brianary

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I thought it was interesting and original until the pointless cat scene and the complete lack of an ending.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is all true, but there's not clear line of succession after Trump, so they'll splinter. Redirecting the fervor to some new dear leader will take a long time. The Trump thralls are entirely invested in him alone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yep, which further highlights the problem: @[email protected] 🔗 https://mozilla.social/users/mozilla/statuses/113153943609185249

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This was also my recent experience on PopOs!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Mobs cannot be reliably wielded for long, as Mussolini found out.

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