Yeah, when you’re on the global feed, posts fly by at a dizzying rate. Turning on slow mode makes it so that they stop auto-scrolling and only scroll when you click that you want to see more posts.

No doubt there are bad actors polluting communities on the Fediverse

Yeah, but there’s a huge difference: human moderation coupled with better curation tools. You can block a user or a whole instance, which quiets the Nazis pretty fast.

And the people doing the moderation are volunteers who actually give a shit.

Yup.

Though I thought of it as the Internet from 2010. No ads. No algo. All chronological. Once you figure out where the slow mode setting is and turn it off, Mastodon is the fucking best. I even pay a voluntary sub every month to help my instance host itself.

And it requires just enough setup (5-10 minutes tops) that the vast majority of the Internet is too lazy to use it, which keeps the quality high.

The news is just desperate to not have to report on all the ass Mamdani is kicking.

You’re right. It’s almost the line word-for-word.

Are we sure it wasn’t AI?

It could happen, but I doubt it. The last time the US had a legitimate anti-war movement, it was in large part due to the draft.

Nothing more American than a draft dodger sending others to die.

“It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it works out for him.”

Yes.

The only evidence is anecdotal, there just happens to be a lot of it.

So no, I’d say it’s unreasonable to believe in ghosts. (Though I do love ghost stories and folklore.)

Yes, following through on a withdrawal negotiated by the Donald Administration.

But it probably did infuriate Donald supporters, just like how Dems supported the genocide in Gaza until the presidency changed hands and it was no longer convenient. Partisans have no real political convictions. It’s all a matter of convenience or just repeating whatever their algorithm tells them to think on a given day.

Man, I wish it were one-sided.

If Joe Biden had his way we’d still be in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya. (The 7 countries where Obama was making war at the end of his presidency all at the same time.)

Is this the same entitled bitch who got a $1,000,000 ranch as a present?

Maybe pay some fucking taxes, Phoebe.

Hell yeah, brother. People have elevated the presumed sanctity of their beliefs, no matter how stupid, to be the most sacred of liberties. Even over life and health.

Not only wrong, but willfully ignorant. Your point of view is ignoring so many basic facts, two of which are exceedingly important:

1. You have no power whatsoever at the national level absent a billion-dollar fortune or membership in the Epstein Class.
2. Our only power is local, and locally, progressives are winning, and it’s not just Mamdani.

Hell, look at my state: deep red Missouri. You probably haven’t given it a second thought, but in 2024 we approved state amendments to mandate required paid sick leave, a $15 minimum wage, and legalizing abortion. Kansas City has passed two extensions of its streetcar line in recent years, which is amazing because KC is a car-centric town. (And the streetcar is free.) We even imprisoned a killer cop, one of the few places in the entire country to do so.

In deep-red Missouri.

The alternative explanation is that, on top of having to overcome billionaires, we have to deal with brain-dead partisan Democratic voters who think someone is ‘electable’ because they don’t consume any info that isn’t fed to them from their moronic, corporate-owned social media feeds or MSNBC, or they ignore how shitty a candidate is because that politician possesses a vagina.

Sounds like they didn’t rig any votes, just didn’t give them a fair race

That’s some hair-splitting right there. They were quoted as saying it’s their right to hold unfair primaries, in court, which to me is as good as an admission.

But we know they’re rigged. It’s why superdelegates were invented, and why Bernie never had a chance despite being immensely more popular than Hillary.

You’re not getting a progressive because you aren’t trying.

L-O-Fucking L.

Unfortunately the primaries are rigged, and it’s legal. We know this because the DNC was sued after 2016 and admitted it in court.

We’re not getting a progressive anywhere near the presidency.

Eventually, well over 1000 people were tried and sentenced,

But not a damn one with any real power, and that’s the problem.

Which is why I figure the only semblance of justice that will be had here will be social or civil, not criminal. I think we will see victims suing the agents who attacked them, or raped them, or otherwise brutalized them. There will be stories in the media about these monsters that will result in some flavors of social consequences.

But I’d be shocked if any of them spend significant time in prison.

We have to tell them in every possible way, that we expect JUSTICE.

Dems won’t listen. We told them we wanted justice with 1/6’ers. You saw how that turned out.