[–] 8 points 2 days ago

This has been pretty clear for a while now. It’s disappointing that the D platform lately has been solidly status quo.

The last real Democratic presidential candidate with great turnout was Obama (the first time) with his platform of “hope and change”. Trump even won on his own twisted version of that with “drain the swamp”. Keeping the status quo is a losing platform these days

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  • [–] 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Trends and status symbols are stupid, but I’ll always choose all-metal machines over ones with plastic parts. Things are being made with critical, stress-bearing plastic parts that predictably fail early and it’s infuriating.

    (I realize this is about plastic-free pods, which are also trendy and stupid. I’m willing to bet that the machines that use them have critical, stress-bearing plastic parts inside.)

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  • [–] 18 points 5 days ago

    It could be a copycat or even just a bored kid seeing what they can do. If the first attack was successful but none of the rest of the vulnerable systems were patched, further attacks are inevitable. The pattern is just that known exploits will be exploited given enough time and bad actors.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    From a more sad perspective, that could be because Democrats today are almost indistinguishable from what Republicans were decades ago. Remember that Nixon created the EPA and desegregated schools. Today they would pillory any Republican that even thought about doing something like that.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Does the number of electoral votes go down, though? It would likely violate many state constitutions, but the state governments could just assign all of their electoral votes without having an election to decide them. This is all unconstitutional anyway.

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