I'd go for the latter. The main reason being that banning Nazi ideology or speech is probably a violation of the First Amendment. Nazis are bad and their ideology is bad. But the First Amendment has been interpreted by the courts to prohibit government regulation of speech based on its content, except in very narrow circumstance. This usually means direct and specific threats.

Just to get in front of the usual counter examples folks try to use here. Yes, you can yell, "fire" in a crowded theater. In fact, if there is a fire, you really should. There is no prior restraint on yelling, "fire" in a crowded theater. Now, you might be held accountable for causing panic and injuries in the resulting stampede for the exits. But that is not the same as a prior restraint.

Slander is also not a prior restraint. I'm fact, it's usually not a crime. It's an actionable tort, a private cause for litigation.

I get it. Banning Nazis would feel really good. But it's basically a dead issue while the First Amendment holds. There are better places to spend political capital than tilting at a windmill.

I hated pretty much every book I had to read for school. I realize that some of the classic literature is consider classic for very good reasons, but all it did to teenage me was turn me off classic literature. And seriously, fuck everything about Dickens. The only Great Expectations in that book were the expectations of the teachers that the students could stay awake and alert while slogging through it.

That said, there are two common books in US high schools which I do think are worth a read: 1984 and A Brave New World. Neither should be particularly surprising, but both provide a good view into how a modern dystopian society might work. References also show up all over the place in modern society.

The easy part of a democracy is saying, "I have the right to vote". The hard part of democracy is say, "ya, that asshole also has the right to vote." Whether we like it or not, the country as a whole is no where near as liberal/progressive/left wing as Lemmy. This is going to mean that we have to work with folks with whom we have pretty significant disagreement. Hopefully with these wins, things can shift leftward and more can get done. At minimum, we can slam the brakes on the GOP and Trump's corruption and undermining of our democracy. It's slow, its frustrating and it often means we don't get what we really want. But, as terrible of a form of government as democracy is, it's a damn sight better than anything else we've tried in history.

I really don’t see any way the GOP wins the presidency in 2028. That’s just not how US politics work. People always hate Congress, but they blame the president for bad economies and bad news.

Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace in 1974. Regan trounced Carter in 1980. Never underestimate the American public's willingness to forget about past crimes. I hope you're right that 2028 becomes a second drubbing of the GOP over their failed policies and corruption. I also doubt that what we saw last night will have any durability. It wasn't all that long ago that Democrats were talking about the the Blue Wall. And that fell apart almost as fast as it got named.

Swing and low info voters simply don’t give much of a shit about the work Congress actually does on a daily basis. They’re going to blame the president for their problems like they always have.

I agree that most voters don't care about politics. And more importantly, they don't want to hear about it. And this is why I see an impeachment (which will ultimately fail) is such a dumb play. It will force people to deal with politics. It will be the news cycle for months. And ultimately the votes just don't exist in the Senate to convict. Which means the public has politics shoved in their face for months and the end result is a propaganda win for Trump. He will push a failure to convict as him being "INNOCENT of any wrong doing" (of course it will use ALL CAPS). And the Democrats get what out of that? No one is held accountable, nothing useful gets done to begin the process of fixing the country, and the public just sees the Democrats being useless for months on end.

We need to hold Trump and his cronies accountable. But it's not really possible right now. Once he is out of office and we have a DOJ which isn't filled with criminals, then they can pick apart the criminal empire. Until then, the Democrats need to show the public that they are working to make the lives of the public better.

It's the economy, stupid.
It always has been and probably always will be. And $6 diesel is just one of the most visible places for people to see and be impacted by it. Republicans don't care about corruption, they see government as always corrupt. Trump is just doing what they believe all politicians do. Republicans support what ICE is doing and are fine with ICE killing people, they will just blame the victim. But they cannot ignore the feeling of impending doom when they are getting to the end of their budget before the end of the pay period, and they are staring down a $200 bill to fill their gas tank. While that may not get them to vote Democrat, it does get them to not vote at all. And that is enough.

I think there is also an angle to investigate about the major growth which has happened in the DFW area. Due to companies and people moving there, that whole areas has been shifting blue. At some point, enough people voting blue in the cities will overwhelm the red rural population for statewide races. And that is only helped by Republicans not showing up at the polls.

It would be nice, but that's probably not in the cards for the next two years. Even if everything goes right at this point, the Democrats would be looking at 55 seats in the Senate. That's still 5 seats short of overriding filibusters or vetoes and also for an impeachment conviction. The Democrats need to govern well, get the cost of living down and they need to show that the trust put in them was well placed. Spending the next two years in a bunch of political theater won't do that and Democrats will lose the trust they have now.

Trump's corrupt regime needs to be held to account, but that's not going to happen in the next two years. Democrats need to prove they can make peoples' lives better so they can expand (or at least maintain) their advantage. Then, if they can win the Presidency in 2028, then it will be time to retool the DOJ into an actual law enforcement arm and turn them loose on the corruption of Trump's administration.

It’s a spiritual successor to 538, but if anyone has a better option, glad to be informed:

I would argue that the actual successor to 538 is Nate Silver's substack. You know, the guy who founded 538: https://www.natesilver.net/
There is also Galen Druke's podcast/substack, where he continues the spirit of the 538 podcast directly: https://www.gdpolitics.com/
And then there is the Still Counting podcast which might as well be titled "The 538 podcast, but ABC still owns that name, so we called it something else": https://www.youtube.com/@StillCountingPodcast

It's a neat idea, and I hope the Bondtech Indx keeps getting better so that Bambu Labs doesn't have this as a differentiator.

Take some time, be with friends, and realize that it's probably not your fault. You have just been taught a valuable lesson about the relationship between employers and employees: They only care about the value you can provide to the company and will cut you loose the minute you cost more than you provide.
You should view them the same way. You trade them your time and knowledge for value (money and benefits). If you can get more value for your time and knowledge, lay them off and go with a higher value employer.

It''s going to happen eventually that the servers don't come back up. This is the problem with any game where the company runs the servers. When the profit incentive to keep them running runs out, those servers will come down. Thankfully, these are games you can play offline. And there are the seamless co-op mods for them. But, there will be lots of games which don't have that sort of dedicated fan.

Ok ya, it's second. A pretty distant second:

I care about corruption and would like to see everyone involved in the Trump Administration and ICE dragged into a RICO suit as soon as we have a DOJ which isn't part of that corrupt conspiracy. But, voters are going to vote on the same thing they always vote on: their own perceived economic interest. Thankfully, Americans seem to finally be waking up to the idea that the GOP really doesn't have their best interests at heart and now trust Democrats more on the economy.

If we're going to stop the bleeding, we need to flip the Senate to get any sort of push-back against the corruption. We need to keep reminding people that the price of diesel is directly the fault of Trump and the GOP Senators who refused to stop his tariffs and war. And that the price of everything is tied to the price of diesel.

Ya, the rest of his advice is basically crap. But, the economy thing remains on point. I attributed the quote as that seems the proper thing to do, not as an endorsement of the guy.