That’s cruel & unusual punishment, that is.

lol is this even a question? Yes, I’ll take the genitals kick over the possibility of traumatic brain damage.

But that’s entertaining this is a valid analogy, which it isn’t. Here, let’s try this on for size, shall we?

• You’re in a concentration camp and the President who oversees the Warden is up for reelection.
• You watch from outside as the Warden who is brutally terrorizing those people.
• There is a binary choice between 2 people for President.
• The one has openly instructed the Warden to (1) “finish the job” and undermined every humanitarian aid and even (2) obstructing a “ceasefire” to the guards at every turn, all the while (3) completely and utterly ignoring protesters, if not beating them up.
• The other has at least expressed support for (a) Statehood and self-determination of the population, and (b) that the killing must stop, and (c) is clearly more amicable to persuasion and outside pressure.
• You in all your infinite wisdom, choose to vote for the former in this unfounded perception that there is no difference. As if there isn’t a spectrum of genocidal damage and conditions can’t get even worse (and they always, always can).

lol. So while you sit from the comfort of your own armchair, patting yourself on the back for your little Pyrrhic victory, you’ve only exacerbated conditions for years to come both in Gaza and Ukraine alike. You cannot be taken seriously.

Perhaps you you should sit out geopolitics a tad bit longer until you’re actually out of grade school and learn a few more lessons in critical-thinking?

Edit: “Israeli Right, Pushing to Annex West bank, Sees Allies in Trump’s Picks” — Gee, thanks Uncommitted! lol.

I too am holding Tlaib accountable hereon for the genocide in both Gaza and Ukraine for her blatantly ignorant action to not choose Harris over Trump, who will be orders of magnitude worse for both.

Haha it took you this long to come up with this shit take?

Better give yourself a month next time.

I kind of just want to send him letters in prison, pages long of just, “hahahahah.”

Gabbard is the biggest threat here, in my view.

You couldn’t dream of putting a spy in a better position than the DNI whose position is literally to oversee all intelligence agency silos.

Russia will know literally everything.

I’m told given its architecture, bluesky still forces all private servers to operate through their servers as a choke point, kind of defeating the purpose of true decentralization. Like hosting your own local server but still needing to go through the ISP gateway.

Still, I agree. And supposedly Bluesky claims they’ll decouple this eventually.

Biden doesn’t even know wtf is going on. If he does, the last thing he’s doing is trying to salvage his legacy. He’s got no fight in him.

He truly fucked us. Not saying Harris would’ve won necessarily, but having only 3 months to run a campaign against someone who’s been running for 8 years is tricky. You can see why given the number of people googling if Biden dropped out…

Brings to mind the whole pagers thing.

This just reminds me. I need to stock up on popcorn.

In an era of absurdity, the jester speaks the truth.

Always has.

I don’t know if I personally buy that analogy.

Xitter and Truth Social already exist and thus they already have the market cornered on being a right-wing cesspool of bigotry; from a corporate perspective, there is little point in appealing to an over-saturated market niche. Instead, it is entirely in Bluesky’s interest that they don’t in order to distinguish themselves. Now will they truly decentralize? I don’t know, but it’s the best we’ve got that is gaining momentum for a reason. Beggars can’t be choosers.

Some added context: people were duped by a massive amount of propaganda both foreign & domestic into wanting Trump.

This will only worsen as our institutions are further dismantled from within. High chance we are Russia in 4 years.

Fair. Looks like it was 26 million on Youtube alone in the first 24 hours, not counting Apple, Spotify, and others.

What is the concern? That if Bluesky falls, the instances fall because of the choke-point?

Isn’t this their plan in the long-term? (Article from February):

Bluesky is taking a big leap toward federating. On Thursday, the social network announced that it is opening up early access for users and developers who want to self-host their data. While this isn’t true federation yet, the company plans to open up federation to larger servers with even more users in its next phase. When the dust settles, anyone can (in theory) create their own server with their own rules on Bluesky’s AT Protocol.

No shit! Say it with me:

Conservatives control the media. Conservatives control the narrative. Reality does not reflect what people see.

When overnight the Joe Rogan interview with Trump had over 40 million views, the issue becomes clear.

Bernie may have, but also fuck The Intercept and we dodged a bullet not letting Tulsi Gabbard anywhere near the White House (I mean, until now anyway).

No idea!

Doesn’t mean you can’t, though!

Say, will you start your own?

It’s still decentralized and has marketing far better than Mastodan. With 15 million members and its origin from Dorsey himself, it’s going to win.

In before Newsom or Shapiro nominee in 2028. (that is, in the far-fetched scenario we still have real elections).