And agian, what are government moderators?

Oh, sorry. I meant the moderators of lemmy.world. If you say anything too spicy, your comment gets removed

I meant more generally, so democrats can win elections and then win votes. It’s something they should have been doing for the past decade. Look at how the democratic party is treating Zohran for an example of how not to do it.

In my imagination there are increasingly desperate actions they could do to stop the bill from proceeding. Pull the fire alarm. Start a fire. Cover all the chairs with honey. I don’t know. I feel like if it looked like a portal to hell was about to open I would break a lot of norms and rules to stop it

I’ve looked online but I guess I failed my search checks, because I didn’t find anything big in NYC.

But also like others have said, we need to do more than just march. We need to be disruptive. No more labor until every Republican resigns. That kind of thing.

I think that’s the “only Democrats have agency” thing that comes up. When Republicans are horrible shits people are just like yeah they’re horrible but like you don’t blame the bear for doing bear stuff. But everyone else is held to normal human standards

Usually when you make a deal with the devil you get something.

Remove some Republicans from office via the 14th amendment.

Lead protests. Not just parades but actual disruptive protests

Back left wing candidates

Use any and all procedural tricks to delay things.

other stuff that moderators don’t like

There are too many headlines where the first half is exciting.

Trump hit by bombshell

Iranian leader slaps trump

I read a book about startup stuff at the request of the CEO of my old company. Some of it was at least superficially interesting, but one part stood out as haunting. It casually mentioned how a “founder” at Zoom was trying to get money, and the investors thought it was a stupid idea. It was a “solved problem” that already had big players in the space. But they were personally friends with the guy, so they gave him a few hundred million dollars.

That’s not something to be proud of. Nepotism and bro-driven-investment isn’t the ideal.

But these rich assholes pretend they’re such visionaries. Gatekeepers of the future. Fuck them. Fuck them all. The climate is a disaster and they’re pouring billions into “Cats in the metaverse”? Crimes against humanity.

I feel like some of this is fundamentally wrong. Like it says such and such saves money, but cutting that program costs untold amounts as a consequence.

Like you can save money by not paying your phone bill, but then you don’t have a working phone.

So the nyt probably sucks by not making that clear to readers.

Ok then no system works because any system can be sabotaged. Democracy can be subverted in various ways. Making a sandwich can be ruined by any number of methods. That’s not a useful way to look at the world.

This sounds like more of the “socialism never works [because conservatives/capitalists sabotage it]”

I think there’s some truth to this. Specifically, a lot of people are sort of reflexively conservative. That is, they don’t like change. If zohran gets free bus fare in, a lot of people who fight it now will fight to keep it.

I think some famous conservative said something once about how they can’t let social programs get in because people like them too much.

the nation will see that democratic socialism will get them what they were promised.

What’s that old saying like “none are so blind as those who will not see”? I feel like people are so emotionally invested in “socialism bad, democrats bad” that it’s going to be hard for them to accept contradicting that.

Yeah I think that’s one of the things people that don’t always get.

Like you walk down the street and no one’s going to say hi to you, or engage with you much at all. People think that means we’re unfriendly. No, it’s more that we see ten thousand people every day and there’s no way to engage with all of them. Some of them don’t even have a shared language.

But if someone needs help? People step up. I saw a lady trip and fall down the stairs at the subway and a whole lot of people fake running over to make sure she was okay. Bike accident? Lots of people that had been in the background suddenly were helping.

People aren’t perfect. I saw a guy screaming at a woman he was with and no one stepped in, but I like to think there’s a line past which more people would intervene.

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That feels on brand for conservatives

Clearest warning? Of what? New York City is one of the few cities in the US I’d want to live in. Stephen Miller is a delusional nazi shit. He should be screaming on a street corner somewhere, not working in government.

Dislike:

• poor search engine results
• relatively small

I want it to get to a level where you find the good stuff reddit used to have. Like niche hobbies, detailed analysis, etc.

I’m doing my part, I guess

I saw the early reporting come in and I was sitting here like Ronin in Endgame going “don’t give me hope…”

There’s still a chance for this to turn into a nightmare but I hope it’s for real

Conservative means “There must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect.” That’s it. They are childish assholes that only care about power for their group, and keeping other people out of power. They are the worst sort of people.