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  • Democrats truly are their own worst enemy...

  • So tired of Democrats letting zionists meddle in our democracy.

  • All the way to the election I'd imagine, unless she shoots herself in the foot picking Shapiro as a VP or something like that.

  • In regards to Musk's businesses it might be considered a mercy for his kids to not inherit them...

  • The thin silverlining to that scenario is he's not president/commander in chief and can't have his goons lower security so his rioters can get in.

  • Bipartisan is a really bad sign. My money says this is not going to be aimed at actually addressing the underlying profit motive that drives big tech to purposefully promote misery through their algorithm designs, instead it will be further restriction on users freedoms and privacy.

  • Israeli fascism is not a result of democracy...it's a colonial project born from the pre-war mentality of Europe and the preceding centuries of monarchy and despotism. It is, fundementally, anti-democratic.

    Israel and the US are indeed different. The US, regardless of its problems with its right-wing and the right's support of Israel, is not an apartheid state and there is meaningful internal opposition to the far-right in the US (unlike Israel, or Russia, or China).

    You're trying to conflate democracy and capitalism, which really makes me question your motives.

  • Potentially, yeah, I'm not exactly pinning all my hopes on it or anything, but I feel like even with the people who are fully in the cult, a lot of them are mostly just kind of dim and easily manipulated. They're ordinary people laboring under a lie, not necessarily the people who actually fabricate the lies themselves intentionally (though some of them certainly might be that type, as you say).

    It creates a short circuit in the system when those ordinary people have the direct access to the truth without Fox or Trump or whoever else being able to act as a middleman and spin it. It's harder to lie to yourself when you're the one faced with the decision to tear up the ballots or whatever they would have to do to make things fit their world view.

    I don't think people are all good, most are a mixed bag at best, but I do have faith in average people to admit the truth to themselves when it's presented to them in a way that they can accept it. With some those conditions under which they'll accept it are just especially extreme.

  • "The what? The Meritage Federation? What did you say? Carriage Fumigation, what? Can't hear you. Never heard of it, is that like a Cracker Barrel thing?"

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL That the entirety of Wikipedia is only ~100Gb and you can download it for offline use