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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You are right about stupid people falling for stupid shit, but that's not why democrats lost. Trump got less votes than he did in 2020, that 70 million who voted for Trump are just people who love what Trump says.

What made democrats lose are the 16 million votes Biden got that Harris didn't get. The GOP didn't magically make those votes disappear, those missing votes is the failure of the democratic party.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

She nailed it? You mean like how for 8 years she thought the border wall is a stupid idea and then suddenly she pivots into "yup, we totally need that wall"? Or when she got all buddy buddy with the likes of Cheney when the core democrats loathe Cheney? She had time to appeal to the republican voters but not to the 16 million voters who voted for Biden and not her? She had plenty of time to nail her campaign and she didn't.

And I'll just add this as a non-American. It's a very American thing to think election campaigns have to be long, because they are long in America. She got over 3 months to campaign and that would've been enough time in most countries. Just to give some context: Mexico's president campaigned for 93 days, Canada's last federal election was 36 days, Australian president campaigned for 36 days, India campaign was 33 days, Brazil was 90 days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I appreciate the effort but I'm not American. I simply follow American politics because sadly American politics impacts the rest of the world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In vacuum I agree. In the US electoral system voting for a third party is almost the same not voting at all, so it really doesn't matter if you vote for third party or you vote for nobody. My issue is that in the context of America voting third party makes no sense, especially this election. By voting third party you don't care who gets elected and it makes no sense to me because who goes "I don't really care if fascists come into power and start oppressing women and foreigners". Who the fuck is indifferent to fascism? Apparently third party voters.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (11 children)

And how exactly does a free fly invalidate the article about refunds requiring an NDA? Nobody is questioning whether there's is some semblance of a game in a project that has been in development for over a decade, it would be a massive red flag if there's wasn't. What people are questioning is why is there a secret shop page that players can access ONLY after they've spent a thousand dollars on the game, and then another secret shop page after they've spent 10k? What's up with the predatory practices?

Is your response "No no no, don't look at those controversies. Look at how pretty the game is"? A free fly event doesn't invalidate the claim that you might need to sign an NDA to get a refund. It doesn't invalidate the claim that the devs had to pull 7 day work weeks. There are loads of criticism that the free fly does not address at all. These articles would exist even if everyone tried the free fly.

From my experience games that get "hate articles" are games that are already doing questionable things. You don't get such articles circulating about good games because that shit just won't stick. When it comes to SC and CI that shit does stick.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

It is autopilot (a poor one but still one) that legally calls itself cruise control so Tesla wouldn't have to take responsibility when it inevitably breaks the law.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know about your situation but it is okay to not have any aspirations. I had one aspiration which is kind of a cop out because everyone wants that. I wanted to be happy with my life. I figured if I was happy I'd figure out what I really wanted to do. Once I figured out how to be happy nothing changed, I didn't get some magical desire to do more or be more. I was happy and I was happy being happy.

Don't put so much pressure on yourself. If you have aspirations you'll probably feel them, and if you dont feel them then maybe you don't have them. There's no set way to go through life, some people have aspirations and some don't. The only good life advice I can give is that best way to go through life is doing whatever makes you happy. It's your life, don't live it for what society expects you to live for, don't live it for what your parentst want you to live for, live for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Kids are absolutely post main story content. You better have your life in order and your aspirations met because you're about to do some serious compromising when you throw a kid in the mix. I think one of the best decisions of my life was to fulfill my needs before having children.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

So if your ISP goes under and it's the only option in your area you'd rather be without internet than have a nationalized internet, even if the government is not allowed to snoop your data?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vance would stream casting couch, except in his streams the couch would do the "casting".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That doesn't make the criticism invalid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ah, didn't remember that. That's cool.

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