RFK is secretly a flu virus wearing a human suit.

Privileged college kids larping as radicals that will only protest in safe spaces and only protest against people that agree with them and/or aren’t a threat to them. It’s kind of like whatever the opposite of “fighting the power” is. I’m convinced that’s why there’s so much infighting on the college left: they’d rather hyperventilate about a minor transgression that fails the immaculate morality purity test for someone that 99% agrees with them in all other respects than actually take their politics to people who have real and serious disagreements with them.

Hint: they’re usually only a few blocks from college campus. You know, the area you and your friends never go? Where the poor people live? That you supposedly care about?

Not all are like this, obviously, but I regularly interact with “campus activists” in organizing circles, and it’s largely an exercise in self-obsessive circle jerking in my experience. It’s incredibly difficult to convince them to do something that might actually take them out of their comfort zone. They’d rather yell at each other, yell at other privileged, harmless college students that disagree with them, or protest college administrators. As though college administrations are some great fascist force.

They’re one level above high school principals, Olivia. Relax.

Because the person who said those things and to whom I’m responding is the “Trump voter” I specifically referenced? In case the fact that I’m directly responding to their comment and they’re the OP of this post didn’t make it clear enough for you.

Most people on Lemmy think online clout is a political cause.

Trump voter believes in small government. Also that the state should be able to legally compel you to electronically track your children and that 11-year-olds shouldn’t be able to walk around outside without constant surveillance and sides with parents being arrested for allowing it. Believes “some” parental freedom should be “allowed.”

I just rolled my eyes so hard I gave myself a headache.

Roughly 70% of factors that have contributed to climate change can’t be mitigated in less than 300-500+ years. And all major metrics indicate we are doing worse at mitigating the damage on that last 30% each year. 2023 was a record year for greenhouse gas emissions. 2024 is shaping up to be similar if not worse.

What are you even talking about? They’re curating the communities and instances they engage with. That’s literally one of the core functionalities of the fediverse.

“YOU’RE NOT ENGAGING WITH LITERALLY WHATEVER IS PUT IN FRONT OF YOU. MAYBE YOU SHOULD STOP USING THE INTERNET!”

Omg I’m dying lol 🤣

Hey OP, I have a suggestion for someone to block… I’m going to block him as well.

Why not

“Trump tells Putin not to escalate Ukraine war. Putin says ‘no problem’ and shares a knowing wink with Trump.”

To them they aren’t criminals, they’re white patriots and political prisoners. That’s the core problem.

Isn’t the right-wing Sweden Democratic party continuing its ascension and partially through its hard-line anti-immigrant stance? It seems they’ve held that stance for some time.

Sweden strikes me as sitting at the top of a long slide looking down.

Harris spent like the last 6 weeks of the campaign slowly losing ground and Trump spent it slowly gaining. It’s just as likely Harris would have lost by more if she’d had more time.

Like it or not, the more time Harris spent doing interviews and getting out on the campaign trail, the less people liked her.

A primary might have helped insofar as she would have lost it like last time.

Yeah and if Sotomayer pulls a Ginsberg, suddenly Trump gets three picks, effectively forcing a radically right-wing court for at least the next 40 years.

The real tragedy of Trump being elected is that this effectively ends any chance of reforming the court. Gen Z will basically be in their 60s before there is any chance of balancing the court let alone swinging it left.

White man mad

Removed by mod

I’m talking about the video you linked? And I’m talking about the NYT photographer that captured an image of Trump’s bloody palm after grabbing his ear seconds before the person with the holster gets there? Which is also shown in the video? That you linked? Look at you, denying reality to cling to your theory, even when it’s literally in the link you yourself provided.

It’s relevant because the video literally shows the Doug Mills photograph capturing Trump’s blood-smeared hand immediately after he grabbed his ear, just before being tackled. So, your “logic” entails time travel, a vast conspiracy involving a NYT photographer, a hyper-accurate sniper, and fake-blood capsules—or all of the above—to explain it as the result of a holster alone.

Unless you’re inclined to believe the conspiracy theory promoted by the video—which appears to be the case, given that you’re attributing the injury to an unseen holster rather than the bullet (also photographed) or bullet-related shrapnel—it would be “just logical” to trust the direct photographic evidence over a random YouTube conspiracy theory.

This is precisely how disinformation spreads. And, like many who propagate it, you don’t even realize you’re doing it.

It’s not like a lecture. It’s a pep rally. Energy rally. To rally is to come together for a common cause. It’s meant to bring people together to boost and sustain energy, in this case about a candidate or party. You’re not going there to learn things.

OK

👍