I’d like to see whatever everyone wants to post about, and would also encourage you to be the change you want to see. I’m more into the Microsoft space myself but manage a handful of Linux servers (which I typically never have to bother with unless I’m standing another one up, and our team manages patching), though I’m not sure where good sources of news & updates would be for Linux information.

Sure, you don’t have to tell me about the right wing media machine. Most people I knew growing up got sucked into it and are beyond any rational thought now.

For the difference between Dems and the GOP on economic policy, I won’t argue that the leadership and majority of the Democratic party are neoconservative “”“centrists”“” - in other words, they’re conservative Democrats. There is a minority segment of the party that is progressive however, and once in a while they do something that is truly beneficial for everyone. The same can never be said about the GOP.

I’m not saying that’s wrong, but it’s also more complex than that. It’s not only the ultra rich supporting them. Take it from someone who lives amongst them.

Is there a massive corporate / monied influence behind the GOP? Sure, but that’s true of the Democrats too. Given that that’s our only options as long as we have a first-past-the-post, winner take all voting system (unless or until we institute ranked choice or some other alternative voting system), then the Democrats are the only one of those two parties that at least takes some actions and speaks words in support of the poor and middle classes. If you look at their actions, anyone who is not ultra rich should be voting for Democrats over Republicans unquestionably.

However, we have about 48% of our citizens in any given class that aren’t the ultra rich who will vote Republican until their dying breath. In my state in particular, about 60% of the population votes Republican, despite being next to dirt poor.

We’ll even vote for progressive policies - we legalized weed, voted for Medicare expansion, turned down “”“Right to Work”“” laws multiple times, etc. - and then our own legislature that these assholes voted in will work to undo those measures that passed a popular vote however they can. They keep trying to reintroduce RtW laws every handful of years, they defunded the Medicare expansion. If they fail to stop the progressive policies, then they turn to profiting off of them through crony capitalism like they did with the cannabis industry by only giving out manufacturing and dispensary licenses to a small pool of people, and their cronies of course got first dibs.

So don’t have any illusions - poor people vote Republican. In droves. It’s due to ignorance, and bigotry, and racism, and a disregard for their own interest, but they do.

That doesn’t entirely discount the theory being proposed in your OP article, but it doesn’t explain Republican voting blocs everywhere. It just might explain Florida however.

I don’t know, I think that trend analysis ignores the masses of ignorant poor people who think that Trump & the GOP are going to save them from whatever boogeyman the GOP has constructed for them today.

For me I think it has to do with the fact that by the time I got to a thread on reddit, everything that could possibly be said about the topic usually had been said already. How many times would you visit a thread only to find that exactly what you were going to say is already the top comment?

The US is an imperial warmonger and they created the conditions for a proxy war, which Russia engaged with.

So the U.S. made Putin’s army roll its miles long line of cold-war era military equipment into Ukraine in November of '21?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

It’s hard to lie about things that the whole world was watching.

“Over” with Putin having gotten what he wants after killing millions of Ukrainians and still occupying their land. So no, fuck Putin and fuck anyone who supports his insane bloody quest for glory.