The biggest delusion in modern society is thinking that a Twitter-like social media network is “the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis”.

I keep hearing the media repeat this bullshit. Twitter is not and never was the “public square”. It’s a place for morons to be morons and heart each other for being morons.

Bill Maher used to be a right leaning “centrist” when he was running politically incorrect in the 90s. His politics never changed, he just got critical of crazy Republican shit like the Iraq war and then Trump ignoring elections.

A certain percentage of all people are bloodthirsty monsters, especially when it comes to people unlike themselves.

And anyone who thinks this problem is caused by no one trying to use a bomb, gun, or flamethrower to solve it is the biggest idiot in planet earth.

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To be fair, that grey tree trunk looked a lot like a road

If he yells “free Palestine” while doing it, that means he’s associating himself with others who support a free Palestine. And that means other people won’t want to associate themselves with them.

I feel like this is very obvious but people seem unwilling to acknowledge it. Because they view this guy as on their side. But he’s on the side of narcissists, not people who are effective at saving Palestinian lives. He didn’t think at all about whether this will save or cost Palestinian lives.

I feel like the free Palestine movement in particular needs to understand this: if you want to save Palestinian lives, you need to convince people. And you don’t convince people by shooting at them, or by justifying people who shoot at them. Think about it: do you see Coke murdering Pepsi supporters as part of a marketing campaign? No. Because the people they hire for marketing are paid a lot of money to actually succeed. Instead they associate coke with positive things, by bringing in celebrities, and generally portraying coke drinkers as cool people.

You should try being more like coke. Sorry if this sounds belittling, but I feel like it needs to be said because free Palestine people seem to think the best strategy is to piss off the people you’re trying to convince. And that has never worked once in the history of mankind.

It’s not that no one cares, it’s that people who do care don’t want to be associated with others who care like this guy.

Just as the tide of public opinion was turning against Israel. That guy probably got a few hundred thousand Palestinians killed.

It wouldn’t be a Trump administration without reality TV drama. That harms millions of people.

Or vote against the one party (starts with an R) that continues to make the duopoly happen by banning RCV, and for the party (starts with a D) that’s far more likely to implement RCV.

The party The people that vote in the primaries for the party that claims to be “for the people” keeps putting centrists in charge.

Most people don’t vote in the Democratic primaries. Did you?

I mean it’s easy to say these were the good guys and they were killing the bad guys so it was great. But look at it without that context and it’s pretty hard to justify. Sure, if Mussolini would’ve been put on trial the result would’ve been the same. But his mistress?

If we assume the first round goes the same, but without a spoiler effect third parties would do better in the first round.

fighting fascism effectively would have entailed hanging Trump after J6.

And how would that happen? After all, the Supreme Court gave him immunity, and all Democrats controlled was the presidency. So you’re saying Joe Biden should’ve told the Supreme Court and every other court to suck it, and used I assume the military to arrest and execute Trump while skipping due process?

I don’t think that’s fighting fascism. That’s implementing it.

What needed to happen was for Trump to not win a second time. Had he died at home peacefully we wouldn’t be in the shit right now, and we wouldn’t have even needed to do the fascism ourselves to stop it. People just needed to fucking stop the fascist from winning the election.

Number of their own people disappeared for speech. If people aren’t allowed to even speak about changing things, then there’s no hope of improvement.

And yes, Lemmy is banned in China.

Instant runoff voting, then third parties

Now that the greater evil has taken power, you never talk about actually fighting it

We did fight it, and won, in 2020. In 2024 a few people stopped fighting, so we lost. And now the people who were complaining about Biden being evil are being deported for speaking their mind.

The left is shockingly asleep about how bad this is. X still is the single most important platform for driving narratives about the news and politics. And it’s still important in part because Democrats and the left as a whole have been lethargic in leaving it. The fact that it’s blatantly being used to tilt the national political discussion in whatever direction Elon wants was probably one of many keys to getting Trump elected in 2024, and should be regarded as an ongoing emergency for Democrats and the left.

If this is AI it’s pretty good. These are the Flatirons in Boulder, CO.

It feels like every CEO on earth thinks they need to adopt AI or fall behind, but they have no idea what to use AI for so they’re just ramming it into use cases that no one asked for.