Listen, you don’t outgrow toys, they just get more expensive.

Well, you know, that is an option…

Someday we will find Windows 9.

Windows XP was the last good Windows.

I think you’re really only remembering XP after SP3. XP in its original form was clunky, buggy and unreliable.

It had zero bloat

Wait are you trying to be funny?

it encouraged you to use an admin account as your daily account.

This is bad. You should not do this, especially not on anything connected to the internet. You should definitely not do this on an XP system connected to the internet.

There was no built in firewall until a later service pack, but you could just opt out of that update.

I’ve eaten the onion, haven’t I?

Tell them that they should have chosen between the person that’s killing their relatives, and the person who’ll do it even more.

Um… yes? Harm reduction is a completely valid basis for making a voting decision and a completely valid reason to vote for one candidate vs. another.

Making no choice is the exact same as making the worst possible choice. Not participating is the exact same as deciding that you don’t care about the outcome. If this is your choice, then everyone else is completely justified in asking you why you didn’t do more to stop it, to make it better, to keep it from getting worse.

If there is a valid point being made here, it’s that long-term outcome-dependent strategy is more effective than short-term protestation or performative moralizing. And make no mistake, the right wing has plenty of people with long-term visions who know how to manipulate their voter base.

The left needs to start planning beyond the next election, or reacting to the latest atrocity, and develop a vision for what the country could be, what it should be.

You can’t pay people to care.

The U.S. methods of choice have been wars, regime-change operations and unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions).

Because of course, China and Russia would never

All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall

Dax would never

There is some benefit in allowing the fascists to publicly self-identify, but the benefit depends on the rest of the public responding with immediate and unequivocal rejection and ridicule.

like spice

wut

Rupert Murdoch and Sinclair Media made this bed.

Um, worth more than hoarding money? probably, yeah.

Treat tomorrow-you as an expense for today-you, but also don’t forget to live today.

You can’t sell more or less, they’re both open source.

less is more

no really

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
And everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor and the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
And everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died…

Correct:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

US Constitution, Article 1, Section 4

Technically there’s no requirement that any of the citizens of a state be allowed to vote in their state’s elections.