I believe the correct answer to OPs question is "an object lesson in the difference between correlation and causality.

Or proof he doesn’t understand that difference, whichever applies.

Yeah. Using “women” as an adjective may be more socially acceptable than using “female” as a noun, but it really shouldn’t be.

I worked as a volunteer and then paid staffer on Democratic campaigns for a decade. I know good and well the kinds of dirty tricks the party can and does use to ensure the “right” candidate wins a primary. The fact that you don’t want to understand the argument doesn’t invalidate the argument. The Democratic Party exists to give the left flank enough faith in the system to keep them from revolting, they serve no other purpose.

Blue MAGA is a perfectly apt term for the people who put party loyalty above critical thinking. The people who decry Trump’s immigration policy but happily voted for Kamala when she ran on an identical policy. The people who don’t believe that there were kids in cages at the border before and after Trump’s first term bcs that would require accepting that Obama and Biden weren’t much better than Trump. The kinds of people that believe Trump mysteriously appeared out of nowhere and refuse to accept the twin facts that decades of bipartisan neoliberalism made someone like Trump inevitable, and that Hillary Clinton’s campaign allies deliberately pushed their tame media talking heads to normalize Trump, ensuring that the slide to fascism would start in 2016, when it could have been delayed another 10-15 years. The kinds of people who’ll scold people with principles for not voting against those principles rather than blame their party for running a candidate that principled voters could not accept.

When someone loses a race, they shouldn’t look at the comprehensive post mortem of the campaign and decide that since the things it says aren’t acceptable to the donors they’ll ignore it and keep punching left. But they did, and it doesn’t seem to have dampened the enthusiasm of Blue MAGA in the slightest.

I’ll confess to not having compared them in the last 10 years or so, and I’d be happily surprised to be wrong, but I’m betting that “long way” is mostly in terms of features used by casual/home users, not power users who use the software on a professional basis to do professional work. .

You could have just said you don’t understand the difference between defending a socialist revolution and capitalist wars of Imperialism. The demonstration wasn’t necessary.

I hate that it is the way it is, but OSS “alternatives” are not serious tools for professionals. That said, I’m 100% in favor of nationalizing Adobe and Microsoft, since they’ve created a world where only their tools are good enough to do the job, but that’s not the conversation we’re having here.

Here’s a simple test: take all formatting out of a copy of Ulysses or some other doorstopper of a classic novel so it’s just a giant wall of text. Give two publishing pros each a copy of that wall of text, have one turn it in to a publishable book using the industry standard tools and one do the same task with the OSS “alternatives” and see who’s done first, and which version is the better looking final product.

Wanna place any bets?

Then that’s even worse, because the design of the OSS “alternatives” to everything I use daily for work screams “hobbyist who just needed the basic functions of a word processor and spreadsheet editor for school”.

A vasectomy, mostly. I did try to get into some studies for things like IVD, but that never materialized either.

I was shocked at how easy it was when I got to the NW and just…walked into a Planned Parenthood and scheduled the appointment.

Florida in the late 90s/early 00s was very “unreal”, but it’s gotten worse every time I’ve gone back to visit.

I blame the party for offering them inducements to quit and making it know they’d ratfuck anyone who didn’t go along with the plan.

But mostly I blame Blue MAGA cultists who’ve kept their eyes squeezed tight shut any time their party is just as bad as the other one and every time the party has played dirty tricks to keep its donors happy at the expense of its voters. Because y’all are the ones letting them get away with it and continuing to reward the behavior with your vote.

Neither was worth the time it took to uninstall them when they proved almost unusably inferior to the industry standards.

These things are the standard for a reason, OSS hobbyists who are not graphic designers or admin workers generally will never be able to make something that is in the same league for the exact same reason that I couldn’t build a compiler better than the industry standard one, even if I technically had the coding skills to make it, because I haven’t spent decades using one professionally, so I wouldn’t know what an industry pro would want from it.

In 2024? I doubt it.

In 2020? Sure, now see the rest of that sentence about the party not cheating to annoint a donor friendly genocide enthusiast.

Or so you think it’s totally normal that 4 people quit the night before Super Tuesday, moving Biden from 6th to first? Or that Warren held on long past the point where she had no chance to ensure the anti establishment vote got split? Certainly the late night phone calls Obama made to every establishment candidate polling ahead of Biden were a coincidence. And the Dem leadership adjacent members who’ve said on the record that Biden was chosen to stop Bernie and not Trump, that’s just regular party squabbles, right?

Do you really think the DNC has run a fair and free primary in the last 10 years?

They’re anything bus serious, but that does appear to be what they’re suggesting, yes. Typical pronatalist nonsense.

As a man who’s been very sure he wanted to remain childfeee since his teens: most surgeons won’t sterilize men on request either. I was told several times to come back after I was married with at least three kids. Had to move to the literal opposite corner of the country to a place where Planned Parenthood isn’t under constant assault to get a vasectomy after decades of chasing one.

Yeah, pregnant 12 year olds aren’t really a problem for forced birthers. More like an opportunity. Besides she should have just kept her legs together, according to them

Yeah I guess having an actual primary where the party doesn’t just cheat to annoint a donor friendly genocide enthusiast would look too much like democracy for the Democratic party to ever tolerate.

Fascism is capitalism in decay. The internal contradictions of capitalism become too much and it starts to collapse in in itself. To prevent this, it begins using the techniques of control perfected in its colonies to maintain control in the imperial core, that’s what you’re seeing now

The only way to stop it, and the only way to prevent it from getting much, much worse is to end capitalism and overthrow the capitalist government that is ready, willing, and happy to shift into fascism mode as soon as the line stops going up

Nothing that was already good has ever been improved by mayonnaise. Mayo is a topping people put on mediocre and boring foods to make them edible.

Looks more to me like people arguing sexism isn’t the problem on this specific case, because it’s not. This is a class issue, not a gender issue. Men and women alike see consequences for CSA, as long as they aren’t wealthy or connected enough to have at least a couple Senators on speed dial.

If this is them being serious, I’d hate to see them clowning.

Lol, dude defends the Democratic Party repeatedly and has the gall to call someone a “fascist murder apologist” for not accepting imperialist framing of AES states.

Pure clown shoes.