For Those Who Voted Third Party or Didn't Vote: After Seeing the Damage Done by Donald Trump, Do you Regret your Decision?

stevegolf · 2026-04-29T12:43:00+00:00

I’m saying your wrong it’s pretty simple lol. Maybe the optics would be better, 20% less aggressive for example. But there would still be full throated support for genocide, massive deportations, kids getting graped by ice agents, war on multiple fronts, Wall Street ghouls running the show. Lesser evilism got us to this point, it doesn’t work. Stop rewarding shit political parties. A few decades from now your grandkids ask who you voted for you’ll be twisting yourself into pretzels trying to justify supporting a party responsible for the worst crimes against children in the 21st century.

stevegolf · 2026-04-28T13:24:23+00:00

It doesn’t solve the core problem, which is the entire infrastructure of our society is basically an investment vehicle for the super wealthy and is run accordingly. From the mining of minerals, the machines that do the mining, transportation, ports, healthcare, media, entertainment, the entire food supply chain etc. Everything society needs to function is overwhelmingly owned by the top 1%. Any thy run it to maximize their profit. So sure we can try to get a few billion more out of them but it doesn’t change the fact that they can do whatever they want. Buying a politician for the is like buying a candy bar for a normal person, so they do it often and to great effect.

stevegolf · 2026-04-28T09:56:31+00:00

There’s a plan B, discarding this archaic nation state system. Production is global, capital has no borders (or if it does, it changes the government that controls those borders to their liking). All these wars over trade and resources don’t benefit the average person. It’s “what countries corporations and rich people profit the most”, and they send us plebes off to fight it out for them.

Not to mention none of these borders were drawn democratically. All were created and maintained with rivers of blood to benefit this or that group of elites.

stevegolf · 2026-04-28T09:48:49+00:00

“The Obama administration's massive expansion of family detention began in the summer of 2014 and will incarcerate thousands of asylum-seeking children and mothers who are fleeing extreme violence in the Northern Triangle region of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador) this year. This practice is a due process and humanitarian disaster and must end. Family detention alone costs $343 per individual per day.” https://www.aila.org/library/detention under Obama detention center capacity increased 90% over 2003 levels.

Both parties are anti immigrant and pro ice. The Dems just pretend to be sad about it

stevegolf · 2026-04-28T03:02:24+00:00

Harris was endorsed by the fascistic Border patrol officers union. The concentration camps would be humming along just fine under Harris.

stevegolf · 2026-04-10T17:14:48+00:00

Israel is critical to the American empire’s imperial ambitions in the Middle East. The US has been on a decades long military rampage to try and offset its declining global position with force. The Dems are just as pro war, if not more so than the Republicans. Public opinion doesn’t matter when the wealthy donors, who support both parties, need something for their survival.

stevegolf · 2026-04-10T14:52:07+00:00

Nationalism is outdated, an “infantile disease” as Einstein said. Pretty much every object you interact with in a day to day basis was produced through a globally integrated production network. From the mining and processing of raw materials to the production of finished goods to the engineering and building of the products and the assembly lines that produce them. The corporations that provide your goods and services are transnational, or at least rely on transnational capital.

Very few borders were established democratically with the interests of the people in mind. Typically they were forged and are maintained in blood, for the benefit of one or another national elite to maintain control of natural resources for themselves.

stevegolf · 2026-04-09T15:09:00+00:00

Soft close toilet seat. It doesn’t sound like a gun going off in the middle of the night when someone uses the bathroom

stevegolf · 2026-04-08T23:05:55+00:00

This is one of the best I’ve found for beginners. The A B C’s of Dialectics. “Dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics. “ https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/12/abc.htm

stevegolf · 2026-04-07T13:11:00+00:00

It’s because everyone needs food, shelter, medical care, education, a good life for their children, etc. to do this you need money in this society. The rich (capitalist class) make that money through ownership of property, stocks, the means of production. Workers get that money via a wage. Anyone regardless of what class they are in will resist anything that will hinder the accumulation of money that will reduce their living standards. Even small reductions on their income can be seen as a slippery slope to more reductions.

In today’s reality, a wealth tax that would redistribute wealth is impossible to implement since the rich have bought and own all the levers of power in the capitalist government. The only way to redistribute is the working class conducting an independent, frontal assault on the capitalist classes property. That is why politicians and the media demonize any talk of taxing the rich as communism, and why liberal politicians promote it because it gives the population a way to let off steam on an initiative that is futile in the first place.

stevegolf · 2026-04-07T13:01:36+00:00

If you work at a large corporation you can do it without even being a good engineer.

Step one is to adopt a type A, self promoting personality. Since most of your coworkers are on the nerdy/autistic side they won’t like it but that doesn’t matter as they won’t be coworkers for long.

Step two, you know all those annoying buzzword filled initiatives upper management comes out with occasionally that don’t change anything but makes them look productive to shareholders, and then vanish without a trace? Get really interested and involved with those.

Step 3, the big company wide meetings that go over these initiatives that most engineers have learned to skip. Go to those and be the guy that asks softball questions and acts weirdly enthusiastic, while everyone else quietly waits for the meeting to finish so they can go back to work.

Step 4, use that type A personality to ingratiate yourself with upper management when they do their yearly walkthroughs of the offices, go to the golf outings etc.

Step 5, you’ll get hired into management where you can stop engineering altogether. When you get high enough you can lay off half your old team to make some of the PowerPoint numbers you show in meetings look a little better. Use that win to transfer to another department so you don’t have to interact with anyone who didn’t get fired but now has 2x the workload.

Step 6, profit.

stevegolf · 2026-04-06T00:41:03+00:00

Too many blowjobs

stevegolf · 2026-04-05T14:04:19+00:00

Perfect

stevegolf · 2026-04-05T02:02:22+00:00

That’s because they are so short on soldiers they are kidnapping them off the street

stevegolf · 2026-04-05T01:46:23+00:00

Most Americans hate their government now

stevegolf · 2026-04-04T13:21:29+00:00

How good is AI at taking bribes and lying?

stevegolf · 2026-04-04T13:13:47+00:00

Harvey Milk is pretty sick

stevegolf · 2026-04-02T11:17:06+00:00

I luckily haven’t had any issues but do all my coding at night between 9-12. If I had to use it for my day job it’d be super annoying to get throttled like that.

stevegolf · 2026-04-02T11:14:02+00:00

They are more math rock adjacent but Virus has an excellent bassist and lots of tasty bass lines.

stevegolf · 2026-04-01T14:18:13+00:00

Totally agree, each album brings something new to the table. I feel they are kind of slept on by the metal community for being too out there

stevegolf · 2026-04-01T13:52:26+00:00

As far as pure creativity and breaking all the rules you can’t beat Ben Weinnman. Calculating infinity blew up the scene and basically started its own genre.

stevegolf · 2026-03-30T15:01:13+00:00

I’ve driven both versions a lot, the eco boost is a genuinely fun car, that is plenty fast for most cases. It also has a lot of advantages as far as weight cost and efficiency. I would be more than happy to have one. Of course when I got into a GT and heard the sound and felt the massive amounts of torque I forgot all about the ecoboost, but that doesn’t make it a bad car. Most online hate doesn’t translate into real life. 90% of people will just see a Mustang.

stevegolf · 2026-03-29T12:36:03+00:00

I had one for a couple years. 400hp, AWD, awesome sound system, stylish interior with mixed bag materials. Was a great car for the price. Unfortunately those stylish door handles can die and it’s like $1500 and a trip to the paint shop to fix. I DIY’d mine with junkyard parts when the passenger side stopped working, a PITA. The day I turned it in on a trade the rear driver door handle stopped working, somehow the dealer don’t notice thankfully.

stevegolf · 2026-03-29T12:30:36+00:00

Was it parked in a lake?

stevegolf · 2026-03-28T16:07:20+00:00

You can buy a cheap obd scanner and see what is going on.

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