Long term computer programmer, making my own library. American based. Far left politically. Promotes use of paper ballots. Follows news about environmental collapse, political corruption in my country, human rights, science and tech.

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  • limer@lemmy.mltoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•What you heard
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    4 days ago

    I am very pessimistic!

    Most of my life I was either apolitical or even conservative. About ten years ago I started to become active in the Texas Democratic Party and ran headlong into voting irregularities by both the computer voting company and my county government. This started an involuntary slide to the left ( true left , not liberalism) as I encountered a brick wall in my weak efforts to make the ballot counting in my area more transparent.

    I fully believe most computer ballot counting is not reliable and thus there will be a forever dance between this democratic - republican switching.

    But the way out of this has not been seen in this country. I am not sure there is a realistic escape from the above, and fully expect truly bad gop governments in the future which will alternate with Democratic Party governments


  • This situation is a good test for both intent and realism over the next two years among the politically minded on social medias.

    A good way to fall short is to insist on letter writing campaigns, or say it’s politically necessary for top democrats to accept ICE.

    More specifically I am looking to see how this changes political movements, if at all, when and if the top democrats fail to do much over the next years














  • limer@lemmy.mltoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•dumb skynet
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    3 months ago

    Like many human endeavors, it has a good side and a bad side. This meme seems to concentrate on its worse qualities: unchecked capitalism without social safety nets. And that is what is promoted by the modern fascists

    When the actual fascist movement started in Italy, Mussolini almost called his movement capitalism because it promoted a controlled form of capitalism. Run by cronies of the state.

    And while modern American fascism has a broad protection streak, where only a small amount of wealthy in the USA should control goods, it still mostly honors the worst of the global economy.




  • I do not use AI to code; but I have been programming for two generations now.

    I’ve taken a few breaks in that time, and switched technologies at least ten times also, and it’s very easy for me to forget a lot.

    Programming is like any skill, it requires constant practice.

    Am I a good programmer? Probably not that skilled, but I’ve written over a million lines of code and have run the gamut of architecture from: “Break this large file into 500 lines each, now we call that as a function” to “all numbers are object oriented” to “if it works great”