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Unfortunately no.

I remember the selinux controversy and the nsa trying to slip bad algorithms in.

This is sometimes true, but big brands have the market penetration to make hardware support very easy through second hand and third party parts and to be enticing fruit for third party support (see opencore and the dosdude patchers for apple stuff).

Eh, reading about ranked choice from people living in places that have it makes me think it would change the dynamics of our system but not “fix” it.

I’m not against it and I think it would be better than what we have now, but I’m not going to prioritize it over supporting my party of choice especially in the face of genocide.

I think you’d be right about my support for psl if winning was the only thing that mattered. Losing parties still get funding, ballot access, event presence, media coverage and of course public awareness from their ballot turnout though, so there’s good reason to vote for em even without ranked choice.

To your comment about smugly doing nothing: I’m active politically locally to the degree that I genuinely worry about doxing myself here and will probably fuck off in a year or so. It’s really easy to get involved in local politics if you have the time to go to a meeting once or twice a month. Can’t recommend highly enough the process of attending those meetings and having the burrs rounded off your political self in the tumbler of local activity.

You literally just made up a story about who you want me to be and argued against that construction instead of responding to anything I wrote.

Surely you can’t expect people reading this to think im the one acting in bad faith here?

Generally if you want long support windows you go for big boring brands’ simplest business class laptops. Or Apple.

Small companies an make a commitment to support, but they often have neither the money, customer base or manpower to follow through when the going gets tough.

I have found that popularity is a better predictor of spare part availability than any commitment from a company of any size. When they stop selling parts, there’s always the second hand market. When that dries up there’s always third party parts.

Firmware updates are one of the places that dell, Lenovo and Apple shine. Because of their customers expectations they tend to release new updates and drivers as functionality expectations or security conditions change.

I haven’t worked on this particular model, but gaming laptop build quality is generally very bad.

Msi build quality is also generally pretty bad.

With that said, most people don’t need build quality because they don’t actually take their computers anywhere.

Ranked choice might be cool.

For me it’s not an either/or. I’m a communist and I’m supporting a communist party. I don’t think ranked choice will do enough to reform our elections to give up supporting and advocating for psl.

Tbh I don’t think any voting scheme can do enough to reform our elections and I don’t think reforming our elections would do enough to fix the problems with our country.

You made a bunch of assumptions about me and tried to paint a picture of a person you’d like to argue against last time we spoke too.

If no one’s gonna take my position seriously then why do you care?

If you arent planning on paying attention to what the other person says and youre just gonna fall back on building a strawman to lob ad-hominem attacks against then why are you replying?

Harris is party to genocide. She serves as vp to a president who repeated the lies of the people committing the genocide, took executive action to send weapons to them and has not made efforts to stop the violence that we have seen put forward from a president in a similar situation in the opposition party.

Harris has said that she intends to continue to support israel in their genocide. When asked directly what she would do to stop the loss of Palestinian life she pivoted to talking about groceries within this week.

Harris could break with the administration she serves under, so many people have left it in protest, she could signal her willingness to see to end the genocide by joining them.

She will not because she is pro genocide. There’s no other way to put it. None of that is misinformation.

She has the opportunity to influence it from within at a high position and takes no action, she has the capacity to use her position to speak out against it and she does not. She is running to take on the only position higher than the one she occupies and could campaign on ending it but she does not. She could promise to end it or make any commitment to use her powers as president to stop it but she does not.

If you have the ability to stop a genocide and people ask you to do so and you refuse, you’re pro genocide. Harris is pro genocide.

That’s not debatable. It’s the whole reason people are bending over backwards to try and paint trump as a greater evil because they can’t deny that Harris is evil because she is pro genicide.

With that cleared up, some ways de la Cruz could accomplish just one of her bullshit promises as president is by first and foremost not sending weapons to israel by executive order. She could also condition aid to israel on a ceasefire, and she could refuse to send aid ordered by congress due to its being illegal under international law backed up by the power of the justice department.

A president harris could also do those things, but would not because she is pro genocide.

Our previous discussion began with you calling me a bad faith actor and ended with you saying you were disgusted with yourself.

You don’t have to keep responding.

That’s why it’s so important that you go out and vote psl!

Even if the de la Cruz campaign doesn’t win, a strong showing helps them get funding, event invitations, media coverage, ballot space and make it more likely people will hear about them.

Even if you don’t actually want psl to grow, a big turnout makes it more likely that the democrats (or republicans, if you generally side with them instead) will adopt parts of the psl platform!

Even if what you said were true, I’d gladly pick an untested candidate who is against genocide over a battle hardened pro genocide one any day.

Of course, what you’re saying isn’t true.

I will vote for the placeholder candidate when the place they’re holding is the one marked “no genocide”.

If people voting for psl spoils the democrats chances then maybe the democrats should adopt the psl platform in order to win.

You and I already had a conversation where we discussed psls strategy, so suggesting that there isn’t one especially in a reply to me is pretty sus.