🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@JonKramer I meant of the USA, but yes thats fair globally.

@JonKramer

And Reagan wasn't president in my life time. So my point stands.

@alecui

@TruthSandwich

I would disagree and say you are following into the same pitfall as @alecui in that case.

Fiirst political parties are not the same as left-right political spectrum. While a strong social safety net is generally accepted by most parties in Europe it is still on the ideological left. Because the center doesn't mean "the mean of all opinions".

I've explained before but the best way I can personally simplify the idea of left vs right is the left is where people believe the government needs to regulate things to ensure natural processes do not allow for uneven power balances to manifest that infringes on peoples freedoms... The right believes that natural power dynamics arising are a good thing sometimes even believing central power to be necessary. All of the more "official" definitions basically try to describe this in one way or another, indirectly.

Gun freedom will always be a right-leaning idea. The fact that almost no party in europe pushes for gun rights doesnt mean gun rights are suddenly farther right on the spectrum, it just means that europe is less embracing of the right side of the spectrum, at least in that aspect.

@TruthSandwich

My guess is that @alecui wrongfully assumes the center of the spectrum is the "average opinion", which is completely naive to what the left and the right means.

Basically, yea the left int he USA is a bit more to the right than the left in europe, sure. And the right in europe is far less represented. But the center is the center, and it is based on ideological not what is popular.

@realcaseyrollins

Very true, the democrats prides itself on race politics. It seems like the **only** criteria for biden to make decisions is race 90% of the time.

@alecui

@alecui

> last time I checked Dems aren’t the ones with the racist rhetoric… Just saying 🤷‍♂️

They literally elected a president currently in office who spent most of his career being racist and literally started his career and made it the focus of his career to keep segregation alive... literally the first president in my lifetime who built a career on pro-segregation... Yea pretty sure the dems are still built on racist rhetoric, if they werent a man like that would have never even been a senator, let alone much more.

@alecui

Except they didnt wake up one day and change...

@icedquinn

@alecui No, not really.. thats usually a rewriting of history dems insist on to save face... If the democrats were really the "good guys" they never would have accepted being part of a party with such a horrifically racist past, they would have formed a new one.. Remember year after year the racist members of the party (the super delegates) voted in the next generation, there was never a point where this lineage "broke" so any claims about parties switching is utter nonsense.

@dance_along_the_edge Since when is awesome considered weird?

A recap of the first black political milestones and the party they belonged to:

First black candidate for president of the USA: Republican - Fredrick Douglas

First black senator: Republican - Hiram Revels

First black house member: Republican - Joseph Rainey

First black president: Democrat - Obama

@proximacentauri

And I am pointing out you are uninformed and talking out of your ass... While it is true we minimally-defederate it is not true to say we federate with all servers. We list explicitly reasons we defederate, have a few servers we are currently defederated from, and there are a handful of reasons I have already stated on my feed as to why I may defederate from threads when the time comes. It ultimately depends on how Threads behaves and if they enter the fediverse at all.

So if your going to talk, at least bother to say things you actually have an iota of knowledge on.

@TruthSandwich

@proximacentauri

Oh so now its about threads, not child porn... thats an impressively mobile goal post you have going there, do you have wheels on it?

Threads doesnt even exist on the fediverse yet, I have no idea if it ever will. So now your gripe is that we wont defederate with a non-existant server... this is getting entertaining.

For the record I have posts where I stated i had some concerns with Threads and implied heavily that some of those could result in defederation. One obvious one is if they advertise/spam ads from their servers.

@TruthSandwich

@TruthSandwich

Usually people who spew nonsense like this have pretty weak reasons to motivate them... usually as a distraction from a more valid issue.

@proximacentauri @marcelias

@TruthSandwich

As we clearly state in our policy, if there was ever photography of people under 18 in a sexually suggestive nature (doesnt even need to be nude) we would defederate... Not only do we state this clearly on our about page, we have stated it any time this has ever come up.

This happened with PAwoo for example and they are currently defederated and we listed that as the reason.

Where in the world do people get this stupidity from....

@proximacentauri @marcelias

@Twoclownseating @Stoned_Deva_

Congrats on the milestone!

@claralistensprechen3rd @shibaprasad @ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com

Ok thats a bit strange. You are the first person to experience this then as far as I know, and the only one who had a problem at the time. Is it resolved now or has it been an ongoing issue? I can investigate if you have a time and date it occurred. In the future let me know when it happens at it is easier for me to investigate if it is actively happening.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @shibaprasad

Is it possible you had multiple tabs open or multiple clients on multiple devices?

@SteelFolk If you look up what TASER actually stands for you might be surprised :)

@freepeoplesfreepress As far as I can tell daleks are all about destruction at all cost.. beleiving themselves to be the master race and the only ones worth preserving.

While that certainly fits with Nazis, and while the GOP certainly has some racist tendencies (as do the democrats), its hard for me to see them as exclusive to the GOP anymore than the dems really.