Canada can never decide if they want to be Americans or British.

This but unironically.

nope

The own website you got the image from says that is mixed factuality https://web.archive.org/web/20230624204530/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1956-republican-platform/

That’s a defeatist additute. You can be a realist withotu being a defeatist. There’s always hope. I probably have as little faith in electoral politics as you do, but forming real relationships with real neighbors we can actually create the world our politicians would never support.

and yet nearly half of American union workers vote Republican. Usually because they are more concerned about “conservatives” two bread-butter issues, abortion or gun rights.

I don’t think so. In Michigan, for example, seven parties have auotmatic ballot access for the general election. Often people will say the would prefer one of the so-called third party candidates, but they just cant’ vote for them this year because the greater of two evils is so incredibly evil but next year will be different.

while this is true, most western nations have some level of FPP, and while they usually have two major parties, Like Conservative-Progressives and Labour in Canada, they still have more than two parties represented in the legislative body. I’m unaware of the last time someone was elected to congress who ran as a party other than R/D (no independents don’t count).

This attitude is why Americans have two shitty right-wing parties

prefer the term fedizens.

Now that “everyone” works from home, a lot of companies figure it cost a lot less to hire Indians to do that than Americans.

That’s often how it works. Duplicate middle management particularly is usually less needed after a merger.

that’s…more words, and more thought, it’s only the 4th of July because it’s a holiday preceding July 5th and following July third.

Holy cow that looks awesome

yes…why would that be unexpected, particularly on our free and federated network?

not sure if it answers your question but https://fba.ryona.agency/ let’s you search for who is blocking who. It currently says 22 instances are blocking or otherwise limiting interaction with kbin.social, and that kbin.social isn’t blocking anyone.

People dislike change. Besides I see no particular reason kbin should be copying reddit.

yeah I’m forced to do such inside a Microsoft eco-system at work, and Beyond Compare was surpsingly helpful at such.

I think that would not change the opinion much among the existing desktop userbase. That being said the younger generations are not by nature desktop users the way Gen-xers and millennials were. I think getting GNU/Linux as the default desktop for educational settings I think will have. Thankfully there is some traction being made on this front, particularly in places like France, Brazil & Argentina. Then again I guess it’s not an either or, as having more vendors with preloaded Educational focused distributions & support would make such adoption more likely to successfully launch in such settings.

there is certainly too much of this these days. I can only speak for myself but I try to live my interaction with others in a more libertarian manner, while trying to hold high moral standards for myself, but I fail regularly. I particularly struggle with attempting to balance what I believe my religion teaches regarding raising my family with the faith, while still respecting their rights and autonomy as individuals.