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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Some quick info on American duopoly, since you aren’t here-

    Voting Democrat isn’t voting against Republican policies, it’s voting against them NOW and getting them 5-10 years later once they’ve let the Overton window shift and Republicans are crazier. That’s the cliffs notes of how we got here - Democrats have been arguing for at least 10, probably 20 years, that (however worded at the time) leftists are the problem and use that to move further right to court “centrists” who are just Republicans who don’t want the social blowback, giving Republicans the room to pull further into the extreme right. Democrats of year X are basically just Republicans of year X-10.

    “Well if you don’t vote Dem you can’t get change!” You already can’t now. they’re half of the two parties who move the goalposts anytime a third party looks like they’ll meet the requirements for inclusion, and they (the DNC) went to court in 2016 to have it legally ruled that their charter is bullshit and as a private entity they can do what they want - voters and donors be damned.

    Democrats pay lip service to Trump only because they don’t have a platform without “we aren’t them.” Democrats spend more time and energy bullying leftists for not being onboard than they do trying to beat Republicans. For at least 10 years now, they love to blame us for all their woes, but instead of adjusting policy to capture those voters they move farther right because “it’s the left’s fault we lost.” It’s an intentional cycle to forever justify sprinting rightward and to always have a scapegoat instead of admitting they aren’t in sync with voters.

    TLDR: Everyone claims blue MAGA are the saviors and the only ones who can save us, but they don’t do fuckshit to stop the rise of fascism because they’re also fascist, just with a smile. A vote for Dems isn’t a vote against fascism, it’s a vote for fascism in 4-8 years when all the Dem voters will root for it and call anybody who disagrees the enemy (Like they’re already doing now.)
















  • As far as I understand federation, you should be OK as long as you don’t interact with instances that are federated with meta garbage. Blocking an instance is one click but it’ll hide comments from their users and make you click a button to read them. Its not that big a deal though

    I don’t know if interacting with users of those federated instances would be safe or not, but your exposure I assume would be limited to whatever you reply to them.