bobburger

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[–] bobburger@fedia.io -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I appreciate the optimism, but who is going to pass a wealth tax?

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately you'll never actually tear it down and rebuild it through pointeless slacktivism on obscure internet forums to sympathetic strangers.

Until you've torn down the system and rebuilt it you only hurt yourself and your cause by refusing to participate.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You probably want to go to a minimum security federal prison. The easiest way to get there that I think of is check fraud.

You'll need to write a bunch or bad checks in as many states as you can, or send them through the mail. You'll need to do this a lot, and for a pretty significant amount of money otherwise they'll just give you probation of some sort.

Having a disability might be a problem though; if it costs too much medically to keep you in prison they'll just out you back on the street as a compassionate release.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

Llamafile is a pretty good option for 100% local LLMs. The smaller models are pretty good for basic applications. They run at a reasonable speed on my Samsung laptop and really fast on my M2 macbook.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My head cannon is he tried to shoot Trump because he was bitched up about not making the rifle team and wanted to prove to everyone what a great shot he really was.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 32 points 4 months ago (8 children)

From what I see what went wrong is letting the speech continue after receiving a report of a gunmen, and then even worse they let the speech continue after visually confirming the gunmen.

The cop should have radiod "investigatig a gunmen on this rooftop" and as soon as he did they should have stopped the speech and gotten Trump to safety.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

The FBI identified Crooks by analyzing his DNA, officials told local CBS affiliate KDKA, as he did not have any identification on him.

This is the part that makes me go wtf...

How did they go from sampling his DNA and identifying him in that short amount? I don't remember the exact time, but it seemed like it took about 5 hours.

Edit: It's been a long day and I guess my timeline is way off. I thought they identified the suspect last night, but apparently it was sometime early this morning. That makes the turn around time a lot less wtf.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] bobburger@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

The progressive wing is only about 12% of the Democratic voter base. If about 56% of Democrats want Biden to withdraw then at most 12% of those are progressive, leaving about 44% who could be the corporate Democrats that aren't the first targets of the fascists.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate the good faith response rather than FUD and dismissive memes.

I agree with all of your concerns about the Biden administrations lack of communication and his age. However I disagree that any of those candidates are particularly exciting, they all have pretty much the same national and forgein policies Biden, they're just younger.

At this point being not Biden might be exciting enough for some people. Whoever the candidate is they'll still have the general DNC baggage turning of black voters. They'll have the same support for Israel turing of the anti-Israeli voters. Plus they'll have whatever individual baggage they have that most voters don't know about.

Also we have no idea how they'll perform in a national debate or how successful they'll be at campaigning. Running a presidential campaign is a completely different monster than a state race.

I don't disagree that an alternative to Biden needs to be considered, but I don't see a clearly better candidate out there or a way to replace Biden that won't cause even more problems for the DNC.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That's 36%, not 35%. According to the link you shared overall Biden is polling about 40%, 2.2% behind Trump.

That also shows Trump at 36%, so polling at 36% is pretty good for that tiny subset of the poll you shared.

Here's a link to the entire poll that you decided not to share for some reason.

Interestingly enough the headline for the poll you didn't link is "Only Michelle Obama bests Trump as an alternative to Biden in 2024". I wonder why you went out of your way to obfuscate that.

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