There is no better measure of your worth to a conservative than how many hours you are willing to work in support of the 1% becoming even richer.

To be clear, though some folks like to make a big deal about someone being on .ml, I am not a communist, and the part that was significant to me was that our trajectory was being openly called by folks that far back, not any message regarding communism.

That felt a little like trying to evade my mistake. Folks could also not be dicks. (not directed at you)

Oh I’m an idiot folks I thought that was Jack Smith complaining about the lack of accountability for Trump. My bad!

DOJ: Police Shooting Family Dogs has Become ‘Epidemic’

Cops in this country kill so many dogs each year that a specialist at the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) community-oriented program services office says it has become an “epidemic.” The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year. The totals could, in fact, be higher, since most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved shootings involving animals.

Holy shit dude, well fucking played.

Everybody quotes the “Some of those who work forces” part, but really I think “those who died are justified” is the real hard hitter. Finding cause to declare their killings as justified is literally their MO. The racism just makes it that much worse.

Make the width of the green like proportional to the wealth which billionaires hoard compared to the average worker

The same folks I know who wouldn’t even consider a conversation about socialism are not going to be swayed when I quote any black man to them, much less a panther.

Frankly my entire screed is predicated on ignoring the possibility that we never see a free election again. A possibility that I consider plausible.

I mean you can, and should be, pissed off at Democrats all you want. Doesn’t change that all data point towards them being a better decision for middle/lower class Americans.

Very true.

Problem is, a bunch of Americans feel the way you do, but instead of still voting intelligently, despite being upset with Dems, they chose to stay home or vote 3rd party.

Wasn’t me this time, but will be next time. I voted angrily for Kamala. I’m not voting for the less-evil conservative party next time. I need to see differentiation and I need to see progressive policy stances. I’ve been voting for what Democrats might one day do if they ever get the chance for 40 years because I wasn’t willing to support Republicans. And I could accept all the compromises that kept pushing that carrot down the road.

I don’t view those things the same anymore. I saw what D did just in the last two months prior to this election and that was enough. (not by a damn sight my only complaints of the past four years, but the final straw. I can no longer pretend this is the party I was told it was all that time.) They need to be a different party next time, or I’m prepared to spend the rest of my life being one of the people folks hate for R getting elected. I’m not voting for the party of “what R used to be.”

At this point I think they are fighting against R because they have no other party to fight against, not because they have a shared principle among them.

Edited to add: Trump has brought the worst of every part of US history and society to the forefront and personified those things himself. And the response of D was still to become more like R, not less. Nuh-uh. They have four years to unfuck themselves, or I am done with them.

We pretty much fucked any chance we had for the middle/lower classes to gain more power/influence during our lifetimes.

I may have disagreed with you if Kamala hadn’t spent the end of 2024 proving that the destruction of the traditional Republican party (not that I was a fan of R in the first place) was all the excuse D needed to sprint to the right. It’s not even like D is trying to pull things the other way, they have literally just embraced this opportunity to become even closer to corporate interests and move their party to the right.

They are fighting R because they are obligated to do so, but I no longer believe anyone in power in the Democrats cares any more about the middle class and non-white, non-male, non-Christian, non-straight Americans than R does. Pelosi put the final nail in the coffin of my good will towards Democrats.

But then do you ignore that research when the result is different than you expected? Like this one?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-admits-bias-in-algorithm-for-rightwing-politicians-and-news-outlets

Or will you not claim exactly the opposite of what the article you provided shows when the topic comes up the next time around?

Because there is little point to doing your OwN rEsEaRcH if you are going to ignore the outcome anyhow when it doesn’t fit your worldview.

That’s a great answer. So who are the people who you feel are being called racist today that should not be?

Crickets. (not that I’m surprised)

We all saw the undeniable evidence that Twitter had suppressed anything not in line with the positions of the left.

Called out. Posts this:

Did you mean this… https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-admits-bias-in-algorithm-for-rightwing-politicians-and-news-outlets

But apparently doesn’t read past the headline.

Home feed promotes rightwing tweets over those from the left, internal research finds

The research found that in six out of seven countries, apart from Germany, tweets from rightwing politicians received more amplification from the algorithm than those from the left; right-leaning news organisations were more amplified than those on the left; and generally politicians’ tweets were more amplified by an algorithmic timeline than by the chronological timeline.

According to a 27-page research document, Twitter found a “statistically significant difference favouring the political right wing” in all the countries except Germany. Under the research, a value of 0% meant tweets reached the same number of users on the algorithm-tailored timeline as on its chronological counterpart, whereas a value of 100% meant tweets achieved double the reach. On this basis, the most powerful discrepancy between right and left was in Canada (Liberals 43%; Conservatives 167%), followed by the UK (Labour 112%; Conservatives 176%). Even excluding top government officials, the results were similar, the document said.

We all saw the undeniable evidence that Twitter had suppressed anything not in line with the positions of the left.

The green line is (at least) the one you need.

“Welp, looks like that one doesn’t fit either, what’s next?”

They knew.