Not who you replied to, but thank you, I misread the quote initially

This is a great thread, thank you so much for posting! I’m excited to go look at all these sources!

Not entirely sure why you’re being downvoted to be honest.

Also not entirely sure I follow exactly what you mean, I think there are a couple ways that comment could be interpreted. But I don’t really see why folks are downvoting you 😅

It seems kinda appropriate to me. Somehow the republican party is the “patriotic” one, but they seem to be anti-democracy, anti-seperation of church and state, trump fucking hates folks who serve or served in the military, and they pay constant lip service to the Constitution, but in office Trump tear gassed peaceful American protesters practicing their freedom of speech and assembly.

I don’t think it’s a bad strategy to take the “patriotic” label from them, they sure as hell don’t deserve it.

I don’t know what ads you’re seeing, but basically every ad I see for Harris is about materially improving people’s lives 😅

Watch mojo presents: top ten reasons not to elect a fascist

It’d be easy to enforce for accounts marked as bots. Doing more than that would get a lil more complicated quickly though

Was this posted by a bot? It looks like they have an active comment history…

Windows really do be like that

Not a phrase I could have expected to hear today, but here I am 😅. Milf inflation.

I really love something about the color of the bridge, the framing, and that typeface.

Thats a great photograph

We’re happy to have you! 😊

Yeah, profit incentives have warped the world in a lot of not so pleasant ways, but man do you really feel it with journalism. Even when it’s good journalism or a compelling story :/

Thanks!

What is SAD? I just know it as seasonal affective disorder, which is the formal name for seasonal depression (I still can’t get over the fact that people with seasonal depression can say they’ve been diagnosed with SAD)

Thank you! I really appreciate it

Hope you have a good day today :)

Thank you for being willing to consider my perspective, I appreciate it :)

And I can understand the frustration. I try really hard to make choices, even when small, that support the issues I care about. I have a lot of friends that think those issues matter, but won’t make changes to support the changes they wanna see in the world, and it definitely frustrates me sometimes, though I choose not to be overly judgey about it because I think it’s counterproductive.

I have a friend who is extremely politically minded and further left than I am on many issues, but she still insists on using twitter, a platform who’s value is derived from everyone using it, and who’s owner is bankrolling the election of a fascist to the highest elected office in the US. Even if she doesn’t wanna use Mastodon, like bluesky is RIGHT there 😅. I can’t say I really understand, but then again, she’s a different person from me with a different perspective, and the cost benefit analysis for her must be different.

Its frustrating to feel like people won’t make choices to support the things we wish were better about the world.

Regardless, I hope you have a good day today, take care :)

Do you have any links to coverage of RCV being repealed faster than they’re being adopted? If not that’s fine :) at some point I’m gonna sit down and read/research, I just don’t have the emotional bandwidth today

I don’t know that I’d heard that issue with ranked choice voting before, I have some reading to do.

Thanks for sharing your perspective, I appreciate it

Interesting, that’s very different in my country so I appreciate hearing your perspective!

Hope you have a good one :)