All those gains that were made in the 2010s? We’re at real risk of losing them as corporations try and triangulate their way to maximum revenue.

After Anheueser Busch welched, the right smelled blood in the water.

The progressive left is going to need to fight very hard and make a lot of allies because we’re so very close to snapping back to the 1990s, if not the 1950s.

Does it work the other way? Can I follow Threads users without being on threads.net myself?

Coincidentally, that’s what using it is like, too. :)

I won’t say I didn’t have a bit of schadenfreude when Fort McMurray burned.

I agree, but to some degree, people own their government, and this government is, more than many, responsible for much of the causes of climate change.

I’d say the same thing if Florida sinks into the sea, or South Texas and Louisiana are swamped, or north Alberta catches fire.

Apropos of nothing, Saudi Arabia is the definition of a petro-state.

Chickens. Coming home. Roosting. Etc.

It’s amazing how only one side doesn’t want to appear partisan, while the other one is openly talking about jailing opponents, dissidents and the media…

…and we’re still getting “both sides” bullshit.

When you say that the keyboard works: do the brightnesss, mute and volume controls do what they’re supposed to do?

HP laptops–at least business-grade ones–are notorious for sending nonstandard scan codes and requiring custom drivers.

More like seventy five cents, given Google’s profit margins.

Pirate an old, pre-CC version.

That’s what I do. Admittedly it’s Photoshop 3.0 on a Mac Quadra.

If you’re not white and you’re voting for Trump and his sycophants, be aware that you’re just a line in Niemoller’s poem that they haven’t got to yet.

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What’s even scarier is those same people seem completely oblivious to the alternative, which is Mr. “Muslim Ban, Shithole Countries, I like Jewish people counting my money, I’d just nuke the whole place” Trump.

Like, your problem is genocide and you’ll basically pave the road for the candidate that explicitly said they’d do a genocide, and whose supporters would cheer him on as the missiles launched, over one that you have some influence over?

Yeah, but the consequences is a second Trump administration if you don’t vote for a Democratic candidate for president, and two to four more years of legislative gridlock if the Republicans aren’t reduced to powerless rump.

Do you want a second Trump administration? Think really hard about that, because the last one vacillated between “Berlusconi-level incompetency” and “Mussolini-level malice”.

The stakes really are to high to “try to teach Biden and the Democrats a lesson”, and it’s not like corporate Democrats really care, because they’d rather lose to a Republican than get primaried by a progressive and stop the gravy train forever, plus they have this weird idea that if they’re “civil” they won’t find themselves lynched during the American Krystallnacht.

The problem with not primaring out corporate Democrats is that American voters…didn’t do it. Not that it didn’t work as a strategy, because replacing corporate Republicans with fascist nutjobs is working out just fine. Maybe progressives, or at least progressive Millenials and Gen-Xers, really are too lazy to affect real change?

He and his party are doing the calculus and figuring that they’ll do better supporting Israel because, frankly, where else are those voters going to go? Trump? He’d nuke Gaza if Netanyahu co-signed a loan for him.

Democratic voters need to vote blue no matter who, and then primary out the corporatist candidates at the earliest opportunity.

This has to be a two-pronged effort: keep the Republicans out of office permanently, and clean the Democratic slate from within.

“When did Rage become political!?”

/s, hopefully

If they were members of the Panthers, I bet they’d be long gone.

They got addicted to using cries of “antisemitism!” when they were desperate to discredit Corbyn and their own base.

Labour hates that they’re a labour party. They really enjoyed the Blair era and would very much like to get back to it, and it’s only these pesky left wing voters that stand in the way.

This was always the worry.

That this would become a catalyst for other sorts of action, not just Palestine.

Everyone with any skin in the game was very thankful they made it out of the 2008 financial crisis without OWS causing more trouble than it did. Expect a disproportionate response while they try to keep a lid on things.

No one in power in the west wants the American version of the Arab Spring.

But trying to actually overthrow the government, that’s only good for a few months.

Tell me again how the justice system is unfair to the right wing?