Oh hey, fancy seeing your sibling here. It's me, Herringbone Peart.

Thank you, comrade

One of our congresspeople (iirc) bragged about it suppressing enough votes to give the state to Trump in 2016 too.

There's nothing wrong with pacing yourself, moving accounts/sites is a process.

I'll stay away from political stuff like this in the future, I didn't mean to start a whole conversation about NCLB.

We do need to break through the propaganda. It's just frustrating being told to be nuanced with a huge chunk of people who either know what's happening and don't care, or have the ability to find out and don't. I'm nuanced with people I know in real life, but talking about Trump voters in general, 🤷‍♀️

I appreciate your period-appropriate example with TJ Ford.

I saw a take a few months ago that voting third party isn't voting your conscience, voting your conscience is going against what you really want to do, to do what will actually result in the least harm happening. Our system of government is absolute trash but until it changes (and we should all be pushing for it to change) this is what we've got.

I've known about KMFDM for a long time but discovered Free Your Hate about this time in 2017, it's too bad it's that relevant again but at least we've got some good Nazi-punching music.

Facebook and YouTube have for years boosted conservative people and posts/videos: this is fine according to the powers that be.

Russia and no doubt countless others run influence operations through all US social media companies: this is also fine according to the powers that be.

China probably runs influence operations through a Chinese social media company: this is a national security problem that needs to be dealt with!!

The reasons TikTok is maybe being banned are because it's the only major social media that isn't suppressing pro-Palestine speech and because it's not owned by a right-wing US oligarch. Musk is the shadow president, Zuckerberg is blatantly sucking up to Trump, etc etc.

Health insurance companies are already judge, jury, and executioner. Thousands of people die every year because they can't afford health insurance and I guarantee I'm not the only one in here who's had family die that way.