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Thank you, as a relatively new Trekkie this is cool to see how it’s been tied back to the original.

Yup, you’ve got everything from chilled liquid, to pop-like anthems, to full on neuro and dark step. Love it.

Remember when the Dixie Chicks were cancelled? There’s your answer as to why mainstream musicians won’t risk it.

Jesus H. Christ, they’re actually gearing up for purges and show trials. Accusations of fascism get trotted out far too often, but this is a textbook step on the way.

Came to say exactly this.

Can’t imagine what it must take for Syria to be a better option.

Indeed.

Biden’s dropped out of the race. Though I doubt the results would be materially different now that Harris is running.

Surprised china has few

Not just the US. Can’t access it from NZ either.

I definitely prefer the vibe of lemmy but there’s still communities I visit on Reddit for reviews and discussions about more niche topics.

I was extremely excited by the recent news that Control was going to be adapted into film and or TV. This could be a massive risk to that going ahead.

Fishy Joe’s in “The problem with Popplers” iirc.

Sounds a lot like war crimes.

Hydro homie respect

190GB of space needed? What the actual fuck???!?

Came here to say exactly this.

If you want to dive even further into why the foundations of modern macroeconomics are bunk, then I can also recommend reading Debunking Economics by Steve Keen.

Matt Smith as the Doctor

The premise of OP’s post is that it is not possible to win an election by changing the party’s candidate close to an election. I provided evidence that it is possible.

Whether the DNC has someone capable of doing so is another question.

Unfortunately we’re no socialist utopia and we recently swung to the right in the election last year. The deputy prime minister is a noted xenophobe, pay-to-play corruption is on the rise, and most of the social policies of the last 6 years are being rolled back and then some.

These changes aren’t necessarily popular, lots of people voted against the incumbents rather than for the new government, but the next election is 2 years away and the electorate has a short memory.

It’s also worth knowing that much of our international reputation is a smokescreen. We’re not clean and green despite what our tourism marketing says. Almost every party in our parliament subscribes to neoliberalism to varying degrees and thinks deregulation will solve our productivity problems. We have one of the worst housing markets on the planet which is more like a Ponzi scheme thanks to a lack of capital gains tax and incentives for speculators. Finally the cost of living is extreme due to a lack of competition in the food, banking, petrol, electricity and water markets.

We have been falling in the OECD rankings on most metrics since the late 80s when we embraced Thatcherism/Reaganomics.

That’s splitting hairs. Notice I said “vote” rather than “elect”. I’m well aware of how the electoral college functions and that you can lose the “popular vote” but still become president (e.g. Bush Jnr and Trump).

The fact remains that on ballot you directly cast a vote for the president.

We don’t have ranked choice voting either and don’t directly vote for prime minister. It’s a proportional system. If anything this should reduce the effect that a leader has on the popularity of the party compared with first past the post jurisdictions.

Given that the US does directly vote for President, personality and popularity have much more weight, and therefore a more popular candidate could turn it around. How likely that is I’m not sure, as I don’t know a huge amount about the alternatives other than AOC and Sanders, but Jacinda did show that it’s possible.