eldavi

and hitler was a pretty good painter ...

What if MLK did not support feminists? Would he now be considered scum, thus negating everything good he ever did?

he literally addressed the national organization for women in 1966 and espoused their ideals.

giving a pass to the people from history is problematic because the same ideals of progressiveness that we pride ourselves on today were present in the past and people knew that it existed; they simply weren't as popular back then as they are now and anyone espousing them back then were treated like tankies of their own time.

giving them a pass only helps to excuse regressivism and anti-progressive sentiment like both the republicans and democrats (respectively) practice today; this is a key reason why we have trump as president today and probably jd vance tomorrow.

It's easy to avoid redditization: just stay away from the "general interest" instances because reddit or facebook will always do general interest better than any platform run by volunteers w almost no budget.

-- and they both punch left; exactly as conservatives like to do.

-- or south korea

this is the reason why democrats keep losing.

how could you tell it was a 10/100... or even a cisco switch?

it looks more like an old small plane dell powerconnect to me.

if he were smart; he would sell that switch and buy several switches. lol

i think it's better that you say something if it's not clear for the people who lurk through all the interactions.

it get that they're both bad faith ways to shut down discourse and i can see how whataboutism fits; but i was referring to the false equivalency placed between the nato's atrocities and that of the soviet union's in the comment

when it's "both sides" is brought up to shutdown arguments that the democrats have done some of the same things that the republicans did; they're likewise implying that the democrats have fewer of such incidents than the republicans and therefore the argument is invalid.

this was my half snarky way of saying that this comment is a "both sides" example can be applied in the opposite direction where it neuters the effect that "both sides" has with liberals.

this is the most appropriate "both sides" argument i've ever seen.

ditto when i moved to austin.

anecdotally: the length of the lines correlate with the wealth of the voting district. i think that texas is like arizona & georgia in that when the lines are long; they're REALLY long compared to the long lines i experienced in california, new york, & illinois; but the short line places always seemed to be much emptier on election day for some reason.