Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying. I disagree with your opinion that both Trump and Harris voters are genocide supporting fascists, but I can see how the rest of the logic fits if you start with that as your foundational principle.

Agree with the theory, but in practice what happens is the parties simply focus on courting the people who do vote and shift their attention to them even more, ratcheting the discourse further to the side that tends to have voters show up more reliably. It’s far cheaper and easier to nudge a willing and reliable buyer (in this case, voter) to buy your wares than it is to go out and bring new buyers into the existing market. Not impossible, but I personally don’t have faith in the plutocratic two party system the US has to self-reflect and seek out those disengaged voters instead of taking the easy route and pandering to the existing and reliable voter pool (at least not in the short term).

you people

Who exactly do you think I am, what do you think my beliefs are, and what are those opinions based on? And what in the ever loving fuck are you talking about with the rest of your comment?

My friend, you’ve lost the plot. The OC was about not letting others discourage you from voting, either through false equivalence or impotence-driven abstention. The fact that you somehow took that and turned into a misdirected diatribe against fascism, Mussolini, and the rest is impressive, if not sad.

Not what fascism is, but alright. You do you. Good luck with that moral superiority. I’m sure it’ll make a real, tangible difference in the real world any day now.

Bud, take a deep breath and go for a walk. I’m not your enemy. Nor am I a fascist.

Your anger at your impotence, while understandable, is misguided. I agree that the US veneer of “democracy” is thin at best and laughable considering the corpocratic influence and control of media, elections, and politics in the US. But you are still allowed to voice your choice without fear of consequence or repraisal from the government. That by definition makes it democratic.

Your premise is disingenuous and/or purposefully limited. You’re artificially pegging the value of voting against a single issue outcome, but that’s not how voting works. As previously stated by OC, there are a number of issues on the ballot. Your premise that votes are not important because they won’t change the outcome of a single issue does not mean that we can extend that same to all other issues and nullify the value of voting altogether.

Also, OC’s comment said nothing about anyone being required to vote, rather it’s simply pointed out that anyone demanding you not exercise your only influence option does not have your specific best interests in mind.

It’s basic game theory. You can be pissed and dehumanize people as much as you want, but there is exactly 0% chance that neither one will be elected today. Considering the fact that elections aren’t single issue referendums, complaining about people not throwing away their only voice and change influence option (their vote) is sophomoric and naive.

Low effort, brain dead take

Yeah, they’re morons, but nowhere there do they claim they “defeated covid.” What their statement implies is that they (in this case incorrectly) believed this event was not likely to be a spreader event due to overall lower numbers and impacts of covid nationally compared to 4 years ago. It does not imply that “they” specifically “defeated covid”, that’s clearly a feelings-driven logical leap on your part.

Who claimed “they defeated [covid]”?

It’s a spammer with a hard on against mbfc who has been posting shit “memes” across different instances. Best to block and ignore whenever you see an alt pop up

With zero evidence, other than having watched their crusade against mbfc over this past week, this feels like a weird alt by /u/CaliforniaKove who has been spamming everything with anti-mbfc posts recently

It’s the later. As the other user pointed out, lemmy.ml censors vulgar language by default

Lovely - mods are removing all comments that are pointing out that /u/CaliforniaKove has been spamming multiple instances with the same agenda for days now. I’m guessing pointing out spam and voicing disagreement is not allowed? Better yet, they’re citing community Rule 2, which has to do with reposts and in no way applies to the removed comments. Unless they mean to cite Rule 2 of lemmy.ml, which is also absurd imo considering the shit that regularly gets posted on the instance (of which I’m a member). Normally I don’t removed about getting comments removed, but not allowing people to express frustration with actual spammers, and removing their comments citing an anti-spam rule, is fucked up and smells of agenda pushing vs. actual moderation.

Is this shit your job? You’ve been spamming every fucking instance with this crap for days now. We get it - you don’t like what the mods of LW did. Move the fuck on to a different instance or block their communities. There, it’s that simple.

I’m baitin’

The research cost recovery line they often yap about is bullshit itself though. The overwhelming majority of pharma research like the one involved here is subsidized through taxpayer dollars already, and they get tax incentives and write offs for failed research. If we had a sane, working government we could nationalize all life saving medications funded by public money while still allowing the inventors to enjoy some (reasonable) economic benefits from the research

OP is trying to imply that women are paid less then men because they’re unwilling to put themselves on the line in tough situations - the woman is ducking in the back while the man is covering Trump out front.

It’s a sad attempt at being edgy

I’ve found Thunder to be a great replacement with some modern, gesture and UX friendly enhancements. Raccoon for Lemmy is pure magic and I highly recommend it as well, but the UX and UI are more modern and has less of that RIF, old-school forum thread scroller vibe.

Do you get off on having the absolute worst takes on every single thread, or are you legitimately that stupid?