Yup. This goes way deeper than Trump, conservative undermining of education has been in the works for decades, since Reagan. Adam Conover explains it well in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlAb_8bDHjE

People didn’t go to Bluesky because of an informed choice based on features or security. People went to Bluesky because that’s where everyone they want to follow went.

• Veganism?

Hold up, you think the vegans are in the wrong? You can say that they’re annoying, but in terms of ethics and morals it’s not even an argument. It’s fine to not like tofu or whatever, but there is no amount of verbal gymnastics anyone can do to even begin to justify the modern meat and dairy industries. That shit is basically Animal Auschwitz times a billion.

Ah, yes.

Red party: tax cuts for billionaires, dismantle government agencies and sell the scraps to billionaires for pennies on the dollar, allow billionaires destroy the environment for profit

Blue party: tax billionaires their fair share, use that money to create a better society that is nicer for everyone to live in, address pollution and climate change

Mouth breathers: “they’re the same picture”

Yes, I understand that. Perhaps I was not empathetic enough, I am sorry to hear that about your family being deceived, along with the rest of mainland China.

The fact that the oppressive CCP won does not mean they were right. The world is not a Disney movie, the good guys don’t always win.

“Vindicated” just means that the good guys were good. Whether or not they won.

Context here is that the red one actually voted for the billionaires.

The blue one voted against the billionaires, and the billionaires won because the yellow one didn’t vote.

It’s possible English isn’t your first language? No worries.

The word “vindicated” doesn’t mean “won in the end,” it means “they were right.” As in, justified in their demands, on the right side of history. Even of the protests I listed in my first comment, half of them didn’t actually win in the end (Vietnam, Occupy, Gaza, and arguably more).

From Wikipedia:

…(the Seven Demands) for the government:

1. Affirm Hu Yaobang’s views on democracy and freedom as correct.
2. Admit that the campaigns against spiritual pollution and bourgeois liberalisation had been wrong.
3. Publish information on the income of state leaders and their family members.
4. Allow privately run newspapers and stop press censorship.
5. Increase funding for education and raise intellectuals’ pay.
6. End restrictions on demonstrations in Beijing.
7. Provide objective coverage of students in official media.[84][83]

I hope that you’d agree that the students were in the right, and that the oppressive CCP was in the wrong?

Thank you for bringing those up. However, unless I’m misunderstanding them, the only one of those where the protesters were in the wrong were the pro-segregation protests, correct? But weren’t those protests by-and-large made up of parents? (Perhaps along with some of their children doing what they were told?) Not exactly the “rebellious youth sticking it to the man” we generally mean by the words student protest.

Let’s see…

• Nazism
• McCarthyism
• Vietnam War
• Racial Injustice
• South African Apartheid
• Occupy Wall Street
• Gaza Genocide
• etc.

I am curious. Has there ever been a wide-scale student protest movement that WASN’T unequivocally vindicated by history?

Yes, I agree, any kind of ranked choice voting system would help to end the two-party duopoly. If you are lucky enough to have your state consider a ballot measure to introduce such a system, do everything in your power to help it pass.

Unfortunately, it will not be easy; for obvious reasons, there are many powerful political forces opposing such reform. Here is a page showing how well such measures have done in recent elections: https://ballotpedia.org/History_of_ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)_ballot_measures

By the way, if you liked the CGP Grey Animal Kingdom video, it continues as a short series: https://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/

You’re not arguing against Democrats, you are arguing against basic math. Here is a primer for why going third party is a complete non-starter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

The way forward is to transform the Democratic party from the inside out. It’s not impossible, Trump did it to the entire Republican party in the span of less than a decade. Vote in PRIMARY elections.

Trump. Who won specifically because of people who decided to ineffectively vote for letters other than D.

Primary Schumer, of course, but his term is up in 2028. AOC herself might be more focused on a separate race that particular year.

The framing isn’t false. A two-party duopoly is a simple, straightforward, and inevitable consequence of a first-past-the-post plurality voting system.

The other letters are not an option. Voting for any other letter just helps the party you hate the most to win. Yes, it fucking sucks.

If your rents doubled while your population increase was only 4%, it sounds like immigration wasn’t the issue, now was it?

Blaming poor people for the housing bubble is like blaming a fish for the rain. Look up.

It could be slop. It also could be fantastic. Some video game adaptions have turned out well.

• Arcane
• Detective Pikachu
• The Last of Us
• Fallout
• Cyberpunk Edgerunners
• Tetris

From the looks of it you can create your own character? So you might not even need to mod it to do that.

Anything where it doesn’t matter if I get distracted at any given point, e.g. turn-based or otherwise non-time-sensitive games.

• Incremental games (Chillquarium, Pegidle, Synergism, etc.)
• Powerwash Simulator
• Geotastic (with time limit turned off)
• Slay the Spire, or other deckbuilding roguelites
• Dominion
• FTL: Faster Than Light / Multiverse
• Civilization VI
• Picross/Piczle Cross and similar games

Ignoring them is easy, but there are prerequisites. To remain unaffected, you and everyone you know and love will need to NOT be:

• Black
• Caribbean
• African
• Latino
• Native American
• South Asian
• East Asian
• Filipino
• Ukrainian
• European
• Jewish
• Arabic
• Muslim
• transgender
• gay
• nonbinary
• someone with a uterus
• queer
• in the military
• poor
• middle-class
• empathetic
• employed by the federal government
• employed by a corporation
• holding investments
• holding a bank account
• dependent on buying or selling products or services
• looking to live in an apartment or house
• hungry
• breathing clean air
• drinking clean water
• wanting to fly in US airspace
• sick
• injured
• susceptible to pathogens
• concerned with financial corruption
• a voter
• etc.*

*Note that list is not comprehensive, up to and including whoever Trump and Musk decide to disenfranchise tomorrow, in order to distract everyone from whoever they disenfranchised yesterday.

Oh great, another Putinbot spouting reams of misinformation.

Trying to clean up the whole mess from your firehose of bullshit is a fool’s errand, but here are a couple counterpoints for the benefit of anyone not already familiar with the relevant history:

1. The war in Ukraine was not “civil.” It was being waged by Russian troops acting as “separatists,” a disguise so thin that the only ones to buy it were on Russian state TV.

2. Every single escalation in the conflict was by Russia, ever since the hostile takeover of Crimea.

3. The military strength of Russia compared to NATO is so ridiculously lopsided that the only way Russia could possibly “win” is if they’re able to sabotage NATO from the inside, for instance by manipulating foreign elections enough to put a Russian puppet in charge.