classic

Prepare to be amazed at the attention and reading comprehension levels of people around you

Slam is really having a moment in news headlines

Ah, I see. Appreciate the clarification

Seems to be a lot of kids toothpaste on that list

Beans and grains for the win I guess

Their job is to express the will and goals of the people they represent.

Citizens United has entered the chat

The political system is inherently set up for politicians to compromise for their self-interest — because money. For personal profit and/or to get re-elected. There was a decent New Yorker article I read on the matter a few years ago that suggested something along the lines that, even if a politician begins their career with the best intentions, the process of getting elected for higher and higher offices erodes those intentions. That’s even if they had any decent intentions to begin with, of course.

That tracks with the Third Reich, actually

Reading an interview with her

And if you do not hold the line at this crucial moment — this is the moment when you are strongest — it will only — you will only get weaker over time. And it isn’t just the journalists, because journalists are the front lines in this, but the question is to every single citizen in America.

Woops

Hm. White power? Maybe god, too, because he comes with sweet donations from congregations

Is piefed any of three listed on their site? Is it like mbin where fedia.io is one execution of it? Or is everyone here speaking of piefed.social, specifically?

The premise is solid in principle. But in practice is rather blind to reality, wanting to play in a sandbox we are no longer in

Mercuri seems to be becoming more popular

chooses his closet advisers

Fitting typo

I’m not in disagreement

Too late. It’s that whole thing where it takes ten times the effort to undo misinformation than to introduce it (or however that goes). This narrative is here to stay. Those who try to counter it will just be in the role of the “Well Ackchyually” guy in the conversation

Trump doesn’t need to do much because he’s got a whole team behind him to get things done. He’s just some shitty Trojan horse

Exactly. Words could never convey the absolute unexpectedness of this. Why, even with a so venerable, uncompromised, unflinchingly truth bound institution as the NYT calling attention to this (and in such a timely manner for citizens to digest and make use of the information) I can scarce believe that this development is indeed occurring

Read the headline, immediately checked if this was some the onion type of magazine

I guess it’s time for a Family Ties sitcom reboot