curbstickle @ curbstickle @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Oh for sure, since the law is basically toilet paper for billionaires at this point.

Just make an llc, now its legal again.

Considering the down votes they got, I don't think you were the only person to take what they said differently, the conservatives out there are really fucking up even basic communication with this crap.

Bias is a banned word, thats what they were pointing out.

Edit: In specific

• biased
• biased toward
• biases
• biases towards

I'd be hard pressed to believe they would be as evil and conniving as Mitch McConnell. So unless he's incapacitated until he's dead over a period of three years, without a single chance to be his fully awful self in the slightest....

I'd still prefer my first choice.

Edit: 2027 not 2028 for his last term.

I'd prefer instant just because it would mean less time for him to be/do something horrible.

Thats not the fault of the availability of the information though.

Making it spez, not musk.

Musk isn't applying any legal recourse here. This was a reddit decision.

Moderation is the law, not banning a sub. The continued banwave today I think speaks to that rather clearly.

If you call a cease fire, hostage release, and two state solution as "supported the genocide" then... I guess?

I wouldn't call it that though. You do you I guess.

Sure, but why whitepeopletwitter of all places? If they're trying to disrupt dissent surely there are more effective places to put their energy

Not that I think this is what happened, but I think the answer is actually really straightforward - how quickly will reddit bend the knee? Let's find out.

Thats all it would take is a random thought to get there.

Again, not what I think happened. Enough people elsewhere saying the same things that its bound to get commented in a reddit thread as well.

I do, however, think Musk pushed for the entire sub to get banned, or spez did it proactively as a show of support (with a hope to bury his nose in Musk crack).

Edit: The new banwave makes me think its #2 - spez beak tinted brown with musk crack.

Bullshit.

I saw the screenshots. The upvotes didn't even break 2 digits. At most, the comments would get removed and the users banned. Saying it makes sense for the entire sub to be taken down for the dozen or so idiots is, undeniably, bullshit.

The same types of comments have been made on lemmy. The instances did not get taken down or any legal action. Suggesting otherwise is nonsense.

Sounds like something to address with individuals through moderation, and maybe a site ban for individuals depending on TOS details, not the entire sub.

Banning the entire sub, then, comes across as something else entirely.

So I can't say I'd agree with you.

Musky Youth?

(H)IT(ler) Youth?

Ellen's Youngins?

Sorry, trying to make fun of them in some way is helping me deal with.... gesturing broadly ... this.

I'd lean towards one of the existing parties (not including the two main here, and DEFINITELY NOT THE GREEN PARTY), because getting on the ballot has requirements depending on the state.

Unfortunately, the options mostly suck. If you want left, the largest is technically the green party, but going back to my previous comment, the green party is completely captured garbage. At no point since its founding has it behaved like anything but a spoiler party. Don't waste the time here.

Next up in terms of size would be the Working Families Party, which has ballot access in 3 states. To get around this, they caucus with the Democrats like the Vermont Progressive Party (Bernie). You can learn more about them here:

https://workingfamilies.org/

And of course wikipedia and the like as well. Unlike the green party, they actually campaign at the state and federal level and get people in - for example, Rashia Tlaib. To me, the WFP presents the most viable strategy, since they are on the larger side, have some degree of ballot access, and coordinate with the democrats to run WFP candidates - which, understandably will bother some, but presents an opportunity (imo) to take people from known Dem to knowing WFP, and still pushing the same WFP candidates. Getting information out to people is an uphill battle, so using a known party is an advantage here, and presents the opportunity to take over.

The FEC will recognize a new party when they raise / spend money over thresholds with a federal election, and it is the FEC which determines if they have national committee status. The FEC doesn't need to be involved for state or local elections, but must be brought in for any federal elections.

State/local will have different requirements, but its primarily going to be around fund raising and signatures. You need to show that you've got enough support to matter to gain ballot access. Some states allow "designations", where its not a recognized party, but you can list the association all the same, and then its just getting enough signatures to get on the ballot in that location.

Generally speaking, an individual's ballot access is from:

• Being nominated by a state-recognized party
• Independent by petition (getting signatures)
• Running as a write in candidate

Running as a write-in can work for local, but will be insanely hard at the state level and near impossible at the federal level. Independent (and maybe with a designation) is the next jump up and only requires signatures, and then the state-recognized party would generally mean you've gotten FEC approval at that point.

Start local, work your way up. Hope this helps answer, its obviously much more than a (somewhat quick) comment here....

Edited to add: Obviously there are other parties, such as the Libertarian Party, that are larger than WFP. I excluded the centrists and right-wing parties, because, you know, thats the trash we have currently.

Sounds like for those who know how to use a VPN this will be a nice list of potentially new sites!

Which should be most folks I would think, aside from maybe some of the folks using streaming sites.

Your country is having a rough go aha

And will continue for a good while, too... Maybe to its end, maybe to something better, idk. But its going to be rough for at least the next few years.

With the other comments since, yeah not a bot. Early on with the long gap, then a post and the same commen t being the only comment - yeah that looks like a bot.

Its not an indictment of them, just observation.

I'd prefer to hope for actual justice.

Cancer isn't justice. Its not a matter of "won't someone think of", its just a pointless, useless wish that would accomplish nothing.

So I'm not interested in the "that makes you a centrist!" crap.

Cancer is not justice or a solution to fascism.