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  • The mod log shows the ban was for violating rule two of the community (both for the post and user). Seems like there were others who had comments removed and were banned for 6d as well around the same time. Perhaps the mod didn’t realize who You were and was banning on autopilot to clean things up in the community?

    Also, FWIW, in my client (Alexandrite). and from what I can see in Your screenshots, pronouns aren’t showing up next to Your username where the comment is. I’m absolutely not defending anyone transphobic, but not everyone is going to click through to the profile to see is pronouns are in the profile. I wanted to let You know about that incase that’s some setting on aussie.zone or something that could be fixed and make things better.







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    Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

    Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

    Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

    Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

    Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

    Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

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  • I don’t think it’s really fair to blame Obama now, it’s a clusterfuck and why would he want to get back in the middle of things. Also if we are to blame Obama for anything, it should be for him discouraging Biden not to run in 2016 over Hillary. Even if Biden lost like Hillary did back then, he likely wouldn’t run again in 2020, leaving an opening for younger Democrats to enter the presidential scene, avoiding the whole situation we’re in now.

    The other issue is that even if Biden does drop out, what nominee would be able to survive the three wammies?



  • The Red States have been ignoring the old Supreme Court rulings.

    Citation needed. Regardless if states follow the rulings, the supreme court can shift the views of the nation. After 2015 same sex marriage ruling, there was much higher support for same sex marriage, with noticable large increases with Republicans corresponding to the Supreme Court ruling:

    https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2017/06/26/support-for-same-sex-marriage-grows-even-among-groups-that-had-been-skeptical/

    From the Article from 2017:

    For the first time, a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents do not oppose allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally.

    To your other point:

    myth that there would be substantive change if we just kept Biden in office.

    When Biden assumed office, we were in the middle of a global pandemic, still social distancing because there were no vaccines, and we’re having a 9/11 worth of American deaths every day. Maybe returning to normal life wasn’t substantive for you, but there have been huge changes over the last 3.5 years of the Biden presidency.

    Because he’s either powerless, in which case so would Trump be, or he’s willfully allowing this, in which case the worst case scenario is already playing out.

    In this situation, do you think Trump would be willingly allowing atrocities or actively driving and enabling them? A Trump presidency would clearly be the worst case scenario here.

    EDIT: just formatting



  • I think all of these points really come down to the Supreme Court makeup, which got fucked under Trump. Trump was able to nominate 3 justices, which created the super majority we have now.

    So no it’s not going to be worse. It’s going to be the same as it ever was in either case.

    They have indicated that they want to undo previous decisions which codified gay rights. This isn’t a red state/blue state issue, it will affect the whole country.

    We just approved forcing homeless people into camps

    The same court made the decision about making homelessness illegal. The most direct way to stop these horrible decisions from being made will be to support the impeachment of the corrupt justices, and ensure that we have a president who will nominate justices who aren’t corrupt and taking away our rights.