Notices by Staid Winnow (staidwinnow@mastodon.social)

@RickiTarr

I will vote against every Republican in every race, and will vote to make sure the Republican loses with my choice.

That said, two groups in your list could easily help defeat their enemy:

women and veterans.

Only 42% of women and 40% of veterans voted against Trump in the last two elections.

92+ % of the rest who can vote, do this.

When a member of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party gets his face eaten by a leopard, I sincerely urge you to heap salt on his wounds, instead of sympathizing.

@robertnorlyn

Only, don't lend your hand to a gator or a MAGAt.

That won't be lending, it would be forfeit.

How do you ignore this poll?

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/01/trump-biden-latino-voters-poll

"We want Hitler!"

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4370059-42-percent-of-gop-iowa-caucus-goers-say-poisoning-the-blood-remarks-make-them-more-likely-to-support-trump-poll/

When the Republican Caucus votes to commence a formal impeachment inquiry without anyone opposing, can we conclude that there are NO moderate Republicans, and that "Biden District Republicans" are not worried at all?

Hamas has wreaked a human catastrophe. Over 600 killed, dozens of women and children taken hostage.

Will Musk ask Israel to negotiate a settlement? Since it is over a dispute of a small area.

He did ask Ukraine to do it.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Apropos of nothing, I checked "Pig Empire" for I was not aware of its usage as a pejorative or a euphemism.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pig+empire&sca_esv=561127711&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS958US958&sxsrf=AB5stBiko-OaUNyUIOaDUpWeL3ni8wke-Q%3A1693354910356&ei=novuZPKfFdbAkPIPx-W30Ac&ved=0ahUKEwjy5qPPjoOBAxVWIEQIHcfyDXoQ4dUDCBA&oq=pig+empire&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiCnBpZyBlbXBpcmVIAFAAWABwAHgBkAEAmAEAoAEAqgEAuAEMyAEA4gMEGAAgQQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

The most pejorative reference, if it can be called that, refers to the U.S. govt.

Before trying to drag me into watching another Nic Cage flick.

Looking further into Abbie Hoffman, this is oft-cited quote, apparently.

Bizarre! But hey, their instance, their rules, I guess.

@mattsheffield @atrupar

It's a mistake to assume that fascism is unpopular. The righteousness of anti-fascism is not going to win the day .

Fascism has to defeated, periodically.

And it evolves. Slightly less than half of Americans support fascism.

Which is a lot more than Germans supporting fascism in the early 1930s.

Unlike in 2016, when "respected" conservatives distanced themselves from Trumpism, today, most have embraced it.

More in Congress support it.

More in tech support it.

More journos are sympathetic to the cause.

There are cable news networks right of Fox.

The country is ripe for a fascist takeover.

@mekkaokereke @Jorsh

"The Nazi experience is *worse* on the Fediverse than Twitter. Much worse. It's not even close."

Either the mods on my instance have done a bang-up job, or my experience here is far too limited to have even gotten a whiff of this. I *might* have encountered one possible Nazi in the last several months.

Circa 2017, was almost a daily experience on Twitter for me.

@inthehands “Wish him dead by all means.”

Consider that some are wishing him great suffering and are quite happy to see him suffer this horrible ailment. They are not mocking the illness, but his suffering.

Mass shootings are bad. 40 million have lived within a mile of one. Virtually no one was cheering James T. Hodgkinson for starting one. Enough were just disappointed that Scalise lived.

To be sure, there are some Trumpian enough to mock his ailment to mock him. Few in Mastodon.

@esther @AnarchoNinaWrites

It'll take huge efforts to persuade a very large number of people who seem happy with what the techno-fascists offer.

FOSS alone won't cut it, because the same techno-fascists end up funding, and eventually owning the reins.

Then making cost-of-entry prohibitive.

We can have niche platforms (like Mastodon) where once critical mass is reached (25M users), it will sustain itself.

Persuading a center-right population is a tough ask. That's where we need success.

@JoshuaHolland Alt-alt-headline: Only 53% of Americans approve of the DOJ indictments

@mhoye

"hypocrisy is not a meaningful accusation to the right"

Well said. By the time the left has gotten over their rage over obvious hypocrisy, the right has gaslighted another dozen instances and are blaming the left.

This is their way of making you play defense. Which is exhausting.

@JohnShirley2023 @vantablack

A sense of proportion.

Assume that your premise is indeed true. That there is a subset of transgender women harassing lesbian women.

How big is the transgender demographic anyway? Then, how small is this subset within it?

An article like the one cited is one-sided. It derives its conclusions from an unknown-sized sample set and does not have any verification of the allegations.

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@JohnShirley2023 @vantablack

So you have some uncorroborated one-sided anecdotes, accusing a much-vilified group of impropriety.

It is a massively disproportionate focus.

Imagine if you will hearing about the atrocities committed in the klan-dominated areas of the New South. Crimes are committed against Blacks every day.

Then you hear about some folks in the local diner talking about that one time a Black patron shouted obscenities at a white waitress and left without paying.

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@mekkaokereke @marjolica @techghoul

Wasn't decentralization supposed to be effective in addressing this?

@housepanther @mekkaokereke @marjolica @techghoul

So Fediverse should not have these problems for too long, right?

The instances that rigorously will moderate out these unmoderated or poorly instances?

At the same time, there is a camp that advocates defederating larger instances to encourage better median instances.

Maybe aggregating moderation is the next big thing.

I picked the mothership because it seems to have fine moderation for the things reported.

@georgelakoff

"On June 8, Gallup reported a steady increase in the percentage of Americans who described themselves as “social conservatives” — from 30 percent in 2021 to 33 percent in 2022 to 38 percent this year. The percentage describing themselves as very liberal on social issues fell from 34 to 29 percent."

Alarming, because this suggests that Republicans have the winning message.