In the USA (which was the focus of OP) I would argue there is virtually no left in the first place. Outliers excluded even their left-most people are still centrists, at best. Note that nowhere I said people should stop voting, it’s kind of crazy how that’s always a knee-jerk assumption. Obviously you still ought to choose the lesser evil - but that must come with doing the other parts. Otherwise, again, you’re just choosing evil.

That being said: If you live in the USA and you want that to happen, you need to step up. Not say “nobody else is doing it”. You need to do it. If you already are: Congrats! Next you need to accept that you can do everything right and still lose. That’s just life.

I’m really hoping Soofi models are going to be good. Because afaict they’ll be the first (and so far only) open source (not just open weight) models in the ~30B parameters range.

My point is the nay-sayers here say “don’t vote”, but offer no alternatives.

I’m a nay-sayer (to doing no more than perpetually voting for the lesser of two evils), and I’ve offered alternatives. I’m also not alone in this, I’ve seen about as many people, proportionally speaking, advocate for the same things in past posts about this here on Lemmy as there are on Reddit. Might this be a bubble issue on your end?

You say join a union? I say hell yeah, sign me up! Can I join yours?

Feel free to come to Germany and join one of our unions. The one primarily responsible for negotiating the collective agreement currently determining my salary is ver.di.

False dichotomy. There are many things to do between “do nothing but vote for evil” and “revolution”.

I don’t want to write the whole thing again, so I’ll just leave this here.

To add: I’ve never tasted an alcoholic drink that didn’t improve by removing the alcohol.

Prejudice is much too generic imho.

“Races” in racism are (socially constructed, as you said) classes assigned from conception/birth, which racists believe to have class-specific inherited (often behavioural) traits.

The only functional difference between (classical) racism and the (star) racism of astrology is that one claims inheritance via genetics, the other inheritance via “vibes” from star formations.

Welche Brandmauer? Braucht es wirklich erst den Staatsstreich bis die Leute endlich verstehen, dass die Union die Zentrumspartei unter Brüning emuliert?

Extrem Rechte werden fast immer Rechtsextremisten weniger Rechten (oder gar Linken) vorziehen.

Star racism is still racism. I don’t make fun of it, I simply reject it as esoteric bigotry.

Shhhh! We keep up that reputation deliberately so not even more people come here and worsen the housing crisis ;)

They might be nicer, but they won’t change their political views. Voters in Germany generally have their basic needs met (thanks to Art. 1 GG). Around 80% of them are still explicitly supporting right-wing political parties on the federal level, whose policies will leave most Germans poorer than they were before.

The unfortunate reality is that a lot of people - even when they don’t want to say it - have an underlying belief in a hierarchy of “betters” and “others” that they want to uphold. And sadly, no amount of education has proven suitable to fix that.

To anwer what I consider your deeper question, there are generally only two paths to financial security:

1. Inherit (either your own family or marry into one)
2. Invest in your own human capital to maximize the income you can earn per work hour, then start saving enough of that income into buying partial ownership of the economy (e.g. via stock market capitalization-weighted index funds).

Working more hours, which “passive income” strategies almost always equate to, just robs you of what little free time you have on this planet. Almost nobody thinks on their deathbed “I wish I had spent more hours of my life working”.

school pretty much failed to teach me the right way of life.

The education system’s job is giving you the opportunity to maximize your human capital. It may have failed you there, but that doesn’t mean you need to abandon that pursuit.

Is it possible to make some form of passive income from sidehustles?

In the binary way you worded this: No. You must always leverage something to generate income. Different methods require different levels of activity, though.

Now do the same for generic/vacuous travelling pictures in a majority of womens’ dating profiles ;)

Die dem zu Grunde liegende Realität, derer sich mMn viele Deutsche verweigern, ist dass sie rechts sind. Die Parteien bieten ja für alle einsehbare und seit mehreren Legislaturperioden ziemlich konsistente Wahlprogramme an. Außer vielleicht Erstwählern kann niemand behaupten darüber nicht informiert zu sein. Und ja, ich bezog mich u.A. auch auf Agenda 2010.

Mein persönliches Problem liegt auch nicht darin, dass rechts gewählt wird - das gehört halt zur Parteiendemokratie dazu. Was mich ankotzt sind die ganzen Leute, die (wie der Mensch dem ich antwortete) hier online oder auch gerne in Wählerbefragungen behaupten das sei ja gar nicht rechts.

Und ja, mir stößt Antisemitismus auch auf. Aber wer (nicht der dem ich hier vorhin antwortete, aber schon genug gesehen) bei einem Bundeskanzler, der einfach mal alle Juden als Ausländer abstempelt, oder dessen Partei mit der AfD zusammen neue Stolpersteine verbieten lässt, nichts sagt, aber bei Israelkritik die Schnappatmung kriegt und bei Vergesellschaftung nach Art. 15 GG von der DDR schwafelt, entlarvt sich halt als jemand, der mit zweierlei Maß misst.

My parents grew up in the ruins of post WWII Germany, so that has certainly impacted their raising of me.

But even setting that aside, deliberately wasting food is a disrespect to all the life that needed to end for you to have it. Be it flora, fauna, or fungi.

Vielleicht Mal zur Aufklärung: Links vs rechts ist die Achse des ökonomischen Klassenkampfes (arme) Arbeitende vs (reiche) Vermögende. Bei jeder Bundesregierung, an der die Bundesgrünen beteiligt waren (und hier ging es um den Bund, nicht die Länder), haben die Vermögenden mehr von der Wertschöpfung der Arbeitenden abbekommen, als vorher.

Es war zwar ein geringerer Anstieg als er bei nur noch rechteren Parteien gewesen wäre, aber die Bundesgrünen nicht als rechts einzuordnen ist Realitätsverweigerung zu Gunsten von Identitätspolitik.

With gnupg, git, and a hardware security token. Also known as “pass”.

Wasting it, if it can at all be avoided.

What’s there to lay out, other than what anyone can read from the Wikipedia entries?

The Internet is a specific global network of computer nodes that use some version of the Internet Protocol to communicate with each other. There are many different services over on it. The WWW is simply one such service.

"Wir gehen in den Reichstag hinein, um uns im Waffenarsenal der Demokratie mit deren eigenen Waffen zu versorgen. Wir werden Reichstagsabgeordnete, um die Weimarer Gesinnung mit ihrer eigenen Unterstützung lahmzulegen. Wenn die Demokratie so dumm ist, uns für diesen Bärendienst Freifahrkarten und Diäten zu geben, so ist das ihre eigene Sache.

German neoliberals (which most CEOs of our larger corporations are) and empirical data don’t really mesh well. It’s why most of them still clutch the neoclassical “school” of economics, which has zero empirical data behind its basic assumptions.

If only there was a mechanism for new companies to challenge and outcompete dinosaurs. Unfortunately, the regulatory capture emerging from capitalism and explicitly supported by our electorate means barriers of entry are drawn such that it’s almost impossible to challenge entrenched wealth, unless being backed by rival entities of comparable wealth.