iridebikes

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Canada can keep me if they want to. I have a buddy in Toronto I could meet!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

If we had passenger trains with bike storage, I would never need a car again. We will never see that in America though. We can barely get infrastructure built. We have no national impetus to get it done.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Anything for "Daddy".

Every talking point, they parrot. They love taking orders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The numbers don't lie. All that bleating while America tanks, rofl. Fear mongering about and embracing Russia at the same time. Man, the right wingers really are confused. Politically, sexually. It makes sense why they're so mad. Anyway, you're the first person I've blocked on Lemmy lol. Glad I'll never have to see another nutbag post from the likes of you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Except in life expectancy, infant mortality, gdp, literacy, crime, and basically every other metric on the books. Nice try though. America is a shit hole thanks to jingoistic fucks like you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

They 100% are easily manipulated by propaganda.

Trump said Biden left the border open? They repeat it.

Trump said trans inmates are using all the taxpayer dollars? They repeat it.

Trump says immigrants are eating cats and dogs and taking over apartment complexes? They repeat it.

Every single talking point, they repeat it.

And the right wing misinformation machine is operating at its peak. They are getting news agencies to change the way they cover stories to be more in line with what the Trumpists are pushing. They are punishing dissent inside the government and in any group that deals with the government. They are pressuring social media sites to increasingly moderate progressive comments. There is an overall atmosphere that is increasing in the country l where it's acceptable to censor free speech. Either you get in line with the Trump administration, or you become a target.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fuck America and fuck Americans that say shit like this. Signed, an American.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Rofl, America is far from the best.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

And even worse? They're losing it all while the offending political party mocks and belittles them. Yeah, it's gonna get bad. They fly Trump flags in front of their houses and wear the merch and decorate their offices with it so...

It won't be hard for the resistance to find them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I could certainly see this being something they're doing. Flooding the zone to give the impression of support. The problem with right wing rhetoric is that it's very attractive to the uninformed. It's really really easy to be a racist, for example. It's much harder to instill empathy.

I think it's working. Right as people were finally leaving Twitter during the election season and moving to Lemmy, Blue sky, mastodon, threads, etc. The election was already in full swing. So support on the left was fractured and disconnected from the main spaces where it would reach normal folks. Twitter, Truth Social, and Facebook remained strong and their message was everywhere all the time.

What do we do to stop it though? Grass roots grow Lemmy into something respectable? By the time it gets popular enough to matter, the right will invade and corrupt it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I just upgraded to a Pixel 6 from Galaxy S8. The Galaxy had a panel that could easily be popped off. I realize this new phone does not. My bad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (7 children)

I wish I could believe this. I've made the mistake of engaging with them on MSN and it's a full blown Jonestown style cult. They are ready to lose everything for Trump.

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