In a statement, Fitch cited three reasons for downgrading the US rating: concerns the US economy is going to deteriorate over the next three years; a high national debt; and repeated political standoffs over managing the country’s finances (specifically, brinksmanship over the country’s self-imposed debt limit, the cap on how much to US can borrow to pay its bills).

Emphasis mine. This honestly makes a lot of sense. This is not something a rational, credible actor does.

People were freaking out about a possible default.

Of course it's from around Worcester 🙄

Military spending still increased under trump. The only war machines he shut down were our allies' we were helping in local conflicts. That and showing the US is unreliable if someone like him gets office again

That goes against the key tenant of being right-wing: no introspection

To say it gives you nothing IRL is ignorant of the online social engineering these platforms can do

Biden was the better choice between two garbage candidates because no one voted in the primaries. This was literally his platform, and most who did vote wanted that.

Obama couldn't even get Merrick Garland on the bench... This country is ill

So if these kids can work, they can vote, right?

Facebook is nowhere near as dead as you think it is. It is still the best place for local groups and many niche hobbyist groups. I really don't want reddit to be another version of that, 1 crappy social site is enough. Also you're missing a key differentiating factor: facebook has actual paid content moderators.

I don't think reddit will die, at least not right away (remember, digg shut down finally in 2018).

Best case scenario is they hemorrhage users, fail ipo, and then join the fediverse. I say this because joining will create a bridge for new users to come here.
Worst case scenario is they become like twitter. which is possible.
My money is on them trying to sell to Microsoft or Google for ai training, and keeping their api private.

This would go against Dem's #1 policy: self-sabotage.

Lets hope the company stays afloat after this one. Hopefully they can get more billionaires to sign on

Discord servers do not fill the void of a subreddit. I hate that some communities have exclusively moved there. It's nearly impossible to have a real discussion on an active server