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  • I’ve been saying this for a long time – the working class is no longer culturally aligned with the left after it became so serious about not tolerating rude, crude, insensitive men.

    Those are working class men.

    Politically opposing the break room behavior of the guys you claim to represent doesn’t work well. I still think there are enough of them in principle in support of various rights that they would make up a good majority of it was just about that, but the 2010’s push to punish insulting humor and misgendering lost too many, it’s now only supported by a minority of working class men. That is why going as far as Trump became a viable option for the GOP.

    The difference between Bush and Trump represents, to me, the difference between two things. The working class’s support for “live and let live” style rights to be with and become what you want, and in contrast is their objection to the expansion of “don’t be rude, shut up, play along” style restrictions on speech in various social arenas.

    I really believe that if the left had clearly rejected the wesk minority’s desire for.enforcement of political correctness, it would have either a more comfortable lead, or a close race against someone less extreme.

    The left rejected their base.

    Because they were crude.

    Instead of changing course, the left would rather just judge and lose. “Look at those men! They are not ethical! They are not smart! They shouldn’t choose him over us! We are better for them!”

    But you make no sacrifice to win them back.

    You’d rather roll your eyes, sigh, and let it happen.


  • Comment105@lemm.eetoAstronomy@mander.xyzElon Musk destroys astronomy
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    Starlink seems like a genuinely interesting and useful technology, in some ways.

    But it also seems like it might not be worth having.

    I’m thinking they might need to be deorbited, but I’m not confident in that yet. It sounds like it might be fixable in a new generation of Internet constellation satellites.

    Idk how long the issue should be tolerated to wait for that, though. And while Starlink has a good amount of customers this kind of Internet is genuinely useful for, it’s still not a lot compared to all the other internet services.

    Maybe Starlink deorbiting should come along with an expansion of the traditional communications network. But maybe it would be extremely expensive to reach Starlink’s customers with towers or cables.