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Wish I knew how.

Voting doesn’t seem to be the thing that’s going to unfuck this, considering how popular right wing extremists are right now and how morons are voting for them in droves, at least here in the EU.

Very true, unfortunately. Probably isn’t going to get any better before things get much worse first, either

This seems to be a repeating pattern everywhere around Europe.

Conservatives fuck up the economy and society in general, leftists get elected and try to fix things but face resistance from conservatives, conservatives blame leftists for everything they fucked up themselves, even more extreme conservatives get voted in because people are morons and conveniently forget who it was who was responsible for the problems that conservatives claim are all the left’s fault. Rinse and repeat.

Not all that cute though

Honestly, just properly funding anything that is designed to do benevolent things for the community as a whole is a tough sell with way too many US community politicians

This seems to be a problem with at least conservative politicians everywhere. In Finland where I live we do still have the vestiges of a welfare state (and it really is vestigial at this point), but right wing politicians keep dismantling it and cutting taxes on the rich, and later on leftist politicians find it impossible to roll back any changes due to resistance from the right.

The amount of victim blaming in these comments is pretty weird. “Well duh nobody should answer that poll, everybody knows it’s just a scam to get you signed up for spam”.

Way to miss the point, folks.

The way I’ve understood the “defund the police” movement’s point is that they’re saying police funding is excessive because a lot of the things cops do should be handled before the cops have to get involved, eg. with higher funding for mental health and social services, housing for homeless people etc. So the point is that you wouldn’t need as many cops in the first place if things were handled more humanely “downstream” so to speak, instead of just letting problems fester until things go sideways

Or a FAT meme you’re too young to understand? I honestly can’t remember if NTFS needs defragging or not, I haven’t used Windows since Win7

Yeah, although without the cool space station and cyberpunk-ish tech. I doubt we’ll get that far.

we aren’t going to science up a magic bullet to save us from the epically irresponsible actions of our epically irresponsible species.

In-fuckin-deed. All the talk about “carbon capture” schemes makes my skin crawl.

Well it’s either that or delusional parasitosis that makes my skin crawl, but anyhow.

“Non-profit” doesn’t mean nobody gets paid

we thought the values of this corporation were very clear in terms of access to information.

Well there’s your problem.

The values of any corporation are “make the stockholders and executives richer”. Whatever utter horseshit they spew in their “mission statements” and “values” documents are just that, utter horseshit.

won’t stop until they […] are physically stopped by something like climate change

Ah I see you’re an optimist.

Probably the majority

With the candidate in question being Ian Gribbin. Of course he “apologized” for this, which translated from conservative means “I’m sorry I got caught.” He’s also said that women are the “sponging gender” and should be “deprived of health care” in case there was any doubt about what sort of a person he is.

Naturally other Reform cockwombles have defended him

The big problem is rather that a lot of innovation has been absorbed by the big companies via buyouts

Which ultimately does seem to lead to innovation slowing down. The big players buy out any potential smaller competitors, and very often just outright kill the products / services they inherited in the acquisition.

It feels like actual innovation in all sectors has slowed to a crawl, and corporations – especially the ones run by MBA parasites – are concentrating more and more on just squeezing money out of people with various bullshit tactics, while at the same time thinning their workforce (naturally the MBAs are never under threat, though)

Microsoft security practices haven’t changed much over the decades