brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe, unless the replacement is immediately worse based on who seizes control. It's the devil you know vs the one you don't.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I'm thinking more about the plurality of Americans that aren't on board, for whatever stupid reason. Until they are convinced, destroying the system won't really stick, if it's even possible.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/one-third-of-americans-agree-with-trump-s-poisoning-the-blood-comments/ar-AA1suf7p

[–] brianary@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Any solution that starts with purges is bad.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 0 points 2 months ago

If you say so.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Democrats aren't authoritarians. It's a bad comparison. Democrats are always fragmented, it's virtually a defining characteristic. Post-Biden unity has been quite unusual.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The fixation is because there is no clear line of succession. If he fails, who steps in? They'll splinter and fragment. They'll still be deplorable, but less effective when not united behind a single authoritarian leader.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

I guess the chicken and egg may have appeared at the same time.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

It's an explanation of Wilhoit's Law, really, which will always resonate with misanthropes.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

I've always called Word documents and PDFs "dead-end formats" (DEF). Once you export your data to them, there's no reliable way to retrieve your data from them for further transformation like you can for YAML, JSON, XML, HTML, Markdown, &c.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 20 points 2 months ago (7 children)

None were leftist, and only one got as far as violence.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 53 points 2 months ago

I had that computer, and it was much more than a calculator, unless you mean a modern programmable one. This one could be programmed in BASIC. It also had a receipt-sized printer you could get.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NQheo52J3BM

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

You may be right, but it seems to me that sleeper cells need direction. Otherwise, they'll interpret their ideology divergently. They may block progress pretty effectively, but it'll be hard for them to make gains in a shared direction.

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