Technically they can’t dismantle USAID either.

A lot depends on the courts now.

“National Conservatism” on the wall, without a hint of irony.

I wonder if in a decade or so, if NaCo (nacho?) will replace Nazi in the lexicon.

NT 3.5 was the last good version. Fight me.

You’re absolutely right about this. 7 is basically a Vista service pack that got rebranded.

All of the “good stuff” people credit 7 with came in Vista.

8 wasn’t nearly as bad as people think, and there were big improvements to the kernel that make it a definite improvement over 7.

The problem for most people was the Start screen, which if you could get past, left you with what was a really good OS.

Less ads and telemetry than 10, too.

GaetzGate

The RNC saw moderates kicked out by voters in primaries, and candidates made sure to run.

Why can’t the DNC and progressive voters do the same?

The same way the Tea Party primaried out moderate Republicans.

Show up and vote.

Because Google was so focused and strategic before the pandemic rollseyes.

The issue is Google’s broken governance and incentive system, which gives product owners and executives incentives for new products and actively disincentivizes maintaining and improving existing products…and that was a thing from well before the pandemic hit.

It’s why Google launched three pay systems and had five messaging systems at the same time.

And, finally, this is all because of the strategy set by senior leaders.

Do more for the poor.

It’s really that simple. Do more for more people, and less for corporations. Deliver results.

That’s why the Right is eating everyone’s lunch: they’re promising they’ll make things better. They’re lying, of course, and their path to making things better is just basic scapegoating of out- groups, but at least they’re speaking to people’s insecurities, where the neoliberal left is clinking glasses with billionaires.

If the political left and/or minorities engaged in the levels of political violence that the right does, the reaction would be swift and severe.

Recall that American conservatives were supportive, if not outright pushing for, firearms restrictions when it was the Panthers bearing arms.

“Does IBM pay your salary?” isn’t in the flowchart. :)

It’s like Emperor Palpatine, but credulous.

Well, I’m 46 and sometimes getting old is hard…

So are they!

The dissolution of Czechoslovakia was probably the only time in history that a state just voted to dissolve without violence.

Czechoslovakia did it.

That’s about the only example I can think of.

…if they’re itchy?

I don’t think we’re defending it, so much as we’re indulging of schadenfreude.

After all, this is from the same crew that likes to tell us to “just comply” and e everything will be fine.

That’s how it’s supposed to be, and why this is such a challenge for the political Right. For them, the cops are allies, and it was incomprehensible that they would put up any opposition at all.

By and large this has always been the case, the the police are guardians of order and the primacy of capital, and that’s the side the Right is almost always on, so it’s understandable how precedent would have led them to believe that it’d always be the case.

And they were shocked and hurt to find out that it wasn’t.

For the record, they feel the same way about the military.