Now do ICE!

Sure, but I would say it’s a good thing to focus on for a minority political party.

Yea but opposing ‘kings’ isn’t even close to the problem of ‘oligarchs’

I don’t disagree, but for the sake of elections, they’re effectively equivalent. I agree the billionaires are most of the problem, but their names aren’t on the ballot. It’s the guy who is trying to play king.

The article title is incredibly misleading. Even the first sentence of the article makes clear what she was actually saying:

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) has urged her Democratic colleagues to stop attacking the “oligarchy” on Thursday, arguing that the word did not resonate with most Americans and should be replaced with “kings.”

She’s advocating for using a more relatable term, not for a change in party values. The “woke” comment irks me, but again is focused on terminology and not ideology.

When you need the dumb fucks’ votes, you gotta speak their language. Or at least water it down to be palatable to someone who was “educated” in our broken-ass system.

What hate did he spew?

Conservative thinktanks (National Center for Public Policy Research) be conservative thinktanks. Despite all the other major corps rolling back DEI programs, it’s nice to see the likes of Apple and Costco pushing back against the right wing nutjobs. Not sure if they’re doing so for profits or morals, but I’ll take either at this point.

Why should my tax dollars be used to bail out someone who bought a multimillion dollar home in a high risk area? Why should home owners get all the profits from owning but get to skirt the risks?

I try to stay practical about it. A screwdriver manufacturer is not an arms dealer. But if your work only has value in the violent world of war, then I think it’s worth asking yourself if you’re comfortable with that. I don’t always disparage people that are, even though I certainly couldn’t stomach it.

My rule of thumb is to ask whether the defense industry is the only customer for the product. The company I work for does sell some to defense, but the products were not designed with defense as the primary purpose. It still doesn’t feel great to me, but I’m finding it increasingly difficult to avoid defense funding nowadays.

That’s a harder question to answer and depends more on your own moral compass. Do you believe that having better defensive capabilities empowers the users of your creation to feel safe enough to do evil things? I certainly don’t think you could absolve the makers of anti-missile systems who supply militaries that are committing genocide.

Doesn’t make you any less responsible when the fruits of your labor are used to murder civilians.

Judging by the downvote count, I was off by 2x. My apologies to the community!

(For the record, I have nothing against GrapheneOS, but also no use for it)

All six GrapheneOS users should be proud that the developers of their phone software are genius inventors!