It's a shitshow if you look at it closely. Basically he got so many votes because the ruling party wanted to try the pied piper strategy that gave the US Trump. That included giving his campaign illegal support, which invalidated the previous election. And now they're just outright going to ban him. They're just throwing away democracy and pretending they're saving democracy.
Not that I want the guy to win or be anywhere near power, but it's a strategy that will backfire eventually and has in many countries. But I guess the alternative is to actually deliver for the people and that's obviously unacceptable.
So depressing to see that libs can come out and say shit like this, and then you go to your local area's Facebook group and it's still full of people saying 'vote Labor out' because another car got stolen or whatever.
It is showing that there's a lot of work to be done to deal with the spam issue. It's basically relying on every individual instance admin to moderate their stuff and defederate from other instances that drop the ball. If Lemmy gets big enough for spammers to really try to attack it, the admins will quickly get overwhelmed.
Yeah, I still don't know if the whole Russian spy thing is serious or not. He's definitely doing everything to deconstruct the US empire, but it was already on its way down regardless anyway, and it can all basically be explained by incompetence or greed too.
The opposition needs to be more forceful about this kind of stuff. They're always seemingly accepting the frame that you need to make cuts to fix the deficit (or even the frame that deficits altogether are bad), but never talking about how the wealthy aren't contributing to the revenue part of things.
Biden made a good step by hiring a bunch of IRS personnel, but they barely talk about that, even now that Musk is firing these people in the name of 'efficiency', even though every dollar you put in the IRS gives you more than $2 in return.
It's a shitshow if you look at it closely. Basically he got so many votes because the ruling party wanted to try the pied piper strategy that gave the US Trump. That included giving his campaign illegal support, which invalidated the previous election. And now they're just outright going to ban him. They're just throwing away democracy and pretending they're saving democracy.
Not that I want the guy to win or be anywhere near power, but it's a strategy that will backfire eventually and has in many countries. But I guess the alternative is to actually deliver for the people and that's obviously unacceptable.