How would you feel if something you couldn't change about yourself was used by your peers as an insult? You really don't see how using the word "removed" as a stand-in for "stupid" is still an insult to people with mental disabilities? If someone was acting stupid and you said they were acting "like a Chinese person" that's still insulting to Chinese people even if the person you're targeting isn't Chinese.

Also I'm calling shenanigans on "the 1980s definition". I am the same age as you and I was taught it was cruel to use the word that way back then.

I don't get this attitude. Obama was literally against gay marriage. Biden's policies have been so much more progressive than Obama's and yet nobody I know likes him more. I'm not a "fan" of Biden but that's because it's weird and creepy to be a "fan" of government officials. He does a lot I don't like but if you literally hate Biden I don't forsee any president ever meeting your criteria.

Not voting doesn’t mean you support Trump.

You're saying that if you did vote, it would be for Trump? Because that's the only case in which not voting wouldn't help Trump.

Your point? If you have conservative values, then not supporting Trump does indeed help Biden to win.

Fuck this system for making me choose between bad and worse

Don't make me defend the US voting system but that is not how it works. Primaries exist and that's where voters make the case for a specific person. The large, general, national elections are for forming coalitions and compromising. This is what we do to decide who gets power instead of physically fighting. There will never, ever be a time when a single candidate is the ideal choice for a majority of Americans. Compromise is a core tenant of democracy and by definition it means nobody gets everything they want.

And while we're on the topic, 99% of leftists understand this. Anyone telling you "voting doesn't matter" or that "both candidates are the same" is just trying to reverse the progress that's already been made.

It would be funny if he started a Mastodon instance with whatever his values are. The reason he would never do that is because it's not for profit.

You're correct. It doesn't stop Nazis from having a home or building a following. It just allows users to not see it.

Uh... source? This runs counter to everything I've seen and read about it.

No... NO. It was appallingly terrible at banning Nazis, worse than even Reddit in many ways. Twitter banned a tiny, tiny fraction of extremely prominent and openly fascist accounts that had been permitted to operate for years, but they ignored Nazi dogwhistles from large accounts and smaller accounts that didn't gain a following and were used to harass 1-2 people were generally allowed to operate freely.

Remember: they didn't even ban Donald Trump himself until he tried to literally violently overthrow the US government. Twitter pre-Musk was an absolute shit hole, but it was at least headed in a hopeful direction. Musk kept it a shit hole and just changed the direction it was going.

Thank you for the explanation. I essentially agree with your position, but also fear most of the people upvoting this meme aren't appreciating a distinction between choosing "no ethical action" and "inaction". Things inside the US are slowly, but unquestionably moving in a better direction today than they have been the past century. It's upsetting when people who claim to care for their fellow citizens advocate for surrendering the already extremely limited power they posses to turn the steering wheel.

But the sonic meme says voting is unethical

The way to tell MAGA propagandists from real lefitst activists is that propaganda will ignore primaries and local elections. General elections in America are for forming coalitions, not rejecting them.

Anyone making memes telling you not to form a coalition against MAGA is working to further the goals of MAGA.

I know your intentions are good but if my kid stumbled across gore or animal abuse they're going to require a level of "talking to" that is waaay beyond my skill level, and a content blocker is a lot cheaper than a child psychologist.

I know what these words mean:

computer

These are the words I need to learn more about:

NAS pi firing docker yaml

Bitwarden. I would like to self host it one day (and keep that backed up) once I learn more about all that junk

I am not a right wing troll. You are a right-wing troll pretending to be a leftist.

Reply with "Deep!" if I'm correct about you being a Trump supporter.

You are not an antifascist. You want Trump to be elected.

You are a Trump supporter pretending to be a leftist on the internet.

You are only pretending to be left wing. You want Trump elected.

The comments here prove it's no strawman.

"leftists" like to pretend the primaries don't exist and then they are all "wah wah how did we get here?"

Correct. It means not getting fascists elected.

Anyone who helps Trump get elected is pro-MAGA.

Here is the joke:

Nobody actually believes it when you guys LARP as a leftists.

You don't believe that, you just want Trump to get elected.

This stereotype of Vegans has always bothered me. I've never once in my life heard a vegan announce to a group that they were vegan unless it was relevant to the conversation.

I have heard many people complain about vegans completely unprompted, however.

I'm sure some internet tankies are just idiots following the crowd but most are former T_D trolls trying to disrupt the formation of an anti-MAGA coalition.

Treating them like whining crying babies is the opposite of treating like the boogieman 😂

They are MAGA people Larping as "leftists" trying to prevent an antifascist coalition from forming.

😂 The Trump supporter calls me a bootlicker?!

They are a bunch of MAGA trolls LARPing as "leftists".

Stuxnet was an extremely focused attack, targeting specific software on specific PLCs in a specific way to prevent them mixing up nuclear batter into a boom boom cake. Even if it managed to affect the whole world, it would be a laser compared to this wide-net.

Strongly doubt it's a lone actor for the reasons already given.

no

It's nice of you to display your red flags so obviously

And yet their listeners aren't

See, you can tell he's a Joe Rogan listener because his reading comprehension is very low.