Nah. I'm pretty well convinced a number of other Republicans could behave like this and the press wouldn't care.

What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.

The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy "block" means "I can't see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass" makes them much less attractive as a platform.

You're not the one facing the possibility that somebody will kidnap and torture and murder you, your kids, your spouse, etc. right now, with serious doubt as to whether law enforcement, neighbors, judges, and others will help them or take the side of the absuser.

It's on the cemetery worker to make that call for themselves, and I don't blame people who choose to run or hide instead of fight.

The NYT repeats the lie in the headline, but buries the truth down in the article. The result is that people see the lie, and not the truth.

Very few people encountering an article on social media actually read it; something like 2% do so much as click through.

This pattern basically guarantees that a huge numbers of people will have a false belief.

Sadly, this one involves burning the testicles of actual living monkeys, and not merely engaging in private pleasures

Key difference: a major failure at the nuclear reactor is can kill people across a large area.

Taking out refineries is going to raise the cost of gas, and lower the value of oil, resulting in both a cut to drilling and to burning, which is a net benefit for people.

Companies have been allowed to treat pay as a business expense. Executive pay is pay, so they treat it as a cost of doing business.

This isn't even an effort to shut them down; just report the harm they do.

Yeah, this is basically an attempt to turn "I'm the one creating a hostile work environment by promoting hate" into a protected class.

A bit snarky, but it's over his insurrection:

“He tried to overturn an election,” she said. “The very first time I ever ran, I didn’t win. I didn’t go out and try to change the election. I said, ‘Whoops, work harder next time, lady.’”

You can't be clear enough when it comes to language when dealing with somebody interested in willful misinterpretation. That's the problem here.