Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

@HikerGeek I'm not worried about Biden the President. Never was.

I'm worried about Biden the Candidate. I don't think he has the energy left to get out the vote in the swing voter contingent.

Isn't it about time for a massive new migrant caravan to form? They're not going to arrive in November if they don't get started soon.

@HikerGeek She is, by far, the most qualified candidate right now. I'd vote for her in a heartbeat and encourage others to do so too.

@RandomAnt Right, but in all that time, have you ever had legitimate concern that if the next vote goes wrong, it could be everyone's last vote?

There's a big difference between opponents with disastrous policy and opponents fundamentally opposed to our system of representative government, is there not?

@michaelmagras It was never about what we needed to know. Democrats were always going to vote whoever was on the ticket.

It's about who can energize the swing voters in the middle.

I was all for #Biden dropping out to make room for a better candidate, but it's too late now. His hubris was overwhelming and he stuck around long enough that he's forced us to keep him on the ticket.

In doing so, he may have doomed our country and our democracy.

All we can do now is rally behind him, knowing that the people in the middle are probably going to vote for #Trump, just because he can actually speak somewhat coherently.

Well, that and we should probably stock up on ammunition, so we can go down fighting instead of passively being dragged to the gulag by goose-stepping thugs.

@glassbottommeg If you haven't already, check out Roadwarden.

@IrishStewPodcast @maddler Facebook already requires real names. Do you think he receives less "menace and spite" on that platform than on others because of the lack of anonymity?

The bottom line is that politics is hard and public and it should be; if they can't handle the feedback of the public, good and bad, then they probably weren't meant for public service anyway.

@BruceMirken @micchiato Bingo. Blaming Biden for House Republicans' actions is one hell of a stretch.

Wait, the billionaire is siding against the party that wants to tax him fairly?

Who could have possibly seen that coming?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-12/elon-musk-donates-to-trump-tapping-vast-fortune-to-swing-2024-race

FFS #Meta. I'm one of the biggest #FreeSpeech advocates in the country and even I recognize that "allowing political expression" is much lower on the priority list than "avoiding serious risks to human rights". The fact that you have to "weigh" the two means that you have no fucking clue what you're doing.

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/01/trump-facebook-instagram-account-suspension/

@Brandi_Buchman Yeah, I kind of doubt they'll even take it. This one seems pretty clear-cut and grounded in precedence, and as bad as this SCOTUS has been lately, they're pretty solid on 1A issues.

Oh no. I've reached the point in my career where refactoring feels good.

I'm gonna be forced to start coding in Rust soon, aren't I?

@QRSS_Test @SecurityWriter It happened before that. It was when they chose to represent the interests of gun manufacturers over the interests of gun owners.

@inthehands Is there any real evidence that that's not what's happening?

Our primaries are pretty fierce too, but we come out the other side united.

I don't think Biden has what it takes to beat Trump anymore, but that certainly wouldn't prevent me from voting for him. I expect the exact same from the Biden-stays crowd.

@grimalkina I think there are two distinct concepts there:

There's the "desire for growth" which is driven largely by the investor-class, who is never satisfied with steady profit.

Then there's the "capacity for growth", which is something that programmers strive for, but mostly just as a defense mechanism, because when something doesn't scale easily, all the bosses see is "broken" rather than "we failed to invest in our future adequately".