Genuine political change has to come from the people who live under it. If Trump got blown up tomorrow, it would no more change US politics than this is gonna do anything for Iranians. If you want a people to rise up against their “dictator” give them space to decide the best course of actions for themselves.

Why should Iranian citizens look on this as a good thing, take it as an opportunity overturn the system, when the country that bombed and ransacked their neighbors for 20+ years is looming like a vulture?

I don’t think any these companies would stomach a cut in sales. They’d definitely try and fight any change in the courts.

If anything, I expect the EU to try and keep anti-circumvention laws to benefit its own tech industry.

The neat thing about Doctorow’s proposal, though, is that at this point anyone could do it. Canada, India, Brazil… with tariffs already in play, there’s not really much to lose.

The logistics of the Holocaust was enabled by IBM tabulation machines; this comparison isn’t that much of a stretch.

I completely agree

The DNC isn’t stupid, it’s evil.

except for this. Two things can be true at once.

I think you’re over-estimating how plugged in the yankee electorate actually is. Google searches for “did Biden drop out” spiked on election day. Most people have not heard about project 2025. Most people were complaining about grocery prices.

The people who took a moral principle and abstained from voting for the lesser of two genocides, they weren’t what flipped the election. It was almost completely a cost of living election.

American elections are a popularity contest, we (the American populace) don’t take them seriously

That rather conveniently runs cover for the organization that does the most to decide what kind of campaign is run.

Like, oooh millions of people are disorganized and stupid. Shocker, Mr. Sherlock. But the small, powerful node of party leadership is also stupid and disorganized. That’s actually much more of pressing concern than, lol americans dumb

Well that’s funny, since you’re not actually prioritizing well. Talking about 3rd-party/abstaining voters is a wasted effort. You reach those people with broad, national messaging. The kind you and I, on a dinky little not-reddit, don’t have access to.

You really gonna stop and have this conversation with each and every individual you assume didn’t vote Harris? You think that’s gonna move the needle? In an electoral environment measured in the hundred millions? That’s not a very effective use of your limited rhetorical time.

Why not prioritize getting the Democrats to actually take this seriously, to run a campaign that activates non-voters?

Does this seem like the actions of a party that genuinely considers Trump an existential threat?

Does it matter?

OK, so we’re gonna quibble over 3rd party voters again, and just dismiss the fact that DNC leadership doesn’t take this seriously. Great.

I have pointed to the history, and your response is to say “nuh huh read more”

Convince them that your priorities is minorities and foregin policy and they will tell you that it’s all good and well but they are about to lose their job and the cost of living is going up so they are just going to vote for the other guy that promises to fix that.

I recall a damn lot of the Biden administration was spent saying “no no the economy is really really good look at the NASDAQ and the S&P and stop talking about groceries!” and not promising to fix anything.

Does that sound like effective campaigning to you?

“There’s always never-ending conflict in the middle east” is a rather convenient position to take for the globe-spanning military super-power that’s been meddling in the region for more than half a century.

OK, but she didn’t have time to run a better campaign because a lot of influential people (Harris included) in the Democratic party decided it was better to hide Biden’s deteriorating condition than confront it.

Does this seem like the actions of a party that genuinely considers Trump an existential threat?

when your nutrition app has a contract with Suntory

Damn, these look kinda fun…

the other day I heard someone make the point that Amazon is just a more successful Palinteer

You’d be mad too if nobody bothered to ask you what it was like on the set of Working Girl.

hold on, is this thing in counterstrike?

Gizmodo didn’t always look like the penny arcade website, did they?

As tempting as that sounds, I can no longer touch-type on practically any other desktop. Give me a Dvorak phone, and I wont be able to thumb type either…