There are plausible allegations of #childRape against the President of the #USA and the firehose of bullshit and attention spans are such that it registers meekly
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Agree, I see what you mean...
I still find it very hard to explain why the US are now in this shit show. It was plain to see what Trump was pulling off here, a con artist as we have never seen before. The lies, the nonsense, the bullying, WHO in his/her right mind would vote for such an obvious toxic malignant narcissist a second time??? Who in their right mind would put forward such an indecent and criminal candidate? Unbelievable...
@xs4me2 Whole libraries will be filled trying to answer that. I go back to Reagan because I'm GenX, but I also keep circling on Rehnquist getting confirmed as Chief Justice of SCOTUS in spite of credible witness accounts that he engaged in voter suppression in 1964 in AZ. He made possible Bush II, who made possible Roberts, who gutted the Voting Rights Act. @benroyce
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@xs4me2 Whole libraries will be filled trying to answer that. I go back to Reagan because I'm GenX, but I also keep circling on Rehnquist getting confirmed as Chief Justice of SCOTUS in spite of credible witness accounts that he engaged in voter suppression in 1964 in AZ. He made possible Bush II, who made possible Roberts, who gutted the Voting Rights Act. @benroyce
And I hope that when this hopefully soon will unfold and be over, government investigations and actions will take care that never ever something like this will ever happen again. It starts to remind of the Civil War the USA has been fighting...
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@Pino Carafa
Why would one block accounts that sometimes post longer toots, though?
Because people are invited to Mastodon with no word that it's connected to something that isn't Mastodon. That'd make things too complicated.
So they join Mastodon and the Fediverse, thinking that the Fediverse is only Mastodon. Nothing but a decentralised microblogging platform with no more than 500 characters.
For quite a while, all they see is vanilla Mastodon toots with no more than 500 characters. "Quite a while" may be anything from two months to four years to even more. So they get used to the Fediverse being only Mastodon and not having more than 500 characters.
But then, the more people they follow and the more people follow them back, the more people do they follow who don't live in a Mastodon-only bubble. This means two things:- These other people will boost content that exceeds 500 characters to their timelines.
- Their own toots end up outside Mastodon where people see them who don't have 500-character limits. And they reply to their toots with no regards for Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's unwritten rules. In other words, with over 500 characters.
And they completely. Flip. Their. Shit.
Of course, they don't know that this particular "toot" is from Friendica. A place in the Fediverse that's over five and a half years older than Mastodon, with its own culture that's vastly different from Mastodon's, and with 33,000+ times more characters than Mastodon.
And they don't care. They only want their only-Mastodon, only-500-characters Fediverse back that they got used to, that they learned to love.
Besides, they don't know about third-party apps. That, and/or they couldn't possibly wrap their minds around using Mastodon with an app that isn't named "Mastodon". Thus, they daily-drive the official Mastodon app.
However, the official Mastodon app is geared towards a Mastodon-only Fediverse where nothing exceeds 500 characters. It can't fold long posts in. You get a 10,000-character message onto your timeline, and the official Mastodon app will show you the full 10,000-character "essay", full stop.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta@jupiter_rowland Ha. I'm just happy to have found somewhere not owned by an oligarch or billionnaire and that lets ME choose what I'm going to see. As far as I'm concerned I wouldn't mind if Tolstoy posted War And Peace here
At the moment I'm using Moshidon. Seems to suit my "needs". You?
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@benroyce Can you or anyone tell me where these pages are derived from? Were they summaries from 302’s?
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@benroyce Let's euphemistically put it this way: I am totally bewildered as to how such texts and Trump supporters can exist in the same timespace.
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@benroyce Let's euphemistically put it this way: I am totally bewildered as to how such texts and Trump supporters can exist in the same timespace.
@benroyce But, yeah, her e-mails, right?
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@kristen_d @benroyce And now? Anything happening?
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An invasion of Greenland would change the news cycle. If this happens, that would be another masterful manipulation of the media.
Nobody is questioning the system, which elected this person in 2016.
i think it will be iran
and as we spoke before on this topic: everyone agrees the system must change, the problem is *how*
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@FransVeldman @benroyce @xs4me2 Bill Clinton was impeached for lying to Congress under oath and not for anything he did with interns.
@Scrimshaw9 @FransVeldman @xs4me2
this is like saying "the south didn't secede because of slavery, they seceded because of states rights"
...the states "rights" to engage in slavery
so bill clinton was impeached for lying to congress under oath *about sex with interns*
i don't know what your intent is, but this sort of topic shifting is inaccurate
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The sheer volume of accusations should be enough. The DOJ says they are 'unsubstantiated allegations' without saying what efforts if any, they made to investigate them, then unequivocably assert they are untrue. Says who?
The fact that the files are being released in a random firehose rather than in case file order suggests they're still trying to hise as much as possible.
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As an early member of Generation X, I grew up with values that are often completely at odds with those of today. How can it be that a wider part of society ignores child abuse? In the past, people would have kicked down the door if a politician or even a president had molested children, but today these filthy pigs are protected. What the hell is wrong with this world?
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As an early member of Generation X, I grew up with values that are often completely at odds with those of today. How can it be that a wider part of society ignores child abuse? In the past, people would have kicked down the door if a politician or even a president had molested children, but today these filthy pigs are protected. What the hell is wrong with this world?
@fflyn @benroyce It feels that way but it was never that way.
We now know that there was rampant child abuse in everything from Hollywood to the Catholic Church at that time.
No doors were kicked down. On the contrary, the leadership of all those institutions protected their own, even if they were pervs.
The media was 100% owned and there was no way to tell the public.
What has changed is the Internet. A lot more people know how rotten this culture is at the top.
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@benroyce Let's euphemistically put it this way: I am totally bewildered as to how such texts and Trump supporters can exist in the same timespace.
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As a sexual assault survivor, I appreciate the sentiment, but we've known he's a predator for a long time. E. Jean Carroll won in her suits against him. There are plenty of other credible accusations against him, one of which was a 13YO who withdrew her lawsuit out of fear of retaliation. He was elected anyway, then reelected.
If he could be charged or sued, I'd love to see it. He probably can't be. And right now there are more important things going on, like saving our country.
@SpiritualAnnie @benroyce 100% true.
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There are plausible allegations of #childRape against the President of the #USA and the firehose of bullshit and attention spans are such that it registers meekly
Any other time in my life and for several lifespans before mine it would be the biggest fucking thing
Not to sound like a feeble old man yelling at clouds but it feels like the world is sick and broken in a way I don't understand
Is this #news going to fade by next week to a blip due to some new bullshit?
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@Scrimshaw9 @FransVeldman @xs4me2
this is like saying "the south didn't secede because of slavery, they seceded because of states rights"
...the states "rights" to engage in slavery
so bill clinton was impeached for lying to congress under oath *about sex with interns*
i don't know what your intent is, but this sort of topic shifting is inaccurate
@benroyce @FransVeldman @xs4me2 No, its literally what he was impeached for. It's nothing like the whataboutism you tried to slander me with.
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@fflyn @benroyce It feels that way but it was never that way.
We now know that there was rampant child abuse in everything from Hollywood to the Catholic Church at that time.
No doors were kicked down. On the contrary, the leadership of all those institutions protected their own, even if they were pervs.
The media was 100% owned and there was no way to tell the public.
What has changed is the Internet. A lot more people know how rotten this culture is at the top.
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@Scrimshaw9 @FransVeldman @benroyce
Well if it is up for lying, Trump made that into a habit and nobody seems to care anymore...
Lewinsky was 24, not 13...
@xs4me2 @FransVeldman @benroyce Ppl do care, it's that the people that do care don't hold the means to do anything about it today. We can change that though, and I think we will in time.
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@benroyce @FransVeldman @xs4me2 No, its literally what he was impeached for. It's nothing like the whataboutism you tried to slander me with.
@Scrimshaw9 @FransVeldman @xs4me2
Right. It had nothing to do with anything else. You win. Uh huh.
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