Notices by Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de), page 3

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Politics is all about framing, which is why defenders of the status quo always want to compare things to how bad things were, instead of how good they could be.

Michael Moore posted “Fahrenheit 11/9” for free on YouTube!

https://youtu.be/_heq6CkeMH8

U.S. Congress: a retirement home for obstructionists masquerading as a legislative body.

When Reagon won, after Democrats completely abandoned the New Deal as well as its success, they learned the completely wrong lesson and began chasing Republicans further to the right as they believed they needed to appear more moderate in order to win elections. This cycle continues to this day.

Nowadays, Third Wave Democrats continue doing the same thing — instead of recognizing that all major losses come from dropping well supported and progressive policies, they continue chasing the new (far right) center. All of this whilst having ironically arrived at doing Reagon era economic politics, which Republicans nowadays call “radical leftism”.

Remember when the entire BLM movement had a singular common denominator, which was “defund the police”? And Joe Biden used the crowd and mass of the movement which got him to be president, only to then, right after being elected, increase police funding more than Trump ever did? Only so that far right news outlets wouldn't slander him so much (which they still did, this plan always fails). Exactly that, over and over. Disappoint your own base, enact Republican's policies, wonder why no one votes for you anymore.

Instead of changing this faulty method, Democrats are already preparing to lose the elections and blame third party voters for it. You're so selfish, haven't you recognized that voting for a third party will make Trump win?

Hey, moralizing individual voters and shifting the blame to where their vote went, instead of questioning why the Democrats never adopted policies that people would vote for, is exactly the problem.

Meanwhile it's so easy to win the U.S. elections for Democrats. Republicans haven't won the popular vote since 2004. The only way Republicans “win” on paper is by committing voter's fraud. From surgically removing specific democraphics from being able or allowed to vote, to allowing selected councils to delay announcing the result of the vote for days, up to literal Jim Crow era laws some swing states revived.

When Trump called the Georgia Republican governor in 2021 to “find 11.780 votes” for him, so he could be president, it was up to this one Republican's own ethics whether or not the democratic elections were overruled.

Of course the Republican leadership there has since been replaced with one loyal to Trump. Far more methods of voter suppression have since been implemented in all swing states. I'm sure another January 6th has been planned already, just in case all of this was not enough.

Did Democrats retaliate against this in any way? No... not really. Biden had some strong words against policies like these, but beyond that and blocking a few federal bills, there was nothing.

This election is entirely rigged from the beginning.

https://youtu.be/mFK0HbHlg_g

You can and should vote with all your might, but if the next presidency doesn't tackle the issue of voter suppression conducted by Republicans, no Democratic leadership can even prevent a full seizing of power by Republicans.

We need to abandon trying to defy the right's definition of us and stop chasing for their approval.

They will slander us no matter what, so how about giving them good reasons? I hate making it seem like history repeats itself, but under Reagon, Democrats would often deny being a “liberal” as the word has gotten such a bad connotation by right wing media. Seems familiar, especially when the guy today also uses “Make America Great Again” as his slogan.

Stop playing defense, start making change. Stop constantly compromising on, for example, infrastructure bills hoping you'll appear moderate, only to be slandered as an extremist right after. Republicans will do everything in their power to stop such a bill from passing through senate, whilst then promoting it as one of “their” achievements, as governor or for their constituency, when receiving the funds they fought against. It's ridiculous, it's not playing fair, it's contradictory.

That's reality, and the strategy the Dems have been following since Reagon is working only in a fantasy world far removed from ours.

In einer Präsentation von einem Battalion der Bundeswehr wurde geschrieben, dass Befehle um „leichte Verstöße gegen das Völkerrecht” zu begehen, nicht verweigert werden dürfen.

Heute beginnt mein neuer Job als Webmaster! Habe mich extra Schick gemacht :blobcatmeltlove:

So geht man zum neuen Job :blobcatmeltlove:

Ich wurde soeben bei der Deutschen Bahn angenommen — das Bewerbungsgespräch Gestern soll sehr gut gelaufen sein! Ich werde somit in 2025 meine Ausbildung als Lokführer beginnen :blobcat_db:

Ich finde den Protest der Tagesschau auf den sozialen Netzwerken sehr gut! Zeigt was der Reformstaatsvertrag tatsächlich bedeuten würde und wie es die Menschen beeinträchtigt.

Hier die bisherigen Beispiele:

• https://www.instagram.com/p/DBc9TuNoiyA/
• https://www.instagram.com/p/DBdLAgoN_y_/
• https://www.instagram.com/p/DBdOecDMFfN/

It's controversial take hour, so I must say that I believe Matt Mullenweg did nothing wrong.

WP Engine does not contribute enough to the open source code they're making hundreds of millions of dollars a year on, and it's time for open source to fight back. He should've talked to a lawyer before making statements that WPEngine may call “slanderous”, but the fact he even offered a 300k USD severance package to any employee wanting to leave WordPress.com, because things could get more stressful in the coming time, is wild. What boss does that? It's very nice and thoughtful for the people who work under him.

I can't really hate the guy for speaking what we're all thinking.

There are no winners in war. Fireship described both sides as “the petty megalomaniac CEO, who is willing to burn down his entire community to prove a point” (Automattic/Mullenweg) VS. “the parasitic freeloading private equity firm, who's only guiding principle is financial gain” (SilverLake/WPEngine).

...and you know what? I can understand wanting to prove a point