SirEDCaLot

I'm with you on the white space thing. Spaces, especially multiples of spaces, should not have a programming function.

All jokes aside, things like this are why China is beating us. I am absolutely not a fan of the Chinese government, but the simple fact is they get shit done.

Come on now let's be civil, even AIDS patients understand the Constitution 😝

If you are going to prosecute politicians for not following through on promises, you are going to have an awful lot of work ahead of you...

Just the first one I could find, there were a few of these cases

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/europe/shamima-begum-appeal-loses-intl

Is this a promise? Can we hold him to it? Not that Florida wants him either...

What a shocker. This is like the handful of Western teenage girls who went to Afghanistan to try and be good Muslims, then discovered that meant being married off to some Islamic State soldier twice their age. Like what the fuck did you think was going to happen?

With respect, if you've never in 70 years heard the argument that 'this specific election is too important, we have to nominate the best chance to beat the other guy', then you must either not be paying attention or your memory is failing you.
In fact, go back to 2016 and that is exactly what happened. Hillary was seen as the 'safe' option to put up against Trump, Bernie was the 'radical candidate who wouldn't get broad popular support'.

I am NOT drawing an equivalence between Donald Trump and other presidents. I am talking purely about campaigns and the discourse about them.

I don't like Trump, but he's on his second term. He's done. He's not running for election again. The question is, what do we do in 2028? Who do we put forward for the nation's consideration?
Is it going to be another Hillary / Kamala type 'safe' candidate? Because they haven't done so well of late.
Or is it going to be somebody who has a strong message of principle, someone who can energize millions in the same way that Barack Obama did and Donald Trump did more recently?

Sure is :(

I'm not a Trump fan. But I've been an adult long enough to remember this being said about just about every election. That yeah we should do better we will eventually do better but not this time, right now it's most important to get rid of the other party or make them lose the election no matter what. It's the same thing every few years.

It's like hitting the snooze button over and over and over again, if you keep hitting it eventually your alarm times out or you just end up late for work.

I think the problem is the farmers would be happy to know IT if it meant they could fix their damn tractor. Deere doesn't want them to know IT, it wants them to just call their local Deere service center anytime anything doesn't work. Problem is, if it's during a harvest or some other critical time, they can't wait a week for a service appointment so they have to pay through the nose for immediate call out. And much of the time, the problem is something that they are easily capable to fix on their own, but can't because they don't have access to the service software that only dealers get. Or it's a situation like iPhones where they can easily make the repair but need the software to authorize the repair.

The result was a lot of farmers installing hacked Ukrainian firmware on their tractors, simply because the hacked version would accept any part connected and not require authorization from a service laptop.

Exactly. This is why I have so little respect for Democrats these days. They go on TV and call red alert and say Trump is awful and Trump is horrible and we all have to do everything we can to oppose Trump, and then they go ahead and rubber stamp his candidates and his agenda, refusing to use political options that are very much open to them create the opposition they are so loudly claiming is necessary.
If Trump is truly that awful, they could simply refuse to confirm his candidates, make them fight tooth and nail and bargain with them for every single vote.
But they did not. So the only conclusions are either a, they did not actually feel Trump was awful and all the red alert press conferences were just performant political theater, or b, they have not actually stood up for real principle or wielded real power in so long they don't remember how to do it.