Lol you still won’t admit that you did nothing. Do you know who organizes the door knockers? THE DEMOCRATS. They were door knocking FOR THE DEMS. You go talk to Kamala fucking Harris and ask her why more people were not doing it, you go ask HER why it didn’t change anything, you talk to the Democrats and ask them why they failed you. You couldn’t identify Idealism if it was stapled to your own forehead.

What do you even think I’m talking about here, hmm? Door Knockers are the antithesis of idealism. They are agents in the material world, engaging with people directly, hearing their positions and making real attempts to offer them answers. They’re engaging with the non-voter class and republicans in an attempt to create material change within the electorate. Republicans also door knock, for the same reason. What’s idealism is YOU thinking that somehow people should have just “Done the right thing” and showed up and voted for someone who offered nothing to them. Republicans voted for Trump because he had clear and understandable messaging, Harris had absolutely awful messaging. If you’re a Door Knocker and all you have to work with is garbage, then the only ones to blame are the ones who gave them the garbage. The Democrats.

If you want to “fight fascism” every two years by showing up to vote, you’ll be living under fascism faster than you think. Get out, touch some grass, talk to your neighbors, stop leaving your political life in the hands of people who have no interest in offering you anything, that’s called “Growing the fuck up”.

See, if you had actually done something, you would have just answered that. You did nothing, did you?

I know people who were out door knocking in blue wall states in deeply red counties, as marginalized people, who have more empathy and understanding, and a grounded realistic view of why the Harris campaign failed you and us, than you seem to be expressing here.

If all you did was show up to vote, eat your pride. Now is the time for you to ACTUALLY go out and do something instead of pissing and shitting in the comment section of fucking lemmy.world of all places.

Grow the fuck up.

If you give me your vote unconditionally, then I have what I wanted and give up nothing in return. Even if you stand outside and shout at me after you gave me your vote, it still doesn’t matter because you gave me what I wanted willingly with zero conditions. Clearly, my position on any topic is of no interest to you either, otherwise you would have tried to make a deal with me, but you didn’t.

So how about this: You give me your vote, and I’ll do whatever the fuck I want.

As opposed to?

Actual leftism. Liberalism is a Conservative movement.

So what is your plan exactly? You want to vote for a genocider, giving them the one thing you have in exchange, your one bargaining chip? And then what, write a strongly worded letter? Or are you one of those libs that intends to go back to brunch having “Done your part” in voting for “The lesser evil” who will still genocide the Palestinians? Could you be one of those people who want to “be done with politics” so that it’s “no longer in your face anymore”? You don’t strike me as the “organize my workforce towards collective action centered around Gaza” type.

When you are making demands, you need leverage. The baseline leverage you have, is your vote. You’ve not leveraged a single thing.

Well, that does make some sense. I swear some of the channels who have these sponsorships are the same channels that had them last time around too.

I had that same reaction. It actually happened around 2018 (where does the time go?)

https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/4/17932862/betterhelp-app-youtube-sponsorship-controversy-explained

We’ve definitely been here before. One of the interesting things about this article is that a lot of the videos they embedded are gone now.

Am I just old, even by internet standards? Because we’ve been here before. Better Help was blasted on the internet several years ago for their shady business practices. Several major YouTubers published “make good” videos about it, because of how bad the service was. Better Help was giving YouTubers and podcasters a shitload of money to promote their product, and in their terms they explicitly stated that they did not verify the credentials of their “therapists” and that it was on you to do that.

No its only for the instance. Lemmy.ee is still federated with lemmygrad.

This dudes account is 2 weeks old.

The mod log is public and federated, so you can go look up what they were seeing… Also, no one says anything like that on lemmygrad, but OK.

Because different instances have different rules. And communities have their own rules. wait till you learn that you only see coversations from the people your instance federates with. You could be seeing half the comments of a thread if the federation overlap between your instance and the host instance are not exactly the same.

Then you need a new account I think. It’s a limitation of the ActivityPub protocol I think (but I haven’t done any reading). Your identity is tied to the instance it was created on.