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I can whole heartedly state that COD is garbage. It’s been enshittified into the ground for years, and recent additions are overwhelmingly negative on steam. COD hasn’t been good for at least a decade, if not more. It’s not what it was in its prime, at all.

I’m a bit amused to have come up with a new Trump insult after so many years. Run with it!

I’m not supporting anyone I use whatever platform I like

Newsflash: using a platform increases engagement.

What you do is, indeed, up to you. But don’t pretend continuing to use Reddit or birdsite or whatever doesn’t benefit them and proliferate the exact thing you are seeking an alternative for.

You ask if I’m here for entertainment? Yep. Because I don’t value entertainment over supporting someone like Spez and Google AI.

This is the conundrum for users of Reddit or X. There’s so much content in the mega-sites that ya’ll feel it’s worth supporting some of the worst people who own the worst companies.

“But I can’t find this entertainment elsewhere!” only goes so far when engagement means helping line the pockets of our abusers.

I was kinda proud of this one. I called him halfwit Hitler one day and realized I could just smoosh em together

What more could you expect from Halfwitler™

I respect their right to speak their mind. However, I believe there are other efforts currently where we can make a much bigger impact.

There are some huge issues on the table: fascist takeover, at least two genocides in different parts of the world we are involved with, systemic racism, LBGTQ rights, and many more.

We could get hung up on any one, and be correct in protesting that what we’re doing isn’t enough, to the only party even likely to entertain it.

But we won’t even have the option to protest if fascism successfully subverts democracy. Those protests only work if Trump doesn’t win. Project 2025 will not condone dissent.

I feel strongly about each of these issues, and agree with the protestors, but I feel that I am best served helping people register to vote/check registration status, supporting down-ballot dems, speaking against any Mom’s For Hate speakers in our PTA meetings, etc.

My main goal is to work to ensure that we have the ability to protest those important topics in a Post-Trump democracy, where the public has more bandwidth to energize. None of what we will happen if Trump cheats his way to the Oval Office again.

My face is your throne, Queen :)

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“Here’s some doomer poll data, but I put in a comment that the polls don’t matter” is a heck of a contradiction.

It does when the side with the increase is already a sizably smaller block than the side with increased energy.

Nothing has changed for MAGA, they will always toe the line. But, as for the past two decades, they will lose the popular vote and their only hope will be to subvert democracy.

Then why did you post this shit if these polls don’t matter? Be consistent.

How about the caution point of POLLS ARE USELESS?

And FYI Trump is waaaaay less popular now. My neighborhood is a maga stronghold. Not a single Trump flag by any house this year, but plenty of Kamala (there were no Biden signs here last election).

Maybe spend your time doing something that isn’t as useless as posting about polls

There is a 100% chance Trump will lose the election. He may attempt another coup, but that’s not winning. That’s flipping the table and shitting on the game board.

Leftism isn’t about being anti-capitalist, though the two can and do overlap quite a bit. Left wing politics is more about what they support as opposed to being against something: pro-human rights. Pro-equality and equity. Pro-education. Pro-healthcare. Pro-environment. Walz is pro all of those things, and his track record exemplifies it.

It may seem like splitting hairs, but the distinction is important. It’s the right wing that only exists in opposition. Their only platform is what they are against.

Compared to many of his Democratic colleagues, he leans much farther left than most. That’s why it’s odd to say he’s not of the left. He is a capitalist who owns not a single stock, bond, real estate, and he doesn’t take money for speaking or have book deals. He’s a lefty capitalist, which is pretty much a diamond in the rough.

But I’m not a pure socialist, so I don’t pass the purity test to be of the left. Be consistent!

He pointed at Twitter’s “success” after Elon took it over as reasons why he is enshittifying Reddit. That comment is why I left Reddit and haven’t looked back.

We are not using global standards, this is a US paper about US politics.

There may be only one or two successful politicians in the entire US who meet the “global standards,” which would make calling him out for “not being of the left” really fucking stupid.