They answered in another post in the thread.

Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

Nothing matters if there’s no meaningful choice on the ballot. And, your single issue perspective is part of the problem: You put your feelings first.

if my ISP provided prefix changes… affects the IP addressing on my local network.

IPv6 is just people shouting NAT BAD… Having every device have a public IP6 address I’d an anti-featute.

If you’re working in IT then you should find a new career.

That’s definitely not the quality of answer I was expecting. Thank you. I’d not realized Sony has been such an innovator.

Why is the “high end” brand Sony?

About 1998: I tried to ask a Sony receiver to deliver about 80% published RMS. After about two minutes it went into a protection mode, never to recover, bricked.

About 2005: A used Sony 5.1 HT setup’s receiver failed. The speakers said 4 Ohm on them. An HK 4 ohm stable receiver begs to differ. Speakers went to Craigslist.

I’ve been avoiding Sony for nearly 20 years. Are they doing something right for playback devices such as a CD player?

Because if you don’t do as the others then you’re perceived as personally attacking their bandwagon comfort. Said another way, your nuanced ideology is far less important than their shallow feelings.

Or pandering and drugs. Help is the exception.

Can we all start a club so I can find a boyfriend?

It was one of the first Lemmy instances. It still exists in such a format, now mostly defederated.

Ballot access is made very difficult by the duopoly. And, polls are basically fucked by bias.

Many of the best hypothetical solutions are based on votes. But, all of them have prerequisite of RCV.

For a more immediate solution, 5% of the GE POTUS vote puts an organization on every ballot in the next cycle. It’d be much more difficult to rationalize exclusion from debates when such a choice exists for everyone.

No. American and allied troops fought in the Vietnam conflict. Our strategy evolved in the Cold War and proxy wars. A proxy war is fought only with fiscal, humanitarian, and arms support.

For example, we destroyed Afghanistan in the 80’s by supporting the mujahideen fighting against the Soviet Union: a proxy war. Unable to communicate what’s been done, they resorted to extreme violence in September, 2001. So, we fucked 'em all the war back to 17th century religious persecution.

I’m a born American. I love so much about this country at the roots of the land and people I meet in it. But, it’s totally fucking rotten at the top and we refuse to admit it. If we did then we’d have to do something about it. Then, it quickly becomes obvious that voting isn’t going to do jack shit. That’s scary as fuck.

Don’t forget Vietnam and Korea.

Vietnam and Korea were hot wars. My examples are proxy wars where the locals retiliated with “terrorism”.

The US is constantly enmeshed in wars, but when was the last time Americans actually won one? 1945?

We’re achieving our goals in Ukraine right now, as we did in all my examples above. The last time we lost was Vietnam, unless we’re also counting failed coup attempts (2020).

This time it’s different.

I understand where you’re coming from. I think you’re naive.

If we wanted the war to be won then we’d have already settled it with superior airpower and munitions. Instead, we offer limited assistance and imposed Vietnam-style geographic rules.

That was the moron wing of US foreign policy.

So, the reason the program has been so successful for decades is because it’s being run by morons?

That’s how you’re backing your assertion of “vatnik propaganda”?

Wow. Good luck with that nonsense.

Afghanistan. Iraq. Iran. Libya. Syria.

But, suuuure. This time it’s different.

This isn’t an error. A proxy war at the expense of innocents has always been the plan. It’s what we do. The rest is just lies we tell ourselves to feel good about it. Ukraine needs to join NATO afterwards so they won’t retaliate with “terrorism” like everyone else has in the past. Bonus: Allied airfields on Russia’s doorstep.

The US is the only NATO ally to maintain a bomber fleet. The role of the modern bomber is to deliver guided munitions and an air-launched nuclear deterrent.

Due to many deployments and the cost of repair and maintenance, the B-1 has been retired. There are roughly 20 B-2 Spirit’s in the fleet capable of delivering guided munitions. The B-52 Stratofortress can deliver guided munitions and is a platform for the Air-Launched Cruise Missile nuclear deterrent, to be replaced by the LRSO system in a few years. The B-21 Raider is expected to enter service around 2027 but much of capability and intent is classified.

While the last B-52 was manufactured in 1962 and the existing 72 airframes are expected to serve as at least the air-launched nuclear deterrent (LRSO) platform of the bomber fleet into perhaps the 2050’s, everything important has been redesigned and replaced: engines, nacelles, fire and launch control, and fuel system. It’s as if one gutted and remodeled a house, including replacing the exterior, some parts several times. The latest variant focuses on new engines, expected in a few years.

TL;DR Colonizers gonna’ colonize. And, knowing is half the battle. G.I. Jooooooe!

After Trump publicly supported a Venezuelan coup in 2019, in 2020 Silvercorp, a US corporation, sent 60 soldiers to effect the coup. Elon tweeted “We coup who we want,” because he’s socially inept and his various business interests would benefit immensely from stolen lithium. The coup failed.

Maduro may be a villain. But, arresting colonizers isn’t why.

And, that’s exactly how we got so dumb.

Check out The Manufacturing of Consent. Or, if lighter reading is your thing, 1984.

The prolitariat doesn’t need the protection of governance from ideas. That’s how we get Nazis. Study your history.