TIL explaining how things work is bending over backwards.

Just because you don’t like that the statement is implicitly there doesn’t mean it isn’t.

this is just gymnastics.

Yeah, you are doing a lot of it, but whatever helps you sleep at night.

no one is saying that.

Maybe not explicitly, but there are tons of people advocating voting for 3rd parties that have no chance of winning or even staying home. And in fptp electoral politics, advocating against the party closest to you is implicitly arguing to help the one farthest from you.

So yeah, people are saying it, whether or not you want to acknowledge it.

Them standing behind PoC and gender/sexual minorites at all is a good reason to vote for them, given the alternative wants to hurt those groups.

Too bad perfect is the enemy of good, so let’s keep the republicans in power.

That second one is wrong, the only ones dumber than his supporters are the people advocating staying home or voting 3rd party to SeNd A mEsSaGe.

I swear, the turkeys are voting for Thanksgiving dinner…

And yet so many in vulnerable populations are advocating for paths of actions that will entrench the Nat-Cs in power…

And you didn’t think about how that number is getting bigger and bigger, did you?

Or did you forget how hard trump and the republicans were ginning up the war in the lead up to the election? How they were gassing up Israel after October 7 2023???

But you do you. I’m sure the Republicans will finally end their genocide against you when they win again and again and again.

You clearly have a critical thinking problem.

Always funny to see this from someone advocating for their own demise.

They won’t, no snowflake ever feels responsible for the avalanche, especially the snowflakes gassing up everybody to roll down the hill because of how awful staying put is.

They don’t want to improve their situation, they want to make everyone else’s worse.

Yes, on the ground, things haven’t improved in Gaza, but they also haven’t gotten any worse. The vast majority of the deaths were during the Biden administration.

Wow, how fucking ghoulish are you, spewing outright propaganda that even the Republicans would be proud of?

I don’t know what else I expected coming from someone who wants to hurt everyone because they’re not seen as special enough to the democrats.

Kindly fuck off with your lying bullshit. I’m disgusted at how people like you are lying to take advantage of thousands of people being murdered to perpetuate even more violence against people who can’t defend themselves.

Nah, throwing you under the bus would be voting republican.

But you do you. Surely you care about the suffering of others, hopefully that care is about reducing it, but I doubt it.

There is a trans genocide happening in the US, telling us to suck it up while we die, while we are killed is so fucking awful.

Clearly we should let the republicans take power, that will definitely help out the trans people suffering, right? Because that’s your only other outcome. But if you’re cool with that, by all means, send that message straight into your own foot.

You are an awful person and I hope you experience half of the pain we do, you bootlicking piece of human trash.

Says the person implicitly pushing for an outcome that by definition makes the problem worse.

I fear for my trans partners and friends because of short-sighted people like you who are so focused on the cut the Democrats give you that you’re willing to sever an artery to show them how much you hate them.

I wish the best for you, even while you advocate for more pain for yourself and those like you.

there is no reason to believe people who voted for Greens would have voted for Democrats.

You mean aside from the constant drum beat that we should all vote for Joke Stein to send a message to the Democrats every 4 years?

vote splitting is a myth that serves the hegemony.

Yeah, that’s what people who don’t understand electoral politics and constantly push spoilers always tell me. Too bad I have a functioning brain that understands math.

There are only two parties that have a snowballs chance in hell of winning, but keep pretending like letting the Republicans win won’t hurt us all much more. Vote for whomever you want, but stop lying to yourself.

And if my aunt had wheels she’d be a bike.

The green party is a spoiler, and always has been, that only exists to split the vote and let the republicans win. That’s literally how electoral politics works in fptp.

“If Joe Biden said anything close to this, MAGA would’ve had a total meltdown,” argued Democratic influencer Harry Sisson in a social media post on X to his more than 400,000 followers. “Now this is just part of Trump’s messaging. Hypocrisy at its finest.”

Republicans have been melting down about ‘being forced to eat the bugs’ for over a fucking decade without anyone saying it. I still remember when I used to listen to a conservative shithead podcast (wanted to follow the shithead right and know their awful arguments, but eventually it wasn’t worth the brainrot) and they constantly talked about that and even had the most asinine jingles about it.

Looking back, I’m amazed at how much time I wasted subjecting myself to that…

Looks like Kansas has a strong anti-SLAPP law, so hopefully she’ll be able to get that dismissed pretty quickly.

France did speak out against the USA publicly after the news broke, so that was one option, yes.

LOL no it fucking wasn’t an option, France and the EU have an extradition treaty with the US and would absolutely have turned him over.

Talk is cheap, especially when you know you wont have to back up your words with actions.

Whether you think you are or aren’t smart enough, you’re right!

If you want to do it, read up and just try it. Throw a Linux install on an old desktop or laptop and try to follow a guide and make it work. It seems daunting, but most anyone can follow a guide and get to a usable product.

$14-30/month in subscriptions is $168-360/year.

You likely spend more than that a year on what you host (I know my power alone is going to run higher than that), but the monetary cost doesn’t cover the joys of the hobby, the knowledge aquired, and the fact that your shit still works even after the Internet goes out

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Imagine you had a feed like Lemmy’s home feed, where things from the places you follow show up in a single feed you can look through and open the items you want to read.

Sites used to publish an RSS feed of everything they posted. GReader was the king like 10 (omfg, 20?) years ago. They they fucking killed it like they do with all their good, non-mail/YouTube projects.