DDG going hard with horseshoe theory

It would be a poor dictionary that excluded such a widely used word as “discombobulated.”

Jitsi, for sure

“Why do members of this oppressed group side with oppressors” is a perennial question, like why are there so many Republican women when Republicans generally are anti-woman…

The answer is usually something like, if you’re high on the totem pole in several ways the fact that you’re not high on the totem pole in all ways might not matter so much to you.

If you’re rich, straight, cis, and male, but not white, you get a lot out of being rich and male and straight and cis, so you may support the group that protects the interests of rich, straight, male people, even though they might not be nice to black people, the fact that you’re on the same page on so many other axes means at least they’ll usually treat you OK cause you’re one of them in so many other ways.

See also: middle class white cis straight women, or Log Cabin republicans, or whatever.

Also: poor white straight cis men.

Thank you so much for this, this is amazing

SO important

Lol no I’m not buying cryptocurrency so I can give or receive microdollars for tweets

Nostr? Isn’t that just for crypto bros, Nazis, and Jack Dorseys?

I checked it out once and the chats I dropped into were all about people giving each other “sats” (nanobitcoins) and there were also some far-right weirdos.

Conceptually it seems kinda neat but if somebody says they’re a big fan of nostr I’m gonna wonder about them

RE: “oh, so you want…”

I’m not really into argument-by-psychic-powers-or-psychoanalysis so when you open your reply by telling me you’ve read my mind, I’m done.

I mean, you’re going to get screwed by those same greedy billionaires if you invest anything of yourself and your community in it and it enters the next enshittification stage.

Which it probably is on its way to doing.

But in the meantime… wheee!

Services still in the first stage of the enshittification cycle are always fun to use

I don’t know for sure who is and isn’t a “Russian asset” for any given definition of “Russian asset.”

I mean, there was this, but she assures us that it meant nothing.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/jill-stein-says-nothing-happened-at-her-dinner-with-putin/

But in any case, the third party candidacy of the Green Party was absolutely a tool for Russia in 2016 to peel off potential Democratic voters to elect Trump, and I would expect the same games to be played this year. Specifically the Russian troll army, the Internet Research Agency, created faux Black voices on social media platforms and, after accumulating sufficient followers to have a large platform, attempted to convince Black voters to either not vote at all or vote third party.

Look, I love pretty much everything Cornell West stands for, but this seems like an incredibly unwise move, to put the best possible face on it.

I’ll just leave this here

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166

That’s so weird that an extremist Trump republican wants to do something that would be massively helpful to Russia

I finally bailed on it this year.

I have this suspicion that it might survive even this though, it’s been through so much over the years

I’ve been using DuckDuckGo since, at least 2010, maybe earlier. If its results aren’t up to snuff, I’m not aware of that because they’re what I’m used to. I fall through to Google ( !g) if I think there might be more out there. The bang commands are so good. I use DDG as my main search in my search bar and then I can use the bang commands to get to whatever specialized search I want from there. It’s a meta-search-engine.

I agree and will take it further. We don’t even need to posit a change in the meaning of the word, we need only assume that when people use the word literally, they do not mean the word “literally” literally, they mean it figuratively.

Who says you have to use the word “literally” literally? You don’t have to say the word “loudly” loudly!

“Biden remains the top contender among Democrats, however, and Trump’s lead over the other GOP contenders widened following his federal indictment earlier this month.”

Given that one is the clear favorite among Democrats, and the other is the favorite among Republicans, it’d be perverse if we didn’t get a rematch between them, unless that changes between now and the election.

This is how it is supposed to work in a two-party system. The favorites of each party get to compete. If there were somebody else who was the favorite of their party, they’d get to compete.

If it were a different system (e.g. a parliamentary system), then the rules would be different. Although tbh when I look across the pond to the UK, I can’t say they consistently do a better job picking leaders than we do.

Good boundaries, respect