It’s not about logic it’s about feeling.

Yeah all that is true (at least I’m fairly sure), but because it’s a virus the “feeling” of responsibility just isn’t there.

It’s too abstract. The virus has a life of its own. Blaming Trump for those deaths is kind of like blaming Biden for hurricane that hit North Carolina.

Yeah, Trump could’ve implemented policies that he didn’t that the experts have told us could’ve saved lives. However, that’s all hypothetical savings.

That’s very different than “Trump deported my friend” or “Trump’s FDA let heavy metals into my Little Debbie’s” or “Trump’s economic policy resulted in me losing my home because I couldn’t afford to live.”

Yeah, unfortunately I think we’re at a point where people are going to need to get burned first hand to have their minds changed.

We really should split up some states… I’d also be in favor of making major metropolitan areas their own city-state within the federal government.

The government was set up for smaller states… These giant states really just break too much.

There’s also the “other” factor. “Our county”, “our state” etc surely does it right but what about the other counties and states?

The fear of the other is one of the worst impulses humans have

On the negativity point; you get what you pay for.

There IS definitely negative stuff punished by the NYTimes and The Atlantic (as examples) but there’s also quite a bit of neutral and even positive news.

These are all from the last few days:

Gaza Cease-Fire Talks Resume, but Are Overshadowed by U.S. Election https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/world/middleeast/gaza-cease-fire-us-elections.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

The Rebellious Scientist Who Made Kamala Harris https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/science/shyamala-gopalan-kamala-harris-mother.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/science/crows-grudges-revenge.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

New Covid Tests Are Here. They Test for Flu, Too. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/well/covid-flu-combination-tests.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Ford Foundation Gives $10 Million to Studio Museum in Harlem https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/arts/studio-museum-in-harlem.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

https://www.nytimes.com/card/2024/10/28/arts/phil-lesh-fans?smid=url-share

Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/movies/best-science-fiction-movies-streaming.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Watches That Look Similar in Everything but the Price Tag https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/style/patek-philippe-cubitus.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Just When You Thought Sneakers Couldn’t Get Any Weirder https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/style/erl-vamps-skate-shoe.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Obviously, there are more that are negative, but negative stories are often the most important so that we know what problems still need attention.

If anyone who pays for the post or trusts its writing, isn’t already voting Kamala and would’ve been swayed by their endorsement, I’ll be shocked.

Re: harder to change, your electoral logic is already self-defeatjng. What do you think you are changing when your electoral logic is, “fall in line vite blue no matter who” including fucking genocide. Who would ever take you seriously? You think they’re going to do anything to “win your vote”? Genocide apologist, they know they already have it. You announced you were giving it to them free of charge, that you will tolerate anything they do and still vote for them, and are actually pressuring others to do the same on their behalf.

The correct time to express such thoughts is during a primary. We didn’t have one because we had an incumbent; it happens.

The better place to have this fight is through congress anyways. They’re the ones that actually approve the aid.

Better yet, go talk to the Israel people and get them to vote for someone that stops using our weapons in such an offensive manor. Israel knows that their position is critical to the US interest and their current leaders are happy to exploit that.

Literally, abstaining makes you part of the “party of not voting” and nobody does anything for them, because they don’t vote.

We are literally in a battle for our ability to vote.

Abstaining from said battle is effectively saying “I don’t care” and letting Trump do what he will. If he chooses to send nukes to Palestine to end the conflict immediately, that’s on everyone that abstained. If he ends aid to Ukraine and those people die, that’s on everyone that abstained.

If he ends voting, you “won some moral battle” but you’ve all but permanently lost the war against genocide as the most powerful military and weapons on the planet are now in the hands of an authoritarian, raciest, fascist, regime that previously imposed a “Muslim ban” and I’m sure would happily do so again.

There is no hypocrisy here, and it’s disingenuous to imply there is.

If you want to protest genocide, then GO DO IT, don’t throw away a vote because that’s not a protest, it’s a pathetic excuse.

You know, you can find something evil in just about any politician’s policy depending on your personal perspective.

So let’s just not vote, because we shouldn’t choose. We should just morally abstain from having choices because making no choice is the only way to make a choice.

Do you realize how absurd that sounds?

If you want to protest genocide, then GO DO IT, don’t throw away a vote because that’s not a protest, it’s a pathetic excuse.

Your vote is not your consent; that’s some nonsense made up to get people to not vote.

In your metaphor, you vote for one your family dies, you vote for another your family and another family dies. You refuse to participate in the system and both families die.

You didn’t consent to that, but you allowed it to happen via your vote of INDIFFERENCE which is what not voting means. It means you don’t care which way things go, because that’s all it can mean to not make a choice.

No, they don’t. I actually think the biggest harmful thought the wealthy have imposed is a sort of learned helplessness and apathy “it doesn’t matter because the rich control everything.”

They want you to think they’re untouchable because if nobody ever tries nobody will succeed.

Literally remember people saying they didn’t vote for Clinton in 2016 because she didn’t pay attention to their state. That was their excuse anyways.

People are wild.

How can you blame Democrats for Trump’s words?

You don’t become racist by searching for truth and answering the hard questions, both things good leadership requires. So … color me surprised.

Which president pushed for the infrastructure bill that serves the public, including the poor by increasing mass transportation? Biden.

Will it take decades? Yes, but it would not have happened under Trump.

Which president got drug prices capped? Biden.

Which president got the ACA passed giving poor people health care? Obama.

Which president sent poor people that joined the military to get through college into pointless wars? Bush.

Which president gambled with Ukraine’s security risking WW3 and a draft of poor people? Trump.

Which president killed net neutrality risking ISP price gouging on popular services? Trump.

Which president killed abortion and attempted to get contraception off the ACA? Trump.

Which candidate is working on universal pre-K so families that can’t afford childcare don’t have to have one parent stay at home? Harris.

Which party wants to empower charter schools to take money originally targeted towards public schools which will keep poorer folks disadvantaged? Republicans.

Most people aren’t actually at the minimum wage anyways, they’re somewhere between minimum wage and a comfortable wage. It’ll never be what folks want it to be. The best way to improve quality of life for poor folks IMO is to cut stupid crap that gets in their way of getting a better education, better housing, and keeps them poor with junk fees like overdraft fees.

Oh, btw, Harris is working on junk fees https://www.fidelity.com/news/article/top-news/202410100607RTRSNEWSCOMBINED_KBN3BG0MD-OUSBS_1

I honestly don’t know if there’s any convincing you, but if there’s any part of you I’m resonating with you should SERIOUSLY reconsider your position that it doesn’t matter. It may very well be the difference between poor people living an okay life and fighting on the front lines. Maybe even you personally, we are in a very dangerous point in history.

The whole Regan “are you better off than you were 4 years ago?” measure is some serious “do you feel better 4 minutes after maxing your credit cards on a sports car” logic. Long term effects are what matter, not whether a candidate increases or decreases your salary in the next year.

Oh damn it, good catch I got mixed up… Trump had so many guys.

There were lots of folks that pushed back on Trump up to and including Pence in his act of patriotism certifying the election. I wouldn’t be so skeptical that Miley was one of them, he seems genuinely intelligent and Trump likely only picked him because he has a bad ass nickname “Mad Dog.” (EDIT as another person said, I was wrong on this part – though consider reading https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/general-mark-milley-trump-coup/675375/?gift=LfMDGClsXPxuFi6NzzlsStWAlW-QPG1x0JcWnXcGjog&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share)

The terrifying reality is, a 2024 Trump might not have any of those roadblocks.

If it was BitWarden where I can see the client side code … and there wasn’t a better option, quite possibly.

I give my ISP and many other places my BitWarden vault all the time and I just trust they’re not recording the traffic and trying to decrypt it.

I recommend against hosting a password manager yourself.

The main reason is self hosted systems require maintenance to patch vulnerabilities. While it’s true that you won’t be on the main list if e.g. bitwarden gets hacked, your data could still be obtained or ransomed by a scripted attack looking for e.g. vulnerable VaultWarden servers (or even just vulnerable servers in general).

Using professional hosting means just that, professional hosting with people who’s full time job is running those systems and keeping people that aren’t supposed to be there out.

Plus, you always have the encryption of the binary blob itself to fall back on (which if you’ve got a good password is a serious barrier to entry that buys you a lot of time). Additionally vaults are encrypted with symmetric crypto which is not vulnerable to quantum computing, so even in that case your data is reasonably safe… And mixed in with a lot of other data that’s likely higher priority to target.