You’re a troll though. It’s easy to tell because every single post in your comment history is trolling.

I’m gonna block you now but best of luck with your future trolling.

A faulty stink-coil.

Indeed, this may be the most propitious time to ask ourselves this: Is the U.S. even an actual democracy? There is plenty of evidence to contend that it is not; in fact, the U.S. was never designed to be democratic, so the obsession of the country’s political leaders, past and present, to portray the nation as the “world’s greatest democracy” should provoke laughter instead of elicit pride.

We’re clearly not really a democracy either on paper or in practice. The system wasn’t designed as a democracy, our voting system often results in winners who didn’t secure majority support, policy outcomes don’t represent majority opinion, and the rich regularly get away with buying their way out of justice.

These problems will all get worse as fascists get more access to the levers of state power.

So I feel it’s important to vote for whichever candidate stands the most realistic chance of defeating the local republican. Mostly that’s going to be a democrat. The two party system is part of the problem, but keeping fascists away from power is a more pressing problem.

Like everything else from Ελων, you’re not getting what he says you’re getting. That’s very clearly a war-wagon, not a chariot. He’s just standing in front of the back wheels.

Threaded messages seems fine to me, as you said that usage is more well understood than threadiverse which risks conceptually-centering a billionaire controlled platform.

The existence of threads makes threadiverse an inappropriate name for fediverse content aggregators, is the point I was being overly sarcastic about.

[fox news contributer Sarah] Carter added: “I condemn Candace Owens, I condemn her disgraceful fall to espousing pure antisemitism

Exactly! She should stick to espousing thinly-veiled antisemitism like every other republican.

How else does she expect to hold together the republican coalition of supporters of israel’s genocide and people who still believe in the blood libel?

Defederating from threads seems like the best way to make it nice. That way there’s less influence from psychopathic billionaires who happily stoke genocide for clicks.

Unless you’re dicing the friends in with the tofu I don’t understand where the regret comes from?

Where in the Midwest did you grow up?

You’re a social primate with social anxiety?

I’m of an age where I agree with almost everything on this list. I don’t know that It deserves a place though, and despite extensive media consumption I’ve never heard of The Dollars Trilogy or Child’s Play.

I think you have to ignore large parts of his legacy to consider a genocidal warlord like Caesar “not so bad”.

Pursuing the agenda of the populares may have made him less domestically odious than some of his fellow patricians from the optimates, but he was still a member of the ruling class monopolizing power in his person. On top of the whole brutal genocidal warlord thing.

The people whose deeds reverberate through history are the powerful. The powerful are almost always evil, it’s just how humans work.

Neuroscience shows that as humans get power, our brain’s ability to perform empathy is damaged. So as an organism, a human’s capacity and willingness to inflict misery on others tend to increase in lock step with each other.

Having proved herself too stupid and incompetent for even british politics, her only choice is to pivot to supporting republicans.

Career criminals like musk and trump are so used to getting away with their illegalities, of course they commit more crimes when they get together for a nationally broadcast event.

Russia seemed to be planning to open another front on the Ukrainian side of the border here, so this has spiked that, seized the gas line, provided potentially ‘swappable’ territory, embarrassed the kremlin and diverted Russian reinforcements from other fronts.

Nations joining together in the spirit of the rich lording it over everyone else, I think you mean? Or the spirit of sport-washing dictatorships, maybe?

I was with you up until the /s

It’s a drain on resources intended to boost the prestige of a nation-state and the vile, self-serving elites that control them. The IOC itself is a corrupt bribe-machine that willingly bolsters the reputation of the worst regimes in the world.

It’s the circuses part of ‘bread and circuses’ - a tool of oppressers the world over.

It’s not even a fair competition. How rich a country is and how much they spend on sport and sport science is the largest determining factor in medal count. Just another way for the evil to buy legitimacy.