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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

  • Supreme Court weighs appeal to overturn ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide

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  • If Democrats are ever able to win again they need to expand and pack the Court. However, that was already true before 2024 and they refused and if they had won in 2024 they would continue to refuse. Democrats do not take this threat seriously.

    Kind of a chicken-and-egg problem. The only way Democrats would ever consider packing the Court is if the Court was hopelessly rigged against them (even more than it already was, I mean) but by the very fact that the Court is rigged they might not ever be allowed to win another election because a 6-3 Court would probably let Trump cancel elections.

    Basically the whole system is fucked. Tear it down.

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  • We'll just call them patties and continue to not buy meat.

  • Supreme Court weighs appeal to overturn ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide

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  • It's already a 6-3 Court, it functionally doesn't matter if Sotomayor dies at this point. Roberts being the most moderate right-wing voice on the Court functionally doesn't matter either, because they can still do 5-4 extreme rulings without him.

    The Court is fucked for decades unless it is expanded.

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  • The 2024 election basically has no impact on the Supreme Court.

  • Reading Log Off by Katherine Cross, Implications for political culture in Fediverse

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  • I think the format promotes conflict. Lemmy ultimately is made to be Reddit-like, so we shouldn't be surprised when it produces Reddit user culture. Ultimately we need an entirely new format that promotes cooperation over conflict.

    As for moderators, I also think the volunteer model is bad. They do important work and should be compensated for their labor.

  • Reading Log Off by Katherine Cross, Implications for political culture in Fediverse

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  • And I will never be able to convince you otherwise! I could say that I think there are other factors which made you change your mind, give examples from my own evolution from anarchism to Marxism, we can trade replies back and forth for hours or days, ect etc

    It would all accomplish nothing.

  • Trump administration tells states to ‘undo’ full SNAP benefits

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  • They can just do that anyway.

    I think it's more fundamental - they hate the poor and want them to starve. Any higher strategic value is secondary to the suffering. They just want hunger and death.

  • Reading Log Off by Katherine Cross, Implications for political culture in Fediverse

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  • One thing I firmly believe is that arguing on the internet is 100% pointless and never accomplishes anything. We are too alienated and isolated and atomized on the internet to ever truly reach someone else across the gap of ideology and prejudice, everything bounces off because we're all just strings of text on a screen. Every debate is another random encounter in the posting RPG. Rather than a public square, it's a mob farm for exp.

    I think online spaces can still be useful, but conflict is entirely useless. It's just for fun.

  • THE FEDIVERSE IS TOO INFECTED WITH REDDITISM!!

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  • Uhm ackchually you're wrong 😏

  • Mamdani's youth support goes beyond New York. For many, he's now a national leader

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  • And then what?

    Unless he taps into that anger and uses it to overthrow the political interests aligned against him, he won't be able to do anything. They'll just be mad and march around, but no real change will occur.

  • Mamdani's youth support goes beyond New York. For many, he's now a national leader

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  • The Black Panthers existed.

    But I notice you skipped over all the other things he could be doing, but isn't, because he's just doing electoralism and has no politics outside of it.

  • POLITICO Poll: Americans are bracing for political violence to get worse

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  • Not really, if you read the article it only defines political violence as violence that isn't done by the state:

    That figure underscores just how much the spate of attacks — from the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this year to the attempts on President Donald Trump’s life in 2024 — have rattled the nation.

    In addition to Kirk’s killing and the attempts on Trump’s life, there was the gruesome attack targeting former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that left her husband, Paul Pelosi, with a fractured skull in 2022; the assassination plot against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that same year; the plan to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020; and the firebombing at Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence earlier this year.

    In June, former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in their home by a man impersonating a police officer in an attack that Gov. Tim Walz (D) called “politically motivated.” The man accused of killing Hortman and her husband was indicted on federal murder charges. His case is still pending.

    Etc etc.

    Political violence has been with us long before politicians started getting shot, but political motivations didn't count before because it was the government doing it.

  • POLITICO Poll: Americans are bracing for political violence to get worse

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  • There's already political violence, it's just that we don't count political violence when it's done by cops, national guard, or border enforcement.

  • There's 'overwhelming evidence' tariffs have raised consumer prices, says Bank of America

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  • They already read an article written by ChatGPT that told them the opposite.

  • Mamdani's youth support goes beyond New York. For many, he's now a national leader

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  • Is it a fucking secret? Why would any of this be happening behind the scenes? We should have an idea what else they have going on! It would be the height of stupidity if they were engaged beyond electoralism but they kept it in the dark so no one could find out.

  • Mamdani's youth support goes beyond New York. For many, he's now a national leader

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  • He's not just one man. There's an entire team of people behind him and an army of volunteers, and they all seem to be solely focused on the election. What I want to see is for him to focus on his role as merely the electoral front of that larger organized effort, he focuses on the election and the rest of the people around him have plans that extend beyond and outside of elections. That's not what I'm seeing.

    My expectation is, once the election is over, they're going to go home and forget about politics.

    We'll see.

  • Mamdani's youth support goes beyond New York. For many, he's now a national leader

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  • It's the only thing I see him doing. I don't see him organizing workers or tenants and helping them unionize. I don't see him distributing mutual aid. I don't see him engaged in mass education. I don't see him arming the poor and training a people's army.

    The electoral part is the only part I see him doing, and the only part I see his supporters doing.

    Again, I'd be happy to see him prove me wrong.

  • JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity

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  • Kind of, but religious law wasn't just about the afterlife. People believed their gods would punish them in this life if they didn't follow religious law, and that their gods would reward them in this life if they were obedient and followed all the right rules. It helped that the punishment of the gods would be literally carried out by soldiers or executioners. Religious law was also government law.

    The skycake was a later development. In the early days, the law of the gods was the law of the land.

  • JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity

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  • Yes, and it was the invention of religion in the previous 4000 years that allowed humans really take off as a planetary species. That only reinforces my point - hundreds of thousands of years as hunter gatherers with very little change, then only a few thousand years later and we've basically conquered the world. Religion doesn't have to be real to be a useful tool for organizing civilization.

    It's all made up, but it was a useful fiction when we were still in the nascent stages of historical development.