Then you are voting for trump, as mentioned. Have a good day.

Personally I feel that every person who votes for the twice impeached one this time around should lose their right to vote for the next twenty years for supporting a known seditionist.

That would solve so many fuckdamn problems.

I’d like to continue this discussion but due to mod abuse I have blocked this community and will not be engaging here anymore.

This is off-topic, but have you had any luck convincing any of them? I like to hear rhetoric that has worked.

One, my cousin. It only worked because we had a special connection even within the family as being the only two males our age.

I appealed to his sense of nervousness for the future, I identified with his economic and social fears (he was on his way to inceldom at a rapid pace), I shared my own fears that aligned with him: Never owning a house, not being able to afford a family, not even really being able to afford to date or socialize. Being one accident away from poverty.

I reminded him of the minorities he was involved with on a daily basis and asked him of any of them came even close to fitting the stereotypes he kept saying about them.

After he began to come to terms with this, I started bringing up the direct policy choices that have been responsible for our current economic stagnation were almost universally Republican driven policy changes, and the fact that SCOTUS almost exclusively votes in favor of corporate interest in the last 40 years.

I also agreed with him that the dems were ALMOST as bad, but confronted him with statements made by AOC, Franken and Bernie that actively spoke out in favor of the worker and the student, something I CHALLENGED him to find a modern parallel to in the republican party. He could find zero examples.

But as he was searching, he did start to see that what republicans WERE saying about workers rights was that they needed to be restricted. I think that’s when the class betrayal the GOP heaped on him sunk in.

It took a while, wasn’t always forward momentum, and he hasn’t committed to voting blue yet, but he won’t vote cheetolini in any circumstance as he now realizes that the twice impeached one is a traitor to our democracy.

In the real world people’s reputation are part of how the community views their interactions.

The same is needed in online communities otherwise bad actors creep in and shift the discussion for ulterior purposes.

Like you for example.

Post histories give you that sense of reputation, because a binary karma count is a basically worthless gauge of a person’s ability and tendency to meaningfully contribute.

So fucking glad you aren’t in charge of labor policy

I think you are projecting pretty hard my guy, you know almost nothing about me so you fill the gaps with reflections of your own state.

Nearly every meaningful change in labor was bought in blood, this is historical fact.

I don’t say this as a badass but as an exhausted, economically stagnant skilled professional at the time of my life where I should be thinking about retiring but instead coming to the acceptance that without putting my face at risk of a baton that no meaningful change will come about in time and I will die working to make other people wealthy.

There is a desperation that comes from decades of bad economic policy where 68% of the nation lives paycheck to paycheck and 78% of the nation is one medical emergency away from poverty. Sure people like you might misinterpret this as being ‘badass’ instead of angry and desperate. But that’s because your perspective of the world was shaped more by media than by actually experiencing it.

So I don’t blame you, but you really need to grow up because the world that is coming won’t be kind to edgelads like you.

I appreciate the quick response, and am glad at least that I was on the right track.

After investigating their post histories, I found which mod was responsible and blocked their account, but I don’t think that’s going to prevent them from doing the same to me in other communities.

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^ This mod is a right wing activist harasser mod and uses their mod powers to shift the discussion

^ This mod is a right wing activist harasser mod and uses their mod powers to shift the discussion

^ This mod is a right wing activist harasser mod and uses their mod powers to shift the discussion

^ This mod is a right wing activist harasser mod and uses their mod powers to shift the discussion

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but this is kind of normal from my experience. Even if it wasn’t a mumble they’d have found a reason to mock you.

Don’t let it bother you, they are just ignorant fucknuggets.

I hate dealing with people for this reason and spend probably a little more time and money than I should minimizing my contact with others.

And the freedumb caucus will just boot them too.

This is the symptom of a disease, just getting another body in the chair doesn’t address the cause.

It would be a lot easier if he took even a moment to stop being a shitheel for once.

I bet that anon texter practically jizzed himself to see how much chaos a few words could create.

It’s not about having a serious alternative, what twitter does can mostly be written by like 10 people in 3 months. The problem is scaling it to be big enough while eating that cost until enough people start using it.

AND the advertising budget.

There’s no real way to break into that now without a ridiculous amount of investor capital which investors are gunshy in offering for shit like this right now.

We don’t need an alternative, we need the next generation and I hate to say it but it might just be Discord if they get their shit together.