Almost as credible as International Business Times.

The agitators, of course, are the face-wrapped and camouflage-clad Secret Police. Everyone else in Minneapolis lives there and belongs there.

And obviously, the purpose of this invasion has jack crap to do with immigration. The intent is to trigger a violent response, which will provide the basis for Trump & the Republicans to exponentially increase the violence and replace the America we’ve called home with abject fascism.

I’m not a Democrat at all, support gun rights, own two myself, and also support gun control. (:

They just categorically refuse to vote for Democrats because they have correctly deduced that Democrats want to take their gun rights away

Correctly? A few Dems mention “gun control” sometimes, mostly to appease anti-gun voters, but among elected Democratic office-holders there’s zero call for taking away gun rights.

Ha — how did you get to know my family so well? I’m not interested in conversation with people who aren’t interested in conversation, so I no longer engage — unless they say something stupid or fascist in my presence.

Some things are best discussed privately.

In a position commanding a wide public audience, Jonathan Rauch has spent years speaking against us and mocking us. Today, he’s had an epiphany and figured out he’s been well-paid to be wrong. That’s cool. “Welcome to the fight. This time I know our side will win,” and all that.

I’m not going to waste any effort kicking him today, but I’m also not shocked, not scolding anyone who doesn’t welcome Jonathan Rauch with a bouquet of flowers and wet kisses. Anyway, in five days or five minutes he’ll decide we’re wrong again. Shrug.

My response is positive to all the first two ideas, but I’ve seen no need for NSFW voting.

Looks like stale communities are already closed and deleted, at least here on lemmy.world. Popped into a community I ran but set to “no new posts” a few years ago, and all the old posts are gone. Which is OK by me.

Resigning would be counterproductive, short-term and especially in the long-term, but I’d be delighted if one or two sane members of the SC went on strike, by ditching the legal lingo and issuing plain-English dissents.

… since the birth of my second daughter.

As absolutely always, when you find a Republican office-holder with a smidgen of empathy, it’s because the outrage in question affects them personally. If it’s not about them or their family, the cruelty is fine, even enjoyable.

I’ve avoided Facebook for so long, the idea that it’s required as part of an ‘education system’ bewilders me. Wow.

I’d like the ability to block users when I stumble over an imbecile while browsing, but I still need to see the blocked user’s comments in groups that I moderate.

At present, user blocks are absolute, and don’t take moderation into consideration. This means, since I moderate a group, I can’t block users. If I do, and they later post to the group I moderate, I won’t see their posts or comments.

Most Americans are, as you estimate, center-to-right, but that’s because America has no political party of the left, so lefty ideas are simply unknown to 90% of us. When genuine leftyism is spoken aloud by candidates who actually believe what they’re saying — AOC or Sanders and very few others — it’s very nearly undefeated.

America is center-to-right the same way someone who’s never eaten kiwi fruit thinks kiwi fruit looks icky. Give 'em a bite of kiwi, though, and they’ll be kooky for kiwi for life.

What is it lacking?

Plush carpet and air conditioning. No, it’s working fine — fun for me, and a handful of others don’t seem to mind.

That’s what I’ve been doing for a year or so…

Medium has a paywall, which tends to keep me away, but Substack pays Nazis to post there. This makes the Substack platform distasteful for those who dislike fascists.

It’s not for me, but it sounds cool for those active on both sites.

This article is well-argued, well-written, and moot. Rule of law has been replaced with rule of Trump, and it’s downright quaint to pretend that precedent, illegality, or the constitution are still in play.

I tried it, but gave up months ago. Decentralization is what we’re all about, but without a centralized index of what’s available, finding videos on PeerTube is more work than watching them is worth.

It’s like a light bulb reading these comments. I’ve barely touched social media, wondered why it’s of no interest to me, but suddenly I grok it. I prefer the intelligent conversation (and stupid takes too, like mine) of a forum like Lemmy, where there’s a much better IQ/batting average than ‘social media’.