Yeah, let’s blame the people actually supporting Harris for her loss. That’s a great idea. Let’s all just keep falling for russian psyops or stay quiet to not “divide” us again

Great plan

Well, enjoy your new president then

Lovely inversion of responsibility there…

So what do you do when people keep screaming about Genocide Joe? Ignore them and hope they go away?

Two weeks is pretty fast to go “let bygones be bygones” for people making such an obviously bad choice. We’re dealing with extremely dense people here who had months to figure this out and still made the obviously wrong choice. It’s gonna take some repetition for it to register.

I say we keep talking about it at least until after there is another democratic election in the US, or talking about it becomes illegal in open forums in the US.

There are some issues with BMI, at least for individuals, but it’s pretty OK for populations.

By BMI alone it could be possible that they US now has 3/4 really successful body builders, but I imagine we’d have noticed

It’s also probably less bad for individuals than people make it out to be. People have a warped sense of what is a healthy weight nowadays and shooting the messenger is easier than looking into the message.

Tell me more about this plan that has now failed. If it has failed, clearly the plan isn’t for future change, but change in this election? If it has failed, clearly you didn’t want the current outcome?

I’m struggling to see what success would have been

I guess kudos for staying on your sinking ship long after the rats have left. You’re at least consistent

If the left would rather have Trump than a centrist Harris government, the left deserves blame

Two things can be bad.

The Democrats clearly didn’t figure out how to win in the reality we have, with the voters we have. They should definitely figure out what they could have done better.

The people who didn’t vote for Harris deserve all shame they can get. It was not a hard choice. It shouldn’t have been even close.

Right, which is why people are angry at the people who couldn’t even go vote for Harris

On this platform specifically we’ve had months of smug people claiming to make the moral choice of directly or indirectly supporting the clearly worse choice. It’s far too early to just let that slide.

If we in 100 years still sometimes talk about the early days of the fediverse where a bunch of morons fell for astroturfing, that’s kind of a good outcome.

If they’re real people they should feel bad.

For the not so real people, we should figure out how a distibuted system can deal with a concerted astroturfing operation.

It sounds like you’re feeling unsatisfied with your current life and what you spend money on, and that you have a lot of ideas for what you could enjoy more but you have a hard time getting started.

Completely changing your life is hard, and you probably won’t go 0 to “move to thailand” in one day, especially not if you are lacking energy. You might need to start with smaller things. Do just one of the smaller things you think you might enjoy. Go to the gym once. Have a board game night once. Spend the 40 minutes on getting to a DND group once. Then keep doing small things that make you happier or bring you closer to something that does.

Also, if you like going to thailand, and don’t like yardwork or getting kitchen supplies etc, budget accordingly. Do the mimimal spend you can on yard stuff. It’s OK to not like that. Talk to your wife and find a compromise budget if you need to.

warmongering

The only current war in Europe is an european country not wanting to be invaded and destroyed by Russia

Well, either those voters prefer Trump or their actions are unaligned with their goals

So how does not voting for Harris fix FPTP?

Any voter who is given the two options of Trump or Harris, and chooses to not vote for Harris deserves blame for that. It should not be a hard choice. It should not be a reality show competition for the most exciting campaign.

Trump has been president before. If someone votes for him now, having been alive and conscious during his previous term, then yes, they are to blame for that decision.

There are no more excuses

Getting rid of FPTP in only blue states will make it more likely for the Republicans to win overall, as they will take all of the FPTP red state and some of the now proportional blue states

I think this will be easy to hire for; imagine the damage you can do to competition, or the low cost regulatory capture you can achieve, by just getting one clever manipulator near this not too bright narcissist

Python has its drawbacks but it also has a pretty useful standard library so as a language for small scripts, one can do much worse

“giving up against the endless weight of capitalism”

We just call it “having a job” nowadays