Instead of blocking, X advises that users take their account private, the antithesis to what X and its progenitor Twitter was about.

so basically remove your voice from the public sphere, giving the platform fully to the trolls and bullies.

This will also majorly affect professionals who must use twitter publicly for their job. Reporters, journalists, artists, etc. - they have all had to block users over the years, so I think this may finally push them away to other platforms.

I don’t really get going to political rallies at all, but what kind of losers with nothing better to do go to a political rally of your opponent.

oh I get the point in lying about your location of course. in other words what I’m asking is why have business registration at all if it’s so easy to lie?

so what is the point of “registering” a business if the address it obviously bogus?

sorry we are repeating this in another thread, I didn’t realize I replied to the same person twice. But I do want to leave this here for context.

To me it does seem a little concerning that democrats have lost more registrations than republicans:

This year, 48,702 Republicans switched parties, with 24,046 changing to “other” and 24,656 becoming Democrats, around a 67 percent increase in Republicans leaving the party.

fair enough. The article also compared it to the opposite movement, as in the people who left the Republican Party between 2023 and 2024:

“This year, 48,702 Republicans switched parties, with 24,046 changing to “other” and 24,656 becoming Democrats, around a 67 percent increase in Republicans leaving the party.”

So I guess that makes the headline a little less concerning, but the difference still seems like something to worry about.

I see. why do you consider it useless and dishonest?

What specifically about the article do you find clickbaity or unfactual?

There are 3.9 million Democratic-registered voters in PA, compared to 3.6 million Republicans, and 61,126 of them switched their registration to Republican this year. That’s 1.5%. It came from 0.9%, not 0.5%, but your ending answer was spot-on.

You’re only looking at people who flip from D to R. The article is talking about all people who left D, including to “unaffiliated” and “other”.

“This year, the state-released data shows that 51,937 registered Democrats changed their affiliation to “other,” and 61,126 switched to Republican, for a total of 113,063 leaving the party.”

if you don’t like the community, why don’t you just leave? rhetorical question.

i’ll answer for you: because you want a voice in the community. Same with people who disagree with you. once they block you, they lose their voice in disagreeing with you.

who else are you going to vote for?

These chucklefucks keep getting this part so wrong. No dictator stays benevolent for long.

Not just that, the implication here is that “benevolence” is objective, which is a fundamentally religious point of view. But in the real world, one man’s benevolent dictator would be another man’s tyrant.

weird that the article doesn’t clearly link monarchism in general and RAGE specifically to Project 2025.

yeah, that’s usually how it works.

because he’s a candidate. if he loses a second time that will change.

in my experience those are usually contracts you sign for a period of time. might not be able to get around that.

are you saying he’s full of shit

my LG is from 2021. it is a little tricky to opt out of everything because the various options are scattered in different places in the settings, but once I did all that it hasn’t bothered me.

why would anyone else subject themselves to an hour of trump nonsense?

I’m sure he doesn’t give a shit about immigrants, it’s just one of the cudgels they use to manipulate their poor racist base.