The 6 Palestinians I know (from protests in the US), 2 in Gaza and 1 in the West Bank they all tell me they could care less Biden vs Trump, But if has to be one… with Trump there is more chances of change in the region, even at the cost of more lives. Besides, it will be far easier to regional countries and the European ones to distance from a link between Trump’s US and Israel.
I am disappointing with Lemmy’s population. I would expect all these “Biden is bad in one thing but good in the rest” mentality so advocating to vote for him regardless.
First, the “thing” is not minor thing… is a crucial matter where the life of millions of people are completely dispossessed of protection and justice.
Second; There are third candidates… Of course, they don’t have a chance and it will be, apparently, a waste of a vote… but only for this November elections! But, if a third candidate, with a genuine distinct message, gets 10-15% of the vote, future candidate will see an incentive to be independent in the future too… Gosh, even both Dem and Rep will be more cautions next time around.
The worse we can do, is to vote the same thing over and over, let alone no voting at all. There is nothing more the duo party loves the most! Encourage those alternative voices, the founding will come alone if hope is there… maybe not in 2024 but for midterms and 2028.
Also, I miss some conservative voices in here (and I am not one!)… I bet there are some non-mainstream ones that could greatly benefit Lemmy’s ecosystem too.
Sony Phones… by the way, I think big part of development still is in Sweden (can someone corroborate?). can be saved… Sony has this evil nature with overreaching copyright protections but Sony Xperias has been remarkable independent on Sony’s appalling reputation.
Most point on the overprice problem… true. For what we get, outstanding optics (but many have them too now), a headphone jack and the best fingerprint sensor placement won’t cut it anymore. For that is overpriced!
Now, Xperias, do this (and wont require any more $$$):
Millions won’t mind to pay a premium for that, now, truly distinguished, phone that one can feel proud owning it and… well displaying it out there too.
Proud owner of 5 Xperias since Nokia’s 808 but, since 2022 with 2 Pixels with GrapheneOS whose hardware I hate to death but with no viable alternative left.
third parties makes full sense. Of course you have no chance in the next few years but one of two scenarios will happen; 1) the people more and more open up the idea for the 3rd party and use it as a protest vote or 2) one of the duo-party system will try to capitalize on taking those votes by taking their main argument. No third party, no duo-party side has any incentive to remodel at all, they will just wait for the next cycle for their turn and things will continue as is. This is why the US political landscape has corrupted itself to the end.