It's always so easy to blame women, isn't it?

[aeoncypher@lgbtqia.space]

@wdlindsy @Extra_Special_Carbon You would need special pleadings to interpret my statement as "Left-leaning media are THE problem."

"The Left" isn't the problem. Truth Decay - the inability for people to trust information - is entirely the problem. This has been created by right-wing and foreign threat actors, but is so complete that _not even_ left leaning media can be trusted.

[voline@kolektiva.social]

@wdlindsy @inthehands
Oh?

toussaint (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images the exact same 74M people voted for trump in 2024 as did in 2020. please resist all efforts to say 'the nation was re-shaped' by this election or that trans ppl/blk men/arabs/muslims/latinos need to be punished. the difference was the 10-11M dems that said fuck yall and your genocide. If that is the 'Left' its tiny, but it could also be king/queen maker if we had our own party that only deals wit #CorpoDems on the POTUS spot, trading electoral votes for policies #Solidarity

Newsie (newsie.social)

[ferricoxide@evil.social]

@[email protected]

Looking at the numbers, though, he didn't get more votes in 2024 than he did in 2020?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@ferricoxide I'm not sure what point in the thread you're addressing, so don't know how to answer your question.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Voline @inthehands Your question is addressed to whom and to what point in the thread to which you're responding?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@AeonCypher @Extra_Special_Carbon Sorry, but I turn a deaf ear to false-equivalency arguments and intend to keep doing so.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@serendip1959 Thanks for explaining. I totally agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@NJWookie So say all the journalists who want to maintain that ONLY the Democrats are guilty of engaging in identity politics while the Trump campaign just flooded airwaves with ads attacking trans Americans.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Badger_AF Indeed. They must have a whole list of heartland diners compiled by now.

[voline@kolektiva.social]

@wdlindsy @inthehands
You figure it out, Blue Maga. I'm done with liberal apologists for the Dem party establishment. Using representation politics as a shield for neoliberal economics and genocide is only tainting anti-racism with the rot.

[pettet50@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy which is only 30% of the USA eligible voters choose for Donnie.. the other 70% of the USA folks don't want the person.

[mastopoet@h-net.social]

@wdlindsy @chiraag

Neoliberalism is often associated with a set of economic liberalization policies, including privatization, deregulation, consumer choice, globalization, free trade, monetarism, austerity, and reductions in government spending.

[mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
One of T****'s nominees for Director Homeland Security said over the weekend that we can avoid "Family Separation" when we #deport "illegals" with citizen family members by simply deporting the entire family.

This will require ignoring the #14thAmendment.

And THEN… once they do that & get away with it… they'll just start ignoring EVERY inconvenient Constitutional Amendment and get away with it b/c you'll no longer be able to #impeach or even INVESTIGATE a sitting president. #Fascism

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy

This kind of pisses me off a little, because there were a shit ton of us to didn't fail to see all this.

And, as much as I respect him, Timothy Snyder is still on X

How does he fail to see that feeding the Musk fascist machine with his content is giving it the veneer of sane discourse?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MugsysRapSheet Thank you for these valuable comments.

[phaedral@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Reagan broke American journalism by getting the Fairness Doctrine repealed. The current administration is the beneficiary, not the causal agent.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@phaedral Thank you. A good historical reminder.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Remittancegirl Thanks for making those good points. I myself made the choice to exit Twitter the day Musk took it over, and I have to say, I remain disappointed in the many people I respect who choose to remain there and feed the Musk fascist machine.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy

It just strikes me as kind of hypocritical.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Mastopoet @chiraag Thank you. Yes, I know very well what neoliberalism is and what it stands for, and I have long been highly critical of the neoliberal project.