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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Short answer: yes.
With the Donald Trump administration it is one or more outrages after yet other outrages, all diverting attention from each other.
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@benroyce I think by now, most people know and understand how "flooding the zone" works. What I really don't understand is how these things do not have consequences. Neither the corruption nor the child rape allegations. Why did things like this use to have consequences? What changed? I am honestly baffled, but I would like to understand.
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Short answer: yes.
With the Donald Trump administration it is one or more outrages after yet other outrages, all diverting attention from each other.
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@benroyce Also, Ghislaine Maxwell is being held in comfy digs with private meals and puppy playtime so she won't sing like a canary. She's dictating things from her cozy cell.
Pedophile men from all over the world are scared shitless of what shitbag Maxwell might say unless they pamper her until the pants-shitter pardons her.
Pedophilia is normalized among the billionaires #Epstein class.
Connect these dots, people. They're so goddamn easy and obvious.
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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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@benroyce We are sick and broken in ways most of us don’t understand. We are also in an abusive situation and many cannot name this as abuse.
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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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Having (and lying about) oral sex with a grown adult intern with some degree of "consent"* ended Bill Clinton's career. Yet Trump has raped underage girls and it barely seems to register against his other crimes.
* nb on "consent", this feels like the wrong word here. She was not forced and went along willingly, potentially even initiating it to some degree, but I don't believe it can be truly consensual with that much of a power imbalance.
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@benroyce We are sick and broken in ways most of us don’t understand. We are also in an abusive situation and many cannot name this as abuse.
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Anybody else would have been impeached, prosecuted and removed already.
But SCOTUS and the Republican party are covering this bastard…Frankly unbelievable.
Why was Bill Clinton impeached?
Their hypocrisis has no limits.
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@benroyce I'm so glad SOMEBODY bit him in the dick. I hope they left a scar.
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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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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.
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@benroyce the real #pizzagate . Every accusation is a confession. Rich, disgusting perverts with no checks on their depravity. 🤮
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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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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.
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@benroyce wow, where is this from?
@elduvelle @benroyce The latest tranche of Epstein files.
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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.
I mean just look at the whole guy...he's abrasive, mean, cruel, lustful and pretty dumb, skating by on his ability to bullshit people as he talks. WE (sane people) see through it, right away. THEY (insane, gullible power-hungry people) accept it.
edited because bandaged fingers can't type cleanly!
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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?
1/3
@benroyce
I think we have to believe the evidence of our own eyes, by which I mean the election results from yesterday. Also the public response to the bridge protest I attended yesterday was overwhelming. When we protest over the interstate downtown we always did get a lot of honks, but some periods of silence. Yesterday almost everyone on the interstate honked for us continuously for over two hours straight. Passers by thanked us and many joined in. It was unlike anything I've seen so far. -
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I think we have to believe the evidence of our own eyes, by which I mean the election results from yesterday. Also the public response to the bridge protest I attended yesterday was overwhelming. When we protest over the interstate downtown we always did get a lot of honks, but some periods of silence. Yesterday almost everyone on the interstate honked for us continuously for over two hours straight. Passers by thanked us and many joined in. It was unlike anything I've seen so far.@benroyce
Heh, before Election Day last year I was calming frightened people with the same words-- "We have to believe the evidence of our own eyes" from special elections and protests, rather than the poison they serve us in national media.That was correct.
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Anybody else would have been impeached, prosecuted and removed already.
But SCOTUS and the Republican party are covering this bastard…Frankly unbelievable.
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@benroyce Cadaver dogs and ground penetrating radars to Trump Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes, the back nine holes.
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@Walrus
@Ben Royce 
That's actually a problem if you're on vanilla Mastodon with only 500 characters per toot and only 1,500 characters of alt-text per image. Your only chance would be to spread the transcripts across a massive thread.
If you regularly have to post images with well over 1,500 characters of text in them, you could move elsewhere in the Fediverse that offers more characters, but that's still federated with Mastodon. Examples:- Misskey has a hard-coded limit of 3,000 characters.
- Sharkey has a configurable limit that defaults to 3,000 characters.
- Pleroma and Akkoma have configurable limits that default to 5,000 characters.
- Friendica and Hubzilla (I'm commenting from the latter right now) are limited to over 16.7 million characters by their databases.
- (streams) (where I post my images nowadays) and Forte are limited to over 24 million characters.
The downside of this, however, is that your posts will exceed 500 characters. And this means you'll lose a whole lot of reach. There are lots and lots of Mastodon users who block everyone who ever posts over 500 characters at once at first strike because they want Mastodon/the Fediverse to be and remain a 100% pure microblogging "service" with no more than 500 characters.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Sharkey #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #500CharactersUseful comparison, thanks!
I just put stuff that's too big on my blog, and link to it, but not everyone has that luxury.
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@Walrus @Ben Royce That's actually a problem if you're on vanilla Mastodon with only 500 characters per toot and only 1,500 characters of alt-text per image. Your only chance would be to spread the transcripts across a massive thread.
If you regularly have to post images with well over 1,500 characters of text in them, you could move elsewhere in the Fediverse that offers more characters, but that's still federated with Mastodon. Examples:- Misskey has a hard-coded limit of 3,000 characters.
- Sharkey has a configurable limit that defaults to 3,000 characters.
- Pleroma and Akkoma have configurable limits that default to 5,000 characters.
- Friendica and Hubzilla (I'm commenting from the latter right now) are limited to over 16.7 million characters by their databases.
- (streams) (where I post my images nowadays) and Forte are limited to over 24 million characters.
The downside of this, however, is that your posts will exceed 500 characters. And this means you'll lose a whole lot of reach. There are lots and lots of Mastodon users who block everyone who ever posts over 500 characters at once at first strike because they want Mastodon/the Fediverse to be and remain a 100% pure microblogging "service" with no more than 500 characters.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Sharkey #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #500Characters@jupiter_rowland for that reason I created 2 accounts. This one has the standard 500 character limit, my @rozeboosje@fedi.at one allows me to post the occasional longer toot with up to 5,000 characters, and then I boost those posts through this account.
Why would one block accounts that sometimes post longer toots, though? A "tl;dr" approach to my toots certainly wouldn't upset me.
