They might think so, but they’re really not. Billionaires here were much less likely to fall out of windows. We were much more based on laws than a series of buddy systems.

It was better to have a billion dollars than ten billion rubles. We’re working to change that.

They’re so terrible at it that they’ll have to learn in the next 18 months. It’s gonna get worse.

Yeah, absolutely. We won’t even have to move them. We’ll just make the land they’re on inhospitable.

Is step 2 posting on social media?

I think your original argument just wasn’t fully fleshed out. Seems you don’t like the guy for a lot more reason than the one you gave, which might be legitimate.

I’m not that familiar, tbh.

Power just blinked. Server stayed up this time! \o/

Are you a lawyer? What law are you citing?

“the First Amendment protects the right to gather information about what public officials do on public property.” Smith v. City of Cumming, 212 F. 3d 1332, 1333 (11th Cir. 2000).

Does her word override the first amendment?

There aren’t many exceptions, and what’s happening on a public street generally isn’t one of them.

I was thinking QtPie, who is a much nicer person.

Pretty sure PewDiePie is an ass, but “he said a racial slur once ten years ago” isn’t a great argument against anyone, generally.

You’re going to equate a word with being a Nazi and rape? Using a racial slur is literally a small subset of being a Nazi.

If you think calling people Jews was the big issue with the Nazis, well…

I do think we have a shitton more room for Democratic Socialism. But I also think we need to sell it to the billionaires. And we should be able to sell it to a good number of them. They have a lot of the power in this country, mostly to manipulate you through media, social and otherwise.

The thing is that these polices like medicare for all, education for all, and mass transit are good for the billionaires too. When people are less desperate and have more to lose, they commit less crime. That’s pretty much the entire reason for the racial disparity in crime rates. If you want less of “those people”, all you have to do is make them middle class. That’s within the billionaire’s power with good policy and a couple decades.

I’m hoping the blowback from our literal fascism is enough to get people to understand things like this along with, you know, why laws are important. The billionaires and republicans had a brush with the way they wanted to do things and it was an absolute shitshow. Maybe some of them who were getting too high on their own supply will take some of these lessons to heart, and they’ll allow us to start making this a better place. It doesn’t take many.

And if they could have seen the future, they would have likely made the attempt. At the time, even most conservative judges weren’t big on overturning existing rulings. There was always risk, but there wasn’t as much risk as with a lot of other things that needed attention. And if we had gotten into a state where Roe was overturned, we probably had some pretty damn big issues to deal with.

They’re not complete idiots. Harris did largely run on a lot of “much the same”. But Biden was a damn good president and things were improving at a very nice rate. Of course people don’t like hearing that when they can always find things to be negative about, and their own situation likely hasn’t drastically improved.

It’s hard for people to understand that in normal times nearly every administration really has made efforts to make your lives better. Maybe not in all the ways they should (tax the fucking billionaires). But they’ve largely gotten the low hanging fruit. (Building mass transit isn’t low hanging.) It’s not that easy to just come in and fix everything, especially after half of it gets smashed every 8 years. Biden did a pretty great job of that, and if we had 16 years of Biden-like government, I bet this country would be in pretty damn great shape. This country is an aircraft carrier, not a canoe, and the only way it drastically changes direction in a short time is if someone starts blowing holes in the bottom of it.

I don’t even want to say the things I’m looking forward to from the Biden administration, because it seems like they’re watching social media for things to destroy.

Yeah, I got that. Tried to show that with the “always, every time”. Wanted to expound anyway.

Always, every time. This is Lemmy, after all, and we have a narrative to maintain.

Look, not just this. I’m not fucking happy about the state of the world. I just want to be as practical and effective as possible in fighting for a better world. Often that means you have to work with people like Chuck Schumer, and maybe understand some of the positions he has been in and why he made the decisions he has even if you don’t agree with them.

Everyone loves to chuck rocks from the sidelines without any consideration for how to actually get things done or the actual repercussions of your actions.

I want more Democratic Socialism. I want more Zohran Mamdani. I want more AOC. But I don’t want to throw out the Manchin while we’re at it, because I want the fucking votes to get shit done. And I hate Manchin. But Jim Justice is much worse, and we all knew he’d be worse. There was never any doubt. So why did we spend so much time railing against Manchin while there were clearly more important races that needed our attention?

Posting things against the rules in regards to the IDF might be what they deserve, sure. But it doesn’t serve anyone, and it hurts the platform you’re posting on. It hurts any other messages that might be more effective. It does more damage to your cause than it helps.

I get that you’re angry. We’re all angry. But you’re not yelling into a vacuum. And if we’re yelling, I want it to serve a purpose.

“Death, death to the SS!”?

What would it have accomplish? What does it accomplish?

It gets Lemmy known as a hotbed of terrorism. It may cause legal and/or political trouble for the admins of the site. And what does it do that other words don’t?

Look at all the discussion here and consider how it is or isn’t limited. What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide. The IDF is responsible for it. What do death chants contribute to that conversation?

How could the Dems do this?!?

And I’m sure this administration is being advised by the same people who dealt with Alexei Navalny.