eldavi

eldavi , vor 5 Tagen

... which is ultimately for the better. This way I can die with a clear conscience.

i envy you and i wish i could say the same thing because i have to vote for biden or else we'll regress backwards in addition to dying.

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If they had run someone under the age of 40 I imagine every leftist voter under the age of 50 would have been voting for them.

cough

eldavi , vor 5 Tagen

after winning a simple majority

don't listen to them; our systems beats theirs because you don't even need a majority to win over here thanks to the electoral college and gerrymandering. lol

eldavi , vor 5 Tagen

But if you group the far right with the increasingly far right “conservatives”, it looks much more bleak.

we've been in that situation since the 1980's; our center-right and our far right are our only choices for president now.

i used to think europe's democracies were ahead since they carried on with progressive initiatives the americans stopped doing in the 1970's, but now i wonder if europe's lurch rightwards is them catching up to the americans.

eldavi , vor 5 Tagen

In my mind we need heavier punnishment, we need containment punnishments, way longer punnishments for those who are not interested in rehab which our justice system focuses on, after two times caught they need to get an automatic 10x the time normally given. If people are not interested in being part of a working society, then I’d rather they stay locked up.

we do that here; not only does it both not work well and allows people to profit from exacerbating it; it fixes a lot less and costs a lot more than treating it like a societal issue; changing policy; and aggressive outreach.

we've also had recidivism rates drop when convicts were given alternatives viable to their situation instead of focusing on the punishment.

eldavi , vor 5 Tagen

i sometimes wonder if he wishes he had stayed more of a celebrity than a politician.

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he also has a front seat view to this country's rightward shift and i wonder how frustrating it is to be so close to the levers of power to stop it; but to be blocked both your adversaries and your allies each time you try to reach for them.

eldavi , vor 5 Tagen

I get what you are saying, but we allready have a prison system focusing on rehabilitation, and it doesn’t phase the gangs.

you'll never stop the gangs; but you can make it more difficult to operate if it becomes getting harder to find new gang members and less cost effective to retain the ones trapped in their sphere.

By increasing the length of prison sentences, we atleast keep them contained for longer.

that's what i meant by viable alternatives to their situation; no matter how long you contain them they eventually have to return to their situation and all at great cost.

If you have any other suggestion, please go ahead and tell me.

aggressive outreach is a more effective tactic at combating gangs

eldavi , vor 5 Tagen

I'm an American so when we say "Europe" we assume it's understood that I mean Western Europe. Lol

eldavi , vor 3 Tagen

Yes; every time a city, county, or state does this; it ends up getting shutdown no matter how successful they are

eldavi , vor 6 Tagen

I would vote for a wet sandwich before I vote for Trump, but Jesus Christ, it would be nice if the democrats fucking tried.

why should they? you're going to give them what they want from you anyways in november and multiple novembers into the future; there's literally no reason for them to ever bother.

eldavi , vor 6 Tagen

i wish he was on drugs; maybe he would have done better.

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except they didn’t because they didn’t learn shit.

not only did they not; but they cock blocked a popular progressive candidate from running; twice.

eldavi , vor 8 Tagen

or create a tv show and watch as millions fawn over their every move

eldavi , vor 7 Tagen

so too are a lot of gay men

eldavi , vor 15 Tagen

why does the one on the right look so displeased? lol

eldavi , vor 20 Tagen

they've got almost every single monied interest behind them; the last times that the stars lined up like that for anything we got this and another country that have lasted the last few centuries.

eldavi , vor 21 Tagen

okay Ivan; go back to the gulag before putin puts you there. lol

eldavi , vor 27 Tagen

i suspect that most of them are reddit refugees since they push so hard for an echo chamber against viewpoints they don't like

eldavi , vor einem Monat

Figured I’d stay on FF until I had no choice. Don’t see myself leaving.

i'm in a similar boat and given the overwhelming majority popular use of chrome, it feels clear to me that firefox will eventually stop working and i wonder what surfing will like like for me in the future.

i suspect i'll have to go back to use chrome again.

eldavi , vor einem Monat

It’s happening to me this year and I feel it. I’m going to be an old fart that I said I never wanted to be. Wish I owned a lawn to yell at kids to get off of, guess I’ll just have to settle with being grumpy in the hallway of my rental whenever I cross paths with another human.

i crossed that threshold a little 2 years ago and both my eye sight and hearing immediately started calling it quits once i hit 40. i always thought that being a stereotypical broke ass millennial would keep me young so long as i didn't have a lawn or medicare to obsess over, but it's clear that it's not true since i've lost count how many times gen-z'ers misidentified me as a boomer and fellow millennials keep insisting on pushing the millennial birth year further up.

eldavi , vor einem Monat

they're starting to say it closer to 1985 now; according to the 95% of the fellow millennials i talk to