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  New rule: any time a politician decides a cop or a fascist murdering someone is Justified Actually, residents of that place need to put up wanted posters of that politician's face calling them an accomplice to murder.

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  alright here's my DFL primary picks Peggy Flanagan for US senate (probably best shot at beating Collaborator Craig)Matt Little for US rep-2 (probably best shot at beating Klein and Berg, who are both AIPAC. Hugh McTavish would be my second pick if we had RCV.)Erin Maye Quade for MN senate-56 (the only one on the DFL ballot, but she's good)Kobey J Layne for governor (literally the only appealing candidate. Klobuchar's clearly the party pick but sucks for reasons @mekkaokereke has ide...

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  @anubiarts Hi, i love your work! I wanted to ask, how do you decide which specific colors to use when doing a pixelart redraw of a photo? is there an algorithm that generates a palette based on the most common colors in the image, do you use the eyedropper tool on particular spots, or do you have a list of colors you prefer and pick the closest ones from that?

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  @scottsantens@hachyderm.io Worth keeping in mind, however, that for some subset of people, statistics like this won't matter at all. Not in the sense that they'll just ignore reality, but in the sense that they don't consider "materially making people's lives better" to be a primary function of their ideal government. For some subset of people, the function of government is to punish inherently-sinful humans and ensure the best people are at the top of the hierarchy, an...

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  holy fuck

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  @Melezioh@mstdn.games nah you're good i just wanted to specifically respond to the "real life solutions that can happen" thing since it gave me an excuse to dump a whole bunch of stuff I've been thinking about that I think would be good and also that are doable by politicians specifically, since i assumed that was what that bit was about i should clarify tho that when I said "make them lose the primaries", I did specifically mean the primaries and not necessarily the...

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  @Melezioh@mstdn.games As for workable steps (or at least policies that centrists and libs should be able to take more seriously than "empty the prisons", not necessarily that they'd be more effective): Ranked choice voting is very popular and would do a lot to break up (or at least weaken) the partisan duopoly.Prosecuting Orange Man and all of his accomplices and enforcing the laws already in place that say that insurrectionists who try to violently overthrow democracy in order t...