It’s not that I don’t understand those concerns, I just don’t think those are reasons to reject the concept, nor the obligation to make an effort.

How would you solve that problem?

I doubt I have the necessary understanding of the nuance to propose any good solution. That’s not evidence that one doesn’t exist, however. And if the folks who should be responsible for such things are choosing to abdicate that responsibility, I’m going to need a better reason than “because it’s hard.”

Me too!

Well, I can at least understand your point of view. Thanks for the discussion and perspective.

That’s a solvable problem, not a reason to reject fact checking as a concept.

“Fact-checking” is preserving a certain model of censorship and propaganda. “No fact-checking” is moving to a new model of censorship and propaganda.

Dude, facts are facts or they are not. There is no rejection of fact checking that will result in more truths being exposed to the world, only less.

My hypothesis is that they now except political support from Trump administration and to pressure the EU?

Yes. We will now export our fascism, making it essentially just the same imperialism we’ve been engaged in forever.

All fair points, but what do you suppose the Taliban would have done to those same people and more if the US had not pulled out when Trump told them we would?

Fair opinion I guess, but I think there are plenty of things you can cleanly give Biden shit about before you get all the way down to complying with the troop withdrawal schedule that Trump committed us to.

Instead of going to war against this oligarchy he chose to cash his political capital on a rushed pull out of Afghanistan

I don’t see how this is laid on Biden since Trump agreed to the withdrawal and timeline, and then R relentlessly hammered Biden for not getting on it, then relentlessly hammered him for the problems related to rushing it.

I agree with the rest of your comment.

In other news, A Lot of Americans Are Googling ‘What Is Oligarchy?’ After Biden’s Farewell Speech.

The party of personal freedom sure spends a lot of energy restricting peoples’ personal freedoms.

Trump’s endorsement has divided conservatives

This is where your line is, eh conservatives? Gestures around All the rest of this shit is just fine though.

It really does. It’s a banger anyway just based on how it sounds, and ON TOP OF THAT I want to shout every word from the rooftops. I damn near can’t stop playing it.

Thanks for saying something, I feel a little spammy when I link it sometimes.

Since finding this 17 year old song linked somewhere on the fediverse awhile back I continue to be amazed how it just gets right to the root of nearly every problem we have. Start to finish, if you are angry at the current state of things (and not a maga), pretty good chance this song nails it for you.

Welcome to the United Snakes

Land of the thief, home of the slave

The grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred and power is God

(and it turned me into a bit of a Brother Ali fan)

Not the guy you replied to, but am the guy below him.

I mean, it’s the first prototype iteration of it, I’m sure there’ll be aesthetic improvements. …

That’s all reasonable and good, post title got me because I was expecting something more refined, but that’s mostly my own interpretive fault. Came in expecting a consumer-ready, probably made in china, cool gadget, not a still-under-refinement accessibility device. As an accessibility device it makes total sense…

Yeah I was ready to be excited.

I just can’t care anymore.

It’s actually proven now, it doesn’t matter.

No matter how many stories are run about the awful things he does and the good things he doesn’t do, the people who voted for him will love him just the same.

No matter what he does, no matter how awful, nothing the media prints matters, and our institutions will do nothing to stop him.

We now just have to hope that he and his supporters don’t decide we are done with elections in four years. We exist at their whim.

Edit: And might I add - the “opposition party” just ran an election centered around courting voters from Trump’s party instead of their own, and shows no signs of learning from it. (again) We are well and truly fucked.

No FLOSS loving Linux user is dead to me, not even the GNOME project team, and frankly I suspect it’s noobies and non-users pushing these memes lately.

Not one word in there about turning to the right, campaigning with Cheneys, ignoring all progressive policies, and generally behaving like R-lite in a bid to court R-votes that never came, with no message other than “look how much worse Trump is”. I’m a little disappointed in Rolling Stone, but not at all surprised that the people they interviewed left those things out.

Ultimately, if this is their analysis, they’ll make the 2016 mistakes for a third time in 2028.

Marshall, a former OBGYN and leader of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Caucus, emphasizes nutrition and preventative care but ignores systemic issues like poverty and racism.

A conservative who ignores the impact of unaddressed and systemic poverty and racism in his policies? I’m shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.