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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Well as an American witnessing the decline from within, I’d say you are fairly perceptive for an outsider. You’ve identified some of the biggest obstacles we’re facing. The attitudes of the boomers, who simply will not relinquish their grip on power (US Congress is the oldest legislative body in the world), have been devastating for our future. This has surely been shaped by unfettered greed and unbridled avarice brought on by capitalism.

    The main point I was making is that the Dems have truly revealed themselves to be controlled opposition. They campaigned so hard with scare tactics of “Trump bad” and “end of democracy.” And now their strategy is to do nothing?! It’s beyond pathetic - it is a betrayal. So many Americans thought Dems were fighting for them all these years, but the insidiousness of the neoliberal machine ensured the only ones to gain since the 1970s had been the ultra wealthy and corporations. The wealth disparity in our country is honestly startling to witness firsthand.

    This is why we need a real populist party to rise up and actually fight for the people. I have full confidence that if this happens, the tides will turn within a very short timespan. We are perhaps witnessing the beginnings of such a phenomenon, with Bernie Sanders and AOC’s fight oligarchs tour, but I’m afraid they will simply default to trying to convert the democrats into a useful party instead of building a new one. That path will be mired in obstacles and betrayal, and will ultimately fail. It simply has to be a new party in order to succeed.











  • For some reason, we (the people) keep voting for them

    There is definitely a lot of propaganda at work in the “media”, and divisive identity politics which drive those votes. Unfortunately that stuff doesn’t matter at all when it comes to people’s material living conditions, which should be the true litmus test for elected officials.

    Thankfully it seems people are starting to wake up to those cheap manipulative tricks, and it showed with the Dems’ massive loss in the last election when they refused to change tactics. If they cared about winning they’d definitely change things up now, but they only care about lining their own pockets so I’m not going to hold my breath.

    One solid theory on how to oust them is that a lot of what gets someone into office is name recognition. They get re-elected because it’s that comfortable, familiar name with the correct letter beside it that voters always see at the ballot box. Perhaps primary challengers can start to win if they get their name out there across multiple election cycles, but it does take a lot of valuable time to do it that way.

    It’s not lost on me that this speaks to an incredibly uninformed voting populace regarding policy positions, but it’s really hard to appreciate that nuance in the context of today’s 128 character quips or sound bytes. Hopefully we can get back to that level of interest once we have people in power demonstrably helping their constituents as opposed to simply robbing them while convincing them of something else entirely.





  • I’m honestly not sure, you’re discussing a few corner cases that I haven’t tried out personally. I think you’d just have to do your own testing to see. I suspect the more layers of abstraction, the more they could potentially slow you down, but can’t say if it would be experienced the same way some of us who ran in docker had observed.

    Proxmox is quite powerful, if you get it setup and running smoothly it would be awesome to hear back about how you did it!