volkris @volkris@social.cleverlibre.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
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So far the main outcome I've seen of the election has been a splintering of Republicans among generational lines.
It's forced a reckoning where the younger group faces the boomers having driven the party off a cliff *while still not admitting that it's off a cliff*.
On conservative talk radio Clay and Buck say it was a disaster and largely Trump's fault. On the other end, Hannity says it's no big deal, the administration was great, and blames that darned media. Kilmeade says something went very wrong, but he doesn't seem sure how to judge Trump on it.
#ClayAndBuck, on the Republican election failure— In the big picture, the Trump era is over. #USPolitics #Trump #GOP
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If we stick with the same Democratic leadership, I'm sure it will work out as well as it did last time.
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I remember that as election day grew near Darline Graham was on the campaign trail telling a story about grandkids announcing pregnancies and her role in calling Lindsey Graham first with the news, using that story as a qualification for US Senate.
Think about it this way: the GOP didn't actually care about good governance. They just wanted to be a bunch of elders sitting around and chatting about families and good ol' days while collecting pensions in the sunsets of their lives. They voted based on who they wanted to visit.
We gave them a chance to get with the program, but with this election we'd had enough and finally took the keys away from grandpa who clearly can't drive anymore.
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Right wing media setting up for a potential narrative about Trump?
Normalize the idea that a person fleeing the country under suspicion is evidence of the country's corruption so when Trump does it his supporters will believe the same thing?
#PJMedia― Headline: If the Election Wasn't Rigged, Why Is the Loser Fleeing the Country? A political figure who's in legal trouble fleeing the co...
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Stuff like this should get more attention.
Even diehard #Trump supporters publicly relate stories showing how senile he is, when he gets confused about who he invites to dinner.
These are Trump supporters giving stories that should discredit the guy even among his base, but folks are too busy being distracted by conspiracy theories about his "real" plan.
#KidRock talking to #BrianKilmeade ― #Trump invited me for dinner, and he said he didn't know others he'd invited until Melania told him. He didn'...
Sarah Hoyt writing on Instapundit is clutching at her pearls that a foreigner was brought in to teach "ENGLISH literature and writing to AMERICAN students" [sic].
If only there was some clue in there that someone outside of the country might have something to contribute on the topic...
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#BrianKilmeade ―
How many black people have to stand next to #Trump before people stop calling him racist?
Then:
Look, Evander Holyfield stood next to him the other day!
[goes on to tell a story about Holyfield making bad choices]
#USPolitics
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@Nonilex I know you're reporting what the NYT is reporting, but it's getting so tiring hearing the #AI #aitechbros or the media blame AI agents for going rogue. No, they set them up, they let them loose, and they act all surprised when they did exactly what they were asked to do.
If the instructions were "go and try to do shit, see how far you can get" why act surprised when they get places they probably shouldn't be.
It's like encouraging a teenager to break rules - of course they will try.
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Other way around. He started this by banning QOTO without cause (And justifying it) across all the servers he hosts. I called him out for lying and abusive practices. Since then a bunch of people stepped forward presenting evidence of his abuse.
He is now retaliating regarding the fact that I called him out.
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Similar experience.. we basically got "It doesn't matter if the accusations are real, it doesn't matter you have clear proof it was fabricated/a lie. You are on their block list and thats the criteria, take it up with them (mastodon.art et el).
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The latest in #USPolitics for the many on this platform that never seem to have any exposure to #Republicans is that different factions of that side have contradictory claims about what's in the text of the immigration bill introduced to the #Senate.
One side says that the bill is awful because it does x, y, and z, while the other side says those things are emphatically not in the bill.
One side calls out the other for having supported the bill without reading it even as they themselves vociferously reject the bill... without reading it.
It's a really sad thing to watch, but in order to understand this moment in domestic politics one has to know that this intra party dispute over matters of fact is looming large.
And my impression is that it's really not about #Trump, at least not directly, even though he seems to be trying to claim credit for the tides that were moving already, as he often does.
From what I see it's more about conservatives who have no idea how the US government actually works and so had no ability to properly judge legislation, and so threw a giant hissy fit when they didn't get their uninformed way.
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*first day at my new marketing job*
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Toblerone executives: Holy fuck
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@Bwee I don't know. For me Mastodon seems to gather the worst people in the world and I get a lot of anxiety.
I've been here for two weeks and I've never seen so much bs on any social media before.
Mastodon is for people who need to really show other people how good they are by posting, what they think, is humanist and social justice crap. That is of course my opinion.
I've never seen a place where people are more afraid to say what they really think about stuff.
I hope we can change that
My experience with #Musk is more interesting than just he's a liar or he's a capitalist or most of the other stuff being thrown at him, and in a really important way:
Over years I watched interview after interview where some reporter or fan would press him to answer questions outside of his level of expertise, and he would tell them they'd need to ask an engineer, but they'd demand an answer from him until he sheepishly gave in and told them what they wanted to hear.
I think over time Musk largely decided it wasn't worth trying to resist and started playing along a lot more.
But this is something we see with many public figures. They become caricatures over time, becoming the thing the public wants them to be.
This isn't at all to let Musk off the hook for anything. But since I personally really don't care about Musk, the larger picture is more interesting.
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Anyone know of a fedi or at least free-ish alternative to SoundCloud? I like posting my stuff for archival and for whatever folks might enjoy listening to my brand of self indulgent improv, but I just have no desire to engage with that site anymore. What are the cool Indieweb kids using these days?
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Joined Dec 2022
