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I should have been more specific. They don’t buy them television stations, newspapers etc etc etc. Air america, the closest thing they ever had went belly up because no one listened. And what most conservatives slur as msdnc. Is a solidly right wing Channel. More likely to actually hurt a good candidate and then help.

The money Democrats take in every 4 years, is chump change. Republicans and their allies spend that much or more every year.

For the uninitiated. Think Zucker Brothers on drugs cranked to 11.

And it needs to be said Fox News is hyperpartisan LOL. Just to drive your point home further. Fortunately I was able to get my parents out of the cable racket. Not that they can’t get the same misinformation elsewhere. But it’s great to not have a one stop sewage dump in your home.

We did the same for my mother’s step mother under the cover of her retirement funds running low and cable being costly. She loved fox news. Would have it on all the time when we were over. I would go on walks to keep from snapping and constantly correcting everything on it. She still finds stuff from time to time now. But it’s usually AI slop voice story time on YouTube. But she has improved.

Part of it is the incessant repetition. Even seeing something with your own eyes. If everyone around you disagrees eventually you doubt yourself. Unless is something you encounter daily to break the spell.

States like missouri. Outside our two Urban cores. There are plenty of counties and towns where Democrats are never on the ballot. And it’s not for lack of people capable of filling the jobs. Even on the outskirts of Kansas City here, it is not unusual to see Republicans running unopposed. Democrats honestly just stopped trying or caring. And so did a lot of low information voters here. Yes voting for Republicans absolutely is voting against their interests most of the time. But Republicans are the only ones that show up or seem to care.

Part of that is the copious funding through fashy bourgeoisie. Democrats don’t have a similar benefactor. Instead actually getting a lot of their donations from small donors. But the national party is so selfish and detached. Most of that money never sees a red state.

Haha honestly. I didn’t really even read the second paragraph well. No worries.

Though while many here are too indoctrinated and misinformed to ever consider voting for a Democrat. Hell many never even have had democrats running for county and local offices. So I don’t blame them for being skeptical only ever seeing Democrats showing up for statewide office. But don’t mistake that for love of Republicans.

If there were organized local support and recruiting pushing recognized viable local candidates in many of these small towns. Democrats and Republicans would take notice. There definitely are a few wild dumbasses everywhere that are solid Trump fans. But even plenty who vote Republican feel embarrassed by the party. Just slightly less abandoned by it. Because they at least make the superficial effort to seem like they’re interested where Democrats have largely written the state off.

Literally a Missourian here cheering for him. And a little low key jealous they are getting this opportunity.

If gaming is your main goal. Bazzite or similar should likely be your first target. If you want a more desktop experience. I’d probably recommended vanilla mint. LMDE and Debian are great. But LMDE is a side project, that gets a bit less support and updates. And Debian is about stability over cutting edge anything.

And a T-shirt cannon to do it with.

An Australian student short film produced by David Ashby and Dario Russo (of danger 5 fame). Which was an homage/send up of all those foreign reproductions.

Yeah but spiderman has nothing on Italian spiderman.

Agreed. Most of my state/government is not next door. So it can go fuck itself. I will show solidarity with and aid my actual neighbors and our allies. But that doesn’t include any of the state wide governance or federal government we’re denied a voice in.

That always depends. But, if you want an experience that supports all hardware and software. You can buy it cheaper than building yourself. And you’re supporting Chris/Perry as well as the designers who I believe are all now official commodore.

This video is a good watch.

I hope there’s images. This man should be celebrated. I’m down for merch

Yes. I haven’t seen any bios of the core developers yet. But they are all set up with the graphs being very promising.

It’s an open source project hosted on codeberg. Funding ATM seems to be on patreon.

Piefed gang!

Yep. It’s great for engagement and discoverability. I wasn’t aware of the image upload thing. I tend to link. But great that they are on it.

I’m sure there will be other hurdles down the road for the project. Honestly would be interested to hear from those that admin and host both what their experiences are. That’s where a lot of the hitches are going to show.

It started of rough. Just like Lemmy. But it’s gotten fast patches in the first few days of this server opening to the public. Right now as a user it’s pretty transparent coming from Lemmy.

You just have better blocking, better cross posting. Better profiles. Better tags in piefed communities etc. As well as a number of other small things.

Nope. Our blue urban core is sliced 6 ways like a pie. Each slice extending far far into rural areas. Effectively taking away our ability to have any state representation. And they’re getting ready to soup it up further.

The piefed user experience has been far superior so far. And less “baggage” for now.