@Raz the donly danger I see is easily brainwashed cultists like you. Please don't breed.

@JoshuaACasey

For some really weird reason we got like 10 reports on this within a very short time. It suggests someone is using sock puppets to manipulate the reporting system. Me and a few moderators from other instances who got reports are investigating and checking Ips to see if that is the case.

That said you **were** rude telling him not to breed and that he was a cultist when no one was rude to you. Consider this a warning, and if you delete/apologize for that will be considered moving forward. It should be obvious that telling someone they shouldnt breed who has not been rude to you is not very polite behavior.

Your other reported comments in this thread, likely be the same person, seem fine as far as an expression of an opinion goes, doesnt seem racist or anything too concerning.

As you know we have a environment here where we expect our members to engage in respectful discourse, especially when the other side is not being rude to you.

@Raz

@freemo

Thanks for @-ing me about this. Joshua blocked me and I have no insight as to wha's happened.

@JoshuaACasey

@Raz

No worries, happy to keep you in the loop. We are investigating now but my response I think sums things up... his rudeness is not acceptable, and there is a seperate issue of report spaming me and various instance admis are checking in on.

the report spamming is an open matter, not even sure if its an issue yet.

@JoshuaACasey

@JoshuaACasey @Raz so instead of a response with any type of logic go straight for an irrelevant insult.

Eh, @JoshuaACasey, I attack your position, you attack me personally, then run. You may be a victim of the last 20 years of discourse decay, but you're also a perpetrator of the kind of cowardly absolutism that endangers our democracy.

Sad to see this kind of poison here.

@marcelias

@Raz @marcelias

@JoshuaACasey is saying, he doesn't care if millions of women might bleed to death in excruciating pain from miscarriages, or if Black people are allowed to vote, or if Black children are taught that slavery was a good thing, or if LGBTQ people are even allowed to exist. Or if our planet remains inhabitable.

He doesn't give a shit about any of that stuff. On the issues that are important to him (whatever those are), both parties are the same. So he's not voting.

#USPol

@barney @marcelias @JoshuaACasey

It does sound like that to me, which comes across as both privileged and un-compassionate for someone who might consider themselves belonging to, much less concerned about underserved minority groups. Or any other social cause, for that matter.

To my mind, arguing Rs and Ds are functionionally/morally/politically equivalent is either dangerously ignorant, intentionally, malevolently dishonest, or flat out delusional.

@Raz @barney @marcelias @JoshuaACasey One or more of those.

@Raz @barney @marcelias @JoshuaACasey I think a lot of trump voters are people who never voted before. They aren’t republicans but they are angry disaffected people who fit right in with the Republican Party.

@WhereAmI @barney @marcelias @JoshuaACasey

An unfortunate demographic. World burners.

@Raz @JoshuaACasey @marcelias @ JoshuaACasey (guy using the same avatar, also self-identified as #autistic) on joshuacasey.net says he's a 'social media manager' for Prostasia; "The organization’s efforts have dedicated themselves to crusades against child pornography bans, letter-writing campaigns to state representatives demanding child-likeness sex dolls be kept legal, and funding research into “fantasy sexual outlets” for pedophiles. https://4w.pub/prostasia-normalize-pedophilia/

@Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias hmmm, when Repubs are openly fascist and saying things like "We're gonna lock up kids, it's gonna be glorious" and the Dems are constantly saying things like "We need a strong [fascist] party in this country," allowing the fascists to install all the judges they want, quietly enacting fascist policies like building the border wall, refusing to apply the 14th amendment to kick out insurrectionists...it's really not a stretch to say that a vote for Democrats is a vote for further enabling the fascist takeover.
Calling them a force for democracy in this country? Now that's a real stretch

@sleepfreeparent @JoshuaACasey @marcelias Don’t strain yourself shoveling that garbage. No one’s going to pay attention to it. Dems aren’t doing any of the things that you’re saying they’re doing.

@Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias ok, here's actual news stories showing the Democrats doing exactly what I just said about them.

Imagine a world in which Dems were actively trying to enable the fascists to win, how would it look different from this one?

https://www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi-says-us-needs-strong-republican-party-1779854

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/30/17797770/chuck-schumer-trump-judicial-nominees

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/06/biden-border-wall-indigenous-climate-rio-grande

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/12/dem-secretaries-state-trump-ballot-00115461

@sleepfreeparent @JoshuaACasey @marcelias I read your articles & they don’t say what you claim. A strong Republican Party isn’t one made up of fascists, 1 deal to move some judges isn’t acting to install “all” the judges, I didn’t agree with the wall but I don’t know all the whys & where fores & neither do you, Saying it’s not the state AGs who will decide but rather it’s going to be up to the Supreme Court isn’t refusing to enforce the 14th. #Propaganda #farL

@Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias you're the one who was just saying "There will be no revolution. There will just be fascism." And now you're saying that equating a strong Republican party with a strong fascist party is misleading. Well, it isn't.

And look how quickly "Biden isn't building the border wall" becomes "I don't know why he's building the border wall and neither do you, there must be a good reason!" No, there isn't a good reason, there's a bad reason and you know what it is.

And no the judge thing wasn't a one-time deal, Dems did that repeatedly, giving Republicans presidents a pass on judicial nominations while Repubs went out of their way to block every single Dem judicial nomination with every crooked trick. Across multiple administrations. And then they whine about the supreme court full of Repubs that they helped to put there, when Dems have made no attempt to eject a justice who gave material support to a literal insurrection. If they made an attempt, made their case to the American people, and had it blocked, I would respect that. But Dems repeatedly choose to not make any attempt, and they get no respect from me at all

@Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias I really meant what I said before: Imagine a world in which Dems were actively trying to enable the fascists to win, how would it look different from this one?

Pick a policy or issue. Think of a really bad thing Dems could be doing to enable fascism or further empower the Republican party, in a world in which that was the Dems open and stated goal. Then check: have they actually been doing that here, in this world?

I'll go first. Dems would work to hamstring the labor movement, because fascists hate unions and a strong labor movement can actually resist fascism. Let's check...oh yeah there was that time just last year when they crushed the railworkers' strike, paving the way for a string of massive rail disasters caused by exactly the issues the workers wanted to strike over.

Ok, your turn

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/business/rail-strike-threat-recedes/index.html

@sleepfreeparent @JoshuaACasey @marcelias Nah, we’re done. You don’t like Dems? Do the hard work for change. Right now all you’re doing is helping to elect Rs and I’m not interested in helping you do it. I genuinely hope you work for change. I also hope you realize that bashing Dems right now is exactly what the GOP & Putin have worked very hard to get you to do.

@Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias I've done the hard work, I've been to my state house, campaigning for change. I've been out getting petition signatures year after year. Do you know who put up the fiercest resistance? Elected Dems. They'd always talk a good game, but then when it's time for the committee vote, just enough of them have to step out of the room for a moment, what a coincidence. Repubs didn't bother to fight us because they know they have Dems guarding the left flank. Only time you can get Dems to do anything positive is when you shame them with overwhelming popular support that they can't ignore anymore

@sleepfreeparent

All well said

@Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

@sleepfreeparent @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

I've done that hard work, too. I went all the way to Philadelphia in 2016, and I saw how Bernie's delegates were treated there.

Establishment Democrats would rather lose, on purpose, than let progressives threaten their corporate purse strings. They'd rather feed us to the Republicans, on purpose, than do their jobs as representatives. They'd rather help a Trump win than let a Bernie run. They're feeding the same monsters they're being paid to "fight".

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/07/democrats-spend-millions-on-republican-primaries

@violetmadder @sleepfreeparent @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

Been doing the hard work since I was a little kid. The Democratic party is nothing but a shill.

It's amazing how they admitted this in court and people still argue it's not true. Just mind blowing

@Mary625 @sleepfreeparent @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

The DNC wins in court on the grounds that they have no obligation to hold fair elections... and everyone wants to act like they're the only thing defending democracy. I can't even.

@violetmadder @sleepfreeparent @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

Exactly. Just mind blowing. No call for change, just excuses if even admitted at all

@violetmadder @Mary625 @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias on the subject of alternate worlds, imagine if Biden had sided with the railworkers over the carrier corporations. Imagine if he'd said "States with right-to-work laws don't get transportation funding, you have a year to figure it out." Imagine if instead of increasing oil drilling to record levels he'd diverted the billions in oil subsidies to development of renewables. Imagine if instead of enabling and participating in genocide, he'd affirmed the right of Palestinians to continue to exist.

But he was never that guy. We all knew that deep down last time. This time it's even more out in the open

@sleepfreeparent @Mary625 @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

When I was out canvassing with my Bernie shirt on, people came flying out of their front doors to hug me. Some wept.

We've been so conditioned to bow our heads, lower our standards, and resign ourselves to abuse, we barely even know what real hope feels like anymore.

@violetmadder @sleepfreeparent @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

I never worked as hard as I did for Bernie. Not perfect but I never expect anyone to be. The number of people who voted for trump that would have voted for Bernie if he were nominated was astronomical.

Hilary and the DNC got us trump. They even elevated trump while pushing down Bernie. Yet they have the absolute audacity to blame Bernie supporters who voted for HRC in the end. Fuckers

@violetmadder @sleepfreeparent@kolektiva.social @Mary625 @JoshuaACasey @marcelias Did the big strong men weep openly pfffft such BS You sound like tRump. Bernie bleeds supporters like a sieve. The second people look past the surface and see who he really is they leave. If he didn’t have constant propaganda & the MSM pushing him forward so he can damage Dems no one would pay any attention to him.

@Pineywoozle @Mary625 @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

Bullshit.

@violetmadder @Mary625@mstdn.social @JoshuaACasey @marcelias #s don’t lie. I’ll say it 1 last time. If at this point in the election cycle, you’re spending your energy bashing Dems, you’re doing is the bidding of the GOP & Putin. They’re the only people served by these actions. If you want to move forward & get to your goals, you pick the person with the best chance of getting you to your goals. You don’t shit on them because they aren’t perfect. #farL #USPol

@Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

The "lesser" evil is still evil. Not merely imperfect-- EVIL. They are tag-teaming us.

https://kolektiva.social/@violetmadder/111360480461152324

@violetmadder @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias I like Biden. I think he's done a good job. I'm genuinely happy to vote for him given these circumstances.

@Pineywoozle @violetmadder @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

😂🤣😂

@Pineywoozle @violetmadder @Mary625 @JoshuaACasey @marcelias Would love to see your research to backup those obviously bullshit claims.

@GuyDudeman @Pineywoozle@masto.ai @violetmadder @JoshuaACasey

They blocked me LoL.

@Mary625 @violetmadder @JoshuaACasey

LOL, of course they did.

Because honestly, I think the Blue MAGA are the ones that are trying to sow discord and break up the left. Anyone who actually wants to bring us all together wouldn't do that kind of thing or act the way they do.

@GuyDudeman @violetmadder @JoshuaACasey

Completely agree! This "how dare you question me! My way or no way and everything bad in the entire world, EVER is your fault" is not someone trying to get good stuff done or bring people together.

@violetmadder @sleepfreeparent @Mary625 @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias During Trump’s run I was really rooting for Bernie. Bernie was polling higher than the other dems, so they would OMIT his polls entirely. 🤮 It sickened me. I kept expecting to see others outraged like me, but not a word about it. 🤷‍♀️

@DEDGirl @sleepfreeparent @Mary625 @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

I was at his largest rally in 2016, in Oakland. The newspaper reported the attendance at 22,000.

In reality the crowd was AT LEAST twice that size. The one aerial photo that was published-- a shot taken by the police chopper, not ONE news chopper bothered showing up-- was neatly cropped inside a barricade, hiding most of the crowd.

Then, when even Bernie himself didn't make so much as a peep of complaint about any of those shenanigans, and just trotted obediently to heel like a good little sheepdog... That's when I knew we were in truly deep shit.

@violetmadder @DEDGirl @sleepfreeparent @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

I was there! I was at the San Jose and San Francisco rallies too. And Stockton.

@violetmadder @DEDGirl @sleepfreeparent @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

I know Larry Cohen and had VIP tickets to the San Francisco rally

@Mary625 @DEDGirl @sleepfreeparent @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

Nice!!

It was so surreal, waiting to get in-- a friend of mine rode a bicycle around and counted the line at 18 blocks long. Hardly any traffic since it was a Sunday, huge throngs of people but all peaceful and (aside from occasional bursts of cheering) quiet like we were waiting in line at the library.

I went to 4-- Vallejo, San Francisco, Oakland, and I think Stockton.

Cool to know you were with me!

@violetmadder @DEDGirl @sleepfreeparent @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

That's awesome! Very cool! I missed the Vallejo one.

The group I worked with made the news a couple times. And Rosario (forget her last name) came to a house campaign party we held.

That area was Bernieland

@DEDGirl @violetmadder @sleepfreeparent @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

Of course not. It's just mind boggling. Seriously, a major mind fuck

@DEDGirl @violetmadder @sleepfreeparent @Mary625 @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias We were here. Every Bernie supporter was outraged. We just didn’t get any airtime.

@GuyDudeman @DEDGirl @violetmadder @sleepfreeparent @Mary625 @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias something weird happened during the Biden election....

Bernie was up on Biden close to 20 points, and it was holding that way for months. Biden was last, and it looked like and Navy Intelligence android, Buttigieg, would be the challenge to Bernie. Thennnnn COVID, suddenly Bernie is dropping, Biden is in the lead. Everything went insane. WTF?

@milkman76 @DEDGirl @violetmadder @sleepfreeparent @Mary625 @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias

The DNC/Old Democrats that got polled via phone had already picked Biden as the next candidate as soon as Hillary lost.

That's why they pulled Biden in. Because he was consistently polling with "the olds" higher than any of the other candidates early on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

Then the debates started happening and Bernie started leading and the DNC was like, "Hold on now, we can't have that!" so they put the kibosh on it through their payoffs to the polling organizations and the media.

@GuyDudeman @DEDGirl @violetmadder @sleepfreeparent @Mary625 @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias my partner and discussed this, and my theory (without evidence at the time) was that, yeah, the older crowd showed up and/or election malfeasance occurred.

We saw the elector in Alaska, for example, openly ignore their state's voters and giove it to Biden. AK was for Bernie. Electors, showing allegiance to Old Democrats, suppressed other voters by way of lowering confidence, and away we went. 🤔

@violetmadder @sleepfreeparent@kolektiva.social @Mary625@mstdn.social @Pineywoozle @JoshuaACasey @marcelias I supported Bernie in '16. And I think the use of superdelegates in that primary election didn't help Hillary in the general. But he lost fair and square to Biden in '20. Furthermore, the reason why courts didn't call use of superdelegates election fraud was because as a primary the party got to set their own rules. And they did. I don't see you complaining about how the GOP didn't even bother with a primary in '20.