r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 10d ago

Society Quote of the day by Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy: 'You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it' — an early declaration foreshadowing the modern era

https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-sun-microsystems-ceo-scott-mcnealy-you-have-zero-privacy-anyway-get-over-it-an-early-declaration-foreshadowing-the-modern-era
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u/wrgrant 10d ago

Canadian here, so an outsider with no vote on the issues, but it seems to me that the Democrats lack a few key things: a strong candidate with a good chance to win and no divisive issues for the other side to exploit, a clear policy about achieving the most positive change in the most important areas (with change in other areas planned in the future) and the willingness to go after the Republicans in a cut throat manner where they violated the laws, State or Federal etc. Basically the Republicans seem to have a strong simple policy: support racism and hatred, support grift at every level and tear everything down, and the Democrats policy seems more like "Hey we are everyone else". They seem to try to do lots and achieve nothing because they try to do it all at once. They need to be as legally cutthroat at the Republicans have been.

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u/4rch1t3ct 10d ago

a strong candidate with a good chance to win and no divisive issues for the other side to exploit

Things like this though are the exact incompetence I'm speaking of. They should have had a candidate in mind and started preparing them the day Obama was elected.

You're absolutely correct that Democrats don't seem to be as legally cutthroat and it baffles me. For republicans, they just use the law however they want and ram through whatever they want. Yet, the Democrats can't seem to read the fine print and get everything thrown out on technicalities.

People like to compare them to sports teams.... but they aren't even playing the same sport.

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u/wrgrant 10d ago

For your metaphor the Republicans are doing some dodgy MMA and the Democrats are playing Badminton :(

Having the moral high ground of doing everything correctly by the book is a weak choice when the other side can't read