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  • Sorry which are we talking about the rejected the PR, DHH or kling?

    I suspect its DHH just making sure

    Edit: Found it

    Kling rejected with: “This project is not an appropriate arena to advertise your personal politics.”

    For SerenityOS documentation to use a singular they to not assume gender.

    Edit 2: For the record, this is even more stupid than you think. The documentation was written with gendered language for a male reader only in mind.

    “Hey, I fixed your bad writing”

    “POLITICS?!1?!%?!”

    The tweet about Kirk has some firm context with this. I’d call it pretty dang likely that kling is a fan…






  • Some “fun” from Ted Cruz:

    • “Every bit as racist as the Klansmen in white sheets” (in speaking about CRT, while speaking at the Faith and Freedom Forum, an event for a group that considers itself a bridge between the tea party and evangelicals. Against same sex marriage, medical marijuana, abortion, big supporters of Israel, and is part of the christian fundamentalist movement.
    • To an arab audience: "“I am saddened to see that some here, not everyone, but some here, are so consumed with hate… If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.”
    • According to his book - “Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America”, BLM is a cultural Marxist movement with goals beyond addressing racial injustic, labeling them as “anti-American”.
    • Watch him call CRT racism on the Senate floor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHpa4XICDvI
    • Cruz refers to Obergefell v Hodges as “clearly wrong”
    • A bit about his anti-trans attack ads can be found here, bonus quote: “‘Don’t want boys playing girls’ sports’”
    • He said transgendered folks should “only use restrooms at home and avoid public facilities.”
    • Ejected a trans teen from his rally

    Bonus racism on twitter:

    … is there a reason anyone should care about or respect his opinion on anything?

    (Edit: Typo in Hodges)




  • People are desperate and status-quo neoliberals are now intolerable to the masses. In a competition between someone who talks big and promises change and someone who seems like they aren’t going to do anything, the desperate will take the risk even if it’s incredibly stupid.

    So I’m going to land on a slightly different take. Every time something doesn’t end up going as far as was wanted, every time a specific thing doesn’t meet exactly what someone wants, everyone on the left (myself included) is pissed off about it. Right here in this thread, including replies to my with nonsense I don’t have the energy or interest in replying to, are people attacking Harris - not acknowledging what was wrong, or even acknowledging what was right. I’m going to very briefly hit on a few things that were done with Biden/Harris:

    • Exec order to pull back on Trump era discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation. This was to ensure protections beyond employment (bostock decision), but to housing, lending, even health care.
    • The first day exec order for racial equity and support, which specifically included LGBTQIA+
    • Ending the ban on trans persons serving in the military made by Trump
    • Harris was the first VP to march in a pride parade

    I’m not going to keep going (there are more), just pointing out some positives here. And what was the response right in this very thread? Even your comment (which is the super-duper-friendly version of what others are saying):

    She was problematic and pretending she was doesn’t help.

    Lets recap - in 2015 while working as an AG, her office as representatives of the Dept. of Corrections worked to block gender affirming care for an inmate. Absolutely a problem. But lets not forget the rest of that - the DoC agreed to change its policy, and just 2 years later, a CA inmate became the first prisoner to get gender affirming surgery out of all the US.

    That second part gets left out. That part is a win. Still the first part is repeated - including here - ad nauseum. Was it right? Of course not. Did Harris agree with it? Also no, if we accept the statements of herself and others that she worked toward that agreement that was made behind the scenes. So what should she have done? Gotten fired? Quit? Publicly speak against her office and get fired?

    And yet, the response is “BUT THIS HAPPENED!!!”. So let me ask this - if you need to get the votes to stop more horrendous shit from happening, where do you get votes from? If the people you are even trying to support won’t vote for you because you didn’t, I don’t know, quit in protest and accomplish nothing, then whose votes do you go for? The only option left is so-called moderates. This is why I complain about “purity tests”. All they do is push things to the right, because anyone looking for purity is not going to vote for you regardless.

    So lets look at those election statistics from 2024 for a second. We saw a 1.5% decline in voter turnout. Turnout was lower by age group - which also coincides with more leftist opinion (skews younger) and right (skews older). Older voters (65+) turned out in droves by comparison to other age groups.

    At the same time, leading up to things, we had groups (Green Party) specifically targeting Palestinian Americans in Michigan with the goal of Harris losing the state. Not Green winning, but making Harris lose. We saw people even on Lemmy encouraging others to not vote in protest, or to vote 3rd party in protest, supposedly to tell them “Neoliberals aren’t good enough!”. Add in those purity tests - is anyone good enough? Will the Democrats ever be able to get those voters?

    The only indication that its possible is when there is RCV (others are fine too, I’m going with RCV here because of NYC). Mamdani won the ticket! And yes, there are jackasses (Schumer and the like) who continue to be shitheads about it.

    But outside of NYC, a drastically more progressive city than most of the US, what indication is there that leftist voters (of any variety) will vote Democrat, when their actions more closely match purity tests rather than pushing away from the right?

    Thats the part that stands out to me. That is the issue. The constant “NOT GOOD ENOUGH!” just… excludes as a potential voter. Which just means… who is left who will vote that is more progressive than maga other than capitalist dems that don’t want to be hateful but maybe are misguided, and non-maga repubs? And then we have a shift to the right in communication to gain those voters.

    Sorry, kind of a rant there, but its what I think is happening. I also know you agree on Harris being the far better option, this is more about those who “showed what great leftists they are” with a 3rd party vote or abstaining from voting in protest. The problem (as I see it).

    Consider applying for asylum in Canada and Mexico

    Already in process for Canada, Mexico is a non-starter for her for personal experience reasons. Aside from Brazil (and Argentina), she’s also got some work going for a digital nomad visa in the EU. We’ll see where that lands. I’ve got friends of the family from Greece, and Portugal with some in-laws, to line up proof of housing as well.

    Fingers crossed that any of the options work out soon.


  • An intranet is a local and private computer network.

    The internet is a network of intranets, or more accurately, a network by which computers of disparate networks can connect.

    Intra, meaning inside or within. Inter, meaning between or among.

    Interdepartmental communication would be communication between departments, while intradepartmental communication would be within a single department.

    The inter vs intra is the difference here.