Do you mind defining:

-Capitalism (or the US’s economy, taking into account utilities, imperialism, and government sectors such as military/oil)

-Socialist Market Economy

Entryism historically has faired better than a “revolutionary” third party. No party aside from Dems and Republicans have controlled congress or the presidency since the 1850s. More recently we have seen political flips. FDR’s New Deal coalition failed to include LGBTQIA+, but the coalition survived 30ish years with prosperity for the working class* before ultimately being destroyed by Nixon and ultimately Reagan.

My point being, that the last 2 times revolutionary politics wete introduced (FDR and Reaganism/Trumpism) it led to YEARS of success for the party:

Healthy, well-regulated capitalism is complementary to socialism. In a world of abundance capitalism gives power to the workers to choose how they want to spend their time and to work on the projects they’re passionate and proud of, while socialism evens the playing field for kids to be able to grow up and participate on an equal footing, and it enables entrepreneurs to take greater risks to advance society’s collective prosperity. Healthy, well-regulated (but still flawed) capitalism existed for under 50 years. It did not address bigotry and other social injustices, as society was considered to be a monolith of white men. Socialism in this same time frame would have had the same issues: unaddressed bigotry and unequal footing.

It should also be noted that legislation has increasingly made it more difficult for a 3rd party to participate. So while there was limited success in 2000, States have made it more difficult for third parties to have success.

We need a revolution. I would rather a peaceful revolution, and I’m sure you would too. But regardless of the shape the revolution takes, following a path of least resistance is a less labor intensive way to grow a movement, and it’s a playbook that has worked well against the LGBTQIA+ community.

“Trans people shouldn’t play sports” offends fewer people than “trans people shouldn’t live” even though they mean the same thing. That’s why Republicans have hit sports so hard. It’s why they targeted local drag shows not Ru Paul’s Drag Race. Take a page from their book. Tea party the shit out of the Democrats.

If you want to build a movement quick, get quick wins. Boycott a local restaurant for hosting a Nazi candidate, as opposed to boycotting Walmart. Creating a 3rd party pushes an elected revolution back by a minimum of 4 years (since many states dont give ballot access unless you hit 5% in the previous election).

*Of course, the cis straight white folk faired the best

Or hijack and revolutionize a party with the infrastructure to win.

Exactly. And especially getting involved locally, where you can have a greater influence and more readily make a difference.

Thanks! She’s been doing it mostly on her ereader, I didn’t realize it should hook up to a computer but that makes sense!

I mean, sure, I could have had a more specific search. I just assumed that DDG was privacy focused and more or less gave the same search results to everyone.

My states midterms happened months ago, and weren’t particularly newsworthy then. Let alone now.

Given the newsworthiness of Michigan, especially, and 4 other states last night, I would have expected to see results skew towards the trending news story as opposed to old, largely irrelevant, results that skew towards knowing who is performing the search.

It’s backwards of my expectations with the product. And based on my understanding of how search engines operate, youvare more likely to catch search engine bias with broad sweeping searches, than you would with hyper specific searches. As an example, this search was able to identify that DDG biases location over relevance/newsworthiness. Which is why I asked about it in the community I did.

I wasn’t complaining about the effectiveness of the search, rather the privacy concerns.

This makes sense, thanks! How precisely does an IP address give me away? State level, metropolitan area, city, street?

New to Lemmy. Is this common from this instance?

I’m no fan of the dem elite, but I’m still a believer that if we’re OK with incremental change and we’re active at all levels of government that we can motivate others to re-engage and take back what’s ours. That doesn’t mean that we wait till we can vote again and try better next time, it means we start creating the society we want to exist. Building up local politicians, and supporting the hell out of places that support us, hell, even supporting the hell out of places that aren’t supporting us right now but have the structure to support us.

I actually saw some praise on Flock today on Facebook. Youre probably right

Why might it not be for me? It looks sharp!

All of this makes sense and you were dead on with assumptions! Thank you!

Its looking good to me! I can’t figure out if the 5 family members is the max that could upload pictures or if 20 or so people could occasionally upload pictures to designated folders. Do you know?

What would be some of the benefits of Immich? Is it just a lot of upfront tinkering or constant tinkering?

Thanks! With both of these, can anyone with access add pictures? Predominantly its coming from my fiance and I, but I could see up to 20 people wanting to upload their own pictures of our baby.

Also, is there any service that allows for comments/light social media features?

I love the end-to-end encryption!