Preston Maness ☭

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Cake day: March 2nd, 2022

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  • “Now that Dorsey has bailed as a board member and principal funder,

    LOLWUT? Run the fuck far away.

    Also, Bluesky is not actually decentralized. It’s a single big silo, just like Twitter/X. They built their own “decentralization” protocol rather than adopt ActivityPub. It’s Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Same as it ever was.






  • For electronic voting machines at least, the write-in candidates are on a separate screen but don’t typically require actually hand-writing in the names; you just select the write-in candidate like you would any other.

    LOL JUST KIDDING. Here in the grand old state of Texas at least, they force you to manually type in the write-in candidates, despite already having a list of approved write-ins available that they could add as buttons like they do for the other candidates. AND they don’t list the party affiliations for the write-in candidates either.

    But hey: this is bourgeois democracy, folks.



  • Thankfully, the PSL is not deluded enough to be engaging in “revolutionary electoralism.” Their candidacy is viewed firstly as a party-building effort (rather than a direct path to proletarian power) and secondly as a mechanism for heightening the contradictions inherent to bourgeois democracy: that the Republicans and Democrats worked together to kick them off the ballot in swing states – Pennsylvania and Georgia – serves to underscore the futility of bourgeois democracy and prime the public for a proletarian alternative.











  • Perhaps I should rephrase. They attack Mozilla (and users of Firefox) infinitely more than Google (and users of various Google products). I heard it said after Mozilla introduced their opt-out privacy-respecting ad tracking that users should “move to a more privacy-friendly browser like Google Chrome”.

    One of those entities claims to be on the side of users. When it constantly throws those same users under the bus anyway, it isn’t surprising that it gets more hate than the entity that removed “don’t be evil” from its motto.

    Tell them you’re a liberal? You’re practically a Nazi collaborator!

    It’s not our fault that fascists bleed when liberals get scratched.