And every few days (hours?) the US general public forgets this.
PapaSkwat
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Wow, we're losing allies left and right... Ok predominantly Left, but I can't really blame them.
Removing authority complicates trust. I can definitely imagine a group in West Virginia or wherever giving themselves an overly patriotic name and claiming there have been next to no instances of police violence because they nitpick what should be counted. They already started doing this with school shootings.
Wintermute_oregon was the main mod. There was some other guy who hasn't posted in over a year I think and a bot account so that left all mod decisions to wmo. This mod constantly would get into fights and ban the other person for winning, he had no patience for democratic viewpoints at all claiming they're the woke mind virus, asking questions could get you banned and the next day he'd comment about how nobody wants a real discussion. He was sensitive and actively wielding power. A true snowflake.
It's ironic the choice that cost him his position is a choice to do nothing, except that it was a very active nothing. He could handle reports faster than instance admins could see them so none of the reports were even seen by anybody but him and nobody complained too loud because Lemmy is liberal enough to leave the community nearly untouched save for a half dozen or so accounts spamming pro-Trump, anti-democrat articles with By Lines saying they were written by Tyler Durden (the narrator's imaginary friend in Fight Club). If you weren't praising Trump, you wouldn't be welcome back.
This was a shit show but now the mod has been taken out of town on a rail.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1892398346746417441
It ends immediately after Hannity stops Trump so there's no reaction. But it happened.
It's in the article too in case you don't want to give them traffic.
When Trump attempted to join in on the answer, Hannity seemed more eager to follow up on Musk’s response, explicitly cutting the president off.
“Sean, you’re a—” Trump started, pointing at the Fox News host.
“This is important,” Hannity responded to Trump, raising his hand to stop him.
Trump must still be reeling from that one
Yeah, the goal was to remind him that we know a past he wants to deny, but it came off as insulting him for who he is and where he's from. It gave us the outcome we wanted (a pissed off Trump, and it's arguable that he never cared about it) at the expense of using their own tactics against them (othering people because of factors they can't control) and honestly it didn't feel right.
States rights, amirite?
You should check out the military. It's downright communism with a thick coat of red/white/blue paint.
I always get a kick out of evil companies spend money to say how not evil they are.
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Virtually they're asking for that money back
https://jasonsisney.substack.com/p/california-biggest-donor-state-to
They earn the federal government something like 90B more than they get back.