I agree that he has been a good president - the most progressive president in 50 years (yes, I realize that’s a bullshit statement since there have been no even-close-to-progressive presidents). For those who think he’s demented, please listen to his interview on Conan O’Brien’s podcast. He’s phenomenally engaging and has a great wit and memory.

Such a thing shouldn’t exist.

lol republicans asking a justice to recuse themselves.

Citizens v United assholes. I can think of no better example of justice bias and fucking Clarence was the deciding vote. Fuck y’all.

Republicans want to raise voting age because young people are increasingly realizing that Republicans are authoritarian bigots.

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A lot of what they are saying I already know to be true based upon the facts. For example, Jan 6 was an attempt to subvert democracy and disqualify my fucking vote because the majority of the Republican Party thinks their personal opinion is more important than the vote of the majority of Americans. The entire fucking party is complicit and are anti American terrorists.

All it takes is a spoiler third party candidate (like Kennedy who is funded by republican megadonors) to flip the election to Trump. Another term for trump would end the US democratic experiment as we know it. The constitution needs to be redone anyway, as intended by many of the founding fathers.

I’ve been listening to Liz Chaney and Mitt Romney. I doubt you have.

Especially concerning to the military leaders of authoritarian regimes!

Fuck China and India for propping up the Russian economy.

You may have nothing to hide, but you have everything to protect.

Hypothetical: if everyone has access to your data and habits it is trivial to modify that data to frame you for nefarious activities. In other words, why the fuck would you want every rando to be searching in your underwear drawer?

I’m more interested in privacy to prevent access to my data stream and PLANTING incriminating data. It’s a hell of a lot easier to frame someone when you have easy access to their devices.

TL/DR; You may have nothing to hide but you’ve got plenty to protect.

The scariest bit is that they know this will appeal to the base to “own the libs”. We are absolutely fucked if Trump wins.

Apple has said they’ll pull out of UK if required. I won’t use any software that abides.

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I moved to lemmy.ml

Microsoft did this with Office document formats, effectively killing OpenDocument and dramatically reducing the power of LibreOffice, etc. Threads will incorporate features that are not available in the open source versions of lemmy, driving users to their platform and marginalizing the open source versions. All the while sucking up user data and ignoring user privacy. Are we not stewards for user privacy for ALL users, not just the savvy ones?

Where have you read that lemmyworld has no intention of blocking Threads? I will leave as well if true.

Please remember the example of Microsoft and open source office document formats. And in the early days of Internet Explorer with HTML. The risk here is that Threads will embrace the fediverse for a bit. Then they will incorporate features that are only available in Threads that will bleed users away from the open source options. All the while vacuuming up user data for profit while having distain for user privacy. Why would we want to allow them to cast aside the privacy for only one of our users? Are we not going to act like stewards for open source and protection of user privacy?

Completely agree - If lemmy.world doesn’t block very shortly I will move to a different instance.