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Close your eyes and lie very still

Hard disagree on all points.

On the topic of changing minds I'm personally really interested in learning more about deep canvassing since I listened to the You Are Not So Smart podcast episode about it (I think that was the one at least, cant remember who turned me onto it but it was someone here on lemmy). Gonna hunt down some training when I get a chance. My life is also pretty hectic at the moment as I'm in the middle of becoming a homeowner (!)

And yeah I don't totally understand why .world is so rabid right now. Everything they're expecting from Kamala are almost total fabrications based on the optics of either party, conveniently forgetting that Republicans get whatever they want regardless of who's president and Kamala doesn't even dare to hint at ending that dynamic. It completely lacks any and all analysis on how all these reactionary bills are actually being passed, as in, today, right now, under Biden, and Kamala's total lack of a strategy to address that or win back any ground.

They don't even agree with the platform that they are voting for, it's just, "we can move her" and "she will listen" when she is clearly demonstrating that they cannot, in fact, "move her" and she is not listening and she isn't even running on anything they want. All they have is fear of what even Biden said is fundamentally no different from his own Admin. It's pure copium. sigh.

Side note, am I the only one noticing that the "BoTh SiDeS" argument used to refer to both sides being too extreme on opposite ends of the spectrum (y'know, bullshit that served republicans/enlightened centrists before MAGA came along), and now it's being thrown back at us leftists when we point out that both parties exist on the same end of the spectrum, in service of capital and rightward momentum? Hoping someone else can finish my thought there but it feels like a complete manipulation and rewriting of that fallacy. Maybe I understood it differently when I was a lib though.

Anyways, I realize I'm kinda off the rails and preaching to the choir now but it feels like theres fewer and fewer safe spaces to vent and discuss these frustrations as the election draws near.

Shit.

Not sure why you would think Germany is the best in this respect as I've often heard the opposite in my travels there. They are very anti-tech in government, privacy/cybersecurity reasons are what's usually cited.

Yes

It's not "doing nothing" it's demonstrating that their "viable" candidate is not an acceptable candidate. You're demonstrating that the people reject them and that we have the power to prevent their victory, putting pressure on them to earn the votes of the people, necessitating changes to be made and concessions given if they wish to stay in power.

Unless they can convince all of you folks to abandon your blocs and "vote blue no matter who". Then they have free license to do whatever they want, and to let the other side continue being the bogey man that gets you to the polls, because without you your bloc is too weak to affect their victory.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy; by saying you are too weak to effect change and arguing as much instead of demonstrating in solidarity with other objectors that genocide is a policy that will guarantee defeat for the Democrats now and in the foreseeable future, because the other side is unacceptable (which implies that your side to you, even if genocidal, is acceptable, because of the comforts you believe they are promising over the other side), then you yourself are participating in the thing that is making you too weak to effect change and in the process throwing those people who are subject to the genocide under the bus in service of your own comfort.

I just pirate them lol. fuck EA. I wouldn't have paid money for this slop anyways.

For them, it's a database with a UI and a chart module.

I don't think that's okay for military purposes either tbh. Actually it's pretty disgusting.

Not really. It just means onlyfans pays more than Spotify... which seems obvious to me??? A direct subscription to an artist vs only a few cents per play... yeah, no brainer, the artist is going to make less money in the latter deal.