What’s your point? Are you banning the entire Internet?

All this stuff is still accessible once the bell rings and before they get to school, just like it was when I was a kid. Kids were still going on YouTube/MySpace/ Facebook and more to share things. This argument doesn’t make sense.

You’re attributing the issue of algorithms to the medium itself.

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A leftist/socialist/communist/Linux echo chamber is always better than a liberal one.

@ me

Remember when we once spoke about how a lot of Redditors are not people we want here and the culture here repulsing some isn’t necessarily a bad thing?

Well.

My decisions literally didn’t matter because the electoral college and the state I live in. Most states are not swing states

Libertarian and RFK votes would have very likely gone to Trump if those candidates are removed. Your argument literally doesn’t sum up to reality. There is no state where leftist parties prevented a Harris win.

Your candidate(s) were bad. Your party hasn’t had an actually popular candidate since Obama, who ran on a progressive message but governed as a neoliberal. His actual policies produced both a reaction and disillusionment to your party because they didn’t actually offer “hope and change” following Bush and the financial crisis. The man and party didn’t officially support even the benign issue of gay marriage until it was overwhelmingly politically expedient.

Oh well there is Bernie, but your party establishment would rather ensure his campaign and those like it are crushed, even as “centrist” campaigns continue to lose. Because your party answers to Capital.

Liberal half measures and means testing policies poison the message and strength of actual leftism. They do not and cannot affect the root causes of real issues because as capitalists parties they do not and cannot attack the institutions of private property and market dogmatism. Their policy failures (Obamacare is literally a Heritage Foundation based subsidy to private insurance) are then used against “leftism” by fascists and conservatives against populations too overworked, propagandized, and poorly educated to see through them. Trump came into power by running against Clinton on NAFTA, a literal neoliberal (e.g. Reaganist/Thatcherist) policy proudly pushed through and supported by Democrats. He had a populist message that appealed to people distrustful of elites both times in a county where the major institutions are becoming less popular by the year. The dog whistles and appeals to evangelicals got the R base, but the rest pushed him over the line. Because people want change and action.

Your party’s weakness and ineffectual policies are far more to blame for the rise of fascism in this country than leftists, who have never been in power. That’s ignoring that this country has been reactionary since its founding, with Madison himself arguing during the constitutional convention that the purpose of government is to “protect the minority of the opulent from the majority”.

Have you ever read or studied actual leftist (i.e. socialist) theory or criticism?

So you think the entirety of “independents” are leftists? You’re counting RFK and Libertarian party votes as leftist votes in your calculations?

Also, 312 - 25 (MI + WI) delegates is 287. Trump still wins. Try again.

You and your party clearly didn’t learn anything from 2016 and the reaction + disillusionment to the Obama years.

What states did Trump win because Stein votes? Or PSL?

Actually leftists are what exactly? What socialist theory describes these actual leftists that what, support the second most powerful capitalist political party in the world (Democrats)?

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Yep. There’s a reason I moved over even before the v4/2011 fiasco

I like that there is a large contingent of actual socialists whether soc dems, anarchists or the dreaded tankies.

I like that there is a greater anti corporate mindset and I’m less likely to see someone justify something because “well what do you expect, businesses exist to make money”.

I like that there are so many Linux and open source enthusiasts. And privacy enthusiasts. Used to be big on Reddit but became more and more niche over time.

I like that there aren’t pun threads. Maybe that’s not really true culture but more contrast with Reddit.

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Then stop running defense for them. They’re another party of millionaires and capitalists

Our vote are public, anyone can see them.

Yeah, but those that go and look to confront users are absolute losers. And I’d love mbin to fail for that “feature”

It’s not conspiracy.

This is what happens when you make your website amenable to conservatives. That sub has grown more popular through the years and it’s thanks to its satellites like KiA and others that organized and spread conservative messaging.

And right now they’re taking victory laps so of course it’s got a lot of activity

When the topic is “people are overwhelmingly misinformed on this specific issue”, then yeah basically that’s how it goes.

If I made a meme about how too many people associate vaccines with autism or whatever, and I got a bunch of comments from anti-vaxxers saying just that, then yeah I think the comments would provide additional evidence, yeah.

This thread is exactly why leftist unity communities need to make it clear to liberals that they aren’t leftist.

Because otherwise you end up with what you see in these comments: a bunch of people in your “movement” who are completely willing to acquiesce to Capital

Uh no. Where are you getting these definitions?

From actual political theory and not Rothbard-esque ancap bullshit

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