After the election maybe? That seems rather late to me.

Hence this discussion where I made my intentions known well in advance of the election.

Direct action and building up third party alternatives seems to be the best long term courses of action.

Direct action is an easy way to end up in jail (even feeding the homeless is illegal now) and third-parties are useless due to our first-past-the-post electoral system.

The best long-term courses of action are mutual aid and the development of alternative structures of power that can serve human needs without being subject to the whims of the existing political establishment.

If I were american I would work towards unionizing as many people as possible, report that I won’t vote democrat, and then vote democrat unless a third party has a chance of winning in my state.

This is acceptable.

Do it.

I’ve seen people debate this endlessly, but I’ve never seen anyone on the side of not voting explain anything beyond “I don’t want to support genocide” as if the republicans aren’t just as gung ho about killing children. What is the utility in not participating in the election? What do you think not voting will achieve?

I’m already planning not to vote for Republicans.

I pay careful attention to local races and evaluate every candidate because I believe voting to be a civic rssponsibility.

But my fundamental principle when choosing who to vote for is not tactical, but moral. I will not vote in support of people that I believe will perpetuate injustice in the world.

You aren’t sending a signal and you certainly aren’t making the democrats commit less genocide.

Voting downballot but making no choice for president sends a very clear signal. The DNC just decided they didn’t need the uncommitted vote and they’re probably right.

Voting democrat is the lesser evil and will have actual positive results for people living in the US, and it isn’t mutually exclusive with other ways of enacting change.

I disagree on principle. Voting for a lesser evil is still voting to perpetuate evil. At best, it maintains an intolerable status quo, and it comes from a fear of the radical change that we know is sorely needed. “Lesser evilism” is conservatism.

If Democrats want trans folks like me to vote for them then maybe they should stop helping Israel blow up children.

Seems like a really, really low bar but this is America so my expectations were already below sea level.

Since you are all knowing, explain to me exactly how deep earth mining is less costly and better for the environment than deep earth drilling.

Easy, just compare the amount of pollution required to make a battery and a solar panel with the amount of pollution required to extract and burn fossil fuels for the equivalent power output over the duration of the renewable’s working lifetime.

Oh, and don’t forget. Fossil fuels are useless without an engine to burn them, so you need to account for those infrastructure costs as well.

Do you want the math or would you prefer less reading and more pictures?

Women are

(I switched to a non-suggesting keyboard years ago)

Voting is the least important part of the political process. America is not a democracy, voting merely serves to legitimize the state with an illusion of choice.

They’re all dressed as politicians.

Patreon deserves to die, their cut of the subscription income is extortionate for what amounts to a very limited web hosting platform.

Open-source alternatives like Mirlo or Cloud Patron will take its place, it’s only a matter of time.

You’re joking, but you’re right.

Once the content has been created, the near-zero marginal cost of online distribution makes the concept of charging for copies wholly untenable.

The furry community figured this out years ago, our creators work on commission or paid subscription through Patreon or one of its ilk. They (mostly) don’t care where you freely share their work because they already got paid.

XP was acceptable and 7 was decent, but just seeing the previews of 8 was the last straw for me.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if your screens are showing you ads then they aren’t your screens…

But you have to check to make sure the chatbot isn’t hallucinating the answers it gives you, so you could be even more efficient by just looking it up in the first place and skipping the extra step.

I am an expert in this and cryptographic chaining of a public ledger is like large language models, interesting but ultimately useless.

Yes: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01005/full

Furries fix the healthcare system challenge 2024

Public ledgers predate crypto BS by decades and are not improved by cryptographic chaining between entries.

There’s no benefit there that would be useful to anyone. If you need a publkc ledger then you can just do that and skio the crypto BS

Mow!