Then play hardball with them, get on board or get primaried by an opponent with the backing of the DNC.

It’s worked for the right, they’re terrified of their constituents.

prove to me by pointing to the specific source code that would prevent Proton from your private key password

You want them to point to code (that’s not publicly available) that prevents Proton from capturing credentials?

What a dumb hoop to tell someone to jump through. Do you expect someone to actually post a block of code? Would you even be able to read it?

It’s not true though they’re incorrect about the timeline.

I’ve noticed this a lot on lemmy. People state things as an objective fact that are just completely wrong. They start with a false assumption and built their ideas on that. People seem to have virtually no understanding of how the civic process works.

You know genocide and fascism are different things right? Fascism has an actual meaning and it’s not “things I don’t like.”

Biden is doing Fascism already

I’m not sure he is.

Please define Fascism in the context that you believe Biden is doing. Be specific, I won’t engage with vaguery or hyperbole.

And you all care so fucking much about Palestine now that it’s a convenient cudgel to beat someone with. You don’t care now and you didn’t care then you just want to score your little debate points from mommies basement.

Fucking waste of space if you care so much go do something about it because no U.S. president is going to do anything.

Your lack of personal awareness is hilarious.

Piss off now please.

Enjoy simping for PayPal or whatever you’re doing Muskrat.

It’s not Netflixes fault that they promote a show until it gets an audience and then pulls the plug? It’s not Netflixes fault they raise their prices?

It’s like you missed the last six months where everyone was talking about enshittification but sure go off how it’s “others” that made Netflix suck.

edit; additionally thanks for not disputing PayPal sucks though, that was literally my only point, have a nice day.

Yeah Zelle works too, I wasn’t endorsing any specific app as much as saying that PayPal isn’t the best method for sending money to friends.

Yeah, Netflix is a shadow Its former self, thanks for proving the point.

It’s inferior in every way. PayPal has been known to freeze accounts and drag their feet on unfreezing them. With Venmo and CashApp and all the various cryptos sending money to people has never been easier.

Not to be confused with the other mega block buster hit movie about an asteroid hitting earth released one month earlier in 1998, Deep Impact.

Yes, it’s called JAQ’ing off or Sealioning and is how people try to push an idea while still being able to say “oh no not me I’m just curious.”

If you were actually curious you’d google it, or been aware of his descent over the last 5 years.

I’d suggest the actual left has largely not participatied in politics in several decades and a milquetoast “moderate” Democratic party has allowed the assemblage of Right Wing Interests (who have aligned and mobilized since 1970) to roll back the actual progress of FDRs New Deal. Now would be an ideal time to mobilize and start running for city councils and schoolboards.

Robert Evans has a very enlightening 2-part podcast called “How Conservatism Won,” ideally we’d emulate the Edwin Feulners and Paul Weyriches, but with progressive ideals.

edit: wording

How do you envision change happening?

I’d like to see the rise of a “New Left” much as we (unfortunately) saw the rise of the New Right after Goldwaters defeat in 1964. We need actual, grassroots organization of the various leftwing interests, all politics is local. My state has actually been very successful with ballot initiatives, but you’re right that they’re trying to make them more difficult.

I don’t have all the answers but I do know that we’re not done yet. Honestly the rightwing thinktanks and various grassroots organizations behind the current iteration of The Right has about a 50 year head start, I’m not sure we’ll be able to fix the mess in any less time.

The U.S. system of government ensures only two possible political parties can exist, and outside efforts cannot succeed.

The net result is that voters have no real ability to affect the outcome of our governance. Nor are the lawmakers inclined to change the system in ways that would harm their political party or their corporate patrons.

Hard disagree on both points. Change is still possible but it has to come from the ground up, showing up once every 4 years isn’t how citizenry should act.

Nor are the lawmakers inclined to change the system in ways that would harm their political party or their corporate patrons.

Agree.

I’m not sure there is a war to win, for the citizenry, at least.

Oh there very much is and the rightwing figured it out 70 years ago.

Banging a pornstar isn’t the problem.

Paying off a pornstar on the eve of an election with the intent to influence that election and then falsifying business records to cover up the payments, is a problem.

It’s less a morals thing and more actual crime things.

he wants to stop it from helping impoverished people live better lives and all the other advantages simply because it didn’t exist when.he was young and change scares him

That’s the part I take issue with, the weird probably-projecting assumption about people.

Have fun with the holier-than-thou moral high ground attitude about AI though, shits laughable.