soratoyuki @ soratoyuki @lemmy.world

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Imagine being downvoted for posting polls lol. I hate to invoke Reddit, but for all the (very legitimate!) criticism people had of a The Donald and other heavily censored and astroturfed conservative communities, internet liberals created the exact same echo chambers for themselves that suddenly burst after the debate. I guess they have no idea for to handle that they've been lied to about Biden and the state of the election, and all they can do is downvote the truth?

538 gave Trump about a 30% chance of winning in 2016, while a lot of other poll aggregators were giving him single digit chances.

Biden is unpopular and losing. He was unpopular and losing before the debate and he's still unpopular and losing. He barely beat an impeached Trump that oversaw almost a million Covid deaths and a wrecked economy in 2020, and that was when he could still string two coherent sentences together.

Why are so many liberals determined to bury their heads in the sand about this? The Democratic Party is casually coasting towards catastrophe.

I know. I'd assume everyone on Lemmy knows. That's why I said 'free' in scare quotes and not free.

Anecdotal, but a friend of mine was ticketed for it within the first week it went into effect. She (understandably) assumed that being stopped at a stop light was acceptable. That said, I'm not aware of any enforcement since then and wouldn't be surprised if they deliberately only enforced it right after it took effect.

Still wouldn't risk it, though.

In Virginia, at least, it's not a meaningful distinction.

There used to be an exception for GPS, but the state changed the law a few years ago so that any non-hands-free use of a phone in a non-parked is a ticketable offense. Swiping away an ad at a red light would technically be illegal.

I've been getting a lot of 'suggested' locations and sponsored pop ups in Google Maps the few weeks. I get that it's a 'free' product, but ugh. My GPS while I'm driving down the highway is one of those things that really, really needs to be clutter-free.

A history of incarcerating minorities for possession of a plant that's legalization has universal, bipartisan support while also experimenting with said plant?

Oh shit you said help, nevermind.

I'm very curious what Socialist discourse Sarah Jones follows, because this article is pretty divorced from any Harris think pieces I've read. Her role as a prosecutor and Attorney General make her a complete anathema in socialist circles, even to Democratic Party-aligned factions in DSA.

Nothing is stopping him from Officially Acting on six Supreme Court Justice literally right now.

Wanting a President that can string two coherent sentences together doesn't make you a Russian bot.

Sooooooo... if this is what has finally shaken your faith in American bourgeoisie democracy, good news (sorta)! Alternatives exist, although the struggle to achieve them will be long and arduous. Our current system of propping up billionaire-approved octogenarians to give our stolen wealth tax breaks and investment incentives to defense contractors, cops, and landlords exists very explicitly to preserve a system of private property that keeps you poor and desperate.

The alternative to this is to build class consciousness and working class power in order to contest this awful system and put political and economic power directly in the hands of the working class before our impending environmental collapse. Join an organization that exists locally that's building that working class power. Seriously, don't even get caught up on which -ism best fits you, just join whatever exists locally that you can contribute to. Democratic Socialists of America, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Alternative, the Industrial Workers of the World, Food Not Bombs, even a small community mutual aide network that supports a few of your unhoused neighbors.

This debate should be your wake-up call. The state is a fuck and you're just a sacrificial pawn in a system designed to funnel wealth upwards. It's a big club and you ain't in it.

Replacing Biden with a cop would be the most DNC thing imaginable. We're so fucked.

This is elder abuse. How did we end up with these two candidates?

I can't wait to find out tomorrow how it's pro-Palestinian protestors fault that Biden can't speak above a whisper.

I haven't noticed it, personally. Most of the unchecked disinformation mostly seems to be confined to the World News subreddit. There isn't much hasbara in the fediverse from what I can tell.

For fucks sake, the 1968 DNC protests are what popularized the term 'police riot.'

Ignoring the decades of illegal occupation, Israel continues to hold ten times the number of hostages that Hamas has ever held. No one is buying your hasbara anymore.

It's crazy that give commerce more rights to travel freely than we give living, breathing humans. Fuck borders.

Biden is going to further jeopardize his reelection chances just so arms manufacturers can profit more off genocide.

Say what you want about the capitalist class, but they certainly have class solidarity.

If you think they're literally calling to kill over 300 million people, I have great news about potential crypto and NFT investments for you.

It's almost like the mainstream media deliberately doesn't give a voice to people outside of a very narrow (and shrinking) Overton window.

Edit: honestly having trouble imagining how absolutely stupid someone has to be to downvote this lol. Guess I need to make a cryptocurrency lol.

It's not like Fox News is ever going to have a segment calling for empathy with minority urban voters, or 538 running an article on Republicans failing to address issues that minority urban voters have.