That is not a man.

That is quite a collection of utterly useless and evil morherfuckers.

It was designed to handle one party: rich, white landowners. That’s very plain in our founding documents, and why the power of the people is so tightly constrained. And it wasn’t long after that found that Washington himself set our military on our own discontented farmers.

Oh it garnered remarks, all right.

Sadly, that’s all it garnered. The US has a three-branch government symbolically only, and our only real power as a people is local.

Depends on whether she’s opining privately or publicly.

Privately she’s said some pretty awful things about him that are absolutely deserved. But in public, she recanted and lined up behind him, which is really disappointing. She could have been helpful to stopping his appointment but now she’s party not only to murders happening globally, but the deaths of American reservists who shouldn’t be at war in the first place.

I just assume they’re under contract to surveill everyone.

Bummer that the voters never held anyone accountable for the ‘Patriot’ Act.

Yeah, when you’re on the global feed, posts fly by at a dizzying rate. Turning on slow mode makes it so that they stop auto-scrolling and only scroll when you click that you want to see more posts.

No doubt there are bad actors polluting communities on the Fediverse

Yeah, but there’s a huge difference: human moderation coupled with better curation tools. You can block a user or a whole instance, which quiets the Nazis pretty fast.

And the people doing the moderation are volunteers who actually give a shit.

Yup.

Though I thought of it as the Internet from 2010. No ads. No algo. All chronological. Once you figure out where the slow mode setting is and turn it off, Mastodon is the fucking best. I even pay a voluntary sub every month to help my instance host itself.

And it requires just enough setup (5-10 minutes tops) that the vast majority of the Internet is too lazy to use it, which keeps the quality high.

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Saw this headline and it’s a good reminder: Don’t let your kids be alone with church people. At any level. Ever. Doesn’t matter which church, but definitely not Catholics.

That absolutely won’t work

Time will tell. I’m not sure I trust our country to give enough of a shit for it to matter.

It helps at the start of a war, for sure.

For me, the WoT is a symbol of the powerlessness of the people and, by extension, the vote at the federal level. It was massively unpopular toward the end of Bush’s term, and Obama became less popular over the course of his term because rather than ending the wars like he promised, he expanded them, and then by the time he was gone we were bombing seven countries at once. (That we know of.)

This one, however, has been bungled from the start, but you’ll still hear every pundit who isn’t on alternative media throwing their hands up and saying: “Well, we’re in it, so now how it has to continue indefinitely,” even though it’s abundantly clear that this war is botched and the best choice is to stop it now. (Obligatory recommendation: Watch Breaking Points, very good alt media agency and one of their reporters even punched Jesse Watters in the face once.)

I’m also sure Donald would rather hear about what a shitty war leader he is every day than the fact that he molested kids.

Because we’re a people who, at least historically, tend to line up behind a president in war time even if it’s abominably and demonstrably stupid. That’s how the War on Terror almost became a forever war and lasted two decades.

And I’m certain Donald remembers 2017 when he ordered the MOAB dropped on Afghanistan and he got a whole month of every network singing his praises.

I agree, though, that they clearly didn’t think this through well. Probably to be expected when the two guys running the war are narcissistic tv show hosts.

My thoughts as well.

Donald doesn’t just need a distraction from being publicly proven as a pedophile. He needs a distraction because gaslighting us on affordability isn’t working.

Correct.

It’s a cycle, and one that’s repeated many, many times.

Any camera/audio device with a wireless connection in your home is recording and storing your intimate moments.

And it will falsely identify people at even greater scale, because it is an imprecise and buggy tool.

No worries. Can be hard to tell online.

Uh.

Cool.