A fair-sized chunk of this fall’s electorate was too young to vote in 2016, and doesn’t have a real sense of how awful he is, or how much has deteriorated over the past few years.
A lot of people don’t pay much attention until shortly before the election.
His age and mental capacity can weigh on folks when he can’t give a decent explanation of what he’s going to do on a particular topic.
Mental capacity.
He’s very good at tossing out free association, and showing that he’s in touch with the latest racist meme.
Anything else? Not so much.
Also, they’ll borrow huge amounts of money so the handful of people making 10 million can pay 500k less in taxes.
Gift link giving everybody access. You can edit this into the original post.
They did just act; a bunch of Republican activists got outed as Russian tools in the process.
Just one smallish outlet where the founders were Russian agents and the staff had a very flimsy pretext about who was paying them
People with access to healthcare can hang on while deteriorating well beyond where he is over the course of many years.
Yeah, it’s blindingly obvious who “US Political Party A” is if you pay the slightest bit of attention.
The shop has, per its proprietor, since gone out of business due to the internet.
When the Republicans control the judicial system, “illegal” only applies to Democrats.
The reward was killing the plan. You can find another job. You can’t replace unspoiled land.
He wants to cut them all down and give the timber to his buddies to resell at a huge markup now that there aren’t any forests let.
A combination of thinning and prescribed burns definitely does better at reducing fire intensity
It doesn’t look like a commercial clear-cut operation though.
I think they’re more trying to explain why it resonates with so many people.
4.2 is tiny; other platforms are getting hundreds of thousands per day.
It’s small enough that the Mastodon use stats show it as noise.
I’ve seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we’re small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem
People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts
What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.
The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy “block” means “I can’t see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass” makes them much less attractive as a platform.
This was likely prepared well before the debate, and timed to reach a large audience.