takeda @ takeda @lemm.ee

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If they wanted to shut down the government they could just not present any bill at all.

Now the changes they did are codified.

Are you sure? It was 62-48 I think they only needed 60.

Also freaking Rand Paul voted no.

Yeah, he or Dr Oz, that was really a shitty choice.

The cloture vote required 60 senators. That was the only chance for Democrats to stop this bill. He (and the others) then voted no, so they could say he voted against the bill, but they knew damn well that only in the cloture vote they actually could stop it.

Seems like he did it, because he has a very important book tour https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/14/2310308/-Schumer-s-Book-Tour

And fighting for us would mess up his schedule.

Heh the choice of colors for the bars really fits this administration.

That way part of the "not vote". There were some that did vote for him.

For them it is easier, because as I understand they didn't sign any contract yet, just were planning to.

I disagree with you about what everyone picks and chooses. The reason why people complain about Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter is because they have to choose what to see, they are used that the website would choose things for them.

Social media for dangerous, because they build profile about you and they know what topics will trigger you. So people who are pro Israel will get one content, people pro Palestine get different, but both of them will tell them to vote for Trump.

This is so much more dangerous than TV, which of course could manipulate people to make them react in certain way, but at least it couldn't target individuals like social media can.

Oh I see what you mean. Yeah that's an important detail which would make the title more clickable and they still didn't put it there.

No it doesn't, it says it

But this is great that Jewish Voice for Peace is doing this.

Right now he was arrested as a pretext for antisemitism. This is why I'm glad a Jewish group is protesting this, because this is really testing the water what the reaction will be and if we don't react they will go after test of us.

Seems like next target is trying to arrest people protesting in front of Tesla dealerships.

The book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder is must read for current situation.

If you can't get the book I found an audiobook on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OUWwdflJsU&list=PLJfmMQGc3lnIQFSxEHyCrenv4e9GiZfpx

Looking at the disinformation on social media I don't think they could do much.

I saw people being convinced that Harris had positions that were compete opposite of her actual stances.

I even saw people have complete opposing view. For example about situation in Gaza, I saw:

• pro Israel people being encouraged to vote for trump, because Harris was supporting "Hamas terrorists"
• pro Palestinians being encouraged to not vote or vote for trump in protest, because Harris was strong supporter of Israel and it won't make any difference

When narrative is already controlled by social media that already is biased toward specific candidate, it is impossible to win.

I don't think Harris, Walz or even Biden could do anything when everything was attack against them.

We either need to make sure that non far right is also represented in social media.

Alternatively Democrats would have to use a celebrity, for example somebody like Jon Stewart of whose popularity could cut through the disinformation.

Progressives like Bernie and AOC, they are after what we actually need, but they are not immune from this disinformation, only people who actually pay attention to politics know them the rest of population can be easily persuaded that they are just "commies that want to kill America"

Give them some time.

My MAGA family when messaging about this, keeps quiet. I think they still believe it is some kind of 47D chess move their genius is doing.

Well they suggested to solve school violence by having teachers carry a gun.

Imagine that, they are afraid of books, but a teacher with a gun seems reasonable to them.

Yes, covid was very potent tool enrolling those people to disinformation channels and groups.

That's exactly how a vaccine works you dummy it just uses an inert version of the virus that isn't as dangerous.

Looks like it is really hard for onion to make a parody: https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-vows-to-make-measles-deaths-so-common-they-wont-be-upsetting-anymore/

Edit: and you know what's crazy? He is advocating that everyone should get measles, because when he was young that was normal.

His voice is caused by disease called spasmodic dysphonia, which is also linked to childhood measles or mumps:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasmodic_dysphonia#Cause

Oh you can be sure Congress will be working overtime to pass a bill with relief to those big businesses that cannot fail.

Not all of them, but yeah you're right.

Yeah. What company wouldn't allow it?

When I was working for an ad exchange, everyone had adblock installed in their browsers, I found that quite ironic.