@MDKAOD @ThirdWorldOrder are there leftist companies?
Dad of two awesome kiddos. Lucky to be married to my best friend. Interested in interesting things: progressive politics/social democracy, infosec, Linux, organized labor, Yankees, NY Giants,Rick & Morty, Andor, CBS’ Ghosts, The Orville, cord cutting before it was cool (since 2012), The West Wing, The Wire. American by birth, citizen of the world by choice, progressive social democrat.
Formerly @TheSean before the Masthead.social instance disappeared Feb '23
@MDKAOD @ThirdWorldOrder are there leftist companies?
@Doomsider @wlh0242
Just like Hitler, Trump never got a majority of popular votes
@dingus @Bipta
Are gen z likely to be uniformly iPhone users?
That’s like the most conformist thing that I have ever heard. The study results are that 21%(F) 25%(M) find having an android phone is a green flag in their partner, while 7%(F) 6%(M) have it as a red flag, so it’s not that bad as far android/iPhone is concerned.
@alignedchaos @mister_monster Republican House blocked what now?
You mean Senator Mitch “whaddya do if another justice needed to be appointed to fill a vacancy in an election year with Trump in office? {giggle to himself} I’d fill it” McConnell somehow used the Democratic held House in '20 to fill RBG’s seat with the help of Republican minority?
Just putting this out there:
David Duke denies that he’s an antisemite, racist, or bigot.
The individual doesn’t need to identify and tell others that they are fascist to be objectively fascist. Or should we take the word of David Duke that his bigoted beliefs aren’t bigoted because he doesn’t recognize them to be bigoted beliefs?
@SoylentBlake @maniajack direct democracy isn’t anywhere close to a panacea and doesn’t address the neoliberal mindvirus that you identify as the root cause. Individuals voting on legislation won’t be much better than the representative “democracy” we have now, with most of the adult population determining their vote on tribalism not any effort to take a deep dive understanding in the content of the legislation. We’d end up at Idiocracy before fascism but that’s a mob of dictators instead of one
@michaelrose @booty Biden should have, for the good of the party and nation, step aside and have announced he wasn’t going to run for reelection. With a lively primary, the narrative in news cycle would be dominated by a bunch of Democrats saying why their vision was better riffing off of Biden’s accomplishment (as smell as they were) and contrasting against GOP’s criminal conspiracies and apologists for criminals. Instead we will have a return of hide-a-Biden strategy but no pandemic
@Tak @Pipoca both the US and the UK have fptp single member districts for national legislature, so the expectation would be that in the UK parliament they’d only have Labour and Tories, no 3rd parties representing regional issues, just wings of the duopoply serving that purpose. But the difference isn’t derived in that both have FPTP, but that the US has a media environment that propagates binary choices, BBC still strives for viewership but not the extent that US MSM does via oversimplification
@sentient_loom @cabron_offsets Sanders has been put into a trance of feeling “heard” by Biden while being neutered in any chance of delivering real material benefit to the people. His career as being a truth-speaker from outside the elite, he’s shot his shot to do some real good and will probably retire next year.
@freehugs @FizzlePopBerryTwist isn’t the limit reading 600 tweets, not sending out 600, since it is to prevent data scraping?
@catcarlson an actual elected official would be unpersoned by the media, and that’s a known threat that anyone else but Williamson and RFK Jr would happen - if Al Gore (5 years Biden’s junior) were to throw his hat into the ring he’d be blamed for everything including the fortune that he’s gotten from Occidental Petroleum or from MBS via al Jareeza buying his Current TV, and every skeleton in his closet to ruin his reputation.
The Democratic Party is wholly undemocratic in it’s top-down ways
@furrious09 @trashhalo
Marianne Williamson, and to a lesser extent RFK Jr are going to be ignored by outlets with the biggest audiences. If the gestalt of the Democratic Establishment is that there’s no primary, the MSM isn’t going to do a thing for candidates running against Biden from the left. Williamson polls at 5%-9% and RFK 10%-15% yet MSM will give all the coverage to GOP candidates who are polling under 3% and not Dem challengers.
@hihusio @trashhalo @sin_free_for_00_days
Trump saying that the election was stolen in 2020 (rehashing a lie from before 2016 election that if doesn’t win it is fraud)
Big Lie: Hillary Clinton is assured to win. Next Big Lie: HRC lost only because of Russians, Susan Sarandon, and Bernie Sanders (ignore the 40 rallies he did to GOTV)
Next Big Lie: Only moderate corporatists could beat Trump, Biden winning 5 states by a margin of victory of less than 100k votes must be ignored
@FlorianSimon
I can read the article without any ads. I’m using Brave browser on my Android phone. Is it that they used to be clogged with ads, like articles were broken up across 16 pages with a ad in between each page? That might have been the case for Cracked awhile ago but doesn’t seem to be the case now.
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