Eldritch

We’re officially on the decline. A laughing stock to our enemies and a pariah to our allies. Even if the American people pull off a miracle somehow in 2028 and elect someone like Ocasio Cortez to the presidency. No one in Europe should just forgive everything and get all buddy buddy with us again. We’ve only shown we cannot be trusted. The ball has been passed keep your eye on where it is, not where the ball was.

Under normal circumstances I’d agree. Under these circumstances it was a failure still.

While I agree they aren’t far left. They are sincerely more socialist than the Nazis were. The problem is, they are often as authoritarian as and group think vulnerable as maga, nazis, etc. Economics is fine. But it should never supersede or dictate social policy.

And all these heavily centralized States weather corporate or otherwise always fall to the same flaws. Power calcifying and protecting itself. Not the people or Society.

Unfortunately too little too late and Biden was too afraid to push it. Politics for far too long has been run on a gentleman’s agreement. That one side has clearly not been honoring.

Complexity is one thing. Merrick Garland not even attempting is another. I could be understanding of the complexity if they had even behaved as if it was serous or important. They didn’t. And their failure to take it seriously along with the media’s failure led to this.

There’s absolutely a lot of that to be sure.

I don’t know, if you ask me Biden’s failure to prosecute Trump seems like a prime failure of action. One of far far too many. Which really goes to the core of the problem with current Democrat leadership. Promise very little deliver even less.

Not going to argue that the people that switched from Harris to Trump because of all the hubbub weren’t fools. They certainly were. But they and the Bernie to Trump people are far more common and representative than informed educated voters.

As opposed to Democrats who don’t even try to run or often lose them themselves? AOC is the likely candidate they will endorse in 28. And she is a democrat. You really should give them a chance and try not to be so irrationally afraid of them. Unlike the Democrats they actually have policies and agenda that most people Democrat and otherwise like if you talk to them about it neutrally. Can’t worry about the screaming McCarthyites. The screaming mccarthyites are going to scream communist no matter who gets nominated. And I think we all would like to have someone who stands for something unlike Harris who stands for nothing.

Well lemmy.world is statistically one of the larger instances. So that’s not strictly unusual. And thankfully some of the worst from ml tend to stay in their Echo Chambers being self-aware enough.

I agree. And was vocal as well with some of rimu’s actions as well as the recent admiral patric meltdown. The dot world crew aren’t perfect. There was a post earlier today regarding a mastodon ban. That I’m not sure of knowledgeable enough to take sides on. Though generally they are pretty hands-off unless you cross one of the more or less reasonable hard and fast rules repeatedly.

Indeed. This year being a midterm election in the United States I don’t expect to see too much generally. But we’ve only got a couple years before the heavy influx again. Whether it’s bad faith propaganda, or ignorant blue staters treating national elections like their insulated local ones. They’re both tiring and not helpful.

Democrats especially don’t need help losing. They’re very capable all by themselves. And sadly don’t care about protest votes or undecideds. Nationally all that does is suppress votes, in favor of the worst options. But thankfully DSA has been pushing local candidates across the country showing they are viable and can win. Hopefully Sanders showed enough people that there are other options, and they might be ready to support a DSA adjacent/endorsed presidential candidate. If they can be brave enough to poll their own members on the subject. SMH

Blocking communities and instances is separate from users.

Yes, it only blocks the communities and servers showing up in your feed.

I have an account on an instance that still federates with hex and grad. They make ML seem almost tame. But when your lead developer and admin names their account for a genocidal revolutionary. Who had to be assassinated by his own people to be free. You can be sure there are going to be some very warped takes, and bad community cultivation.

That said I have ml visitors to communities I mod and generally have no issue with. There are a few I see posting regularly on the greater fediverse that have a high net positive vote totals on my voyager client. So we should definitely try not to paint with a broad brush. Even if we’re all familiar with the toxicity of some.