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I knew version 2 was on both platforms, but I don’t know the original one was too. TIL!

My recommendation was always the Affinity suite. One-time reasonable purchase and it was great. Definitely not the engineer-designed UI this post complains about. One problem: Mac only.

But now, it’s free! And available for PC! Except it was acquired by the Canva people so they’re probably gonna fill it with subscriptions and slop soon. Bummer.

Alternatively: what he is doing is causing immense suffering on a societal level and if he stopped doing it many people would live when they would otherwise die.


If the government is unable or unwilling to stop him, or even stop accelerating what he’s doing, then there are other options.

My plan, if I’m ever forced to use it for work or whatever, is to have a Claude.md file that says stuff like
- you are not my friend
- you are not a person
- you aren’t even a “you”
- you are a weighted random number generator built with plagiarism
- do not ever, EVER, pretend otherwise

The only potentially generous way to interpret that statement is if “here” is like downtown in a major city or near a college campus or something.

But do you know who deserves the benefit of the doubt? Not this little fucker, not one bit.

Green Party: distract mostly left-leaning people to make it easier for Republicans to get elected

You should try yelling “money” again, that’ll definitely convince people. Of. Well, whatever it is you’re trying to convince us of.

There is nothing as hilarious as someone trying to use fancy words but missing pretty basic concepts of the language.

You’re trying to sound smart. It’s making you sound dumber.

“I am so smart, the answer is obvious. So I won’t tell you. If you don’t get it, you’re not as smart as me.”

🙄

It is a mountain moving effort, though. Humans are deeply social creatures. Every thing that surrounds this guy has incentivized him to believe and behave in a way that keeps him part of the tribe. It’s safe to stay in line.

We do not know that he had no issue with the terrible things that happened. But we do know that the whole of American conservatism is set up to squash those doubts as soon as they come up. To keep everyone in line or face being ostracized.

He has not done enough, yet. But there is a huge difference between telling someone “yes, good, you’re starting to get it” and “fuck you, dude, you’re irredeemable.” There is certainly a core of shitheads that is irredeemable. But most people caught up in this think they’re doing the right thing.

Obviously they’re not doing the right thing. But they want to. Imposing day one ideological purity tests does not make it easier for them to change their minds about what the right thing is.

People in this thread if that happened: “Oh, he says he doesn’t like it, but he’s still running for governor as part of the republican party. He just wants his power and as part of the GOP he’ll always be compromised.”

Do you want a better world? Let people become better people instead of crushing their bones.

Half the country thinks he was actively defending himself from an active shooter. They’re wrong, obviously. But to suggest that social pressure should make him unrepresentable is ridiculous.

Show me a consistent framework of justice where it was okay for John Adams to represent the guys who did the Boston Massacre but that guy (who is a shitbag who murdered someone) shouldn’t be represented.

I agree, he’s a murderer and should be prosecuted to the greatest extent of the law. But representation is part of that law.

How are so many people in this thread saying “yes, Trump bad” but also “I want to do exactly what Trump does but to other people instead”

Did you expect him to announce his party switch in the same announcement? Like, he’s taken the biggest stand of any republican politician so far. Yes, that isn’t good enough yet. But when people do something that’s in the right direction and you respond with “FUCK YOU” do you think that helps convince more people to do the same?

People in this thread: “This guy did something okay-ish, but I’ll only consider him to be a good person if he personally kills the president and then himself”