Yup. Can’t compare pictures when the venue is different.

Yeah. Lemmy’s biggest strength (decentralization) has also shown to be one of it’s biggest flaws when micro-managing admins/mods turn their instance into their own personal fiefdom, inflicting their “justice” broadly and without discernment. I’ve been banned more here in under 2 years than on reddit for over 13, almost exclusively for voting “wrong” according to what feedback I can find, which is a a seriously treacherous practice in communities like these. I have no real sense of loss over it, but I do worry the Lemmy-verse will end up with tons of siloed off instances instead of an interconnected community if it goes on unadressed.

Is there any other valid strategy than “leave the country”? Even that’s not gonna be fullproof, but legal defenses aren’t going to be of any use here.

“Sex isn’t a bad word”

Insults woman for having too much sex

Make up your mind. Or is sex only OK when men do it?

All caps doesn’t make you cool or interesting. Just annoying.

They think they get to wipe their hands of it because they “didn’t participate”, refusing to concede that said choice still counts as their participation. Through ignorance, cruelty, and/or privilege, they’ll blame everyone else for the state of the world while refusing to do their part.

The notion that he cares about anyone other than himself is laughable. He has nothing to gain from the party if he’s not in office anymore, and he’ll burn it all down before he gets dragged out.

10 million more american voters voted for donald trump this time than did the last time

This absolutely untrue. He got less votes than he did last time.

2020 - 74,223,975

2024 - 74,120,203

What is there to jeopardize? As long as he has the office, the dumbasses who helped him can’t do shit once they realize their massive mistake. What are they gonna do? Not vote for him again? If he shockingly doesn’t fuck with current term limits and elections, he’s not up for election again. If he predictably does, their vote is meaningless since he’s not going to leave the remotest chance things don’t go his way.

Probably why they said “urges” instead of “instructs”.

I read it as " Trump, Chicken Fucker".

But America is so beholden to these idiots that it doesn’t even matter to anyone.

That’s not calling out hypocrisy. That’s saying people should care.

There are lots of things they do that’re scandalous. That’s not one of them. There’s already enough puritanical bullshit fucking up the US. It’s about time some of it were left in the past.

Goal-post yeeting aside (first “off the couch”, now “no time to sleep”?), barring actual factual voter suppression, there’s little-to-no valid excuse in the US to not vote at all. Only 3 states have zero early-voting or vote-by-mail options (for now). The thing with democracy is that everyone shares responsibility to take part. Shirking that responsibility doesn’t absolve anyone of guilt, more so the opposite. Now democracy very well may not be an option again, so no, I’m not going to spend much time empathizing with the people that enabled that.

I didn’t say Gaza, and it doesnt matter why they couldn’t be bothered. Their share remains the same.

Hard to see people as allies who are willing to let the world burn because the only other option wasn’t perfect. The campaign fucked up, for sure, but every voter that stayed home shares blame in this.

and you wouldn’t think that if it was Harris saying it.

I wouldn’t, because she doesn’t have years of violent rhetoric that would suggest she’s talking literally. He’s long lost the benefit of the doubt on what he “really” means, and any suggestion that his speech is innocent is either naive or complicit.

What if? That’s absolutely what they’re trying and they’ve said as much.

To clarify, Reagan and his appointees killed the Fairness Doctrine, which was an FCC policy that required broadcasters to provide equal coverage of political issues. The Equal Time Rule, on the other hand, only stipulates that broadcasters can’t deny equal access to some candidates that it gives to others, with the notable caveat that it doesn’t need to offer equal access to all candidates - they only need to provide it if asked. That rule (ETR) is still in effect, but it only means NBC needs to allow Trump equivalent time if he asks for it. So this trump-appointed FCC stooge is mischaracterizing his own agencies policy to cry “corruption”. What a pos.

Fwiw, USSS has declared the highest level of security for that day already.