It seems to me more like a game of "chicken" - you wouldn't really vote for the other side, would you? (Immediately votes for other side.) Okay yeah, but you wouldn't like, do exactly that yet again, would you? (Immediately does that again.) Okay yeah, but you wouldn't like, do exactly that still yet also again, would you? (Repeat.)
This is what people miss about conservatives: they seem to be getting things done. When you have a single-minded focus on a particular thing, like abortion, then regardless of whether you should have done so or not you are going to get it done when you put in the level of time and effort that was done.
Never mind that it was a cover for lowering taxes on the wealthy - The People voted for it, and so got both in the same package. In contrast, the Dems seem to stand for... what exactly? Besides being merely less obvious about making payments to corporations?
Survival of the Fittest for now looks like it has doomed the USA Democrats. We'll see if it has doomed democracy itself (this one globally). All I know is that afaik no democracy in history has ever survived devolution into a 2-party system - the parties each merely claim that they are not the other side, which incentives them to avoid actually doing anything themselves, which causes systemic collapse (hrm, sounds familiar somehow...).
I wish I could see a way out of this.
Ironically they would have been happier if they had remained ignorant of such matters...
I hope OP is okay...
spoiler
(for those not getting it, recall the definition of "OP"!)
Babe I love you but... not that much!?!?!? 😛
Omg Lemmy still auto plays videos WITH SOUND :-(, I miss my PieFed account so much right now (Cloudflare issue - it happens sometimes).
Actually the OG is ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ (yogthos@lemmy.ml), although we can see the cross-posting chain as well as the true OC attribution in the lower right corner so perhaps no real need to provide such a mention at all?
Answer ready: it is 42. Now, would you like to know the question?
So should I like... downvote this one then? 🤪
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Context: I made a poll on PieFed about the new post flairs (so if you are one of the few hundred people who have a PieFed account, follow that link and answer there). Unfortunately Lemmy has neither polls nor post flairs, so this post is to open up the discussion to the wider Fediverse, or rather the subset of it that encompasses Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, which is called... what exactly?
Is Threadiverse too traumatic & tainted by association with Meta's (all but entirely defunct) Threads? Is The Verse too cool/poetic/nerdy (but niche) to be understood? I highly advise against Lemmyverse bc mainstream normal people are far less tolerant of tankies than we who are here are willing to put up with. Simply listing the software available sometimes is the best option - like the Interstellar app supports all of Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, but most support at best 1 or 2 of those - but usually is too long to say and does not roll off the tongue, plus will just keep growing as time goes on. Is Forumverse thus the least bad of the available options, or perhaps you have a better idea? 💡
Anyway, the start to a listing:
- Threadiverse
- Forumverse
- (The) Verse
- Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed
- Something else?
(not my OC nor my OP, just helping spread the message around:-)
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Does this seem legit? The most common words in place (town/city) names per state in the U.S.
(lemmy.world)
It's kinda damn cool no matter what! 😎
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/413830
(the top image is a screenshot of a post that was on Lemmy, but then it was removed.)
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/6234778
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23669729
(not my OP, just trying to help add content to the community and increase awareness of other communities as well - i.e. follow the cross-posting trail for even moar fun:-P)
(not my OC, just reposting so this community sees it too)
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Spoiler: they won't, but meanwhile Republicans will promise to (BBB lowers taxes on tips and such, thereby incentivizing those styles of employment at the expense of the middle class).