Top House Democrat perfectly demonstrates his party's strategy: Surrender in advance.
@traumweh that sounds kiiiiinda but not quite like x japans week end
@halcy Sadly not, but sounds good nonetheless. O:
I love this, so I
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This is why far right parties have been on the rise across the world since the GFC.
When the mainstream political consensus cracks - as it most certainly has - it's understandable that some people give up on the whole idea of a cross-society consensus. Switching their votes to whoever appears to care about them and theirs.
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Or, feeling alienated from the political status quo, people use their votes like Molotov cocktails, voting for whoever appears to be the most different from the norm. I think this also explains some of the electoral success of the far right (eg in Poland). But equally of parties that didn't fit neatly into the standard left/right spectrum, like the Pirate Parties, or the Italian 5 Star Movement.
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Now Gareth Morgan has launched in on voting reform and MMP. Endlessly it’s rich white men who ( decide they) have all the answers and use their $ and connections to buy an audience. There’ll be an op ed next. I bet. Screw them 🤬 #nzpol
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For.. reasons.. I am making a wealth inequality playlist. I posted an earlier version about 10 hours ago. This is the latest version reflecting everyone's feedback. Remember, I want songs that aren't TOO aggro and could be background-ish at an event, catchy, topical, without making themselves the center of attention. Here's what I have for V2 of the playlist. Please parse this list and suggest along these lines, if you like.
Money itself: the source of, and solution to, all problems
The O’Jays — For the Love of Money
The Flying Lizards — Money (That’s What I Want)
Pet Shop Boys — Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
ABBA — Money, Money, Money
Pink Floyd — Money
Depeche Mode — Everything Counts
The O’Jays — Rich Get Richer
Billie Holiday — God Bless the Child
Inherited wealth and class
Kareem Rahma & Tiny Gun — Really Rich Parents
Lorde — Royals
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Fortunate Son
Pulp — Common People
Dolly Parton — Coat of Many Colors
Work, wages, and survival
They Might Be Giants — Minimum Wage
Dolly Parton — 9 to 5
Donna Summer — She Works Hard for the Money
Shakira & Fuerza Regida — El Jefe
Rise Against — Prayer of the Refugee
The Clash — Clampdown
Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons
Desmond Dekker & the Aces — Israelites
UB40 — One in Ten
Simply Red — Money’s Too Tight (to Mention)
Travis Tritt — Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man
The Kinks — Dead End Street
Tracy Chapman — Fast Car
Labor history, dispossession, communities stripped of value
The Staple Singers — When Will We Be Paid
B.B. King — Why I Sing the Blues
Skip James — Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Bruce Springsteen — I Ain’t Got No Home (written by Woody Guthrie)
Bing Crosby — Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Patty Loveless — You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
Billy Joel — Allentown
James McMurtry — We Can’t Make It Here
Bruce Springsteen — Death to My Hometown
Poverty, inequality, displacement
Stevie Wonder — Living for the City
Marvin Gaye — Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five — The Message
Bruce Hornsby and the Range — The Way It Is
Prince — Sign o’ the Times
The Police — Driven to Tears
Bad Bunny — El Apagón
Bob Marley & the Wailers — Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
The system, the math, and accountability
Pete Seeger — Banks of Marble
Yasiin Bey / Mos Def — Mathematics
Hozier — Eat Your Young
William Shatner featuring Joe Jackson — Common People (produced and arranged by Ben Folds)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris — Compared to What?
Stevie Wonder — You Haven’t Done Nothin’
Closing: Wake up and fight
Johnny Cash — Man in Black
Tracy Chapman — Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution
William Elliott Whitmore — Mutiny
Bob Marley & the Wailers — Get Up, Stand Up
Walk-out coda — after the formal event has ended
Gil Scott-Heron — Whitey on the Moon
Stuck? Ask for help. Talk to someone.
@matt Maybe it's a massive asteroid made of trillions of dollars then. 😛
Although who knows how lucrative it will even end up when the bubble pops. The open-weight models are already "good enough" for most routine tasks IME.
@nolan Oh interesting. Which open-weight model(s) do you use, with which agent harness, and what have you successfully done with them?
So uhm has anyone here ever moved abroad by themselves? And by any chance to a much smaller town?
I feel like I'm about to commit social su*cide 🥲 #moveabroad
@Gina start with Meetups? Community can gather in the most interesting places.
The problem with making “affordability” the centerpiece of your argument against Trump is that he just cancels every tariff on the eve of election, and brings prices “down.”
Whereas if it’s human rights, he’s never going to stop violating those.
If you live outside of the United States,
do you know if your country has a plan if the US government decided to cut access to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon products overnight?
What would happen to your work?
What would happen to your hospitals?
What would happen to your emergency services?
What would happen to your banks?
Imagine overnight, for all those public services and private businesses, no more Windows, no more AWS, no more Google and Microsoft office software, no more remote files storage, no more emails, no more online maps, no more videochats.
What would happen?
Is your country prepared?
Maybe this would be a good thing, to give people the push they need to stop using those and move to better alternatives.
In my personal life, I don't depend on any of those. But I would be impacted as my employer depend on those. At the same time, I see more job opportunities outside the US if this ever happens.
Now adding "purchasing dairy products" to the list of thing the Scolds of Mastodon are upset with me about.
@mattblaze Well duh, Matt. Only idiots pay for milk at the store. We already paid for it with farm subsidies and tax credits. I just grab a couple gallons and walk right out.
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@AnarchoNinaWrites They somehow manage to be consistently worse than most gas stations for just, like, a cup of black coffee.
Oof, just deleting all of that data with seemingly no way for some of the affected orgs to get their data back is just horrible.
Microsoft made a quiet change to a popular software grant. Small nonprofits lost everything.
https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html
@gedankenstuecke "Over 170,000 Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?" Yes. Next question?
He’s been working for them for years.
@AnnieBuddy schmuck.
Yup
Are you kidding! So done with these centrist schmucks.
He’s been working for them for years.
