• Both bomb kids
• Both support genocide
• Both support imperialism and colonialism
• Both screw over the working class to help out their rich friends
• Both openly lie about how they are going to fix things
• Both leverage military and intelligence agencies against their own citizens

The problem I have is when someone reduces the parties down to their stances on one single issue.

The “foreign child crusher” in this comic is doing a lot of heavy lifting, for a lot other problems.

Maybe I don’t understand the US system but I believe platforms are individual to candidates and that there are no overall party platforms that the candidates are expected to adhere to.

While the platforms are technically individual, they aren’t really. They have to get approval from their bosses (donors) on what they get to run on. And the few actual good things that they run on has to be just empty rhetoric. If they get elected, they are expected to immediately forget those things.

when do they fight the lesser evil?

Thats the neat part, they don’t. The cycle goes like this:

• It’s election season. You can’t point out that the child-killers want to kill children, or the evil people will win.
• Election season is over. The child-killers are in power, but their hands are tied because of the evil people who aren’t in power. Its unrealistic to expect the child-killers to just stop helping the evil people kill children.
• It’s election season. You can’t point out that the child-killers have been killing children, or the evil people will win.
• Election season is over. The child-killers aren’t in power. What do you expect them to do? They have to keep helping the evil people kill children.

Rinse, repeat

It’s just a normal sticker, so it would work on pretty much anything. I think of it more as a way to donate to a group that I like, as well as good advertising for them.

I’ve been covering my cameras with tape for a long time. If you wanna get fancy with it, the EFF sells laptop camera stickers: https://shopeff.org/products/laptop-camera-cover-set-ii

Yup, it’s hard to justify supporting Lenovo, but work buys mine, so I’m not gonna complain too much about it.

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Thinkpads are awesome. They aren’t as good as they used to be, but they still work great for linux.

Why mint?

I use mint as my “TV room” OS. It’s worked pretty well so far.