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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • “A non-vote is a vote for Trump”

    Trump did not gain a whole lot of raw votes compared to 2020. Last I saw he had figures of a net gain of ~500k

    Harris fell 4 million short. If you didn’t vote because of some stupid protest, you voted for Trump. Netanyahu publicly wanted Trump to win.

    AFAIC, every protest-voter, every third-party voter, every “BlUe MAgA” screecher is a MAGAt who directly contributed to this shit show we’re about to have.








  • Unless you find someone like Obama. Well even then, honestly I doubt someone like Obama could even win in today’s political climate.

    Harris could have been that, it was mostly the fact that her campaign focused on COMPLETELY the wrong things and tried to go right in an attempt (Classic DNC honestly) to capture R votes

    I think AOC could be an Obama as well, she’d definitely tell the R votes to fuck off and run a left leaning campaign so that could work. Which is also why the DNC will Bernie her :(


  • Health, Financial and Education are some of the worst sectors to work in IT for differing reasons. (And usually, DON’T give a salary to match)

    Health, because if something breaks people might just not be able to work, people might die. And regulatory environment.

    Financial, just sucks because of the regulatory environment and banks are some of the worst offenders of “IT is just a cost center”

    Education, (Well funded colleges/universities might be different) because of lack of funding and annoying bureaucracy

    I’ve worked in 2 of the 3 (education and financial) in IT and they SUCKED, but probably would have been a bit better if I had a good paycheck to match the suckiness.

    I will never work any of those three again.







  • Far less than hundreds of thousands of towns and municipalities where local elections have pitiful turn outs most of the time and things are regularly decided by just a handful of votes of difference. 5 people could mean the difference between a far right fascist city council or school board and something sensible.

    Even in my fairly decently sized city, our school board was just 300 votes away from going full tilt book banning and transphobic.

    Just vote. It’s one day a YEAR, stop worrying about how many people are on your side and just do it. If nothing changes, then nothing changes but at least there exists the possibility of good change