So much of the finance industry is a corrupt joke now, and plebs like me are the butt.

Wow! That George Kastanza picture really suits you. Not in a good way.

😂 yeah, i hadn’t clocked that one yet. I’ll look out for it.

On no, don’t say you US people use Erin as a guys name as well! Dammit! I can barely understand the difference between how you say Aaron and Erin, and now I can’t even consider whether you lot are refering to a guy or gal to understand which name you mean! Ugh!! I just can’t with you lot! This is worse than losing to you in the soccer! /j

Sex and … rules… can be fun… ;)

When you say dense… what is it we’re… talking about?.. 😏

I was leaning toward, ‘without winning the Senate its a waste of time when there are so many other pressing concerns.’

But no, you’re right, they have to walk and chew pedo-gum at the same time. They have to take action against the ongoing national threat, and they have to move the country on from these people’s dystopic vision of the US. Its a necessary part of the program.

It’d also have the tactical benefit of distracting from the WH regime’s program, and allow political space for wavering Republicans to push back against certain excesses lessening the damage the WH is able to carry out from that point.

Necause you misspelled ‘but’ I then had to read your comment with a Scottish accent.

Not until the US realises the systemic issues supporting the populist despots position. I’ll focus on the two party system below.

If the Democratic Party truly want to improve the USA what they can do is break up. The duopoly can be blown up. They could do it brexit style and just completely flip the board this would inevitably lead to Republican domination but quickly without another major side to fight against their anti-democratic actions will be the only thing to talk about. A bit like how the only thing to do with brexit is ignore it, or talk about it’s costs. This would hurt the USA and democracy would go through a recession.

Another option is to recreate their party structure to only be based between clear democracy sign posts. Agree to support any democratic president that is elected, but in elections they could support their different preferred candidates. Only after an election is resolved do they fall in line behind a democratic winner. In other words be a big tent, formalise the so called ‘caucuses’ underneath the current Party as different and increasingly independent Party’s, welcome in Republican ‘caucuses’ who still believe in democracy and use the Democratic Party as the banner to build out a multi-party system at the federal level.

Its long, complicated, and probably has many flaws, but multi-party coalition Governments seem to be the worlds best chance at holding onto a liberalised and mostly Just system of governance.

So a path towards coalition multi-party democracy is what I’m essentially advocating here. Too many Republicans don’t even understand the benefits of the democratic system so I can’t see many of them have the cojones to blow up their party, they’d happily live under a dictator it seems.

They’re not throwing stones. They’re identifying with the helpless predicament many people under terrible regimes feel.

HK65 would like to change Hungary, but they can’t, but know people on the outside still expect they will change the system though.

The key word is “sincerely”. That turns the message from a dismissal of the nuance of how democratic a system is, to an understanding that people in other nations in a sense flatten the countries internal fights between regime supporters and opponents.

I had an extra draw in my desk for a while; Decided I’d keep a few steands of string in there; Partner laughed and called it ridiculous; lo and behold couple months go by and who comes along looking for string.

I think this is probably to a degree correct.

Nobody talks about Project 2025 anymore. Apparently the administration went right through that step by step, Heritage Foundation wasn’t built for Trump, but he did deliver them a lot of what they wanted. I find it hard to believe these Republicans associate themselves with Heritage foundation yet are that unhappy when that plan is in large portions delivered.

A lot of people wonder why the Republicans don’t push back more, usually putting it down to fear of being primaried. I can’t help thinking a lot of the talk about Republican lawmaker’s anger and hate directed towards the US President in the Capitol are crocodile tears, and they’re just saving face while they wave through the destructive changes they’ve always argued for.

You’ve misinterpreted why they stated they are Hungarian.

They’re identifying what they’ve experienced from interactions with another country’s people as a Hungarian with Viktor Orban in charge.

Stop fucking reporting every brainfart he has. Report it when and if he relaunches the Apprentice to choose. I’m sure every POTUS in history has said the same thing, but the press never used to report such inane crap, especially not as their headline. Surely this crap can’t still be driving click through rates.

Ah! Oh cool, but this would take geolocation. I predict that being a hard sell for lemmings.

But as I type that i realise/remember your post here is primarily an introduction for potential instance operators, not so much a user base. So the geolocation as an ‘issue’ is likely far less important (not forgetting a user can just turn it off anyway).

Oh, I see. Why have you made that choice? I’d understand to keep the subjects towards more community oriented interests, but then, i’m not sure why federation of other community habitats would have any advantages over being separate.

For example, I imagine East Sussex and Alsace-Lorraine wouldn’t have a great degree of things to share between disparate instances like that.

Anyway, i’ve not had a chance to look at your instance yet, so maybe i’ll understand it better when I duck over there for a sticky beak. All sounds very exciting though! Well done!

How is it federation but not Activitypub specifically? I thought that was the only protocol that currently allows for federation. Are there others? Or other ways?

Whats up with all the weird spelling in that article? The = signs in place of letters are very prominent.

Is it some sort of anti-ai thing they’re trying?

Middle powers need to come to a settled policy position around a bancor-like policy. I think its unlikely a major power would take the lead instead of favouring their own currency as reserve. After half a century the idea probably needs updating. Then they need to coordinate as blocs to make it painful for China and USA to resist.

If middle powers can peel one major away from their own more position of self regard, maybe in a moment of strategic weakness, then that could make it far more likely to be successful. So a situation not unlike what the USA did with the Russia-China partnership under Nixon.

Without the major economies of the world all signing on, i’m not sure if a bancor could be done with middle powers and developing nations alone. Maybe theres a model between this set of nations that works without setting off recurring imbalance of payments crises? I’m not sure.

Professor Steven Keen speaks very well on the bancor, he and Phil Dobbie get into it on their Debunking Economics Podcast.

Sorry u/dustycups, had to follow you along here and have a sticky beak. :)