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To be fair, that's Twitter DNA

But... The post gets so many likes if it's just bullshit meant to confirm people's priors 🥺

A great example of how a multiparty system can fail is Italy.

For 50 years, Italy was a dominant-party democracy in which all government coalitions were built by the Democratic Christian party.

The way it ended was with the unveiling of 50 years of corruption from which most of parties profited.

Big announcement from us: we are fully funded, we met our goal. I cannot thank everyone who supported us enough. We are putting the pedal on the gas to put out work worthy of your trust.

Tillis: You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training it, and then you have the audacity to say it’s a leadership lesson. You killed a goat and said it was behaving badly. You’re a farmer — you don’t castrate a goat, they behave badly.

I mean, the guy quite literally started a dogpile against other trans women out of that whole Newsom debate anyways.

“Idk how to go to work while the world is burning” instagram stories from friends in the US

But when you tell them that not voting for Harris meant abetting the genocide of *10 million* people because of USAID being gutted they get veeeery angry at you.

I mean, sure, I don't disagree with that.

The biggest face of youth socialism is a guy who invites terrorists on stream and who pushes a weirdo who role-plays killing one Jewish couple in particular.

And I will not stand being told I'm over-blowing the left's problems, not on this.

At absolute worst, I think weirdo internet commies are stupid and childish.

At *best*, the fact that I follow Jamelle Bouie (just one example of something trivial that is apparently controversial to some) is somehow proof I'm a Nazi transphobe

Okay, but the problem here isn't that it's a non-issue, the problem here is that *I* get heckled, called a Nazi, and/or get misgendered because I'm not poasting about firebombing a Walmart.

The very big difference here is that we actually do see that as a problem, and I do believe it is our responsability to sway and/or supplant those people in any way we can.

Of course not. It's just anti-Zionism, you see.

normal people i know and would generally say that I respect[ed] are now dropping stuff like "the jews bought all the houses, that's why it's all so expensive", in casual conversation. it's absolutely fucknig shocking

"Putin is actually a genius too complex for us mere mortals to understand" is a psyop that worked so well, people use it for every deranged autocrat now

(This could be gender, I think.)

It's so funny that when a liberal says something objectionable (it happens) the lefties scream at every single one of us to "fix our crowd", but when we have to interact with people who share that guy's level of intellect we all have to shut up about it because it's not the left's responsibility.

They were also arguing that, like, the r-word used to be a medical term so it's fine (???).

Genuinely dumbfounded.

I brought up how the Roma were enslaved and/or ostracized since time immemorial too, so really the problem with slurs isn't how long they've been used as slurs, but the fact that they are dehumanizing epithets, and. that all of them are bad, at which point they got very upset.

Reminded of that "leftist" guy who was arguing at me that the r-word isn't a real slur like the n-word is, because the n-word is the Ur-Slur, and literally every other slur, racial or otherwise, is below it because of... Seniority, I think was the argument?

you really get the sense on bluesky dot app that some users really do just want to say slurs, but leftishly

I absolutely am aware that sufficiently big accounts on here actually do not give a sliver of a fuck about not spreading hysteria, but it still sucks that it happens.

I promise you that you don't need to have a witty, uninformed, contrarian take on this.

And I know you're uninformed for the fact that you think it was just a random vet podcast, and not the most racist garbage that (somehow) social media allows.

I think it's deeply, deeply irresponsible to spin the guy with a Nazi tattoo going on a Nazi podcast as "a random guy going on a popular vet podcast", to your audience of 50k people no less.

I don't know dawg, I think "Are we sure Israel depends on the US as much as we want it to?" is a good question as far as ending the atrocities go.

It's not a defense of Prohibition which of course failed spectacularly, but an important thing to contextualize historically for why the temperance movement was such a big deal was that people used to drink *insane* amounts of booze compared to what we'd regard as normal today.

Is biased coverage going to doom the US into a cycle of perpetually forgetting what happens when you elect fascists?

Is the voting populace stuck between either having to rely on these asshats, or having to rely on X or TikTok (which are equally as bad btw)?

Like, let's assume the Trump age comes to pass (because it will).

How do you reform the NYT into not being a transphobic rag. What do we do about the ratfuckers who are still riding with Trump as he's polling as the worst US President.

Do we just have to trust that they'll have a change of heart?

It's during times like these where I have to wonder what, if anything, can be done about the US media elite being collaborators.