i mean of course the google execs get put on the rocketship with them but im giving as much sympathy to chrome devs as i do to troops in the US military

im not a programmer, just a relatively computer competent layman but ill die on the hill that browser and web developers should be shot into the sun regardless of the language for how they've completely destroyed the idea of privacy on the web, the amount of data that browsers give out for seemingly no good reason is crazy from my perspective

when i used to live in a walkable city (university i miss you so much ) i used to go on unhinged rants about how i should have the legal right to pull out a heavy machine gun and eviscerate these "people" revving modified engines in residential areas while walking and talking on the phone lol

DELTA CHAT MENTIONED RAAHHH

the criticism i have of people on hb (and the rest of the internet this isnt remoltely a hb only problem) isnt that i think people think he's lenin 2.0, it's that if you give criticisms of him no matter how gentle, people come in and "crashout", they immediately assume you're calling him a lib like AOC, they will act as if you said things you didnt actually say, etc etc etc. In particular i said this was an example of "libbing out" because i thought it was quite clear what the top level comment was saying and people were acting like they were saying something really weird/stupid when the statement is filled with language that is used to performatively protest against trump. by blue maga dems. i guess i could just start copy pasting shit and just start arguing with 4 people at once but imo that is actual wrecker behavior plus not worth my time so i just left a generic comment summarizing their comments as "libbing out" to let the top level user know that i thought everyone responding to make fun of them was "libbing out"

What would happen if he still crossed the border, made it to Belgium after hoofing it a few kilometers and proved his EU citizen status? Are Belgian authorities going to turn him over to Germany, nullifying any prospects of challenging the EC directly or seeking asylum elsewhere?

im unsure tbh, it sounds viable but then again the whole thing is barbaric so maybe they would actually just send him back to germany?

i never log in on my phone for this reason

i didnt even know it was a rule, like that is an official^TM^ emote on hexbear and it gets used pretty frequently for how many emotes we have (quick glance thru search, at least once a day lol)

i mean in this scenario they deport him before he even gets to run for general election he doesnt have time to do this

Personally I think they will continue to try and bargain with markets until we get to a major crisis

i certainly hope so too! im just not as confident as i was in the past

Temper your expectations

then just say that instead, "Bookmarking all yall for a year from now" is dripping with condescension and anticipation of getting to do a "i told you so" to everyone posting about mamdani

i'll take the enlightened centrist^TM^ position in that calling him an outright lib like aoc doesnt really seem accurate with his past public comments and even the campaign he ran. but even assuming once he gets elected that he wont get utterly ratfucked in some way during his term (or even he turns out to be the most brilliant demsoc ever and manages to outplay the attempted ratfuckery i would be shocked if he were not imprisoned/assassinated at that point), isnt hopium it's copium. i also think there's plenty of stuff to criticize him about and i think people have been fawning over him here a little too hard, no im not saying he should have gone on stage and shouted death to isr*el but i also think he could have been more advesarial to the media when they kept calling him an antisemite.

idk the flipside of this is that if we shot every landlord in the country + shot the grocery store price gougers + built robust public transit it would be very easy to live off minimum wage. I suppose that is harder for people to imagine in their head (pay stays same or even goes down but cost of living plummets vs an extra 30k in their yearly take home pay), but i have been reading some arguments about wages in the first world vs 3rd world (on twitter tbc lol) and i find it convincing that fighting for increased wages as a first world communist will probably just end up strengthening the LA instead of increasing class consciousness, @[email protected] could explain better, it's a little hard following discussions on twitter because i dont have a twitter account and have to manually remember the communist accounts i like on there and click around looking for stuff lol