This is stupid though. IP addresses in many homes rotate, so IP ban lists are utterly ineffective and could very well ban the wrong people.

bud this is all tldr.

There are 2 sides that you can vote for in American politics.

That’s not being unable to see nuance, that’s being able to see facts.

You seem stuck on making a point that is irrelevant and increasingly more incorrect.

I can’t care to engage with someone who isn’t reading what I’m saying. It would just be talking past each other.

Your post starts with a sloganeering, hyper-reductive take of what I wrote.

This is such a hopelessly lazy dismissal of that criticism I’m just going to ignore it and hope you have anything better to offer.

Nope. Skimmed through it and you’re still making the same strawman argument. I guess there is nothing more to say here if you don’t recognize it.

This is Politics, it’s not 1D or 2D, it’s N-Dimensional

This is the point I made and that your comment ignored.

it’s not just possible but pretty much a Mathematical certainty than in a country were there are only 2 parties they will match perfectly on some dimensions, even whilst not at all matching in others.

This is a strawman. No person is claiming they don’t have any aligning opinions.

Trying to dismiss away that aspect of Reality (which is incoveninent for tribalists) with sloganeering like “bothsiderism” is just parroting propaganda meant for simpletons who see reality as having just one dimension where there is nothing more than 2 sides.

This is you continuing to argue against the strawman.

The rest is also that.

They are fine with this trade

This bothsiderism is pretty thoughtless.

It is true that both contribute to a surveillance state but to equate both is to just ignore all policy differences, actions and more to pretend to be nuanced while painting everything as the same shade of grey, which is a downgrade to even black and white thinking.

know the kind of people you’re actually talking about. There is still value in electing the lesser evil, and pushing to get better and more progressive Dems in office (that are usually better at pushing back against fascism anyways)

This is exactly my point. The democrats have huge AIPAC backing and support some awful things, but they are fucking saints compared to the only other options in this political system.

They are the only potential vehicles for long term change and stability exactly the way you described.

Progressive candidates have to be winning primaries despite swimming upstream, and democrats have to continue winning federally despite the bad taste (chemo) they put in your mouth.

The crazy thing is that so many issues matter all at once.

And yet still, somewhere out there, there is a fake or brain dead leftist spouting on about how democrats support genocide.

“Chemo makes me sick, so Ill stick with Cancer”

The noose keeps tightening.

Google also has been trying to argue that modifying client side javascript is equivalent to hacking.

Modifying code running on your own fucking machine, in your own fucking browser.

They might not need it to last longer than that.

This is a takeover.

Oh absolutely, but even TVs are used in different contexts.

Like the thing about text applies to console games, applies to menus, applies to certain types of high detail media etc.

Seriously, articles like this are just clickbait.

They also ignore all sorts of usecases.

Like for a desktop monitor, 4k is extremely noticeable vs even 1440P or 1080P/2k

Unless you’re sitting very far away, the sharpness of text and therefore amount of readable information you can fit on the screen changes dramatically.

Apple has really lost its identity.

Apple Silicon is really all that seperate them.