WatDabney

And this is why SUDDENLY IRAN!

For some reason, he seems extra butthurt about getting caught lying this time.

The Toddler-in-chief says Canada is a big meany so he's going to take his ball and go home.

I've never understood Microsoft's design and marketing strategy.

They appear to exist in some sort of mirror universe in which quality is a bad thing, so they mostly build OSes that are bloated, clunky garbage and do everything they can to fool/coerce/force people into using them. But then every once in a while it's like they accidentally let an actually decent OS slip through, and they immediately panic and start trying to kill it. Like they can't cope with having an OS that people actually want to use, and can't wait to get back to where they're comfortable - fooling/coercing/forcing them to use bloated, clunky garbage.

Well, first off it can't bhappen "to Lemmy" because Lemmy isn't va site - it's a piece of software.

It not only can and will but already has happened to individual instances. And they end up getting defederated by other instances and then either fix the problem or fade away.

And individual users can just move to other instances (or if they're smart, just stop using or even delete their account on the problem instance and keep using their other accounts on other instances).

And through it all, the rest of the fediverse just keeps chugging along.

Which illustrates the key difference between Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed/etc. and traditional social media - the fediverse is flexible. Individual instances can and will and do come and go, and it doesn't affect the fediverse as a whole.

Black Hole Sun.

It's a tedious, grating and ridiculously repetitive dirge.

Amusingly enough, brazen astroturfing (especially in political subs) was one of the main reasons I was looking for an alternative to Reddit and found Lemmy. Two years ago.

And it's certainly only gotten worse since.

Well played.👍

I'm afraid it's too late though.

It's possible - arguably even likely - that the Dem establishment still won't get the message and will instead continue to try to con us into supporting corrupt neolib hacks and will continue to undermine actual leftists.

In fact, I sort of half expect the New York party to abandon Mamdani and instead back a write-in campaign for Cuomo.

I wish I was kidding.

Even if they show never-before-seen integrity and determination and actualy shift back toward supporting actual leftists (or get replaced by a new generation of leaders who will), I still think it's likely going to be too late. The longer Trump and his ilk remain in office, the more likely it becomes that opposing them will just get you on the next flight to some overseas concentration camp, or dead, or both.

Of course.

There are no depths to which the psychopaths in power will not stoop.

You first.

And the Trump administration will just keep appealing until cases get to the grotesquely corrupt and compromised conservative scumbags on the Supreme Court, who will completely ignore law, precedent, the Constitution and even simple logic as necessary in order to give him whatever he wants.