“apparently a right-wing [person] said this” is low-quality content, gets my downvote. Such an unspecific comment serves only to outgroup people.

I do feel bad for people born in the year 1488 though, their usernames look really suspicious.

network effects

I’m not terribly interested in electoral reform personally. It’d be nice but not at the top of my list.

I randomly download scattered memes that I will want to repost endlessly in the future. I assume other people do the same.

As a Canadian, I engage more with American politics online because more online content is American politics than Canadian.

there are two distinct whole-tone scales

In the distant future, when we look back on scattered social media caps, we will regret that the date of posting is not shown. Like scattered pages from books unknown, page numbers elided.

correlation vs causation is irrelevant. The important thing is that there are no absolutes.

I notice your pronouns are she/her – are you a cis woman then?

Twist happy ending: the possum gets up and walks away. It was only playing dead.

This is an image with captions; usually these are meant as metaphors, jokes, fiction, or exaggerations.

It sounds fascist, especially when you phrase it that way, but it is not. My philosophy is that everyone has a right to live where they are born. Is it fascist to desire anything less than the eradication of Canada? IMO working for realistic, incremental, achievable improvements over the status quo (for instance) is not fascist.

Bro that’s so not the same as fascism. I don’t approve at all of Israel’s actions, I hate Zionism, but I don’t believe it’s a given that Israel must be eradicated. I’m disappointed by AOC’s stance on Israel and Palestine, but I would not say it is fascism at all. If you think that advocating for an “immediate cease-fire and de-escalation” is anything like fascist Zionism then you need a reality check.

I am always trying to shift people left. But there just aren’t enough of us yet.

In my region, people use “talented” as a compliment, not necessarily to indicate their skill was not hard-won.

Until such a time as a socialist revolution seems plausible, I still prefer to see progressive liberals in power over conservatives.

Ah! I see now. When you said “it’s telling that while you can’t think of something cartoonishly evil he did off of the top of your head,” I thought you were saying I was ignorant for not being able to think of something cartoonishly evil. My bad, I’m just primed to read hostility on Lemmy I guess.

we won’t bring this back until society heals.

Firm believer that Molecular Shape of You > Shape of You