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Historian who accurately predicted 9 of last 10 presidential elections makes his 2024 pick
  • Or, we could just accept the simple fact that if the candidates change, so too does the prediction. He made his predictions based on the options available at the time.

    Kinda shortsided to consider that an L.

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    Phoenix, Arizona, hits its 100th consecutive day of 100F weather
  • I’ll never understand how settlers moving out west to the beauty and resources of the coast, got to a blank desert and decided to ”This is the spot!”

    No lumber, fucking hot, and natural water is scarce. WTF

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    Ex-Porn Shop Staff Say Mark Robinson [Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina] Was A Regular. He Denies It.
  • It’s like that, but even worse. This fuckwit uses the culture war to stoke violence and hate. He wields it as a fascist weapon.

    So it’s a bit more nefarious than simply being a hypocrite.

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    Ex-Porn Shop Staff Say Mark Robinson [Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina] Was A Regular. He Denies It.
  • So, the scandal isn’t that he does it, it’s that he is extremely vocally against it and legislates against it. The “gotcha” isn’t shaming him for enjoying himself, it’s scolding him for demonizing natural behavior while doing it himself.

    Nobody would give a single flying fuck what he did if he minded his own goddam business.

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    Google protecting Tesla Gigafactory popularity
  • No, we just fucking hate the shitty reviews left by people who haven’t really been to the place, and the people who leave them.

    Fuck Google, and fuck review abusers. Weird that we can care about two things at once, right?!

    Your energy is the same energy as “my little brother got my Fortnite account hacked by banning, and they won’t honor my ‘father’s’ email proving it was him and not me!” Gunna ask why we all support Epic Games by being okay with banning cheaters?

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    Google protecting Tesla Gigafactory popularity
  • I’ve rated a couple of places without having been there, this never happened.

    Holy shit, you’re so close! These types of rules you’re complaining about have to be implemented specifically because of people like you who do what you’re admitting to doing. So fucking close.

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    Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court Orders
  • Guerrilla style social media activism suffers when the platform in question actively bans for reporting facts or algorithmically hides progressive voices and trends.

    It also benefits the very fascists we are attempting to address by driving engagement on their platform. But no group at this time can be sure that they won’t be banned, (or worse, get Twat by Elon and end up receiving death threats) tomorrow. It’s also very risky to rely on such a platform.

    But more pragmatically, these groups won’t stop organizing. The general public will also be migrating from Deadbirdsite.They’ll all use the next best tool and still persist, so there’s no real disadvantage there. If the effort can’t exist outside of Twitter, it isn’t really trying.

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    Trump Did Not Realize His Town Hall Was a Town Hall Until He Got Up On Stage: ‘Why Doesn’t Someone Tell Me This Stuff?’
  • I had to verify myself. It’s even more batshit with more context. After that the bing bongs and weird gesticulations he says “you know what that is, right?” wtf no we have no idea wtf that is lmao

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    Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court Orders
  • The usefulness of Twitter ended when Musk took over. This is absolutely a new positive thing, as it’s better to use alternatives as opposed to the fascist website. There are lots of communication alternatives available, so it’s not like people won’t have a way to communicate.

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    Former NYPD officer sentenced to 27 years for shooting her ex-girlfriend and the ex’s new partner
  • There’s a famous saying about how a few bad apples spoil the bunch. When it’s 97% bad apples, imagine how gross the 3% remaining are.

    As well, if those 3% aren’t actively holding the 97% accountable, they are a part of the problem.

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    Reddit, inadvertently becoming "Kill All Others"
  • Defederation and limiting posting for certain users on Reddit are in no way ill natured. To suggest it is, is no different than Elon Musk’s “freedom of speech absolutism.” People who go out of their way to personally start a community have the right to draw a line (not including protected classes) as to who can join their party.

    You are seeing the consequences of engaging with the worst of Reddit.

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    Reddit, inadvertently becoming "Kill All Others"
  • I mean, it’s Reddit. What did you expect? This has been status quo there for years. Maybe don’t use it, or accept the that Spez is a piece of shit and each community can decide it doesn’t want crossover from other communities.

    But really, is blocking people who have activity in another sub so different from a mastodon instance defederating from another instance? Just in a shitty Reddit way?

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