“Some business leaders… Here’s what they prefer”

Let me stop you right there

military jargon?

Yes. It means meals and beds.

WaPo: “the CCP’s nonmarket activity is driving Iraqi school overcapacity!”

insider trading is an unspeakable violation of our sacred norms and traditions unless you’re a member of congress in which case it’s totally fine and normal

NYT: “How long will the White House continue to allow the CCP’s malicious market interference to unfairly raise gas prices on American families?”

destructive neoliberal principles that contradict Russian traditional values

"destructive neoliberal principles are “Russian traditional values” and have been since the counter-revolution and subsequent shock therapy that created the RF.

they want to be rid of the people, they’re worried about losing the real estate.

That was never the stated objective

Obviously you can’t use official Russian government statements as evidence of Russia’s intent, because that would be Russian propaganda. The only authoritative reputable sources for Russia’s intent are privately owned US media outlets citing anonymous US state department officials.

there’s basically no evidence of inflation once you exclude anything required to live or anything that shows evidence of inflation from the national inflation metrics

What do you tell people who say that they don’t want their taxes going for people who don’t work?

I say to those people: “eat shit”

I’m afraid any write-in candidate is a vote for Trump. I don’t like it, but that’s just how our Democracy™ works

After much soul-searching, I’ve finally come to the decision that I must vote for Joe Biden as the only candidate capable of defeating fascism and preserving Democracy in November. I didn’t want to do this, but I’ve been convinced that there’s simply no alternative.

I genuinely appreciate everyone suggesting alternatives, but I’d humbly suggest that, from a normie perspective, “better UX” doesn’t involve learning how to host or locate a server. There’s a reason Reddit is still more popular than Lemmy. In my personal experience, getting a local org with some members that already had trouble using email and SMS onto Signal was difficult. Trying to get them onto an alternative that involved selecting a specific server or learning the technical details of different internet communication protocols would have been a nonstarter. I’ve gotten multiple Boomers to reliably use Signal, and they have no idea what encryption is.

What else is free, open source, end-to-end encrypted, has better UX and security practices, and isn’t located on a central server in the US?

You don’t actually owe it to the other imperial superlaser technicians to continue working on the death star if you have the opportunity to leave before it gets blown up

imagine living in a place that made money by increasing the spread of green technology instead of living in a place that made money by increasing the spread of homelessness

the police will be along shortly to throw the kids in jail

What do you want to live in some kind of totalitarian dictatorship where a president can be elected or removed just because a majority of the people that live there say so? Most of those people don’t even own land!

Though even if he said checking he would be wrong.

Consider the last time Biden played chess. Now consider the last time Biden played chess against someone whose continued employment didn’t depend on letting Biden win.

Democracy is when god decides who will be president, who will be a billionaire, and who will die on the streets after medical bankruptcy