Strongly agreed.
I'm reminded of the scene in Groundhog Day in which they have that one day that just unfolds naturally and is so wonderful, and then the next time through, the Bill Murray character tries to duplicate it, and it's just awful and cringey.
Lemmy, given the chance, will (continue to) develop its own norms and memes and traditions, and be that much better for it. Just trying to duplicate Reddit here is not only doomed to failure, but cringey.
"Doubts grow?"
Why would they even need to "grow?" This is just June and July all over again, with the only difference being that Hamas isn't buying any of it this time around.
The Biden administration isn't trying to negotiate anything. It's just trying to strike a pose to dodge the entirely deserved condemnation it's getting for enabling a genocide while continuing to enable a genocide.
“I think she’s beautiful — very beautiful! I find her very beautiful. I think she’s liberal. She probably doesn’t like Trump. I hear she’s very talented. I think she’s very beautiful, actually — unusually beautiful!"
I don't think it's with her popularity that the creepy old serial sex abuser is preoccupied...
As intended. The wealthy few don't buy Supreme Court justices for no reason.
The decisions aren't just about undermining climate policies - they're more broadly about eliminating any impediments to the wealthy and empowered few raping and pillaging to their hearts' content, entirely free of any threat of consequences. But that's ncessarily largely about climate, since that's one of the most notable areas in which the wealthy few are causing significant direct and measurable harm and thus are most eager to avoid the consequences they so richly deserve.
Should they be? Yes.
Will they be? No.
It really doesn't matter what should happen, because the simple fact of the matter is that the fossil fuel companies own enough corrupt politicians to successfully avoid the wholly deserved consequences for their overtly malicious acts.
And a billionaire singer who's already such a common target for AI deepfakes that she's quite likely the one person on the planet most ready, willing and able to sue someone's ass off over them.
Wow - that was quite possibly the dumbest thing he's done yet.
What makes you think I care who you're voting for?
The rest of that sentence, which you unsurprisingly ignored:
but that still beats the hell out of allowing the election of a would-be tyrant who fully intends to dismantle every part of the federal government that provides any benefit at all to the people or that in any way inpedes the ability of the wealthy few to rape and pillage to their hearts’ content and to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the military domestically to put down any protests that might result.
Entirely unsurprisingly, this article never actually answers that argument.
It notes, essentially just in passing, that:
There is no doubt that the civil rights that were won over generations of struggle are under attack. The Voting Rights Act is being dismantled. An unelected Supreme Court is slashing people’s rights. The electoral system is being modified to allow the right wing to win with a minority of votes. And the rise of Trump’s ultra-right movement with its hateful and violent tendencies is of course a dangerous expression of this anti-democratic tendency – Trump himself is now openly promising a form of semi-dictatorial rule if elected.
But then it just shifts back to making the point that Biden (the article was obviously written before Harris became the candidate, but presumably the point remains) isn't left enough. It never directly addresses the existential threat that Trump poses, or the near certain fact that if Trump wins, the country will be moved so far to the right, and so many civil liberties will be stripped, that those who support the far left not only will almost certainly never get another chance to vote for a candidate of their choice, but quite possibly won't even remain free, and might not even remain alive.
Yes - it sucks to have to support yet another Overton Window shifting Democrat who almost certainly won't actually do anything to actually accomplish any truly leftist goals, but that still beats the hell out of allowing the election of a would-be tyrant who fully intends to dismantle every part of the federal government that provides any benefit at all to the people or that in any way inpedes the ability of the wealthy few to rape and pillage to their hearts' content and to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the military domestically to put down any protests that might result. The first option is disappointing, but the second is the literal death of US democracy and liberty.
Reminder that Trump doesn't live in reality.
He lives in a fantasy world in which he's the rightful center of the universe, and his entire conception of truth and falsehood and right and wrong is based on how well or how poorly things or ideas or people fit into that worldview.
Who said anything about striving to be different?
That's at least as cringey as striving to be the same, and generally even more so.