Oh, so we don’t have an affordability crisis, homelessness epidemic, opioid OD epidemic, a vanishing middle class and a level of wealth disparity that hasn’t been seen since the 1920s.

That’s why people like Talarico and Platner matter. Platner just beat out Mills, the establishment pick for the seat. He shows that democracy works when people are engaged and organized.

Putting aside the political leanings of the author, was anything spoken about in the poster not reflective of reality today?

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Yes, but they don’t control who YOU vote for

Was anything it said not reflective of reality?

The patron saint of consequences.

If anything has been a driver of human ingenuity, it’s the horny

The downtown of any major city.

Why do you think almost every major city has a subway? The number of people who need to move around in the city far exceeds the available road space, without public transit, the entire city would be clogged with traffic.

Even in a more meta sense, cities can and should be healthy places that are built on a human scale. Necessitating cars for everybody pollutes more than just the air. Tires and brakes wear down, leaving microplastics and heavy metals to be washed into rivers when it rains. Noise pollution from cars makes cities unpleasant and the air quality creates worse health outcomes for the people living there.

Human societies have existed without cars for thousands of years, and we already have a way to traverse cities effectively that predates widespread adoption of personal vehicles, mass public transit.

That’s because winning wars is bad for business. If the war ends, who will keep buying the killing machines?

Those things are fine, but why does every single person need to drive their own car everywhere, including the places where public transit is the far more effective and healthy choice.

Because healthcare is not a kind of “market”, it doesn’t lend itself well to the ideals of capitalism. You aren’t going to go shopping around for hospitals while you are bleeding out in the back of an ambulance.

The congressional budget office even agrees that Medicare for all will save the government money, because it will eliminate the bureaucracy put in place to fleece money out of patients.

I would recommend being familiar with config files and comfortable with the command line and bash. It’s a very powerful being able to rebuild your OS at will. I would also look into Bazzite if you are interested in immutable distros.

I recommend firing up a virtual pc first with the distro first to get a feel for it.

I think we can add this to the line up of Luigi and Paper Mario.

Why does he look like a Wallace and Gromit character?

I think the Dutch are doing it as well. I’m all for it, when I switched my laptop over from Windows 11 to NixOS, it stopped running at like a 100 degrees while doing nothing more than streaming video and light compiling.

Their senate seats need to be replaced with people like Mamdani either way

I mean, they are probably running RedHat or Debian on their servers anyway, so if it’s reliable enough for them, then it’s reliable enough for clients.

Yeah, that’s a good thing, but Senate minority leader and deputy are actual positions of authority and that means their decisions and opinions matter. Which is the source of my criticism of the DNC

The point being argued here is that they need to be replaced by people like Mamdani, so the party can actually start digging the country out of the hell hole we find ourselves in.

The DNC has to start pushing out the establishment Dems or the party WILL disintegrate.

You must have some memory loss ,because Mamdani lacked the establishment Democrats support. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/04/congress/schumer-ultimately-rejects-mamdani-endorsement-00636312

Schumer caving on Trump’s big grift bill was the final nail in the coffin for the old Democrats. Ain’t it a coincidence that the 8 non-republicunts that voted for Trump’s dogshit weren’t up for reelection, so they could push the bill without damaging their image.