Your estimation of what constitutes "objective reality" is in fact the opinion that you're being asked about.
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It doesn't actually, and we don't actually need them to admit or even understand that they made a mistake in supporting him. All we need is for them to be embarrassed enough or demotivated enough to give into their laziness and not to turn out at the midterms.
And they were embarrassed in many cases after last time. It's just that the embarrassment that made them fail to turn out for him last time, and even to vote for Biden, was too far in the rear view and largely overshadowed by their annoyance with the administration between his terms.
And again, it does matter because his approval affects how politicians who do want to be reelected will react to him, as well as whether the agencies and departments he passes orders down to will enact them.
His word doesn't just happen. It still requires cooperation. The less support he was, the less cooperation he'll find.
Kinda feels like civilization is winding down.
Nebula is a decent way to be bad at youtube. They don't have too many people on it at the moment, but there are some decent ones. And at least they get a cut.
I definitely agree that there are problems with some FOSS enthusiasts, but I don't think it's constructive to paint FOSS and FOSS enthusiasts as a whole based on their actions. To me, responding to problems involving diminishing the visibility of Linux and FOSS with "but why don't you care about x" isn't particularly constructive, and does little more than drive a wedge between people who think FOSS is a priority (but not their only priority) and people who place FOSS as a lower priority but who are otherwise natural allies.
In particular, the casting of open source devs focusing on what their own creative impulses drive them to make as 'authoritarian' is itself an attempt at authoritarian imposition. To take one's own time out of one's own day to code something is an act of creativity. FOSS is, by nature, less inclined to operate on a top-down model than corporate software development.
What you're asking for isn't a less hierarchical structure, it's a more hierarchical structure. As it stands, open source devs create what they feel is best and you are, as they say, absolutely welcome to fork it. There's nothing authoritarian about that. They've put their time in to create what they see the need for, and you literally are able to either go code additions you want to see yourself, roll back to earlier versions, or even hire someone to make it for you. You are not free to demand that they create what you want to see.
That isn't them holding an authoritarian model over end-users, that's them graciously handing out their hard work, their mental energy, indeed even their spoons, to the rest of us. The only authoritarian part of the conversation between end users making demands of developers and developers focusing on what they choose to spend their time on is the attempted authoritarian demands of end-users.
This is work that they literally give out for free. Not just the end product, but the source. If there's a feature you want, you literally are welcome to add it. That is not the case with closed-source software. In fact, if you attempt to modify closed-source software and redistribute it, there's a significant chance that you'll end up with a lawsuit or at least a DMCA take-down notice on your hands.
Stallman is a creep. 100%. There are other creeps who code. 100%. But there are also all sorts of other people, including members of marginalized groups, who code. For some of them coding is something that helps them feel okay. For others it's something that takes up a lot of the energy that they have. Sometimes it's both. It is completely unfair to demand that they code what you want the way you want when you're unwilling to do that yourself.
I think you're not really looking at the demands that you're making of others and exempting yourself from out of hand in the same breath. If you want to see something in FOSS, you have every right to go add that thing. You do not have a right to others doing it for you.
FOSS is the solution to a lot of the problems we're running into right now. It's no coincidence that Trump's inauguration was packed full of billionaire tech bros who are currently doing everything in their power to further marginalize every marginalized group. FOSS may well be the only reason we continue to have spaces where we can have these sorts of discussions and actually advocate for social progress or any form of leftist solidarity.
He wasn't reelected when his approval rating was low. He was reelected four years later, after Biden's approval rating fell.
That is an incredibly important distinction. People have terrible memories (on both sides of the aisle, as this thread demonstrates), but they do feel the present. This is the present.
This doesn't reflect what we saw during his first administration. At all.
Honestly I've been too agoraphobic since COVID to even really put in the effort. I have Bumble sitting on my phone with no profile filled out and that's as far as it's gotten.
But like, even the first panel sounds like kind of a boost. 😅
I'm curious how this approach is meant to achieve solidarity. Can you elaborate on your thinking?
It matters because conservatives having buyer's remorse is a good thing. The same thing happened last time he was elected. He saw his support drop and the support for the Republican party drop like a stone. We gained 41 seats in the House at the midterm.
We need his approval rating to be low so that we can flip the house and Senate and have a better chance of taking the presidency in 2028. We might even be able to achieve impeachment in two years if it drops low enough.
Approval rating also corresponds to compliance with executive orders and with Republican cooperation as well as Democratic cooperation at the state level and in the legislative branch. They still want to get reelected, and if the party decides he's a danger to them they will again distance themselves.
Does it mean our problems evaporate overnight? No. But it's a requirement for improvement, so it's good to see.
You know, like, targeting leftist solidarity and looking for anywhere and everywhere to drive wedges. Wedge-like.
I was trying to do a memory test to see how far back 3.5 could recall information from previous prompts, but it really doesn't seem to like making pseudorandom seeds. 😆
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This should read "America to be hit by 25% tarrifs on Canadian and Mexican goods" because that's how tariffs work.
He's literally just threatening to take more money from American consumers. Yeah, that might change who different companies do business with, but we're eating the ticket cost unless they lower prices by 25%.