Otome-chan

Yup. I actually went ahead and look at "no labels"'s website and.... I like the spirit, but their language use and lack of policy is concerning. It seems their focus is more about unity between democrats and republicans by "compromising with moderate policy" and opposing "far left and far right" however what I found is almost the exact opposite of that. People are tired of democrats and republicans being essentially a uniparty and not doing literally anything to accommodate the demands of those who are considered "fringe" yet are the majority.

Instead of a "sensible middle milquetoast candidate" what we need is someone who will openly accept and endorse the key points from the left and the right. The left want economic justice, sane urban planning, fixing out of control capitalism. The right want a return to sanity in social policy, culture, and proper national identity. These are not incompatible views! I keep seeing "far left" and "far right" people actually end up agreeing on both the problems in society, as well as the fixes. It's the hysteric "centrists" of democrats and republicans who seemingly work to push the corporate interests, but nothing the actual public wants/needs.

Left and right are both unified on ukraine: we don't want war. left and right are both unified on supporting mom&pops and removing support for large corporations. we want fair marketplaces with local businesses. Left and right are both unified on policing: we're tired of corrupt police who do literally nothing to keep society proper and instead just harass people. Both left and right are unified on elections, we see that the 2 party system is broken and that 3rd parties and alternative structures are needed.

The democrats and republicans are opposed to literally all of these.

While it's true things are polarized, most of the "never working with you" types end up being the centrist establishment of dnc/gop, while the far fringes have started mobilizing into a populist unity.

My hope is that these 'no labels' guys can see this, and run a candidate that marries the two in a populist bid. But what it sounds like is that they plan to run a candidate who's essentially the middle of trump and biden; the worst of both.

I guess we'll have to see when they release their policy positions?

RFK is a registered as and running as a democrat, and afaik has no affiliation with "no labels".

ultimately I will be voting for the best candidate, regardless of party. My litmus is ubi. no ubi, no vote. if the "spoiler candidate" is the only one supporting and pushing ubi, then I will vote for them. If you don't like that, then endorse ubi and I might vote for you instead.

Not really? Most stuff nowadays is shared on discord and a couple major doujin sites, along with vk. all free. no-one is hiding/trading anything, just sharing what they have. Though, Japanese people in particular aren't exactly the pirate types so it's all westerners doing it.

ah. most of the obscure/niche stuff that I listen to music-wise are japanese doujin circles which I couldn't find on soulseek at all.

I keep seeing people talk about kbin having peertube support? how does that work exactly?

yeah? well when I joined kbin, 503 errors said to check back in a few days!

I never got into soulseek and this is honestly one of the reasons. and all the stuff I was finding wasn't anything I couldn't find elsewhere.

common lemmy.ml L. thanks for the heads up though that interacting on lemmy.ml stuff might be broken.

yeah it'd be nice to be able to click the link without having to go into the comments section.

The code realize games are pretty good. Also gonna shout out Pretty Princess Party and it's sequel Pretty Princess Magical Garden Island. They're both on the girlier side of things but don't get as much attention as they should.