They don’t make 'em like Huey these days.

Democrats have no intention of changing anything meaningful. We learned that when Obama had a supermajority and became a black Dubya, despite his extravagant progressive promises.

Our only power is local now, and they know this, which is why they swift-boated Mamdani and ran a Democratic partisan against him.

Yes, it will take a major disruption to necessitate any meaningful change at the national level.

You get 'em Trump.

Just keep repeating those big tough words and I’m sure everyone will see you for the big, tough, thin, athletic, young man you absolutely are.

/s

What an asshole.

You just made those words up.

/s

The ruling parties love to smear the Greens on this side of the pond too, unfortunately. This fact inspires a chuckle any time I hear a Democrat or Republican talking about ‘democracy’. They’re like American Christians talking about how much they care about religious freedom.

“Significantly Misstate”

I hate this fascist euphemistic language.

LOL

Referring to self-hosting, human moderators as “authorities” is hilarious.

I remember when, here in Missouri, the people wanted to regulate predatory payday lenders. Those opposed called their fucking organizations “Such and Such for Equal Credit Access”. Sounds nice right? Almost like the term “Diversity of Thought”.

What you refer to as “empowerment”, I refer to as a cancer. It needs to be cut out, like they did back in the day on Cable Street.

If you feel so disempowered, go have a conversation with Grok. He’ll make you feel super special.

After seeing how many terrorist ideologies have been allowed to thrive by claiming First Amendment protection since 2016.

No.

“Diversity of thought” my ass. I’m sure your wonderfully-diverse thoughts are just what all of us need to hear, but if they can’t pass muster under human moderation, they’re not worth platforming.

Even better.

Most instances have human moderation, gating for bots, and yes, and you actually have to take 5-10 minutes to figure out how it all works, so the stupid people are automatically excluded by sheer complexity.

I fucking love Mastodon.

That furry little god can be my watchman anytime.

Val, you scrumptous, fuzzy, perfect little baby!

Totally winning the war.

/s

More stuff to think about as Donald and friends insist that they’ve already won the war.

Totally man.

Looking at observable facts and using that as a basis for one’s opinion = Copium.

No, they’re not. In fact, they’ve largely abandoned the gerrymandering push because it worked against them in Texas. (Not out of ethics or altruism, of course, but because it was working against them.)

If anything, they’re bending over and taking it, though some are grift-maxxing before the clock runs out. This president and his cronies have managed to make themselves so historically unpopular that they can’t even project where they will have strength with enough accuracy to leverage all the different state majorities that they possess. They are getting legitimate Socialists elected. They have lost almost every election in 2025 and 2026, and most of those occurred in districts where Donald won by double digits in 2024. Going by the numbers he is even less popular than Jimmy Carter, and that takes effort because Carter is synonymous with ‘shitty president’.

They thought they had a mandate to reboot the Gestapo, when in fact, they were elected on affordability and decided to turbo-charge price gouging and inflation.

2026 is going to be a political bloodbath for the red team. The major downer here is that the blue team isn’t going to do anything meaningful to stop them or create positive change either.

I don’t know enough about this topic to have a useful opinion on it, but I love the thought the the US Military has limits and may not be able to make war indefinitely in the way that Donald intends to do in Iran.

That’s what regulation is.

Making things inconvenient over and over again so worse things don’t happen, or take significantly longer and require more concerted effort to happen. It’s a good thing. We should make it harder for bad actors to do shitty things.

Pretending something is pointless because it may not be 100% effective is absurd.

But, but… hear me out… does Donald feel like a big boy today?

Yeah?

Then worth it.

/s

Can confirm. That is 100% natural, god-given talent right there.