I’m getting stuffed animal versions made of my pets before they pass so I have something to snuggle when I reminisce about them one day.

Agreed. It’s silly.

I like Mastodon. It’s like social media from 2010, chronological, only seeing what you want, great curation tools, and no ads or stupid algorithm. Moderation is also way better on Mastodon, though it can vary by instance.

I haven’t used BlueSky, but I imagine it feels pretty familiar, which is what a lot of people want, and that’s cool too.

They can both be good things.

Deleted mine two years ago.

Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.

That too.

I can only assume BlueSky feels more familiar.

Mastodon requires a bit of effort, lacking an algorithm to drive content toward users, so you have to do a bit more yourself.

The Dems lost approximately 10,000,000 voters this time around, and Trump ended up winning by approximately 500,000.

Seems to me the Dems are the idiots for thinking they could fail to follow through on their promises and people would continue to vote for them. You don’t get to punch people in the face and then pretend it’s their fault when you broke your hand, after all.

Sounds about right.

Even after 2016, the Dems haven’t figured out what a bad idea it is to double down on their way of thinking, even in service to self-interest.

There aren’t any ads on Mastodon. :)

You just search hashtags or set up a column so you have a feed giving you everything under a given hashtag, though it may be those communities are so niche there isn’t much on the Mastodon instance you chose. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a specific instance for Buddhism itself, though, given that it’s such a massive world religion.

That’s probably fair. There’s an abundance of smug assholery in the world right now. Apologies.

Must be nice to be so rich that you can just be this fucking weird in public.

I think this is the crowd that tried Mastodon and then abandoned it when they realized it required a modicum of effort.

“EDumper” is a great name for a dump truck.

I wouldn’t trust it. We now live in an era where, if you want control of any kind of information, you simply can’t share it digitally in any way.

This is the absolute weirdest thing about Trump’s governance to me: how sometimes he ends up doing good things for terrible reasons, like when the US redeployed from Syria.

If you only voted for trump based on the economy you deserve to face the worst of what this regime is about to bring.

Not a winning message if you want people to vote for your side one day. Dems are going to have to get over themselves and get on other people’s level if they want to win.

These memes demonstrate that Democrats and people who obsess over politics online know nothing, learned nothing, and it wouldn’t surprise me if four years of fascism isn’t enough to change their behavior.

Yes.

Voters told Democrats that their biggest concern was poverty and the economy. They not only nominated someone with evident brain damage, but said candidate presided over severe inflation that had workers enduring 2-3 jobs just to be stuck unable to pay for basic necessities, and they wasted two months telling these struggling workers to be joyful, without any irony or concept of how tone-deaf that was.

Here in deep-red Missouri, we passed a $15 minimum wage and mandatory sick leave in a landslide. We voted down the abortion ban in a landslide. We also elected a Republican for governor and voted Trump as a state.

This should tell you that yes, the economy was in fact the most important issue on the ballot, not putting women in their place.

You’re not wrong.

The difference is their brain-damaged guy behaved as he always does, where Biden clearly did not.

I’m not judging you. (And I should have made that more clear. I apologize.)

I’m judging the sentiment, and until Democrats learn to actually speak to workers, they’re going to lose elections.

If you’re working 2-3 jobs and upwards of 100 hours a week, none of it will matter to you. All you know is you have to struggle to live and no one we elect will change it.

And this sense of superiority and refusal to understand or empathize is why hundreds of millions don’t listen to you.