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Submission + - The Ideology of Demonification (politico.com)

BitterEpic writes: Recently Politico (a left leaning paper) put out an opinion piece on Dick Cheney, The Myth of Dick Cheney, Supervillain.

In the Slashdot article, Dick Cheney, Powerful Former VP, Dies at 84, it is filled with comments like,

Even after a heart transplant, he was still heartless.

or

Luckily, reliable sources assure me that he will be greeted as a liberator in hell; so things should go fine.

One of my memories of my other was calling Bush, the "Anti-christ." One of my questions for Slashdotters here is, when you're calling people the worst thing you can, do you think it eventually leads to other people to stop listening.

If Cheney and Bush JR were the devil to you, does that mean empirically, Trump can't be any worse because you already used your worst words? Was Obama in on this evil if he was friends with the Bush's?

Normal conservatives do consider Trump a threat to Democracy. But I feel like t he Democratic party has turned into the "boy who cried wolf" where no one will listen and for good reason.... using the worst words they can think of just because they don't like the people on the other side.

Cheney was a normal person, who made his own mistakes. He had his own personality trains that helped to make him a target for hate. But does the hate help the conversation, or water it down on what's important for America. Hate is not he same as disagreement. People make mistakes as we are all human.

Comment A lot of hate here (Score -1) 128

But there is an interesting editorial in Politico (which is left leaning for the people who scream fake news

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fmagazine%2F2025%2F11%2F04%2Fthe-myth-of-dick-cheney-supervillain-00636449

Opinion | What I Saw of the Real Dick Cheney

I don't understand why the left does not see the connection to that kind of labeling and the result of the current administration and who it even effects thinhs like shutdowns.

Comment Re:TypeScript (Score -1) 38

Microsoft bought npm to give typescript legs in the javascript/nodejs ecosystem. They also bought Github as a delivery device. It shouldn't be a surprise that Typscript is so large in the ecosystem.

Regarding low level programming, there is some irony in that things are moving to Rust on the FE and BE. I'm personally considering moving full time ot Rust because the JS ecosystem is a bit of a tradgety of the commons. The W3C doesn't want to certify new web standards until proposals are common enough in browsers. But that means a bunch of junk proposals and forced migration of legacy code will happen with new versions of JS. As an example, no one uses the native # private symbol in typescript. There is also the problem of the finally standardized after 10 years decorator proposal... that isn't compatible at all with the typescript version..

It's a bunch of garbage.

Comment Democratic donor money is used for MAGA candidates (Score -1) 237

I keep seeing people say this, but then why did the Democratic party use donation money to raise MAGA candidates in the primaries?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2022%2F11%2F11%2F1135878576%2Fthe-democrats-strategy-of-boosting-far-right-candidates-seems-to-have-worked

This is common news in liberal sources. So I don't really understand the anger when it as the Democratic party that helped to put MAGA candidates in Washington using *your* donor money. Yes there are articles for 2024 as well and I'm sure there are ones for 2025 if you take the time to Google..

The Democrat party either doesn't actually believe MARA ia a threat to Democracy, or they believe the chance of winning is more important than Democracy. There really are no other options.

People here don't seem to have a lot of insight into basic news. I've had people attack me, and mode me down to -1 where I can't reply to people and have a conversation. People would rather not learn from each other in this day and age, and honestly how Slashdot works doesn't help.

Comment Liquid Glass is Apple's Vista (Score 1, Informative) 26

It isn't just the transparent look that makes this Apple's Vista, but everything also loads noticeably slower. Choosing a section in the System Settings now feels like loading a webpage... between the lag of showing the section after a click and how the icons on the section load one by one.

I've been a Mac user on and off for 20 years, this is the first time in a while I'm seriously thinking about jumping ship. This is the largest miss by Apple in a long time.

Comment Centralization is great but... (Score -1) 77

The general problem is if you are not on the largest platforms, you are missing large pieces of the pie.

If you are a video content creator, publishing your stuff on Vimeo over YouTube is a giant loss of eyes. It will lead large parts of the population to not even knowing you exist... because they never leave the app. It doesn't matter how much you fear how YouTube might not be presenting your videos to viewers or threats of demonetization over arbitrary things all applied by algorithms.

Similarly for Amazon, you could make your own store.... but most people will never leave Amazon's app to discover it. You then have to deal with the nightmare return system where you can't interact with the customer as a seller.

Things have become so consolidated that regardless of horrible treatment to the sellers vendors etc, you have to stick with the platform. It IS user centric now matter how many might want to complain. But it also kind of removes a large point of the internet in my opinion.

Comment While impressive, is this such a horrible thing? (Score -1) 81

Chrome is open source, the place where new web standard are prototypes, and is supported on most major platforms. Even if I am using Linux or a Mac, I don't need to worry about not being able to open my bank's page.

While I use Firefox as my primary browser, I don't know if there is a use case for different browsing engines like there used to be. I remember when Firefox let you change stylesheets with an icon for a short while... I don't see that kind of experimentation any more.

Comment This is a very American article (Score -1) 72

This article is extremely ethnocentric in that it assumes Europeans have the same priorities. If there are tarrifs I'm sure there will be more incentives to build thier own solutions. I think I'm a similar way to the US being unable to have manufacturing compete with China, without terrifs there will be no European competition.

Comment Re:And we should care because? (Score -1) 201

This has been a tactic on the opposite side of the aisle for decades. At this point why should we care in the slightest?

You're right in that I think this is a non-article.

These are all side effects of people refusing to talk to each other on the other side of the isle. The only way you get both the republican side and democrat side to be all in on the kind of revenge gerrymandering going on is by having your "media" convince you that the other side is unreasonable.

Here is Jordon Kepler interviewing Trump supporters making them look like idiots about the articles they don't receive in right wing media.

Here is Matt Walsh doing something very similar to liberals to make them look like ideas about articles they don't receive.

Combined, these two videos reflect how the US split itself in two when people agree more than you would be lead to believe. If you watch two videos, how can you with any good intent believe that American's are not dehumanizing each other and teaching each other to talk at each other rather than with each other.

TWX, If you actually care about Democracy, and aren't actually paying lip service, you would be reaching out to try to understand what the other half of America ic concerned about, and showing that you yourself are not unreasonable.

I've said it before, but the liberal side of Slashdot believes that posts like mine are for trolling. The way I was modded to Terrible karma reflects how Democrats are doing their part to try to destroy America, silencing and attacking Independents who they need the vote for.

Comment Re: Everyone knows... (Score -1) 173

My general concern for from this remark is that the inability to listen to other people is the reason why elwe have both the Democrats and the Republicans gerrymandering Democracy away.

Even if you think the other side is crazy regardless of your affiliation, ridiculing them, not trying to stand in their shoes, and not trying to understand the two problems is leading to the end of our democracy and elections if Presidents like Trump.

This is where the liberal side of slashdot down views me to the point with my karma that I can't reply using overrated I disagree..

Comment Re: So this is illegal (Score -1) 153

As an independent watching Democrats behavior, I've come to believe more and more that if Trump ran as a Democrat and picked up a few token progressive causes, we would have the Democratic party trying to rationalize the insurrection.

Keep in mind, we aren't that far from defund the police retoric, even if the initial meaning wasn't just to get rid of the police.

If you look up FDR, this isn't the first time that the executive branch. He did the court packing and was the cause for the amendment to restrict two terms.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJudicial_Procedures_Reform_Bill_of_1937

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegalclarity.org%2Fhow-did-fdr-legally-serve-so-many-terms%2F

You are part of the reason that the Democrat party and the Republican party members are aggressively doing things like extreme gerrymandering.

If half the country could talk to the other side with good intent, we wouldn't have each party going to extremes trying to destroy democracy. But it is more convenient to say snarky things to the crowd in Slashdot.

When with a post like this, where I am adding references and asking people to talk to the other side I will be rated to overrated -1 so i can reply to anyone that replies to this. Do you understand how this reflects both parties are jointly destroying America?

Comment Youtubere Here (Score -1) 46

Youtube is starting to get some nicer stuff for creators finally. But I always feel like it is a mixed bag that isn't creator or user centric. As an example, I want to be able to localize my videos for English and Japanese. There is new automatic dubbing on Youtube using AI... but you can't choose to use the normal audio as easily as you should. For example, when accessing using a phone to the webpage, the option isn't here.

Youtube is trying things... but they probably should have tried some of these things *before* AI. Then, there would be an appropriate way to choose a language for example...

Comment The more interesting story (Score 1) 21

The more interesting storyus how this is effecting American camera manufactures (today are left.) This story one functions as a"I told you so!" for something obvious.

It's too late for Kodak. They already had to stop making digital cameras. Current American camera companies are Red, GoPro, Blackmagic, and Panavision. But does them outsourcing manufacturing mean they have no price advantage?

The primary literal news pushes these kind of defeatest articles. . There are more facets to this discussion than, "things are more expensive!"

As an independent who had his karma wreaked for asking questions, I unfortunately cannot reply to replies here in most cases because I'm restricted to two messages a day.

My concern for Democracy, including the redistricing battle I'm California vs Texas is it built upon the assumption that the other side is unreasonable. You get an arms race that hurts democracy with excessive gerrymandering.

This article that only looks at raising prices of foreign brands plays into this problem. A problem where people from the left and the right are just talking at each other without listening.

Okay moddees, do you're thing where you mark me overrated to -1 so oeople can't have a conversation an learn from each other.

Reference: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Faperlust.com%2Fwhich-cam...

Comment When watching the Center news (Score -1) 95

I watch news as it comes through the political spectrum on Ground News. The article, "Teamsters Donating to Republicans Ahead of Midterms in Shift Away From Democrats" is just starting to make it from the right side news papers to the center papers (Politico), and it doesn't appear of the left news yet.

The timing of this and the content make it look like it is trying to draw the news cycle, even if it is tech related. But I may be wrong.

I'm happy to hear other facts. I feel like people nowadays would rather roast an independent rather than try to gain thier vote. My karma proves it, where I can't have s conversation with anyone who replies to me.

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