I think you may have missed the point a bit. It’s exactly these ‘empty promises’ which have been the democrats issue over the past 30 years.

They get elected on messages like ‘make the economy work work everyday americans’ and then once in office they prioritize the status quo and making sure that nothing major changes. This benefits the wealth and damages everyday people, many of whom voted for them in the hopes that the democrats would improve their situation.

As awful as much of their platform is, the Republicans have proven that they aren’t scared to break things and make big changes. This appeals to many voters who feel let down by empty promises.

Holy hell, I thought Croatian was bad with things like trg

I know this is unpopular and goes against the ideals of the early internet, but the open internet (especially social networks) is hugely damaging at the moment.

This isn’t just “people having different opinions”, but rather full-scale cyber warfare that’s currently happening. It’s also only going to get worse…

Propaganda works, and it works quite well. Nobody is fully immune.

So unless you feel like having Musk/Russia/China dictate your life (through forcing their shit agenda), banning their attack vectors is really the only play.

Being a scientist is a ridiculously hard career path these days.

Yeah weed easily smells at least as bad

The flexibility of the rights platform is actually one of their greatest strengths.

They are happy to flip-flop on things that they kinda care about in order to keep people onside and get what they really care about.

We on the left should learn from this. Less purity tests and trying to die on every hill or we’re fucked.

“I wish I could work at home tidying up the house for no salary and have no income of my own!”

As a fun aside: both my wife and I would both love to do this! Unfortunately it’s just too tough financially in the modern world, so it’s never a really serious discussion.

Plus we would have to flip a coin or something to decide who has to be the breadwinner.

We don’t really have a relationship that revolves around power-roles though, so it’s a bit of a different discussion.

At least europe it has kind of switched to the opposite in recent years.

I did a doctorate in physics and women had a much easier time finding PhD/post-doc positions because there is just much more funding available.

Most groups in my institution were majority women.

Professorships are still nearly all men, but that’s largely down to the sexism of the previous generations (back in the 60s-90s when they got their positions). This will slowly shift in the coming decades.

They’ve been building big public housing since the 1920s. I live next to a lot of it and it’s quite high quality and really pleasant.

Lots of cities/countries has massive public housing (the UK being a great example post WW2) but Vienna is more of an exception in that they didn’t follow the trend in the 70s-90s of privatization and stopping investment (although it did slow down at one point).

They were the same way about their tram system, where they kept it rather than ripping it out like most places. Now everyone else wishes they so had a tram network or is trying to rebuild one.

That being said, rents are rising here too, but they are much more reasonable to begin with. I was living in London previously, and now we spend about 30-40% less for a place over twice the size and in a nicer location. Plus finding a place was muuuuuch easier, since it’s noticeably less competitive.

It’s less about that and more about stopping an extremely powerful attack vector currently active in your own country.

Literally the biggest reason why the western world is in such a giant political crisis is the weaponization of social media.

No love for Assad, but given all the islamist groups involved I have a bad feeling that this is going to end up even worse…

MMOs are the reasons that my typing style involves my left hand covering 60-70% of the keyboard and my right hand getting the remaining 30-40% that I can’t easily reach.

Only need to bring in the mouse hand of absolutely necessary!