as literally as possible. They are literally standing just to the left of whatever they are being compared to.

    So a person who says, “Hey, shouldn’t we all have healthcare that you don’t have to pay out of pocket for?” is to the left of “If you can’t pay, just die.” and will be considered “left”. Even if the person wanting everybody to get healthcare is fully on board with “The Global War On Terrorism.”

    Its probably best to view somebody’s opinion/action on an individual issue as being labeled “left” and not the person themself. Even when a person in the USA is describing somebody else in the USA as “of the left.”


  • Oh no.

    Its just the difference between how you talk to your own friends or close coworkers and how you’d talk when you’re around somebody else’s friends or a different set of workers. Being a bit more polite, more clear in communicating a bit more thoughtful about how comments might be (mis)understood to reduce potential friction between two different social groups.






  • Hehe… The title is funny.

    Makes it seem like Israel and Washington were around at the same time.

    That’s not to say that excessive advocacy for Israel is confined to the American right: As demonstrated by President Biden’s backing of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, the championing of policies that serve Israel to America’s detriment also runs rampant among establishment Democrats.

    Goober talking like a political party defines whether its members are Conservative or Not-conservative. Biden is a part of the USA’s right wing.








  • When I was young and the “internet” was becoming a thing, there’d be movies with hackers. In every movie where there was a hacker, the movie would make a very big production of how the hacker was routing their communication through a series of proxies to try to hide the where their position actually was.

    This was back in the late 80’s or early 90’s.

    So now there’s whole ass companies that will rent out server space/virtual machines by the hour for a handful of bucks and you pretty much get to do whatever you want with them.

    Whole ass businesses exist that create and maintain large volumes of throwaway accounts for every social media platform ever.

    Bot scripts exist to just take a database of user names, passwords, and generic instruction and just need to be pointed where they need to execute.

    So like, nowadays, a single person with an axe to grind and a wallet full of beer money can just, mass report, mass upvote/downvote, comment spam, etc.