assaultpotato

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[–] assaultpotato 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

It's only a strawman if you haven't posted exactly that argument before. So, which is it, though? Did the Dems lose because they failed to pivot left on Palestine to capture the leftist Arabic vote, or are leftist Arabs an inconsequentially small voter base?

Answer: it's the second one! White people handed this country to Trump, and trying to court Arabs with Palestine wouldn't have increased Harris' results.

[–] assaultpotato 4 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

And so with the leftist Arabic vote being such a tiny % of the overall voter base, it would be really smart to pivot to single-issue to maybe win some of that 0.46%, right?

[–] assaultpotato 2 points 4 weeks ago

I know - not sure why you're getting down voted lol

[–] assaultpotato 40 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, MAGA media sphere is heavily paid-for by RT/Russia, so... yeah.

[–] assaultpotato 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

2024 election was dictated essentially entirely by minority voters swapping sides for economic reasons

DNC should run on purely social issues because they can't address the economic issues

Hm.

[–] assaultpotato 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

International shitposting is the best shitposting

[–] assaultpotato 25 points 1 month ago

"A Lightweight VPN Built on top of IPFS + Libp2p"

Seems like both at a glance

[–] assaultpotato 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're not alone - Disney Star Wars has being either absolutely fantastic (Rogue One, etc.) or absolutely trash (789, etc.). Rogue One had good characters with interesting motivations and growth. Jyn had to come to terms with her fathers role in the empire and make choices on how to tackle unclear situations.

The new trilogy featured Rey, who... never changed or grew or really faced any meaningful challenge? She was just... always stronger/better because she just was. It felt more like playing a video game where your character fights increasingly big bad guys but never actually changes skills or unlocks new stuff.

And c'mon... "somehow Palpatine has returned" is the laziest piece of shit you can think of. That's some 5th grade fiction writing assignment shit.

[–] assaultpotato 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Nifty! I built something similar for my university graduation project. Did a PCB, ESP8266 based as well. Temperature, humidity, sound, vibration, airborne particulate sensor, and some other stuff.

Wrapped a server up in docker for receiving the data, basic dashboard in JS for minor reactivity in components. Never ended up actually doing it cause I didn't have a consistent host, but maybe I should spin it up again now that I have a home server.

Cool project, looks neat! Anything you were caught off guard by when doing this?

[–] assaultpotato 2 points 1 month ago

Right?

Like I'm not out here claiming Kamala was a particularly exciting candidate, but it's not like this was remotely a difficult choice to make. This is absolutely reflective of a fundamentally incompetent electorate.

[–] assaultpotato 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Even if you wanted to make that argument, 70ish million people actively voted for Trump. He wants to remove fluoride from water. I don't know what to tell you about those 70 million people lol.

[–] assaultpotato 8 points 1 month ago

Oh I know, the whole communication space is cooked. I don't know if it was just bad PR or intentional manipulation but the concrete positive impacts of the Biden admin are so unknown its sad.

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