I’ll save you a click - he can do whatever the fuck he is willing to do and get the people to back him in doing.

If there’s anything to take away from politics during the Trump era, it’s that there are no rules for those who decide they are going to do whatever they can to get what they want.

The Supreme Court threatened to quell FDR’s most popular federal programs, and so he told them he’d pack their court until they backed off.

He will either be a bullshitting neoliberal wolf in progressive sheep’s clothing like Sinema or Obama, too nice to wield his power, or the rich / corrupt will try to literally murder him as he shows everyone how government actually CAN make all our lives better.

Thank you for offering more context to help folk understand things are improving. I don’t mean to sound doom and gloom. It’s great to hear things are getting better.

Yep, and they must be forced to change, as they will fight anything that threatens the donor class that keeps them fat and happy.

The only way to defeat the DNC is from within… by dragging the party to where it must be… in the same way MAGA reshaped the Rs and wrest control from Bush-era neo-cons like Romney and McConnell.

Primary the DNC’s 3rd way neoliberals at every level and chance you get (i.e. AOC, Rashida Talib, Zohran Mamdani, etc.), boost the good candidates on social media and at the same time try to teach others how to think critically so they don’t just slop up and regurgitate whatever narratives the consent-manufacturing billionaire-owned networks push out.

…but they won’t work against a specific candidate either.

Absolutely demonstrably untrue.

They will definitely work against specific candidates.

They will change rules and ask super-delegates to ignore voters and choose their preferred candidate, the news networks most closely aligned with the DNC’s goals will literally put a camera in front of an empty mic stand for 40 mins rather than show the candidate they don’t want. They will compare that candidate winning states during the primary literally to Hitler saying it’s like “the fall of Paris” or compare the supporters of the guy whose own extended family was murdered in the Holocaust to “brownshirts.”.

They will support anti-choice Ds over progressives in primaries while claiming neutrality.

The DNC isn’t representative of its constituents. They are the rich’s secondary defense against “the left” (meaning anything even slightly to the left of 1990s Clinton policies).

played by an actor who, I’m guessing, isn’t actually a vile and pathetic person).

😬…One would hope…

He looks like that one jerkface kid Eddie from MobLand.

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It’s an expensive carbon spewing parrot.

For your web browser, don’t use Chrome. Use Firefox with uBlock, NoScript, Sponsorblock, and a VPN like Mullvad.

For Smart TV usage, block your TV’s built in “smart functionality” and its access to the internet via MAC address blacklist on your router. Also use SmartTubeNext on a Shield Pro with FLauncher instead of Google’s.

For mobile, use 3rd party YouTube clients on your device like Vanced on Android, and Unwatched on iOS.

I’ve mentioned this topic in regards to animated images, but don’t see as big a reason to push for static formats due to the overall relatively limited benefits other than wider gamut and marginally smaller file size (percentage wise they are significant, but 2KB vs 200KB is paltry on even a terrible connection in the 2000s).

What I really wish is that we could get more browsers, sites, and apps to universally support more modern formats to replace the overly bloated terribly performing and never correctly pronounced animated formats like GIF with something else like AVIF, webm, webp (this was a roughly ~60MB GIF, and becomes a 1MB WEBP with better performance), or even something like APNG…

Besides wider gamut, and better performance, the sizes are actually significant on all but the fastest connections and save sites on both storage and bandwidth at significant scale compared to the mere KB of change that a static modern asset has.

This WEBP is only 800KB but only shows up on some server instances since not every Lemmy host supports embedding them :

Literally go watch video interviews with the Boomers’ parents in the 1980s when seatbelt laws actually went into effect…

They react almost identically as depicted in the meme.

Can you Shift and/or Ctrl click to select more than one layer yet?

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Snake? SNAKE?! SNAAAAAAAAAKE!

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