I think this gal has a better chance at making it to Mars than Liz…

Great. Plague bears. Didn’t have that on the 2026 bingo card…

Not gonna be impressed until they teach it to fetch.

There’s a couple of reasons. It’s easy to learn, especially in comparison with what came before (I still have nightmares about CGI). If you already had HTML locked down, it’s wasn’t a big jump to coding PHP, whereas Javascript was less noob friendly. This meant that a lot of opensource web content management systems got built first on PHP. Wordpress has been mentioned, but that’s ignoring the larger structural CMS systems like Joomla and Drupal.

At the time these projects were really hitting their stride (2005 - 2010), opensource systems built on a LAMP architecture where out-competing any proprietary language of similar capacity. The only one that came close to PHP’s use was ASP and that was just because it had Microslop behind it. By 2010, PHP had pretty much dominated the existing opensource CMS community, which in turn meant most non-commercial websites and a fair chunk of commercial ones as well had their core interfaces written in PHP.

Does it have flaws? Absofuckinglutely. But it was the first widespread web programming language that was free, easy to learn, and worked well over 80% of the time across all browsers. Nothing since has really hit that sweet spot of being the right software for the right problem at exactly the right time, which is why its still in heavy use today.

I’m fully aware of that. But even those backwards motherfuckers had the balls to rise up and try to create something better when it became clear that George III was a senile, insane despot. Regardless of the flaws of its authors, the Declaration of Independence is a timeless document and one written for us.

Like you and me. For what’s happening right now. That’s the point of the post above.

The government the founders built was not the free utopia they envisioned, and has become as broken and corrupt as the monarchy that spawned it. And now that it no longer works as envisioned or intended, it’s time to find a new solution.

This is really what they were saying - you have the right and duty to get rid of a government that no longer serves the people’s interest.

That’s odd. When I wear my “Not a serial killer” shirt, I don’t get any questions. Or any conversation for that matter.

It does make the supermarket checkout lane move extra fast tho…

Didn’t realize it was. Ran it through a checker after your post and you were right. Deleted.

The result?

A quote for when the Predator class rigs the midterms:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Think of the children. Think of your children, and what they will do to them. They will not stop. The midterm results won’t constrain them, and they have already proven they’ll turn to violence to preserve their power.

That’s what Vivek means when he says “politics is a rough sport”. It means his side is ready to rape and kill to enforce their will.

This is not a call to violence. That bell was already rung by the GOP. This is a call for revolution, and it’s coming from the Founding Fathers.

OP:

I wouldn’t. I’d let the community decide via voting. You don’t engender discussion by silencing speakers because they don’t meet your requirements of legitimacy. If there’s a question of legitimacy or bad faith discussion, identify it, talk about it, and downvote the hell out of it if needed.

But don’t remove it. Once you do, you’re no longer curating a discussion. You’re promoting an agenda.

Rejecting a voice out of hand because of whom its coming from is blatant censorship, and a tacit admission that your ideas can’t compete with theirs in the arena of public discourse.

This isn’t a tease so much as a thinly veiled threat.

Or the latest Fox sitcom pilot. I can’t tell anymore.

/c/politics is a hive of scum and pedantry, with a healthy dose of hypocrisy. If you say:

Social Media adjacent hosts like Substack are allowed, but ONLY if they tie back to a company/subsidiary. No personal or friend group blogs and no self-promotion. Articles should be worth reading

…while allowing articles that are blatant AI summaries from trash rags like the DailyBeast and Business Insider simply because they’re tied to a company, you’re not fostering political discussion. You’re advancing a corporate agenda.

Culture = your Cult

The decentralized design of the Fediverse intentionally allows differing cultures to interact, while preventing any single one from dominating the means of communication. The attempt to define cultural rules is a fools errand without centralized control.

The Fediverse has no centralized control, and thus will never be subject to a single set of cultural rules - nor should it be.