throw in a couple of if/then blocks for balance and make sure that the same lines are copied and pasted further down in the source to be used again. lol

Why do you have to call me out so publicly like that?!!! Lol

The last 2 reddit userbase diasporas were wildly more different than all of the previous ones combined.

When voat became a thing everyone already knew ahead of time that it’s ranks would be filled with facists; but it took a while for lemmy to earn its tankie stereotype and I’m also glad that lemmy’s design helps ensure that it’ll have more stamina that voat or any of the other reddit user digital refugee camp platforms that came before it.

I use xfce and this looks great.

and don’t forget to add taxes to that list

when LUGS where a thing, i was kicked out my first one and for this reason. lol

i’ve since learned how to control my enthusiasm so that i don’t keep scaring other people when i talk to them. lol

you and duckduckgo just taught me that “american indoctrination” is the wrong descriptor since it’s already a well known phrase that describes something else; i used like i used my dnc/democrat distinction, it was my own personal shorthand until now.

what i named “american indoctrination” (as of 30 minutes or so ago) described my impression of modern day zeitgeist of the american middle-to-upper middle class. those two classes mostly share similar material conditions and usually do not have social relations with anyone outside of those two sub-classes. (they also tend to ostracize the lower middle class and working poor). the french used to call them petite bourgeoisie and most are not by american standards but they unquestionably are so by global south and empirical periphery standards; they’re also the democrat’s most loyal voters and most of the ones in that latter upper-middle-class category are republicans.

i agree that theory matters and that the dnc cannot be changed.

i use “democrats” to distinguish the people from from the dnc and i’ve learned that democrats mostly align with all leftists views but american indoctrination prevents them from learning and that’s my biggest source of anxiety.

i also agree that you can’t bring democrats to where they need to be because “you can bring a horse to water but you can’t make it drink” is true and this is one of those hurdles that add to the anxiety; there doesn’t seem to be a way around it since it requires appeals to reason in a reality that uses pleasure, emotion, and social ostracization to combat that reasoning.

starting every single doom binge election coverage watching democracy now first has helped me immensely with the fear and the anxiety comes from learning how far apart democrats are from reality and the seemingly insurmountable hurdles we have to overcome to bring them closer together.

the failed gambit that the dnc used to create our mess is making me thankful for the distraction of clocking back in; the work ennui is a preferable distraction to the election results anxiety. lol

– but’s still a problem for both when they have too many of certain things, like forks. lol

i make no distinction between facist and facist-enablers. nevertheless, lemmy convinced me to find someone to vote swap with and i did in nevada.

the american people chose facism; so go ask them.

harris’ words said that she was trying to help, but her actions say otherwise; so it’s the same result either way.

same here and living through multiple repeat episodes since 1984 have that taught me that the despair will turn into depression if i don’t take action.

i hope it works out for you.

she didn’t even win the popular vote and there’s aren’t enough leftists to keep up that blue wall.

Even if every single leftist voted for Kamala, she would still lose; there aren’t enough leftists in this country to restore that blue wall.

She lost because of the genocide and alienating her base while trying to become a diet republican.

Very true; people should not be making decisions on silly inconsequential little things like a genocide.

that’s how he defines numeracy in the video but he used the word “smarter” on youtube. i didn’t think it fit either so i just went with “intelligence” because it means acquiring and using knowledge in a similar way to numeracy; but was still in keeping with the source & the youtube video.

it’s literally a study conducted by Yale; as in the ivy league university: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319992

the video reproduces the study in a shortened format suitable for youtube.

it’s in the description of the video: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319992