Gotta love Dems trying to be bipartisan on stuff like this, meanwhile now that Trump is in power he’s denying grants to counties and cities unless they follow his anti dei executive orders.

Yeah I generally agree with you, Dems aren’t doing good at providing an alternative and are actively fighting against voices in the party who are offering an alternative. But at the same time you can’t let the fascists accomplish their agenda, you have to use the same tactics they use against the Dems when they’re in power. No compromising and obstructing on every thing you can to stop them from being able to implement what they want. Doing that while offering a progressive populist vision would be the only way to recover and pull people back from people like Trump.

There’s a difference between reasonable compromise and compromising with fascists who want to kill people. You cant deal with or compromise with them, especially since they will never work to compromise with you when they’re in power. And atleast so far it feels like the current democratic party tried to move right during the election to compromise with these people rather then standing firm on certain principles like protecting migrants. People like Bernie dont win because the corporate interests and the establishment of the party will throw everything against them to stop them from winning. There’s a reason one of the most popular things in America is a progressive ballot measures, even in red states.

The problem is the US isn’t setup for third parties to really work, all this is going to do is most likely be a spoiler vote from Republicans and give more wins to Democrats. Maybe if they’re lucky they’ll win a few seats in uncompetitive districts.

No I think it’s one of the representatives that voted against his bill.

I mean it’s usually the power utility telling you to do that and they’re the ones making deals with the data centers so I think the criticism is fairly directed.

Ok but I’m pretty sure it’s like this because if they make recommendations they go from being a social media company to a publisher, so they can’t make recommendations not based on what things you watch through the algorithm. And if you don’t have an account they aren’t (at least officially) tracking what you watch to make recommendations.

Yeah, cause if one thing turns a population on their government it’s attacking the country and doing collateral damage on civilians. That definitely won’t unite the people on the side of the government against a common foreign enemy.

I mean they have been attempting to with ramping up the “Iran is just a week away from nukes.” that they’ve been hitting for so many years now.

Damn they’re really going after Cubans even though they tend to swing really conservative. They really are just letting the rascism get before political strategy.

I feel like I also saw them just clearing out people on the street at night, although it’s hard to tell with all the different kinds of police there. I also remember CHP being involved with the clearing out of protestors back when the UCLA encampment was happening. So they can definitely be involved with other things so it would be nice to see the governor back his words up with action from any law enforcement he has control over.

California Highway Patrol has been at these protests doing crowd control so if those are under the governor it would be nice if he used those to help protestors or better yet sent them home.

I mean for context with the TikTok comparison using a VPN didn’t get you around the TikTok ban unless you also made an entirely new account.

I think the problem though is neither side is going to back down which means clashes between troops/police is going to keep escalating until someone at one of these events pushes things too far and the troops/police end up firing on people. Especially as they are most likely going to start trying to push to end the protests through arrests rather then just focusing on control which will just antagonize people more. Realistically what other end scenario is there to this if Trump keeps throwing gasoline on the fire? It’s either gonna be a brutal crackdown on the protests with “less then lethal” weapons done by the military or end up being a bloodbath. Either way both outcomes would be horrifying to see happening in America, dictators use the military to put down protests and if we let that happen without any kind of severe backlash then we’re pretty much fucked.

I mean I don’t think autocorrect is AI, I’m pretty sure Grammarly’s AI stuff is mostly around like tone and rewriting for you.