two year old thread necromancer

city government: run by suburban car lovers, absolutely intractable, getting bike or bus lanes might as well be happening on the moon

state government: run by liberals who largely run near or entirely un-opposed. They do good things sometimes, but are simultaneously incapable of forcing municipalities to do good things, and roll over the feds when pressed. For example, no resistance to the fucked up ICE kidnapping campaign that’s still going on.

National government is a hot mess and voting in my state has had a zero percent chance of influencing it in every election I’ve been alive for.

“democracy”

not sure what you’re trying to say here, many Europeans and USians will act like they are. the ‘russian bot’ accusation is an automatic response to shut down dissenting speech that taps into that xenophobia.

I don’t care what Putin says, just pointing out xenophobia when I see it

clearly everyone who says something you don’t like must be a Russian bot, Wikipedia says it

Lemmy users 🤝 governor of Utah

“I wish we could blame foreigners”

This is the same guy who was like “I wanted so hard to believe it wasn’t someone from here that did it” Seems like he really wants an outside threat to demonize, surely people won’t fall for that- oh right never mind lmao

I have been more active, but I don’t know about a “tremendous amount”

forgot to turn off bighead mode before entering pvp zone

I swear I can’t enter a comment section without the accusation 💅

the person I’m replying to said that I was a tankie for being insufficiently critical of Republicans, go talk to them if you have an issue with people being US-centric

it’s from June 2024, over a year ago, I hope you at least acknowledge that conditions have deteriorated and systemic errors in counting will remain.

on the report it says that the underreporting is ~40%, if that has continued or increased since then it means that the current stated number in 2025 is going to have a similar undercount. If it’s 65k as reported by Hamas now then the real number is probably 40% higher.

This whole exchange stems from the statement that the The US/Israel have killed more trans people via this genocide than anywhere else on earth currently. The counterpoint was that “oh by that logic it’s actually Ukraine killing Russians” by obsessing over the numbers rather than the power dynamics at play you tip your hand about where you really stand.

I don’t take you seriously enough to continue this further, ‘dude’

when nearly every hospital has been demolished it’s not realistic to expect that their count is going to be the full picture. I don’t know how else to spell that out to you, but the people who disappear under rubble or in the chaos of a hospital being destroyed aren’t getting counted

It is embarassing that we’re on the same side. You’re doing more harm to our shared causes than all the good you’ve possibly ever done.

the feeling is mutual

I don’t like the green party either at this point, I liked Ralph Nader when he ran because he actually had a track record of being critical of the automobile industry. I definitely haven’t voted for them since though.

I’ve had enough relatives live through civil war and famine to not want to find out about it either. I’d like to think that cooler heads prevail.

I do get the issue with FPTP, I wish we had something to break the stasis. I am in a blue state, some of our federal reps run un-opposed and it gives me a jaded outlook on electoral participation; the result has always been a forgone conclusion in my state since as long as I’ve been of voting age.

I usually vote third party as a vote of no confidence, but then people act like this is some battleground where you’re literally the enemy if you don’t vote the right way

I will stand behind my statement of “does not exist”.

I think the case I would make is that they are definitely emulating trumps style because they think it will help them ‘win’ same type of triangulation they always do.

we can set ‘blue maga’ aside as we’re probably not going to agree on that, but there’s absolutely a contingent of Democrats who see restricting trans medical care as a nonpartisan issue that they can work with Republicans on.

what worries me is how quickly they jumped to finding compromise positions with Republicans, at the expense of minorities who are expected to then vote for them or they get called 'pro Trump’s as I so often get accused of.

Which I absolutely agree is weird messaging, btw. I hate this.

it’s so fucking weird, I hate it too

I think that’s just a Gadsden flag, libs have been talking about ‘reclaiming’ it for months

Btw no, that figure explicitly includes deaths by famine and related wartime deprivations.

of course it should, it’s a captive population being exterminated by the US and ‘Israel’

I honestly don’t know how you people can exist in the world and be posting stuff like that. it’s not a war, it’s a concentration camp being emptied of people

Namecalling isn’t the discussion I was referring to, though I’ll grant that there’s many conversational threads in this post so keeping them straight is a royal pain…

It’s what started this thread