Seriously, if she’d been critical of Joe Biden while she was campaigning rather than years after the fact, maybe we’d be in better shape now.

Or this will involve giving every government official security detail hand-picked by the republicans, so when they call in Order 66 they know it’ll be swift and complete.

The fact that they’re going to all this trouble over this image proves the point the image was making better than anything else possibly could have.

Of course it doesn’t. It only applies to murder - you know, the thing black people and minorities do - not heroic acts in the line of duty, like cops and ICE do, or unfortunate accidents and self-defense, like white republicans commit.

The X comments - particularly the absolute deluge of maga folks completely missing the joke and accusing him of ripping off Trump’s merchandise - is absolutely the best part of this whole thing.

If there really was such a political party or movement, then they would have offered me something.

No, they wouldn’t, because you’ve shown them through voter apathy that they can safely ignore you. Doing things you want politically won’t benefit them and ignoring you won’t harm them. If you aren’t going to engage with them, why would they engage with you?

I hope you mean that you vote for third party candidates, rather than not voting. Voting does matter - you’re sending a message by who you do or don’t vote for. Not voting sends the message that you aren’t engaged with politics and therefore your opinions don’t matter. Voting for a third party sends the message that you aren’t happy with the current status quo.

It would be amazing if his accusations are true and provable, and that proof was forced into the open due to this suit.

I made three comments on the internet. If you think that much energy is going to make a difference anywhere, I’ve got some unfortunate news for you.

Regardless, the point I’m trying to make is, it’s really easy to sit here and post about how Americans need to step up and solve the problem, just like it’s easy for us to say “We need to take action!” - what’s hard is knowing how to effectively take that action, or how to organize a country behind a common course. I sure don’t know how to do those things, and I suspect almost everyone else is in the same situation. We need a leader to step up and show us how.

Point is, if you aren’t going to be that person, you have nothing to offer, and your derogatory internet tough guy posting isn’t in any way productive. Why don’t you put that effort into fighting your own far-right political groups, instead?

You think they won’t be coming for Canada once they’re done with the US takeover? As was mentioned here already, Trump has been openly threatening Canada. Why not come help sort out the situation now, rather than waiting until the military is at your door?

Why don’t you come down here and fight with us? Take the lead, show us how it’s done.

For Voyager specific questions, you might find !voyagerapp@lemmy.world more effective in the future - it’s got a dedicated community.

Upper right corner - Click your username, then Settings. There’s an Avatar and Banner upload option there.

Sure, it’s not about wasting their time; this says they’re using a 3rd party service to verify, so theoretically they’re paying for that service. It’s about wasting their money.

I wonder if they pay per verification. If so, I wonder how hard it would be to set up a script to just keep submitting new requests a few hundred or thousands of times a day with random photos…

TL;DR is at MTG put forth a bill to remove funding for Israel’s missile defense system from the US budget. 429/435 House reps voted against it, including AOC, but then she made a very tone-deaf tweet basically saying “The bill was trying to remove funding for Israel’s ability to defend themselves from the people they’re genociding, of course I voted against it!” and it’s causing massive backlash against her.

I’d give him or her a pass

I know what you mean, but ‘give them a pass’ typically means to overlook bad behavior and not hold them accountable, not to pass on electing them.

I honestly think if politicians had to live solely on the median income in the state or country they represent, we’d be seeing a lot more legislation that’s in the interest of the working class. Or a lot more corruption and under-the-table dealings, but certainly one or the other.

Shut up and take my money.

At some point, he’ll piss off enough people that the world at large will just look the other way when it happens.