Archie is an idiot, here.

Except there’s no non-wildcard Republican candidate.

They’ve cracked the formula for telling their voter base that this time will be different and anti-establishment.

While the Democrats have solved for how to exhaust their voter base patience. (Bombing innocent people in other countries.)

Approval based voting is the only way the Democratic party remains a player in American politics.

How does this compare to first past the post? Does it make any difference in outcomes?

Yes. It may be the only chance American Democrats have of winning any future elections.

The next wildcard candidate will attract a bunch of votes, while a Democrat who stands for shitty compeomises could still get a “better than the other asshole” approval vote.

Tagging is essentially the same as removing and not a compromise in my book.

Come check out Mastodon sometime, where we also tag movie spoilers, politics, mentions of any medical condition, and eye contact.

There’s nothing wrong with eye contact. It makes some people really uncomfortable. So we tag it so that they can filter it.

I wish I could upvote this twice! I’m actually on my way around to my second re-read of “Small Gods” during another full Discworld read-through.

Yea. Any religion that believes in a just interving diety runs into this.

If i really believe my god is perfect and all powerful, then why should I have compassion for all the unlucky people that god clearly despises?

It’s hard, because the idea of a perfect loving god is incredibly attractive.

It’s the evidence that sucks: if god is real and all powerful, then god is, at best ineffable, and at worst a terrible raging asshole who lovingly created a parasite that eats childrens eyes.

Now, if we’re willing to believe in a sort of weak impotent god, the theology gets more interesting.

why would I want this type of thing done at the community level?

I have an RSS feed for my unfiltered comics.

I read here for the community.

I’m happy to just skip the work of bigots, and have mostly blocked the users who routinely post that stuff.

That saif, if we’re going to remove credit with intent, i have a request:

let’s be clear and cedit “some random bigot”, so I’ll know i might not want to seek out the artist.

Lol.

This is a dumb strawman.

There’s basically two consumers, plus a bunch of lies told by the Epstein class.

Consumer 1: Wants a good product produced in a way they feel good about at a fair price. This typically includes preferring both locally made and fair wage pricing, as well as not-killing-the-planet.(Non-sociopaths who are currently not afraid about their finances tomorrow, tend to fall in this category.)

Consumer 2: Just needs the lowest price possible to survive another day. (People may drift btween these two modes, based on life events.)

Cosumer 3: Epstein class rapist. Wants you to believe their crimes are somehow your neighbor’s fault.

Edit: This maybe flew over my head. Is Orange man Epstein class?

I think it’s going to work. You’re probably not alone in liking this comic.

Oh.

I thought it was some kind of slang, and I just wasn’t young and hip enough to get it.

I really appreciate all your efforts to bring content to the community!

Tagging gives people who could get fired the option to have the content blurred until they click it.

We try not to be judgemental assholes here, but plenty of our bosses are judgemental assholes.

That’s why the tag is “Not Safe for Work”.

It is more generous to err on the side of caution.

It also result in more reach, because the other option available to folks with shitty bosses is just to block users and instances that don’t tag things.

I.e. I’ve blocked everything here with the word “moe” because holy shit those folks have no fucking clue how to tag anything.

“Not Safe for Work” people want to browse at work, and could get fired for having this comic scroll past.

The fact people could get fired for this is total bullshit. But it is what it is. Tagging gives people options.

This isn’t about judgement, it’s about making spaces for people to enjoy without risking their jobs.

I think we’re mostly on the same page, you just can still trust a Democrat, I guess?

Let’s extend your analogy, though: the Democrats are shooting too, just not directly at me, at this moment. There’s plenty dead at their hands.

I still might rally behind a Democrat to stop an authoritarian, one more fucking time.

And I might not.

We did this dance.

Democrats do not stop the shooting.

I am strongly inclined to trust a total stranger over an established Democrat.

I am not alone in that.

Even if a Democrat cared to save any of us, I do not believe that the Democratic party has the remaining influence to make any difference.

The Maga crowd got something right: the average Democrat politician is spineless, broken and unwilling or unable to disobey orders from a secret cabal of pedophiles.

If we could wake the Maga types up, they might realize the dumb fucks they’re worshipping are part of the same pedophile ring.

Through that lens, being the person that knowingly votes for some niche candidate that they know isn’t going to win any election against those two, knowing full well that by doing that you’re making it that much easier for the Christofascists to scrape out a win and continue pushing this morality horseshit on the people…no, you don’t get a pass. Not anymore.

So when do we hold the democrats accountable for being openly detestable, if not when the they’ve handed the whole country over?

Our only chance at this not getting worse is a likeable candidate. We know democrats are committed to never running one.

What’s the answer here?

Yes, the Democratic party running a true populist is the answer sure. We all know that’s not going to happen.

The US Democratic plans to continue to eek out loses from the jaws of inevitable victory, and enjoy ongoing campaign funding and unaccountability, as their reward.

This, what we have today, is literally their whole platform. They helped plan this.

When do we hold them accountable for that? Is is still too soon?

Wake the fuck up, and realize YOU ARE WORKING CLASS. THEY ARE RULING CLASS. Stop doing their propaganda for them.

Yep.

This thread is full of folks willing to bet that the spineless overlords will change enough to save them from the openly authoritarian overlords.

It is for any democrat who makes it into significant power, yes. Gotta work within that system for slow gradual improvements that can be easily undone.

Yeah. I’m not sure if that’s a free tier thing, or I’m just blockig ads so hard I never noticed…

Perhaps it’s just me, but to me this article feels like belittling the problem by not differentiating between “hated” products and “harmful” products.

Exactly!

Hated product? Oh well. My paycheck still cashes.

Harmful product? Oh shit. Sorry boss. I’m still working on that. It’s been confusing, but we almost got it. Annnyyyy day now, boss. Pretty sure we will get it on track next sprint. Or the one after. (Source: I once got well paid to “accidentally” kill at least one truly shit-head idea. It probably cost me a pay raise, but I left soon after for more money, and I’m still proud of that every time I reflect back on it.)