It sounds like your interpretation of the spoiler effect centers on people voting third party due to dissatisfaction with the 2 unfortunately omnipresent parties, which would be the same as not voting. Have you considered that some people who were going to vote no matter what might vote for a third party candidate because their listed policies actually resonate with them?

We don’t just give them free reign, for the most part the world promotes being selfish.

Damn near everything we ever hear takes no one else into account. Living wage is less and less common, billionaires have all the money in the world and zero accountability, healthcare (Mostly US specific) is an overpriced scam with no guardrails, food costs whatever the fuck the people who control it tell us it costs regardless of production costs, housing costs way too fucking much, fake news is more and more prevalent and conning more and more fools.

Its easy to see why people focus on no one but themselves anymore, its just the way of the world, toxicity is winning.

Real question: Most of things listed are consumer level changes. Isn’t the large majority of global warming being caused by industry emissions?

If we stopped constantly arguing logic and reason to people that clearly have none, and focused on discussions of how we improve the country through governance and policy, we could actually convert some of them. But If i were to imagine life as a Trumper all I would see is hatred towards me everywhere, why the fuck would I listen to people insulting me?

Not that this would happen because at the end of the day, both sides of the aisles have their fair share of people whose political ideology is just to regurgitate what their own social circles reinforce while simultaneously be unable to withstand some minor pushback on topics and then confirming to the other that they dont know what theyre talking about. And the media will constantly put a megaphone up to this ignorant minority so the other side can confirm to themselves how dumb that side is.

Shit half the time I try to make the point that most people voting for trump are doing so because of their social circles influence on them, and that we should try and treat them with decency if we ever want to change their minds, and I get downvoted into the floor and hear a bunch of “centrist bad” nonsense. Political parties are just sports teams to many at the end of the day, they were raised to follow one and think the other one sucks, and most involved don’t realize how brainwashed they are that they now see the other half of the country as a hostile foreign entity.

Meanwhile capitalists rob us all blind and continue to spread this narrative that we should fight each other, so we dont unite against them.

Hey good for you, unlike everyone else in this thread making up reasons why the tech is bad, you are mature enough to recognize the fear is from ignorance. I am in the same boat. I’m currently using a manager with MFA on everything which works well for me. Might look into this tech once it’s baked longer. I don’t like the idea of early adoption to a tech when it’s security related.

Boomers are still alive, so literally all of the rules ever as fast as possible.

Special standout for “dont believe everything you read” - “Well fuck you Ill believe everything without thought”

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!

Yeah! soy sauce isn’t sweet! do it again but try sugar water this time you fuckin clowns!

So thats on me, I said “does nothing to change our two party system” when I should have said “does nothing to remove our two party system”. All this does is concentrate power into the democrats which if they had no worry of winning elections would very quickly openly turn into the Billionaire Boot Licking Society overnight. We need more political parties.

All this being said I’m not arguing against removing the electoral college, it needs to die. But Americas problems run so much deeper than the GOP

And none of this happens until we ditch the two party system. Because the Dems will just continue to do the bare minimum to win elections while still serving the billionaire class.

Removing the electoral college does nothing to change our two party system so I don’t understand why you think it solves billionaire class rule.

You’re most likely right, they recognize the headline saying “DOJ considering breaking up Alphabet” would be meaningless to most people.

Yeah especially when you consider that this “conservative democrat president” is the one who put Lina Khan at the head of the FTC and Merrick Garland at the head of the DOJ, and is why for one of the few times In my life I’m seeing news articles about people in the government doing their fucking job of protecting the American people from American Corporations.

A great question, Id never considered that previously.

My instant gut feeling would be that they would all just continue selling adds, but as separate entities?

Also how does breaking up google work when the current structure is that Alphabet is the primary company now?

Hmmmm, lead water from my bidet, or asbestos toilet paper, which will poison my poor asshole quicker I wonder?

Yes obviously. But it still irritates me as someone who does geometry for a living.

The 2 party system forces politicians to do 1 of 2 things:

1. Lie to and manipulate uneducated voters into thinking they’re the best option.
2. Only enact middle of the road policies everyone likes to get voters in the middle to swing the vote in their favor.

Our two party system is too entrenched to ever pass laws to remove itself, thus this will always be how politics works in the US. We should all be focused on some form of multiple choice voting like ranked choice if we ever want something different than the above, but I see no reality where the dems and gop come together and dilute their own power by making this a reality.

That’s just what I said but more into the weeds on the detail.

Improving public transit does nothing to impact rural area car travel. Saying we need both on a comment how we should improve public transport is replying to something not at task here.