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 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.

that’s literally what’s happening right now and the people who could put a stop to it immediately, wont unless we vote for them.

how so?

i think it would be enough if i were younger so that i didn’t have first hand experience living through the hiv/aids crisis; 10450; dadt & doma. we’ve had it worse before; we’ve literally been doing it for centuries; and we managed to not only survive but thrive enough to shift popular support despite the democrats and the republicans efforts.

also the fact there’s significant overlap between the people who created/supported those policies and the people who want us to vote for them now further detracts from this argument.

finally the democrats literally did nothing to protect abortion despite several opportunities when they controlled both houses and the presidency over the decades. they still chose to do nothing with it and their track record convinces me that they never will; the best case scenario is another toothless law like the respect for marriage act.

this is a propaganda originated argument like i was referring to in my previous comment and if you were sincerely reading my comments you would have seen it multiple times.

I’d love to convince you somehow to not repeat the same mistake I did, but I can’t say anything that others in this thread haven’t already, and you seem very unwilling to listen to any of it.

you can convince me and people like bernie & obama have convinced me several times over the decades.

present a new argument that’s divorced from american popular indoctrination or give a new perspective that doesn’t originate from american propaganda or; at a minimum; give a stronger argument than “trump is worse”.

and i keep saying that because people keep coming up w the same arguments.

what will the good guys win if they fight together for a system that doesn’t tolerate dissension and has a centuries long history of genocides as acceptable political collateral damage?

Is this also you?

i left the democratic fold when they did dadt & doma.

Pick a lane dude.

i can’t tell if you’re willfully redirecting.

i became twice bitten; thrice shy when i let bernie fool me into thinking that democrats could change in 2016 & 2020, so i don’t think the democrats could ever successfully court me again; but they could court the millions of their most fervent base to help them win elections instead of driving them away while becoming diet republicans.

because people will forever fail to see the reasons why we’re forced to vote in this manner if they continue to collectively make no attempt to look past their indoctrination.

i’m never that lucky and this is clearly hitting close to home for you as it does for me based on your comments.

i have the benefit of doing this for about 50 years so i have my own ways of coping and i hope you have your own version of touching grass too.

i envy the intelligent who have the capacity to share their views without resorting to childish behavior; like your insults.

yes and the vast majority who only have that “shallow understanding” and the people who have worked ensure that they do have sealed our fate.

that’s the last time we made progress and those too come from the same generation of civil rights pushes.

similarly to MLK jr, our leaders have also taken efforts, spend money and legislated away rights to ensure that they never happen again; yes we did progress at those times, but haven’t since then.

there is no objective answer to your question; only responses that align with our world view and in my world view neither biden nor harris represent progress based on my experiences.

MLK jr was successful because of the portrayals of racially motivated violence in the media galvanized the voting public into passing the civil rights acts and our leaders have since taken efforts; spent money; and have repealed several civil rights related acts to ensure that it doesn’t happen again; this isn’t progress.