the point being that you can not “waste” your vote. the mindset of your vote being “wasted” is the propaganda from the vote blue no matter who crowd. if everyone voted for the candidate they actually wanted and didn’t worry about being “right”, or on the “winning” side, the world would be a better place. that’s the whole reason i mentioned the prisoners dilemma.

hell, not voting can be a choice and not a surrender to apathy. it’s not your job to sacrifice your morals in order to side with one ass hole over another to take advantage of the office. it’s the dnc’s job to be electable and not field shit stain fucks.

right? like i said elsewhere what do establishment democrats actually stand for, because it is not the following:

climate change, immigration, lgbtq+ protection, reigning in corporations, resisting genocide, universal healthcare, loosening racially motivated drug enforcement, breaking up the prison industrial complex, breaking up the military industrial complex, defunding the police, establishing ranked choice voting, repealing citizens united, making bribery illegal again, nor establishing term limits.

bullshit. there is no slightly left of center, that “center” line fucking slides forever and exclusively to the right. the only way to stop that is to not give establishment democrats ANY power. it’s more important to change the tempo of the democratic party then to pretend fight the republicans.

The only way to actually win is to vote for a canidate that actually represents the closest to my actual wants. and the establishment democrats have exactly zero actual alignment on my wants. don’t give me their bullshit campaign promises, my memory is longer then three months.

no, but like i said. there is nothing on this earth that will change my position. it’s up to the democrats to decide how painful they want the rest of the world to suffer before they are forced into the light kicking and screaming.

you do not get forward momentum by voting the lesser of two evils.

what position do the establishment democrat actually hold that would make the lesser of two evils at all a viable choice? because it sure as shit ain’t climate change, immigration, lgbtq+ protection, reigning in corporations, resisting genocide, universal healthcare, loosening racially motivated drug enforcement, breaking up the prison industrial complex, breaking up the military industrial complex, defunding the police, establishing ranked choice voting, repealing citizens united, making bribery illegal again, nor establishing term limits. so i ask you, what the fuck is left?

“the democrats will hold trump accountable!” big fucking whoop. he will probably die before the end of his fucking term, and if not the only reason the democrats will drag him through a congressional panel (but never prison!) until the day he dies, is so they can do the exact same thing trump does to avoid answering for the epstien files, distract from doing their fucking jobs, and taking corporate bribe money.

i am so fucking tired of this vote blue no matter who bullshit.

you can argue some perverse version of the prisoners dilemma all you want, but when i said that i will not vote establishment democrat, i mean i. will. not. vote. establishment. democrat.

sure that’s why i vote third party, or candidates i know push my interests. I will not vote for establishment democrat.

because climate concerns are not a concern with either party? both sides may not be the same, but they hold the same views on 90% of all things. and more and more that last 10% seems to be things they want but are still ashamed about it.

i droped out of elite dangerous when they made it so you could transition offline. so like, if you are transporting cargo, you would go offline and only be interdicted by the hapless bots. they would save up money to buy the super ships to pirate or to bounty hunt or to guard. but what is there to pirate? the haulers are offline. what pirates are there to hunt? the haulers are off line, what convoys are their to guard? the haulers are off line.

pvp was relegated to prebuilt nascar like standardization, and prevented limpets from forcing open cargo holds. it got super boring super quick

i’m my case i am using apparently old hardware, i ran into the following issues with my set up:

• my usb cable for the mic was crap. and because the signal was flaky, Bazzite put the port on low priority mode where it only checks in when asked
• the usb cable was insufficient to push the data, i swear it came with the mic. still thing this was a dubious conclusion, but a new cable was 5$
• Bazzite would ask my USB speaker and mic within milliseconds of receiving power what their designation was, and the controllers in the devices responded so slowly that Bazzite gave them new names and put them in passive mode. i had to bake in the command to treat that like legacy equipment (ouch) to sit and listen for a reply however long it takes.
• the speakers are flipped in meat space, due to outlets and the length of available cable, i can not change this, so i had to flip it in software, i was recommended easyeffects, but pipewire hated its guts, and i was better off learning to bake it in via the terminal after i was able to find the devices actual name once i got them out of passive jail above.
• i had to bin the flat pack versions of discord and my web browser Vivaldi. don’t want to get into a browser war i have had enough trying to siphon through redacted reddit posts about that

won’t lie i had to use AI to RTFM though chat GPT bricked my stuff more then i should have let it. gemini was better at this

i switched over to Bazzite about a week ago, and it has been super frustrating. though it’s not in where you think. the game my group is playing (Arc Raiders) worked without a hitch.

• but my speaker system, and microphone forced me to learn a whole lot about USB hand shakes,
• ghost usb profiles,
• usb cable choice,
• what a flatpac is and why people hate it,
• nano eccentricities (including how to save and quit, just labeling ctrl-o as save and not overwrite would stop so much bs),
• sink states,
• device name resolution,
• pipewire,
• pipe plumber,
• pipe wire holding devices hostage,
• usb power flapping because i plugged my speakers and my mic to close to each other causing the os to just give up on the both of them.
• the timing of when the os asks for usb identifiers, verses when the usb devices are given power
• out dated guides relying on depreciated methods and acceptable code used in modifiers to os procedure.

my experience and days of trouble shooting the “easy” replacement os for gaming has frightened my friend group far away from linux.