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back before musk bought it. I’m just going to leave social media, in general. I think that’s the best thing for my sanity at this point.

Well guys I’ve come to the conclusion tonight that BlueSky isn’t for me either. I’m not overly surprised because so many people are from Twitter, which was toxic even before Musk took it over. Within the span of like 4 days on here my mental space is about like it was before I left twitter +

And really at the end of the day, the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

As it is, I do not have the SAFE ability to do the things you’re suggesting. Instead I’m doing my best to look out for my coworkers, friends, and loved ones that need protected at this time.

Bruh. Suggesting I run myself is crazy. Not every random ass stranger you meet on the internet wants to be a politician.

And I personally am not in a safe situation to be doing that right now or perhaps (most probably) I would. Unfortunately in this economy

We rise by helping each other.

There is no "returning to normal"--normal is gone. You have to build a new future or it will be built for you.

If you voted for someone who took away my kid's cancer screenings, don't make the mistake of thinking we're still friends.

“I want them to grow up with the same values I had growing up” = “I want to brainwash them from an early age”

“I want them to grow up with the same values I had growing up” = “I want to brainwash them from an early age”

Are liberals capable of not saying things like “we need immigrants to pick our crops and take care of children”?
Go fuck yourselves
And also thank you for revealing your true nature

However, if you have a candidate you’d like to vote for that’s a dem for the national primary, you take the democrat ballot and forfeit your say in what candidate gets the local office.

For example, in 2016 election for primary in my state, the only people even still running out of the Dems

primary, or if you don’t have a preference between the ones currently left over when you get to vote in the primary, and there are no democrats running in the local elections taking place on the same primary ballot, you request a Republican ballot so you can still vote on your local election.

how many options you have if you were to request a Democrat ballot. You also consider what local positions are being voted on in this given primary, and whether you even have any options for them on the Dem ballot.
• If there’s only one democrat candidate left for the national election on the

- If it’s a local election only, and you know there are no left candidates and no 3rd party candidates, you vote for whichever Republican you think is the least damaging.

- If it’s a state election, you vote Democrat or for a third party.

- If it’s a presidential primary, you consider first

No, we were actually discussing why sometimes the only option in red states is to vote Republican. If you’re still confused, let me try to explain to you how it works here when you are left leaning in a highly red area where your local elections don’t have democrats.
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The politick of the white liberal is “save yourselves.”

And that is why it fails every time. Martin Luther King told yall.

It is all of us. Or it is none of us.

And that is EVERYBODY is suffering right now. Everyone is scared.

B/c yall thought you could throw people off the lifeboat

When in reality, if they’d just run a candidate that isn’t Republican Lite…

Radical left: all humans should have their basic needs met

Right wingers: anyone that’s not white should be jailed, deported or killed

Centrists: both sides make compelling arguments

hell yeah

If you see some poor person in a red state - even a complete MAGA chud asshole- lose their home to climate change and your first reaction is "Haha, fuck around and find out, Trumper!" I think you're too far gone down the "politics is a sport on TV" rabbit hole to ever truly develop class solidarity.

I can't help feeling a "game-changing" technology that's going to "transform" the way we work wouldn't need to be sneaked into products without the user's consent.

All I see is posts asking "How do I switch this f**king thing off?"

Copilot's the U2 album nobody asked for, except it's not free.

🧵 Here's the thing. To really "resist" you have to do more than rant on social media. You need to change your consumer habits. Start with tech:

-boycott Meta and Twitter
-install an operating system like Ubuntu
-use open source software like LibreOffice
-use Firefox and Duck Duck Go

hell yeah

The ear 😍😍

I ain’t calling it that anyway. If somebody says “Gulf of America” I’m asking them “The what now?”

Trump just undid the only good thing GWB did in his entire 8 years.

John Deere is surprising but hell yeah

“Remember, when the cops come calling, what do you do?” “SHUT THE FUCK UP!”

Fun how all the platforms get less fun, less interesting, and less usable as they get more right-wing and more dedicated to sucking up as much of our time and scamming us as much as possible.