So, money is speech, is pollution speech too?

Coincidentally, that’s what using it is like, too. :)

Ugh…

How did PCs beat out the Amiga, Mac and ST with nonsense like that?

I won’t say I didn’t have a bit of schadenfreude when Fort McMurray burned.

I agree, but to some degree, people own their government, and this government is, more than many, responsible for much of the causes of climate change.

I’d say the same thing if Florida sinks into the sea, or South Texas and Louisiana are swamped, or north Alberta catches fire.

Apropos of nothing, Saudi Arabia is the definition of a petro-state.

Chickens. Coming home. Roosting. Etc.

It’s hysterical to hear right-wing commentary about how New York Democrats are socialist Marxist communist hippies when the reality has much more goose-stepping to it.

They don’t think of working class people as people.

They’re things, abstracted away from empathy.

There’s a solution for this: socialized medicine.

It works literally everywhere else in the world.

They are playing the same game they always have: use carrots like this to get voters to the polls, and hold off on those carrots until an election year.

The problem is that it doesn’t reliably work. Progressive voters just see three and half years of very little progress and six months of fearmongering and pandering, which causes as much or more apathy than it does engagement.

If you look at what the Right does, by comparison, it’s interesting. They throw red meat to their base on day one, and keep it up for the entire term. They know that they need to keep the base pumped and expecting results, which is a big reason why conservative voters turn out at much higher rates: they feel listened to.

Flip a few more of these and Fetterman can sit and fume.

David Brooks and George Will’s frozen corpses will pave the way to hell.

Wait, the threat to capitalism from the modern Democratic Party, which is a bunch of weak-kneed neoliberal do-nothings, is worse than the threat of fascism from a guy who said he’s willing to use the power of the state to punish enemies?

Ask the Russian oligarchs that fell down stairs, out of windows, ran into mysterious rains of bullets and/or drank radioactive tea how they feel about selling out democracy for profit.

Oh wait, you can’t ask them.

These nitwits don’t realize that even if they’re not the first line in Niemoller’s poem, they’ll at best be the last.

If there’s a saving grace, it’s that most of the modern Nazis are much older than their equivalents from 1936.

If there’s a downside, it’s that people in general live longer. Even modern-day Nazis.

Maybe y’all should have spent the time making things better for poor people in real, measurable ways, instead of fellating billionaires.

Maybe, just maybe, that would have avoided the rise of right-wing demagogues promising easy fixes for the problems created by the inaction of the neoliberal establishment.

But no, it was more important to make sure that the rich got richer than to worry about democracy.

When you say that the keyboard works: do the brightnesss, mute and volume controls do what they’re supposed to do?

HP laptops–at least business-grade ones–are notorious for sending nonstandard scan codes and requiring custom drivers.

Pirate an old, pre-CC version.

That’s what I do. Admittedly it’s Photoshop 3.0 on a Mac Quadra.

As a Marathon fan since 1994, the plans for the new Marathon make me sad.

These people really need to read up on Fritz Thyssen, Jack Ma or any one of the many Russian oligarchs who’ve been defenestrated, ventilated or irradiated under Putin.

A small amount of taxes in a functioning democracy when you’re already a billionaire is a lot cheaper than a hole in your chest under a thin-skinned fascist autocrat.

None of these folks think they’ll be a line in Niemoller’s poem. They’re horribly wrong.

I’m Canadian. I know.

Apparently our fiscally responsible conservative leaders are a-ok with paying private nursing agencies and clinics more than they would if they just staffed public facilities adequately.

I’m not sure why, but I’m always told that conservatives are “good with money” and “fiscally responsible”, which Ive learned means “good with transferring public money into private coffers”.