Not as badly as I seem. It’s just insanity. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results that gets me heated.

This is a good retort. I’m disarmed and willing to cede this point to you. IMHO, voting third party is ineffective but I will cede that voter apathy is worse.

Personally, I voted for Cruz in a solidly dem state.
If Kamala couldn’t even pretend to pledge to stop a genocide (which I knew she wouldn’t from her enthusiastic speeches for the AIPAC alone) she shouldn’t have anyone’s vote. if there are only two viable parties, at least one of them should be pacifists, right?

Thanks for the intellectually honest and non-defensive reply. You’re the type of voter shamer that I can at least come to a common ground with. 🕊️

If you think voting between two utterly corrupt parties that collaborate on fucking you over behind closed doors matters, get fucked.

No. But the way to fix this CERTAINLY isn’t to post memes broadcasting your anger at some perceived slight from people that won’t step in line behind a sham system like some stupid sheep to be herded for your silly partisan hackery. The shaming does nothing more than perpetuate the very issue of corruption and austerity in the US.

Ranked choice voting solves the issues created by FPTP.

Have you EVER seen evidence that shaming marginalized, unrepresented, utterly voiceless and abused voters works?

How dare you, OP.

What you’re doing is the equivalent of victim-shaming. The two party system is a fucking sham; and if you’re too comfortable (or ignorant) to realize that, you need to go read up on the US’s fake democracy and stop punching down on your allies.

Some reading:

1.) First past the post makes only two parties possible.

2.) Voting is a fucking sham when you only have two private parties that win court cases where they are accused of election fraud, offering the following as their defense:

“We could have voluntarily decided that, ‘Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way,’”

furthermore, the DNC’s lawyer said,

“There’s no right to not have your candidate disadvantaged or have another candidate advantaged. There’s no contractual obligation here…it’s not a situation where a promise has been made that is an enforceable promise,”

If your two parties are legally allowed to engage in open election fraud in the process of selecting those only two possible candidates, how effective is it IN REALITY to vote?

This has already been happening for a decade at least. Hilarious that this article pretends they are still working on it.

Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest. Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest. Lord, we lift up your name, with hearts full of praise. Be exalted, O Lord my God; hosanna in the highest.

“Freeze peach for me, not for thee, peasant.”

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It’s already being used by the IDF as judge, jury, and executioner in the task of deciding which Palestinian building to turn all of the people into a pink mist in.

Kim “cumback” Kardashian and Elon “white supremacist” Musk.

Wait until you realize that it’s not just Republicans….

Sounds like a politician that yearns to profit from pharmaceutical companies like his big brothers in the corrupt United States.

Do you honestly think the people running for office are capable of “handling” this any differently?

I read somewhere that he wrote it. It was a reliable news article actually…aaaaaand it disappeared.

Anyway, he certainly was instrumental in helping write it. I think you’re trying to downplay his role in it. He was THE champion of the bill and Hunter got $250,000 paycheck from MBNA the following year. Explain that for us.

Here’s some quotes from an article on this subject:

But it passed anyway, with 18 Democratic senators breaking ranks and casting their vote in favor of the bill. Of those 18, one politician stood out as an especially enthusiastic champion of the credit companies who, as it happens, had given him hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions – Joe Biden.

Despite his protestations, it is indisputable that Biden was an avid supporter of the 2005 bill as a whole and of its overall thrust of tightening up the bankruptcy code largely to the benefit of lenders at the expense of distressed families who would find it harder to file for bankruptcy.

“Biden was one of the most powerful people who could have said no, who could have changed this. Instead he used his leadership role to limit the ability of other Democrats who had concerns and who wanted the bill softened,” said Melissa Jacoby, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill specialising in bankruptcy.

https://jacobin.com/2022/04/joe-biden-student-loan-debt-bankruptcy-democrats

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mbna-paid-bidens-son-as-biden-backed-bill/

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/us/politics/25biden.html

https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-releases-evidence-of-direct-payment-to-joe-biden/

https://www.propublica.org/article/bidens-cozy-relations-with-bank-industry-825

https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/08/senator-mbna-byron-york/amp/

Ps. But he’s a decent man™️©️

The BILL WAS

WRITTEN BY BIDEN HIMSELF.

edit: This is an unsubstantiated statement (though I previously read this in an article which has now disappeared from the web).

Identity politics might be causing you to blame the wrong person for the student loan crisis. Reagan certainly made everything he touched awful. I wont even argue that. He was objectively awful. But Biden’s legislation brought it into hyperdrive. Source: me (a person with $100,000 of inescapable student loan debt thanks to Joseph Biden.)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/02/joe-biden-student-loan-debt-2005-act-2020

You know the country is lurching FAR rightward when Reagan is aligned with everyone in the Congress right now including the corporate Democrat in office. They ALL (both GOP and DNC corporatists) are on a mission to commodify every single basic human right in exchange for massive bribes.

It feels like magic. I think of it as the glue that makes almost all of my software work together seamlessly. I can’t wait to use it for one-click deployments of my software on a server or high-availability cluster.

This is why I decided to learn Nix. I built dev environment flakes that provision the devshell for any language I intend to use. I actually won’t even bother unless I can get something working reliably with Nix. ;)

For example, here’s a flake that I use for my Python dev environment to provide all needed wiring and setup for an interactive Python web scraper I built:

{
  description = "Interactive Web Scraper";

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs?ref=nixpkgs-unstable";
    utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
  };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, utils }: utils.lib.eachSystem ["x86_64-linux"] (system: let
    pkgs = import nixpkgs { system = system; };
  in rec {
    packages = {
      pyinputplus = pkgs.python3Packages.buildPythonPackage rec {
        pname = "pyinputplus";
        version = "0.2.12";
        src = pkgs.fetchPypi {
          inherit pname version;
          sha256 = "sha256-YOUR_SHA256_HASH_HERE";
        };
      };

      pythonEnv =
        pkgs.python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ webdriver-manager openpyxl pandas requests beautifulsoup4 websocket-client selenium packages.pyinputplus ]);
    };

    devShell = pkgs.mkShell {
      buildInputs = [
        pkgs.chromium
        pkgs.undetected-chromedriver
        packages.pythonEnv
      ];

      shellHook = ''
        export PATH=${pkgs.chromium}/bin:${pkgs.undetected-chromedriver}/bin:$PATH
      '';
    };
  });
}