What if no one was listening? Israel could just be leaving Truth Social unread.

When everyone is going to suffer and you can’t stop it, you’re not left with much but schadenfreude for those who inflicted it on everyone.

What is genuine political discussion? How do you moderate it? Who is going to come when it’s moderated? How do you deal with both legitimate and legitimate complaints about biased moderation?

I just don’t think it’s a thing on social media. I think it can happen in private conversations, but as soon as it becomes more about winning an argument or posturing for readers, I think any hope of earnest discourse is lost. The more public a conversation, the worse it is. It’s like trying to argue with a bully in front of their friends. You might be able to reach the humanity in them, but not in that moment.

There is also a dearth of cannibalistic viewpoints here. And Zoroastrians are woefully underrepresented.

I don’t come here to change my views (though it happens from time to time), and neither do they. I’m not ignorant of their thoughts; I’m inundated with them every day. I don’t need to interact with assholes here. I don’t want to come here and watch people scream back and forth at each other, and I definitely am not interested in participating—there is a reason I’ve left other social media.

I like when people volunteer for my blocklist. Rarely are they as desperate as OP.

Now it’s so the fucking time. Democrats have failed us. Continue failing on a daily basis.

What I’ve heard (fairly recently) is do not skimp on anything that goes between you and the ground: bed, shoes, office chair. I’d add carpet to that because my feet hurt standing on hardwood/vinyl/thin carpet and I often have to wear shoes indoors.

Coordination with the Cuomo team?

Couple of posts:

• “We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest”
• “A lot of people have questioned our No Kings crowd estimates…”
• 3.5% rule

The 3.5% rule is more of an observation than a rule. It’s hopeful, but little more than that.

I couldn’t quickly find a citation for 13 million, but the first post does indicate counts are still coming in.

I think you’re right. And I think it’s in large part because news is largely a right-wing echo chamber. Not that there aren’t left-leaning outlets, but the most visible outlets are either overtly right-leaning or spend all their time platforming right-leaning people and then lending them legitimacy by mainstream-washing the completely bonkers garbage they spew.

“Kristi Noem, known for her no-nonsense stance on pet discipline…”, “President Trump attended an understated and somber celebration of American military history…”

Anyway, point is when enough people stand together they become difficult to ignore and de-legitimize. Just the act of uniting so many people from every walk of life, particularly in light of Trump’s failure parade on sadness street, is empowering. Trump barely broke into double-digit thousands offering $1k per person (I don’t know what the actual number is, but I’m sure it’s not more than 10% of the “official” tally).

It was a stroke of genius to hold the protest on Trump’s birthday, making it a clear contest which Trump lost by yuge margins—margins like you’ve never seen before. Some people are saying the biggest margins ever.

Even Fox News can’t spin that as anything other than abject failure, and if there’s anything MAGA hates more than minorities, it’s losers.