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i think it's misguided because voting can have an impact; but doesn't since that's the extent of civic engagement for an overwhelming majority of americans which leads to manipulate-able voters who have to use their emotions to decide on things that they know nothing about.

i don't think that they're much different, if at all.

i wish i was as confident as he is.

Oh sweet summer child, the Fediverse isn’t the safe space you think it is. Just because Lemmy’s devs are a bunch of tankie morons doesn’t mean shit. The moment admins and mods use their power to force their dumb narrative, people find a new instance to call home.

That’s why the vast majority of Lemmy users are on general purpose instances. The greater community is anti-Tankie and recognizes places like the ML instances and Hexbear to be the cesspools they are. Even if the ML instances are run by the Lemmy devs, they never became big like the Mastodon flagships because they have toxic admins.

As long as you’re out spreading pro-Trump propaganda, people will be here to call you out on it. I’m sure you’d enjoy a block so we can turn a blind eye to you, but that’s not what’s going to happen. If the tankie gatekeeping you’re doing keeps becoming a trend, you’ll may soon find yourself blocked by all of your critics, because nobody will federate with your instances anymore. At least then you won’t have any reach anymore and you can exist in the fringes where you belong.

And if the Lemmy devs prove to be a problem, Kbin and Mbin easily replace Lemmy. Tankies don’t own the fediverse and never will.

quoted for posterity's sake.

fwiw it think you're right about the future.

i think that people make judgements and act upon those judgements based on a category or type that's familiar to them and i also think that's goes at least doubly so for anyone that has to serve the public for their livelihoods.

people see me as a type when i put no effort in and i didn't realize that until i got my neuro divergence assessment results and fully embraced the "fakeness" that my social butterfly mother taught me as a child.

i resisted it for decades because i also felt like the doctors were just chasing a paycheck and the proctors where just going through the motions and i regret the years i wasted the despite bad experiences with several of doctors & proctors.

i've since learned that no one has your best interests at heart except maybe family or friends. it's very cliche and it's very true and i hate that i have to forge and create my own world despite that knowledge underpinning it.

i hope you figure it out something that works for you; it sounds like you're in a bad place rn based on your posts and i think that this is the only way i can help.

reading this article makes me wish that i lived in sweden; but only if looked like a swede.

all of our media is controlled by capitalists so i plan on going with organizations that have had a reliable history within the last decade or so; like democracynow or npr.

i didn't know that the sovereign tech fund was a thing and now i wonder how common something like that is; thanks for sharing.

you'll know for sure if you can still see my activity after the election; however i recommend blocking instead of tagging since you're in safe space that leftists created for themselves and likely to encounter similar views in the future.

the ability for liberals to continue sticking their heads in the sand is the reason why trump is projected win; but i'm atleast glad that it's a feature in the lemmyverse to help stave off it's enshitification for as long as possible.

the ex cop has done a lot bad stuff when it helped her in the past; so i'm not convinced that she will do the right thing for the genocide. it also doesn't help that she's not doing the right thing right now and defends it over and over again.

and the guy that we think wants to kill more has no history of doing so; he only wishes he could do what the ex cop is doing right now.

i think that the worst part it is that she will keeping doing it unless we vote for her and even then only after they're done with that timetable MLK Jr. wrote about.

thanks for explaining.

i'm not in the democrat fold; i'm closer to them than i am to the republicans so i've voted for them in the past, but i think my history with them precludes ever joining. i'm not a disillusioned democrat.

now this is an EXCELLENT argument and it's the only one i'm still wrestling with since they're hellbent on the genocide no matter what i do.

i'm 100% sure that the damage that the democrats and the american system have inflicted upon my life are coloring my perception and i wish i could be sure that my conviction isn't entirely based on it and i think i mostly continue doing it as dying wish from a loved one who was similarly impacted.

if kamala switches positions; then it doesn't matter because then it will only be this and this alone is not enough to convince me.

genocide and this combined convinces me and kamala can't help with this, but she can do something about genocide.

project 2025 is propaganda; i'm not scared of it and neither should anyone else be, we will survive it and thrive again like we did before.