Middle America has a lot of unmet needs, with a horrible health care system and food insecurity. Most will gladly embrace anything that may help.

What many see as crazy politics is a desperate attempt to latch onto anything remotely promising.

Exactly

one that can’t really stand up to imperialistic powers in the real word

Which is why I am communist and not anarchist. To fight capitalism one must organize much more than anarchy movements could .

“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones”

Republican efforts to suppress voting and the democrat “get out the vote” initiatives have much in common.

In some states voting matters, in most it does not. And federally it does not.

Seen in this context both efforts are a type of grifting and scam. No different than other political rabble rousing.

Pretensions USA is a democracy makes reform that much harder. And both parties do this well

This assumes the USA is a democracy at the federal level. Where votes by people matter.

Many states use election machines, owned by oligarchs, whose operations are a closed book and are not regulated. Coincidentally those states, both red and blue, fail tests approved by the United Nations to detect tampering of votes.

Those states make the other states, that actually pass the tests, irrelevant.

What makes democracy, in the USA, unable to curb the even the very gross problems today is not the people doing the cheating.

But it is the people who refuse to call the cheating out (by addressing the real issues), and more important the majority of citizens who absolutely do not see this as a problem. It’s only when this is addressed can the actual issues of a real democracy be looked at.

Even then, real reform is hard to do in a democracy. Especially one so large and out of control as the nation we see now. So any reform has to be not using the ballot box.

A boycott actually could help.

I think It is hard for elections to push any reform. And that is for countries with actual democracy.

Socialism can only be achieved by non democratic methods

Bob cannot be saved at all. If you cannot move him out of the project, I suggest you change mental gears and see this as a deliberate burden, imposed on you by your bosses, to enable you to develop people skills needed for your eventual promotion.

Fedaphobia

I thought about that after I typed it. “Should I put in a disclaimer that this is limited to for-profit” companies? Nahhh, it will be fine”

Boiled down , it basically makes their free versions be spyware about any code. But anyone can opt out. But few will know what is going on.

I am a subscriber so it will not affect me.

Is this a bad thing? I think Yes and no. Most coding entered into the free versions is not significant enough to give consequences. Morally, I find it offensive and later could be opted in myself without knowing. That would be a big deal for me.

Most people will never notice.

It does remind me of the saying: if something is free, you are the product.

Jetbrains versions of 2023 unite !

In states that do not use counting methods approved by the United Nations, voting provides legitimacy to ongoing multi-decade scams.

If the vote counting is illegitimate, should one vote for the better candidate anyway? This is an intensely debated thing over history in many countries.

Solving that, then voting is like you describe.

There are many layers to just how wrong voting is in the USA. And many of these scams, and the toleration of them, definitely affects reforms in unrelated areas other than the direct elections

Like many things in life, it gets complicated based on where you are at, what you believe, and personality.

If it’s important to you, then vote.

If you feel like your vote counts, vote.

If it is a small town election and the ballots are counted by people in the town, then vote.

For everything else, it’s shades of gray

I’ve think voting in the USA is a faith driven social event, mixed with a mentality of watching sports.

It’s like a purification ritual , and is a descendant of the big tent Christian rivivals seen in the 1800s.

“Have you been saved” and “have you voted” are inflected the same ways in speech patterns.

Edit typo

It always is. Which is perhaps why the views should be ignored but their impacts on the majority of the people, if implemented, could be measured or extrapolated. And I would not like to measure things that vary between nations like trade or standards of living.

I will watch the video, I am currently wondering if I could use just three values, each corresponding to a color (red, blue green), so that generates an rgb color. I would find it easy to see a colored square next to any movement or organization.

Perhaps the first is how socialist (red scale), the second is how free ( blue scale) and the third is how centralized power would be (green scale). 0-255 each value

Edit: But I think the three variables would need to be chosen more carefully to be truly independent of each other. Too much interdependence between socialism and freedom for example

Is there a link that I can learn more? While I know the American version of the political compass is very broken, I still hope to have a universal gradient to measure all countries and movements

I think reading reactions to his death is a very good way to measure political compasses of a publication.

Not just to find those which are obviously far right; but to see how the non fascists ones are changing

(Chanting) Beans, beans, beans …