You have no moral leg to stand on. Barely any noticeable difference between you and Trump/MAGA in how you view Palestinians as subhuman.

Because it’s a genocide extension that’s about to happen.

His message is a clear declaration to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

Well said. Thank you.

Very familiar with the trolley philosophical problem, thank you. But you’re arguing the lesser of both evils point of view, again. Which is not an excuse anymore. With all due respect, but it’s a horrible half-assed defeatist mentality that will never create any meaningful change. And yes, I’m very familiar with the electoral system, and the popular vote. Both of which clearly wanted Trump to win. Denying that this was what the majority of America wanted is delusional. What we should focus on is why on earth did the majority pick such a horrible president (Trump)? I’d love to see Democrats take on that self reflection and come up with better messaging and policies instead of acting like us independents owe them a vote…And no, “racism and sexism” ain’t it either.

I’m reminded by this quote from my one of favorite authors (Hunter S Thompson) in 1972:

“How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

We’re in 2025. Neither Trump nor the Genocide-supporting DNC deserves to be in power. That’s what a non-vote is.

thank you 🙏🏻

What about “Eternity”? I love it for Lemmy and no ads

Awesome and smooth UI

It’s not that they suck. My problem with them, as an independent, is they’ve positioned themselves as the moral high ground party while in fact they have no moral leg to stand on. Their leadership had a historic moral test when it comes to the Gaza genocide and they failed it. They had another test to put a great candidate to prevent another Trump presidency, but they bowed down to their corporate masters and picked Kamala.

It’s that level of fundamentalism and holier than thou attitude that alienates many people like me. They have zero fighting tactics against Republicans besides clutching pearls and shaming. Kamala’s website up until the election day had no “agenda section”. You can’t really tell what her campaign is about. I guess she’s perfect enough and shouldn’t be questioned, otherwise “racism and sexism”.

They need a complete reset and redo of the party and its principles. Until then, I’m a non voter.

Left it for Pixelfed last year and never looked back. It’s a cesspool of toxic comments and soft porn basically.

Evil has many faces, sometimes funding a genocide, other times advocating ethnic cleansing.

Spare me. Dems are as evil as Republicans.

…and the fediverse doesn’t need to dominate all social media. Period.

You’ll never be able to migrate the IG influencer whose affiliate marketing business relies on the algorithm, or the Titkok million views dude who makes money off their views and lives. So I really don’t understand this argument of “Oh we’re alienating mass users”.

Just like there’s non-profit orgs vs businesses, open source software vs commerical ones, there also fediverse vs commercial social media. I prefer it here, and to each their own.

And they don’t have to join. I really don’t mean this in a dismissive way and respect their opinion. But why all this worrying about the need to have the fediverse dominate all social media? Maybe it’s meant to be this way: your vibe decides your tribe. My vibe isn’t commercial, toxic political talk, or influencers, thus my tribe is the fediverse instead of IG or Tiktok.

I use Eternity on android and it’s a fantastic and much cleaner feel than reddit.

I love this! Totally agree, and you know what? I don’t need to give you an “award” and enrich the site owners with unnecessary money waste. I hope it never changes too. Quality over quantity.

This is awesome, I’ve been looking for a goodreads alternative. Not sure between this and bookwyrm. Both are awesome.