What are you even trying to say here? You just reiterated my point. People thought it was going to be a blowout because the polling from multiple sources indicated it was going to be a blowout (at least relative to any highly contested race).

And I couldn’t care less what sort of weird account notes you’re not only taking about your Lemmy experiences but desperately want to tell me about. It’s certainly doing yourself any favors on the “melting down” accusation.

Polls had him up by double digits. None of your imagined villains were wrong, unless we’ve got a stealth pollster here.

But yeah, you’re certainly having a day. Enjoy your cope, weirdo.

I don’t know if MAGA asshats are melting down, but you certainly are.

The AI “editing” is really coming through strongly in this article.

The executives? I dunno, I feel like they’d be worth more if done on a public sidewalk. For tradition’s sake.

Where? There’s like three weirdo centrists that continually get swamped by progressive views. .World has a problem with its overuse of antisemitism as applied to antizionism, but centrist Democrat cheerleading is so far from a Lemmy-wide problem it’s hard to believe you actually use it.

For what? For being too edgy for your tastes in an online forum? Because they moderate an instance differently than you want? In an ecosystem where people can block and defederate instances with software THEY built?

This is clownish. They’re weird tankies who also write software they give away for free. They don’t build blocklists to secretly shape the Lemmy Fediverse or even force you to hear their opinions. They have nearly zero political impact on the world at large but quite a lot of impact on federated software, but apparently annoying you through inaction is your red line.

One instance being moderated a way you don’t like is an incredibly silly reason to revoke support for the development of software you use regularly. Like not just irrelevant, but literally missing the point of the software they’re developing.

Probably more accurate to say he got banned for attempting to circumvent moderation. He was moderated for Islamophobia.

And 40% of Missouri voted for Harris, what’s your point?

The poster above implied that some sampling of voters from conservative states translates into something about nationwide sentiment. Cori Bush was a reelected representative of Missouri’s first district. If they actually wanted to find progressives, they wouldn’t be hard to track down.

Well obviously, we all recognized the glaring omission of any analysis of the cost of supporting a geno- … Wait, it was about wealthy consultants?!

Oh no, Democrats not doing well in Iowa or Missouri? Whatever will we do!?

“The far right has a weak standing on the national stage. Don’t believe me? Go meet some voters in Massachusetts.”

This article is over a year old.

My experience of trolls getting bored was from Reddit. It’s so easy to ban them and filter out fresh accounts that practically no equation of troll vs. moderator effort would ever be anything but a waste for the troll. There was one guy who set calendar reminders to flame us in modmail every 90 days or whatever when the longest mute expired and it was just amusing. He set up all this infrastructure and typed out a big flame message and we just hit a single button.

Only truly automated trolling would be meaningful, and that requires a home instance that doesn’t put in restrictions or hurdles in account creation. Which will quickly become obvious as an attack vector and then defederated. And federation of new instances can be restricted so they don’t get to just unleash hell. I’d be more worried about actual DDOSes than a troll storm.

I’m sure there are fake accounts flying under the radar here now, and they’re a big problem on Reddit, but trolling is easy to manage.

In my experience most trolls just do low effort trolling, so simple interventions can quash a lot. While some people do get so into social media they make multiple alts for ban evasion, it’s much easier for mods to ban an account than for the troll to make it so after a few cycles they’ll just get tired of it.

And if there’s an instance so open that people can automate account creation so that trolling is just as easy it’ll probably get defederated.

Is the country racist?

Not just “Obama”, Barrack Hussein Obama. With a foreigner father, the middle name of an Arab dictator enemy of the United States, and a radical black pastor. And he won the largest margin of all the modern presidents. None of these theories about the overwhelming power of bigotry hold up to how badly that deck was stacked against him.

He was charismatic and campaigned on good policies. That’s all you need and AOC has that.

Justice has been prompt as ever. At least we trade these long case lengths for having real consequences for people in power that will dissuade future law breaking. There’s something to look forward to in a year or so other than “that thing they already did was wrong”, right?

They were also bland establishment figures in a political environment of “change”. Since Bush the only time a party has held back to back presidencies was Obama (the change guy) and he struggled to do so.

Every cycle people’s lives get worse and the guys who aren’t in office have a better story about how they’ll make it better. But it’s a lie, so 4 years later things flip again. Biden didn’t use his penis to win. He used that Trump was currently in office and fucking everything up. And then after 4 years he was cruising toward a bit fat loss even before his brain leaked from his skull on national television.

Sure Jan.