Resonosity

I donated to Kamala's campaign ($10), but then I realized what direction they were taking around the DNC and stopped giving them money.

Not all doners agreed with her platform, just like how not all voters did.

Yeah they did

Currently on Windows 11 (yuck) and have a Galaxy S23.

Next devices I'm looking at are a Framework laptop and Fairphone.

The QR code sounds super easy which is a good sign. I guess most of my complaints rest with what a full FOSS and pro-privacy cyber-system would look like overall. I come from a Windows world so I have those household names stuck in my head, like Word, Outlook, etc. I guess I'm really looking for a guide that has a 1:1 for the entire OS from Windows to Linux, and maybe more if it improves people's lives. Thinking Jellyfin and Bitwarden and all those purpose-driven applications.

At this point I don't know what I don't know, and I just wish that some of the awesome devs on Lemmy would post a guide to all of this, soup to nuts style. Maybe one day

I just have realistic expectations of my elected representatives actually advocating for my interests in government.

Dems could sure accelerate our energy transition away from fossil fuels towards green energy with more initiatives like the IRA and GND.

Dems could sure undo Reaganomics and Citizens United, audit our contracts with corporations so they work for us, break up monopolies, and a heck of a lot of other things to get us moving in the right direction.

Truth is that a growing portion of Americans support these. Leftist populism is on the rise. And we might have a good chance to organize this time around because Dems have stopped telling those comforting lies to their base. Kamala didn't do what Obama did. The Dems' true nature was seen far and wide.

Dems are the ones smothering themselves with comforting lies, and the disappointint truth is that they'll keep losing elections in favor of elected representatives who actually listen to their base: Republicans.

God I wish I could learn more about this shit.

For all of the Linux and FOSS nerds on Lemmy, I don't think I've seen one make a guide on how to have good digital stewardship of oneself. Syncthing sounds freaking awesome. Still feel like there's a barrier to entry for me though

One angle that might explain the lack of media coverage on a win for the working class against the interest of capital owners is that the media itself, at least the mainstream slice of it, is owned by the capitalist class.

MSM will cover things if they think it'll bring in more ratings. You see it with how many news outlets are treating the upcoming Trump administration. For Cons, they're banking on a viewer base that'll be more interested in Trump coverage. For Dems, they're banking on a viewer base that'll be more hateful and agree of Trump coverage.

So when you have wins for the working class that Biden's administration directly helped with, and when you have a media industry that just won't cover it out of their own self-interest, you have to wonder if the administration will spend Americans' on advertising or just keep it and move on.

One might say that the best time to do that advertising is during an election campaign though. And that begs the question as to why Biden nor Harris brought this up in their campaigns.

Might it be that those groups are also subject to the capitalist class?

Copium

And the rich.

Pretty much lmao

When you mean "all", I wonder who you group in that conception.

Not all of us believed Kamala would win. A good group of people were calling out Kamala's shit since the DNC, and everything since. With the direction of the campaign, you had a good chance to predict Kamala's underperformance.

Let's not kid ourselves here.

When fully capable adults do stupid things, like campaigning to a voting base as grotesque as Trump's, I blame them for doing it.

Democrats, or at least those in their establishment bubble either on TV, on podcasts, at the DNC, or on the congressional floor, will believe anything they want to that'll pass on blame and hold to a superiority complex that they're never wrong. Power corrupts and all that.

Inspiration is absolutely required when you outside of the representative Democracy have lost hope in the economy, society, or planet. Apathy is much more destructive than idiocy, even when the latter is in favor of fascism. Apathy is what lets fascism and idiocracy prosper. There needs to be a counterforce should we keep the alternative at bay.

Democrats did not take Trump's potential to do the above seriously enough, either in his rhetoric to espouse fascism or cast mis- and disinformation. And now we have to deal with their failure.

Doesn't matter.

Self-interest matters. What politicians will do for voters matters. That day old potato salad may be better than Trump, but it's not at all inspiring.

If Democrats really took fascism as a threat, they would have activated Tim Walz and his views and pushed as fast and as hard as they could with the time they had to make the most progressive campaign since Obama's.

But they went after the base who would have voted for a fascist anyways.

This is Democrats' own doing. Sorry.