Nicholas Murphy
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Nicholas Murphy
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Grizzled Google parallel filesystem developer. Basset hound and personal offspring enthusiast. Unequivocally too old for this shit.
Please step down in favor of someone younger who won’t try to meet authoritarianism with hugs.
January 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Let us not forget the degree to which he engaged in crypto pump and dump so he’s explicitly a grifter on top of everything else…
January 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I mean look at who is getting to define what “masculine” is. They are selfish and insecure, so “masculinity” is basically being defined as…that.
January 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
You just said it: not voting for Ds doesn’t make them move their position. And our voting system makes any failure to vote for D effectively a vote for R. And wishing that wasn’t true doesn’t make it not true.

Refusing to vote is counter-productive activism.
January 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
You are absolutely saying that if you refuse to vote for his opponent in our voting system. That’s kind of the point.
January 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Trump was the one and only alternative and anyone who thinks he is not the strictly worse option is a fool.
January 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Do you have any idea how long activism takes to change anything? You know it’s never, like, one year, right?
January 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
They aren’t though. Trump is actually, literally insane. Harris isn’t and the Democrats aren’t. That difference is very important.
January 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Yup, they suck. And yet my point stands.
January 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Yes, I get that you don’t understand the concept of a probability of something happening.
January 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
They aren’t good! They are just marginally less horrible than Rs, and that turns out to matter a lot.
January 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
_Trump is still worse_. It might be the difference between 0% chance of improvement and 20% chance, but 0 is 0 and 20 is not 0. That’s the math.
January 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Trump definitely won’t listen. Democrats might. This isn’t a case where relying on how dumb Trump is will work. He will sell more weapons and think it makes him a great businessman. Then bomb Greenland.
January 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Yup. And Trump would find a way to be worse. And definitely won’t listen to you. Democrats might. You do understand how voting works, right? You don’t get to just grumpily refuse to participate and then magically have the system explode and give you what you want by default?
January 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM