Sounds pretty plausible. And in the past when there was decorum, the too-sincere just got quietly sidelined I imagine, wondering why they never seemed to get anywhere despite their loyalty and fervor. But today, when the party communication strategy is explicitly “carnival barker but a mix of vicious lies and middle school insults”, welp, those zealots not only avoid being dealt with quietly, they get a platform, cuz they already had one, and it’s one that rests on the larger platform where every heinous unsayable thing has already been publicly screeched, and also subsequently forgotten.

I hope she goes nuclear lol, she’s gotta have some good dirt right?

Not quite the same type of jackboot here, but nonetheless “Uvalde” is all we need to know about how heroism LARPers pick and choose their violence in the most vile ways.

Guarantee if we ever see an armed response to one of these ICE raids, the LARPers will fall into chaos and shoot everywhere, likely killing a WHOLE lotta people by accident, probably including a lot of each other (all of which will be blamed on the targets of course).

And you’d imagine if there were any of these hardened criminals among their targets like they claim, at least one of em would’ve tried to shoot their way out of deportation by now. Weird!

Honestly, with some tweaks, sounds like not a bad way to start getting your random corporate social media enjoyers to care about privacy.

I get it. Hasn’t been my experience.

Well, yeah, fair point lol, I definitely have an imagined “type” in mind here and jumped to the assumption that it’s all those who are vocally “lesser of two evils”.

Really I was less making an assumption and more just (inaccurately, as you pointed out) using that as shorthand for the set of voters who vote lesser of two evils, but then go on to do the kinds of shit that allows for the image above. Berate others for daring to demand more than two evils, or encourage trying to find common ground with the increasingly far right as a viable means of progress, and worse.

You’re right, it’s not everyone who talks about the importance of still voting when it’s two bad candidates, and I myself think it’s important to do that. I think it just feels like the folks who are always making the discussion about that idea are also usually the ones doing the other destructive (while condescendingly ~well-intentioned) stuff I was describing. Sounds like you feel the opposite, which I’m willing to chalk up to the nature of having different experiences, idk. Definitely not common enough to use as shorthand apparently, that’s on me.

I think your question is intended to silently include “what’s the alternative for a voter [in a given election]?” - if I’m wrong about that, my bad.

But the issue to me is not about choices in individual elections. The issue is that these vocally “lesser of two evils” voters do their thing, then smugly pat themselves on the back and self-righteously condemn the sad state of affairs, every time…

And then continue to take the idiot bait that anything left of present Democrats is scary bad socialism/communism, no further-left candidate can have a shot with real Americans, and wouldn’t our energy be better spent trying to find things we agree on and can get done together?

They don’t learn anything about how the rest of the world works politically, they don’t know dick about any candidates or ideas that don’t appear ready-made and polished on a television screen, and yet they think they’re the ones helping, and if only we all just did like them, this place would turn right around. They want to do nothing, to sound wise, and to feel morally superior all at the same time. This is the core of the vocally “lesser of two evils” voters.

I know because I used to be one of these insufferable people I’m describing.

Idk, being locked in to using only communication protocols that are known to be roughly wide open seems like kind of a privacy non-starter, right? Sort of fails the attempt before you even start, no?

Edit: a wiser person than me reads the rest of the thread before a comment like the above, but I’m not them sadly. (AKA, plenty of good points made by others)

This is such a strange and out-of-touch comment (to me) that I can’t tell if it’s bad sarcasm or…what.

They also just steal data from their clients. At least one US military branch is suing them over doing exactly that during one of their contracts.

Ah yes, chiming in from the “arguments containing the useful content and maturity of an unripe melon” department, thanks for your input

Disclaimer: Below is only parroting what I’ve heard elsewhere on Lemmy.

To add on, I believe they are one of very few that have been served legal demands to provide customer data and were unable to provide it. From what I understand that’s basically the only evidence that can credibly validate claims of “we don’t retain your data”, which is pretty important.

It’s okay, if Coldplay is a honeypot to lure execs onto camera to self-own

I’m still waiting for my pheromone-overlord 😞

Some species of termite can effectively molt backwards, meaning they can physically return their bodies to a juvenile stage, AND THEN re-mature from that juvenile stage into a different adult body plan!

So adult worker (medium sized head and mandibles, etc.) -> juvenile morphology -> adult soldier (huge head and mandibles). And other forms I don’t remember, think they can go back and then become something with wings, etc. - big bug changes!

And what’s crazier is this is done in response to pheromones secreted by the mound’s queen. Termite Queen up in the mound playing Sid Meier’s Civ lol, controlling her city through different stinks! Too few soldiers after the latest bird incursion? Got a buncha workers with nothing to do? No problem, stink-compel em to go back to goo and come back as what the mound needs!

I got all this from a fairly goofy podcast a buncha years ago - be kind, anonymous grumpy expert, if this is way wrong lol

Oh I was offering that as supporting evidence for your point lol. There’s roughly nothing (besides reason and compassion) these folks can shit out of their mouths that will surprise me anymore.

Oh wow that is a subtle but juicy detail, sure looks like exactly that to me, nice catch!

RFK Jr., noted brainworm host and multi talented repeater and innovator of quackery, said that shit within the last 24 hours lol

3 were killed in one of those on the same day, one state over in Colorado.

The Democrats’ stated party strategy, after putting their heads together following the most recent L - is to go more hardcore center. Try to peel votes from Trump by going a little more right. I shit you not, this is what they took away from the last election, about why they lost and what to do about it.

Democrats are not going to save us.

(though I acknowledge that for now someone actually decent basically has to pose as a Democrat for any hope of success)

It gets dumber…there was a school shooting today, 3 kids dead, 1 state over from this.