the most bang for the russian buck is going after moderates. martin luther king jr already defined moderates as people with “shallow understanding” and warning them against tankies or maga strawmen is all it takes to get them to accept a genocide.

what straw man was presented here?

A black and white view of the world gets you nowhere.

take your own advice: there are more options out there beyond democrat or republican and these two have gone to great lengths to convince you that anything else is a fantasy world.

generations of black and white only american voting has led us to this situation and the sooner we start seeing in color the sooner that we can stop accepting genocide as a lesser evil. this system demonstrably only permits black and white and perpetuating it will turn that lesser evil into acceptable behavior if we don’t stop; knowing that and doing it anyways makes you complicit.

no one is forcing you to vote with a conscience; it’s just automatically better than listening to a groupthink that establishes that some genocide can be acceptable from now on.

kamala has done the bad stuff that this image suggests; but the image itself is fake. fyi

because she was one of the few people to make a realistic sitcom about working class people (only other one I can think of is Malcolm in the Middle).

in the middle also did a fantastic job at this and i think better in some respects compared to malcom in the middle.

i also grieved when roseanne’s lunacy caused the show to end the 2nd time; i had identified with the show in it’s earlier run because the characters were expecting their electricity to be cut at the same time we expected it growing up in my own home and it felt like my tv home since then. i’m glad the connor’s are a thing.

it’s $22 now

but downvoting posts lowers what most users see

i think that’s the intention behind it. a huge majority of lemmings came from reddit and votes matter on reddit so redditors are conditioned to consider the votes before they consider content of the message. if they see mostly downvotes; they won’t even bother looking at the post, much less consider it.

like republicans misleading to their base to get votes out of them; the reddit enshitification induced user diaspora is being mislead and we can only best help by being here and trying to engage.

and just like those mislead republicans; those lemmings will fight tooth and nail to keep their ignorance safe so we should expect behavior like this.

they’re automated; based on a sampling of posting and downvote time stamps; and targeted against frequent leftist posters on the lemmyverse.

it’s got nothing to do w the content and everything to do with reddit newbies trying to dominate/control the discourse away from leftists views. what they don’t understand is that doing so on the fediverse only serves to exclude .worlders from the full group chat that everyone else can see.

this isn’t reddit; ignore the votes and make up your own mind on the information being shared.

they have newer and more novel ways to turn screws nowadays that they didn’t have back then and they’ve also learn how to ensure that you can only learn of them the slowest ways possible so as to maximize their effectiveness through ignorance.

i like that they bothered to include a ballsack. lol

the logical thing to do is to understand where people are at right now; not where you want them to be or believe where they should be.

succumbing the pressures levied upon us has pressured us away from trying to understand our fellow countrymen and turned the american political discourse into little more than looking for an opportunity to dunk on your opponent or running into defeatist straw men like the one you’ve shared.

carving out the tiniest of releaf cuts from that pressure lays bare the reasons why kamala and trump are at 50/50 despite literally billions of dollars and generations of liberalization that should be helping kamala more.

thanks; i posted to the right one.

I don’t at all understand what the point is here. Do you think that Trumo will support Gazans

the point is that neither trump or kamala support gazans despite whatever they say and expecting a group with the closest proximity to the genocide to accept your view that one genocide is better than the other is privilege at its worst.

there’s no single cultural identity that unifies the people in the east coast megapolis besides being american and they don’t even vote the same way now so they can’t even agree on what that means today; unlike the californians.

but yes, they would dominate if you figure out how to socially glue them together somehow. the california megapolis, on the other hand, already have those things that suggests a strong cultural identity to such a degree that they have a collective nickname for californians who don’t tow the groupthink line: “little texas”. (the nickname is so pervasive that several past governors had used it). in the case of balkinization; the california megapolis is already primed and ready to go it alone whereas you’ll need time, effort and patience to create acela-stan and you also have to hope that none of the other countries somehow don’t interfere for generations while that’s happening. history proves that rich countries always interfere and neuva york alone will both be significantly richer during balkanization and already has a stronger cohesive cultural identity than that of the rest of the east coast megapolis. i would expect they will take efforts to make sure acela-stan never comes into existence as history has also proven that rich countries always do when faced w potential competitor.

I don’t at all understand what the point is here. Do you think that Trumo will support Gazans?

the point is that neither trump or kamala support gazans despite whatever they say and expecting a group with the closest proximity to the genocide to accept your view that one genocide is better than the other is privilege at its worst.

i’m related to people who literally snuck across the mexican border themselves escaping their own violence and they full heartidly support trump and his efforts to close the border and turn away asylum seekers.

talk to any latino over the age of 50; especially mexican-americans protestants or cubano expats in florida and you’ll find that they’re a huge minority if not the majority.

it doesn’t matter where you come from or how you got here; the only thing that matters is what’s in your head today and it’s very easy to manipulate that.

your family’s death is going to be in your head today and the off chance of getting deported tomorrow is a second thought at best; especially when you don’t believe that it can happen to you.

the south side of chicago is so fascinating to me since it’s such a hotbed of cultural activity and social movements; but derided by the rest of the chicago as nothing more than a ghetto to be avoided.

it’s a bit like the reddit liberal and tankie divide on the lemmyverse. like south chicago, the lemmyverse was created to serve its tankie population and like a majority of the people in chicago; a majority of the lemmings are new and their views are so rigid that they avoid the lemmy ghettos despite those ghettos having a lionshare of the discourse.

i think that the clearest sign that chicago has this divide is most apparent its gay communities. reddit liberals and white gays alike relegate themselves to 2 or 3 neighborhoods/instances, but, like tankies, all of the other types of gays embrace the entirety of chicago/lemmyverse. as the result; the gay clubs on the south side of chicago are mostly unknown to mainstream gays and SIGNIFICANTLY more lit than the other gay clubs in the city. (i can’t emphasize this last part enough, it’s like night a day difference and that’s saying something because the gay clubs in boystown are world class).

out of all the articles explaining why kamala is going to lose in the media this last week; this one is the most disquieting to me.

it’s one thing when it’s an outside group paying attention; but entirely different with a person who’s livelihood and success is predicated upon it.

the south side of chicago is so fascinating to me since it’s such a hotbed of cultural activity and social movements; but derided by the rest of the chicago as nothing more than a ghetto to be avoided.

it’s a bit like the reddit liberal and tankie divide on the lemmyverse. like south chicago, the lemmyverse was created to serve its tankie population and like a majority of the people in chicago; a majority of the lemmings are new and their views are so rigid that they avoid the lemmy ghettos despite those ghettos having a lionshare of the discourse.

i think that the clearest sign that chicago has this divide is most apparent its gay communities. reddit liberals and white gays alike relegate themselves to 2 or 3 neighborhoods/instances, but, like tankies, all of the other types of gays embrace the entirety of chicago/lemmyverse. as the result; the gay clubs on the south side of chicago are mostly unknown to mainstream gays and SIGNIFICANTLY more lit than the other gay clubs in the city. (i can’t emphasize this last part enough, it’s like night a day difference and that’s saying something because the gay clubs in boystown are world class).

the flames are lit and gondor is calling for aid; but only tankies are answering the call and the rest of rohan is too busy trying to convince themselves that genocide is okay so long as you don’t genocide as hard as the other guy.