Notices by Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)

@QasimRashid The democrats will never be far left. They are the branch of the billionaire that don't owe fealty to MAGA. Even FDR's great new deal was not motivated by lefitist inclinations so much as the desire to give the people enough to avoid an actual revolution.

No?

@lovelylovely I truly don't know enough about Tlaib to have a strong opinion, but if she's got a seat as a democrat she's hardly far left. And, as a Palestinian I am a little more sympathetic to her wrongheadedness. It's an emotional thing, seeing one's people decimated.

And she /still/ should have seen that by attacking #HarrisWalz2024 she was in fact aiding and abetting MAGA.

Annnnnd it’s official: tRump is purposely making all these silly, stupid cabinet nominations as his way of burning the motherfucker down. A shit ton of people will be hurt because of it, including tRumpanzees and other dumbasses who voted for the sorry fuck. Unfortunately, so will the rest of us.
#Idiocracy

@lovelylovely @TruthSandwich@fedi.truth-sandwich.com This toot doesn't seem to connect to anything. I'm guessing you meant to continue the conversation about leftists v progressives?

@lovelylovely I think the repeal of the fairness doctrine and the success of the right-wing infotainment machine cost us the election, if you actually care, what I think. I think misogyny cost us the election. I think racism cost us the election. I think the toll of those forces vastly outweighs the the effect of 3rd party spoilers like RFK or Jill Stein or West, or any of the nutjobs who said Gaza was their reason to not get aboard the #HarrisWalz2024 train.

ymmv

@samlitzinger #BlameTheVictim #fuckFuckFUCKtheGOP

@thenewoil Mullvad is advertising aggressively here in L.A. on busses and in the subway. Which makes me mistrust them. I recall reading there is a question about their actual privacy policies, log retention maybe. What I recall is thinking, "Not for me."

@GrimmReality Times like this I wish I'd learned ipa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

@Li My first response was, "Love a Nazi? I'm definitely excluding you." Then I considered how that applied to me, and I wrote what I wrote.

Did you really not follow what I wrote, or did you just not like it?

@GrimmReality Presumably it comes out "sloosh-poopie"?

@Li Hmm. Love a Nazi? Well, I guess that's me. I still love my uncle. But I won't break bread with him, and I couldn't blame someone who wanted to distance from me for not being harder on him. When I say "Die Nazi Scum" I hate to think of the "friends and family" in that group, but it's a self-selecting group.

@Sheril@mastodon.social For the past few years, I have been trying to aim to be plastic free, but almost seems impossible. Nearly everything is shipped, packaged, or lined with plastic these days.

@lovelylovely Elsewhere in my feed is a Heather Cox Richardson piece about a 1930s or '40s Army pamphlet on fascism, which points out the fascists will offer the false-bifurcation (only two options) and then claim anyone who isn't one of their is the loathsome other, usually "communist" or "lefitst." So I don't think "Dems" are to blame here. The fascists don't distinguish between progressives, centrists, moderates, and bomb-throwing anarchists. There's simply MAGAt-Nazis and commies.

Work has rolled out co-pilot to some select employees. I volunteered and it has been underwhelming. I don’t get it. I work at a university, why is co-pilot offering to write for me? Is using AI to write plagiarism? I tried it out and it was complete corporate-speak drivel 😖 #work #ai

@themadprogramer @jk #vim #emacs wysiwym

what’s the simple modern day program for windows that lets you WYSIWYG edit an HTML file frontpage/dreamweaver style and e.g drag and drop images that are already in a lower directory. i swear i saw one a while back that was like an actual real program like what programs used to be like and wasn’t some web app embeddable bullshit

@enigmatico Musk could buy it and brand it x-browser.

@mattsheffield #Unions #UnionStrong #fuckFuckFUCKtheGOP

@msnbc @msnbc-youtube-videos-msnbc Well, being an actual fucking Nazi and an actual fucking traitor didn't seem to hurt Trump, nor his many photo ops with pimp Epstein, so why should Gaetz suffer for his sins?

Mike Johnson is being called a hypocrite for covering for Matt Gaetz.

But I argue that, at this point, covering for bad men should be considered a religious tradition for the Christian right.

https://www.salon.com/2024/11/20/how-mike-johnsons-christian-morality-provides-cover-for-matt-gaetz/