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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One wonders what would happen if someone were to defy local government by misappropriating funds from a liquor store cash register.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We've already shown that we aren't a serious country. Not because Trump is a blithering idiot, but because our system of checks and balances has almost completely failed to restrain him. We are no longer a nation of laws, rather a nation where the law serves those with wealth and power.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Tapper book was an attempt to scapegoat Biden and avoid discussion of the real issue: Why does our electoral system allow a party (not part of government) to suppress a primary? Left has been running corporate Dem's hard since '16, they were desperate to avoid a real primary. Here we are.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Couldn't agree more. People are begging for leadership, but Democratic leaders serve donors, not the people. Trouble is neither party actually believes in democracy.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's because changing policies might endanger their relationships with wealthy donors.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That Democrats were afraid to take the step that does NOT violate the constitution after Trump took several that DID, tells just about all we need to know. They are not the same, but they largely work for the same people - It's not voters.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Keep hearing about Democrats vs Republicans, but often it's really donors vs voters. See also: Data centers.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I like to say that Republicans blame big government and Democrats blame big business, trouble is while we were distracted by all the noise big government and big business got into bed together to screw the rest of us. :-)

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Not to put too fine a point on it, but having been on the internet since the 1990s it sure is disappointing how things turned out. Advertising, rent-seeking and surveillance have ruined tech.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Couldn't agree more. This is why fascists do not care about accusations of falsehood or hypocrisy. These statements are about *power*, not any objective reality.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Read once that both Democrats and Republicans are loathe to admit how far right Clinton was. NAFTA, crime bill, a lot of deregulation, etc.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

People forget we did this all in 2020. Corporate Democrats went around screaming about how only they could protect us from Trump, we elected them, then they boldly... (checks notes)... Oh yes, then they boldly did jack shit, and here we are.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One, I completely agree that we need significant changes and two, I'm worried we'll get a repeat of the last time we had a Democratic president and both houses, which is that they formed a commission that couldn't agree on any recommendations so they did nothing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preside...

en.wikipedia.org

Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

As Carlin said, "It's a big club and you ain't in it." Was just reading The Independent: "Jeffries and Kushner have reportedly stayed in touch after working on a criminal justice reform bill during Trump’s first term, according to the Times."

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Has a police union *ever* seen a use of force by police that it didn't consider acceptable?

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"officer used the glove... to stop a student from another school trying to escape after fighting a security guard" Need more details on the fight, but fleeing is not an act of violence. Officiers use these tools not to prevent harm, but to gain compliance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Nebraska school district asks police to stop using shock gloves on students

Omaha police agreed to stop carrying electric shock gloves in the halls of state’s largest public school district

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If one views Trump's monuments as not only being to himself, but also to the raw exercise of power by the ruling class, it would make clear the motivations of those arguing to keep them.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

As AI is coming for my field I essentially see it as a tool for enforcing what management has wanted the whole time: Reduced quality in exchange for increased throughput. It is difficult to get skilled people who care about their craft to do bad work. At least, until you start firing them.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yes. This idea is good and funny, but the interesting part is explaining why Democratic leadership is so afraid of these policy ideas: They work for corporate donors rather than voters.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Or hydrogen. The game is to promote a near-future breakthrough that isn't quite here yet, and it's not those BEVs everyone is driving either, so don't worry! Just buy one more new Camry with ICE in it, the *real* future will be here in time for your next purchase, *after* this one.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I say all day D's and R's work for the same people, but I never bought the 3D-chess / carefully crafted losses conspiracies. Not that deep, they're just chasing the money. But if Harris camp did the math, they're saying it's worth every ~5th pres. election to prevent empowering democratic voters.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Agreed. The Democratic party is surprisingly authoritarian. :-) But why defend the Electoral College, which cost them 2000 & 2016? All I can come up with is that the moneyed interests that control the party are more interested in suppressing democracy than in winning.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have been thinking about this as well. Xi has been talking about taking Taiwan by force for years. If serious, striking while the U.S. is overcommitted elsewhere and low on weaponry seems obvious. Hopefully it was just rhetoric, but otherwise, why wait? Boots in Iran? The impending recession?

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fuck man, from here it looks like ICE is *doing* most of the trafficking.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Because they are bought and paid for.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I read "concerned about electability" as "concerned the corporate wing of the party, the corporate media, and the corporate money that owns both will do everything they can to ensure the candidate is not elected". It's the extortion racket that keeps voters choosing the lesser evil.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It will get toned down, but only in the sense that they won't be in the news so much. There will be no accountability, because our descent into fascism is a bipartisan project. Have Dem's ever pushed back on police militarization, police brutality, mass incarceration?

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Torture devices. Also, being shocked by the hands that are grabbing you will not make you calm, it will make you instinctively flinch and try to pull away. This will then be charged as "resisting" and used to justify further violence. I'm sure these will frequently be "accidentally" left on.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Now now, calm down. We know that people want healthcare, but it's important to remember that the only way to defeat fascism is to avoid angering big donors and the media systems they control."

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's always important to keep a steady hand and a moderate approach when facing fascism and an assault on democracy. /s

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yeah, it's not so much that people support Trump as that our checks, balances and media have just completely laid down for him and his movement.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Someone in CBP being held accountable after committing a crime, that's the most amazing thing I've heard all week!

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The liberal alternative is that everyone is held to the same standard, equal before the law.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Conservative culture is all about strict social hierarchy. They don't recognize hypocracy because there is no absolute right or wrong, only positioning in that hierarchy. Attacking someone for a thing you did and they did not is just a way of saying "This person is lower in the hierarchy than me".

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"Gave Democrats power in 2016"... Who was president in 2016? Oh yeah, Obama! Had a majority in the House and a supermajority in the Senate at the same time for two years earlier in his presidency. Funny how little Dem's have done in the past, compared to how much they'll always do in the future.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If the people were to rise up against ICE & Trump, Republicans would call for hangings. Democrats would call for "order" and doing things the "right way", meaning donating to and voting for complicit Democrats. Faced with unified civilian leadership, the military would crush the people.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The old joke there is that neither party likes to admit how conservative Bill Clinton was. NAFTA, Crime Bill, welfare reform, defense of marriage act, not to mention all the sexual assaults.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

They've certainly allowed the "vote for us OR ELSE" extortion racket to be ratcheted up about as far as it will go, maybe further. We'll find out if we have midterms!

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Now we get to see how serious party leadership is about "vote blue no matter who". Count on MSM to keep pushing electability concerns and "too far left" while avoiding policy discussion as much as possible.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Our elections are terribly unrepresentative in many ways. That said, 2016 and 2020 primaries were pretty bruising for the right wing of the Democratic party, the left wing ran them hard. To me the biggest rig of 2024 was the lack of a real primary. That's not playing together.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Y'all got links for supporting Trump? Everything I found said she encouraged people to fight Trump, but would not endorse Harris. Or is the implication that refusing to endorse Harris is supporting Trump?

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I mean, have they even _read_ Moneyball?

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh, we're halfway there, Oh-oh, livin' in Eau Claire!

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Fuck James "let's play dead" Carville. Paraphrasing *lightly*: "Trump is terrible, hopefully he really fucks voters so they miss us." archive.is/202502251052...

archive.is

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hard disagree. Maybe you know some shitty people, but obviously book stores and libraries carried on, plenty of authors are boomers, it's just, you're painting with a pretty wide brush man. There are anarchists and capitalists and socialists and fascists in every generation.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I have been thinking that while the Union won the civil war, the Confederacy won reconstruction.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If I squint hard enough I can almost picture it as a three-party system: progressives, Democrats, Republicans, left to right. If I keep squinting I see the centrist Democratic party as being more closely aligned with the Republicans.

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techdmn.bsky.social @techdmn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Shop local, pay cash. More money stays in the local economy, and with the merchant instead of the card company. Also, did you know, credit card companies sell your purchase history to advertisers? They have your name, address, date, amount and often even a detailed list of items in your purchase.

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