This is literally any website. Somebody somewhere (probably a handful of people) can press the power button. It’s “authoritarian” by nature cause if you piss them off enough, that power can be exercised.

If you want to have a truly “free” space online, then it’s gonna take a shitton of offline work to build an institution to administrate it. Whining online … Is not that…

Not helpful but those photos you uploaded are pretty damn thicc (or is it just me?)

It’s so funny that even some of the least pro-China on this board :side-eye-monkey: could blow out the Chinese government themselves in producing propaganda. They don’t even try.

I would like to believe our community has enough integrity to have a discussion about this in a responsible manner.

Tbh tho, I’m not convinced so maybe we should just delete it idk.

Then again, maybe this comment section will prove me wrong about that :inshallah:

I think it’s based on party that the voters put on their registration, not the candidates’. As far as I know they don’t count votes till the night of.

That’s just changing your territory over to an adjacent time zone. Still kills the whole "daylight savings"nonsense of changing clocks.

Bald has decent social skills so it kinda sits under the radar if you aren’t immediately turned off by him “hitting up chicks” or whatever and you don’t look him up. I’m talking about an average YouTube consumer.

His friends though are so so cringy lol. I’ve seen his own fan base commenting on how he needs to not hang out with those dipshit creeps cause they’re so on the nose with it.

They don’t appear to have much more “party discipline” than the Democrats (who expect nothing of themselves, of course). They’re prone to the same bs like this happening and should not be taken seriously.

I think it varies widely where some are involved irl and many aren’t (for various reasons).

I don’t think this should really be the source of anything irl, but I think we should turn up the “background noise” of “hey remember to connect with people around you and do something, even if you’re handing out some flyers with the succdems or something”.

I don’t hear it as much, but there IS a lot of noise about voting which comes across to me as very online (Twitter). I know that happens irl too, but when you’re actually doing anything besides voting I feel like anything to do with the presidential election (as a US socialist) should be an after-after-thought.

You’ll probably have more fun throwing in with her than mixing it up

I remember on the old sub that people would talk about running for local office and irl organizing. That’s kinda been absent for the last couple years on here unfortunately.

I think it’s due to the “opsec” culture which is downstream from putting shitposting as a priority over activism. I don’t really take issue with it exactly, but it’s a choice and it has consequences.

It’s possible that could change in the future, but the momentum definitely isn’t there right now.

Tbh I think Hexbear may be locked out of that evolution cause of the choice to pursue it as an unserious shitposting forum that spends half it’s energy reporting on the lib tweet of the day or spamming “death to america x100”. if I visualize myself getting semi-serious business done, I don’t see myself including this place as part of my legacy, regardless of whether it’s factually true or not.

Can’t your partner take you back home?

They have jacked up prices now that it is clearly just them and Lyft. Same story for AirBnB.

Thing is that cabs are now competitive again. Took one from the airport last time cause like 6 of them were lined up while the Uber was a 15 minute drive away. the ride was the same cost. They’re losing at their own game cause they bought their own bs.

Similar for Airbnb. They extracted so much profit that is just more convenient to get a hotel that’s “professionally run” to some extent for the same price.

Someone should drop “right, always good to see a Jill voter out in the wild :)” and massage it from there (I’m sure you’ll get banned so it doesn’t matter anyway)

Hard pill to swallow maybe is that if you “like” modern China, you can’t be a maoist. There’s sort of a contradiction in supporting both (I’m not exactly sure what I mean by “support”, but, you know…)

Oh no! She’s only going to win (or lose) by a margin of 10% in your state instead of 10.000001%!!

It feels like it’s gotta have a foul play element beyond negligence. It may not but have one, but it just feels unlikely.

They’re used for commercial baking with those 6ft tall carts of bread you see at subway (or Walmart)

Yep in my party they’re getting assigned to the bookstore for the rest of their career, if I’m in a good mood.

Seriously, just fucking lie your asses off. I’d respect it way more. This is just sad.