@ai6yr
Good guess. The inexpert video was posted by a Los Angeles doctor of Indian origin.
The random Indian news agglomerator/regurgitator does look for that type of content.
It’s 2024. Elon Musk Rules X. And the Political World Is Still Addicted.
"Two years after words like Mastodon, BlueSky, Post and Threads became rallying cries and users declared war on the blue check, those who made Twitter what it was in the days before Musk have returned to using X."
"Last year, Democratic candidates spent more than a million bucks on Twitter ads, The Washington Post reported."
This is disappointing to read but I'm not really surprised. It seemed like a lot of people on #Mastodon who joined around the time I did aren't active on here anymore. 😔 2/
Democracy can't survive when a minority is imposing their will on the majority. Of course, republicans don't want democracy, they want rule by oligarchy (which means only rich white christian men), not representation for everyone.
In Britain, former Conservative Member of Parliament Julian Knight, who was suspended from the party over allegations of sexual assault, has announced he will run in the election as an independent. Seems to me he could start and run for the Sexual Assault Party.
@raghnallborders Labour and Tories commitment to continued austerity in the UK and complicity in Gaza genocide could also be on your list - those issues mark them as philosophically different to the Scottish parties too.
You know, if you think of the Christian god from the perspective of a "jealous god and your admittance to heaven solely depends on your submission to HE", christian support of Trump kinda makes sense.
Of course, any such god is quite transparently The Bad Guy which is the core problem with such thinking, whether in support of Trump or Christianity.
Any god who cares about worship rather than good deeds, I'll meet in hell and I will have no mercy for them.
And honestly, my reading of the bible would seem to indicate that should any "god" be so real and so evil, the human spirit should absolutely be able to reject and physically kill them. I almost hope it's true because shit bro Final Fantasy in real life let's fuckin' kill 'em
@juddlegum deconstructs then skewers MAGA and political-chattering-class talking points (even from “libs”) about Trump’s guilty verdicts.
I’ve been saying that the judgment is rare not because Bragg is biased (out to get TFG) but because his ACTIONS WERE EXCEPTIONALLY RARE. Judd says is better and with a bigger mic.
@br00t4c
"For many Chinese people my age or younger, finding out what happened at Tiananmen marks a moment of political awakening, a painful rupture from the past one used to know. Tiananmen is no longer a place; it is an event encapsulating the best and the worst of China. It becomes an open wound. To hold this knowledge is to assume a responsibility. One feels constantly interrogated: What can you, the living, do to not betray the dead?"
Not good. "The Proud Boys are back. Four years after the failed effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat, the violent all-male extremist group that led the storming of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, is rebuilding and regaining strength as Trump campaigns to return to the White House..."
New executive editor (breaking news) is ex-WSJ and will run the paper thru November. His replacement is from The Telegraph.
New publisher (late 2023) is ex-WSJ (Rupert Murdoch/FOX) and UK Telegraph (which has endorsed the Conservative Party in every UK general election since 1945).
This is how Bezos joins Wall Street billionaires who are endorsing Trump.
Capitalism is that system of relationships in which human beings want other human beings to do the work so that they can enjoy the profits without doing the work.
