the sound bites you hear about voting are intentionally misleading: you have to show up with an id to vote here too and that’s not where to controversy lies; but the soundbites are setup to make it sound like it is to engender the reaction you’ve shared.

the controversy is registering to vote; not voting; and the conservative states intentionally make registering as heavily bureaucratic as possible in the hopes of minimizing the number of people who can successfully finish to process of registration.

they’ve also dedicated hundreds of millions on dollars to understand and enact policies to keep the poor and minority groups from voting.

usually democrats sit back and let republicans openly do it, but sometimes democrats do it themselves; the democratic governor of california just made automatic voter registration illegal; just as the conservative states do.

.world is no different than reddit so you shouldn’t expect any improvement there.

for me the lemmyverse is better so far than reddit, x, or facebooks but that’s because i spend most of mt time away from the diet reddit lemmyverse instances; maybe that’ll work for you too.

western media just made him a hero because he was against Putin.

that’s too simple of an explanation for me and life is usually not that simple. that’s why i engaged with the clearly outward supporter; but it turns out they can’t past jesus and have no more knowledge about the situation than i do.

they’re right, jesus was a apocryphal story forced down everyone’s throat and your defense paints navalny as a self-important martyr figure and google paints him as a xenophobic homophobe w a martr complex; whatever chance you had to edify the uninformed was lost in this bizarre jesus-christo-stupidity thing you decided to wrap into navalny’s behavior.

i like these threads; it shows how disconnected from reality some of us are.

but her grave is still hidden from the public to prevent people from defiling it; so this is neutral at best. lol

We had social media for a few decades now and I think I should be clear that people don’t read especially normies like .worlders

Something lost on blue maga from the article:

But tell a lie incessantly enough, and you start to believe it. And you can’t help but feel that Democrats really do believe that they ran a great campaign that would and should have won, if only it hadn’t been for the dastardly villains who pulled the rug out. This year, they seem determined to prove that thesis.

And here’s why trump has a real chance at winning from the article

So much for that. For weeks now, it’s been clear the Harris campaign has decided that it’s going to rerun the Clinton 2016 strategy on the off chance that that year really was a fluke, and that Trump really is so hated that Americans will have no choice but to vote for his opponent. It didn’t work in 2016, but this time . . What does that look like in practice? It looks like dropping the “negative” label of weird and performing civil disagreement instead. It looks like giving up on exciting the party’s progressive flank — actively thumbing your nose at them, in fact — and explicitly pivoting to trying to win over Republicans instead. It looks like rolling out white papers and policy positions that few will read, while rarely talking publicly about what you would actually do when given the chance at a public forum.

Jesus was forced down everyone’s throat regardless of what you believe; so I fail to see the comparison.

There has to have been a better way; Russia is already too lousy w needless & pointless deaths.

The crusades targeted all religions that weren’t nicene christian and they were especially cruel if you were christian but not nicene.

Lookup the history behind the Dominican order if you want more gory details

But what did he do besides let himself be executed pointlessy?

i know i couldn’t do the same and i struggle to understand why it’s amazing or why he did it.

did this guy have sort of trump like distortion field that made him believe he was the chosen one or did he do something to earn his fame? what was he hoping to accomplish by going back? was he expecting to pull off a napoleon and that people would join his side on his return?

i don’t expect a constructive response from you based on your post history in this thread; but maybe someone else can edify me since google makes him look much worse than the american media.

the beach. chicago set it aside for public use instead of reserving it only for the rich and now the lake front is several giant parks with at least one beach on each one and lots of other stuff to do.

i prefer the beaches w/o children (eg hollywood) where you can spend all day & night having a good time until the police make everyone leave and they have a restaurant & bar on the beaches that’s really convenient and with a beach friendly dress code on the adult beaches.

I hate to be pessimistic, but I don’t think any American politician would take on this topic.

it’s only pessimism if it’s not true and there are plenty of demonstrably true public examples to guarantee that this isn’t pessimism; it’s reality that sounds like pessimism.

If project 2025 gets in effect we will see civil war.

project 2025 has been a thing since 1981 and all of our presidents and congress people have already enacted nearly 75% of it so far; people have been accepting it since then; also attacking leftists for pointing it out since; and there will be no civil war because of these facts.

do strongly worded letters to the manager work in the supreme court?

Professionally/commercially they’re MILES ahead of Red hat, Oracle, or Suse.

Personally/free they do weird shit that usually doesn’t seem make sense on its surface if you’re not getting paid to learn it.

Take snaps for example: flatpak/app image/whatever makes more sense if you only care nothing beyond getting/running the software; but in a professional setting where you need third party info for something like an sbom or some sort of industry compliancy, snaps make it easy.

they won’t even admit that something huge like a genocide is taking place; what chances are there for something small like a rule change with get any attention?

it’s always one or 2 democrats and it will always be; it was lieberman the last time before sinema and manchin.

democrats never did when they had the opportunity and needed it. why would they now if they don’t need it?