As in because the pendulum swings from the far left to the far right? Or were you just mistakenly conflating those two completely opposite political theories?

For real, the state is saved by having Chicago in it, otherwise it’d be as much of a shithole state as the surrounding ones.

Mary Miller comes to mind. Illinois Nazis man.

This couldn’t be a more astroturfed comment if it tried. This reads like it came directly from the mouth of Steve Bannon.

Almost all TV media is left wing. Most online media is left wing. Social media is left wing.

Literally none of this is true. The only universe this is true in is the one where anything left of fascism is “left wing.”

If it’s anything like Ohio in 2022, they just ignore the court order to redraw it and there’s no recourse.

Relax

Unfortunately I still have to use Reddit for D&D stuff, otherwise I’d be able to switch more easily. Also the subreddits I used to be able to browse for hours just don’t exist here so I can only basically get on Lemmy for maybe 5 minutes at a time before I’m bored and have to close it. Maybe it’ll continue to grow and get better in the future; here’s hoping.

I don’t have anywhere close to enough time to actually be the person who starts and moderates communities. If enough people start them and start participating in them then I’ll start participating again, but “be the change” only works when people have free time to do it. I would love for Lemmy to take off, don’t get me wrong, but all I was saying is that it hasn’t yet and the claim people try to make here that it’s already good enough to replace Reddit is pure cope.

I didn’t say you did? Weird response.

Lemmy doesn’t have nearly enough people to be worth using as the only platform people are on unless you never engaged with any niche subreddits. I was pretty active on subs where only like 100 people participated, so finding things like that on Lemmy are impossible. Lemmy is only decent for tech people at this point, it needs to get a tremendous amount of extra people joining to be good enough for anyone else to drop Reddit entirely. And even then, lots of info exists on Reddit and nowhere else that still make it a useful tool for other purposes.

Sorry I just don’t buy that a large portion of people are already using Lemmy and nothing else (you might be, idk) unless they only care about memes of beans and nothing else.

An easy way to pick out racists in the modern day is if they just casually call black people “blacks.” It seems to be one of the words that, although it’s not used by non-racists, hasn’t been phased out by some of the less explicit racists yet in the way “colored people” has.

That’s a pretty dumb saying, where did you hear that?

You could try reading a comment before replying to it next time. Assuming you replied to the right comment, which might not be the case.

Oh jeez, people are still doing lab leak conspiracy theories? Maybe someday we’ll have evidence of that and the years of conspiracies will finally pay off.

For real, this is one of the very few things right-wingers are correct about. Of course they’re correct because they’re hawkish on China rather than because it’s bad to let authoritarian countries have literal spyware on the devices of your citizens, but something something broken clocks. That being said, I think a carve out for universities studying media would make sense at least, but hopefully the whole thing doesn’t get overturned.

Dore hasn’t been a leftist in a long while, but he’s probably endorsing him because Dore and RFK are both massive anti-vax conspiracy theorists.

Is there a timeline on when Wisconsin possibly becomes something resembling a democracy again thanks to their new Supreme Court though?

Voting blue in specific locations in Colorado will actually do things. If 600 people from FL moved to Boebert’s district and voted blue in 2022 she’d be out of the House. Do that in a couple of districts across the country and Dems would control Congress and be able to actually pass policy again. People can move to blue states and still have an impact; the Presidency isn’t the only thing that matters.

Correct, they do in fact do those things. What were you trying to say?