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  • Shit. I was more worried in 2016.

    He didn’t leave office peacefully, but he still left.

    That’s how human brains work, we avoided the worst case scenario and life moved on. So we run into the same danger, but the response is lowered.

    Which is why Dem turnout was so low this time

    I’ve been saying this would happen for a long time, lots of people were.

    The difference is the people running the DNC are just the people who can raise the most money. And the people with psychology degrees rarely have money as a priority.

    We need to start having a party run by sociologists, psychologists, hell even go back to lawyers

    The current strategy of 80s go-go Reaganites who only care about money ain’t working.



  • I lived thru 9/11 and 2016.

    For over 20 years everytime a republican became president I’ve been told we’ll never have another election.

    Maybe this time the wolf is real, but it’s a basic part of human psychology that more and more people will stop having a fear response everytime they hear “wolf”.

    If we really don’t have an election in 2028, we’ll have a civil war before 2032. Maybe what comes after will be better than what we have now.

    It sucks to live in interesting times, but that’s what’s happening.

    This is literally the day after the election, don’t fucking tell me it’s too late to plan how to fix shit for 2028


  • I’ll never understand why people think the people running the DNC aren’t total fucking liars that will say anything for money.

    Beating trump isn’t hard.

    But beating him while grifting a billion dollar campaign funded by the people your voting base hates is very difficult.

    Unfortunately when confronted with the choice, the DNC has shown us three elections straight that they’ll always pick money over votes.

    So we either need to leave the party or replace leadership.

    If we don’t do either 2028 will be exactly the same as the last three elections.





  • They probably thought you meant something different than what you actually meant.

    You think they do an annual review of threads?

    It was over a year ago I made the comment, they banned me for it five days ago.

    I don’t know man, it’s weird you’re not getting that, but it doesn’t really matter.

    I’m sorry if I’m explaining it poorly.

    I did remember it wasn’t I blocked a mod, I explained why I might not respond. And apparently they didn’t like that I had blocked their instance


  • Weird, maybe because I looked at world’s modlog and not theirs like you seem to have done.

    I clicked on the link, it was a comment from literally a year ago lol.

    https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/3159844

    I blocked the mod of that sub about a week ago, so they likely went and saw my last comment there and banned me for it.

    Like I said tho, I’m perfectly fine with it. I blocked their whole instance a long time ago, I think it might have actually been that thread that clued me in it wasn’t worth ever going there again.

    Thanks for finding that tho! I’ll remember to check an instance’s own modlog in the future for more details.

    Quick edit:

    (which your agreement to could be seen as agreement with trans-segrigation in sports).

    Nah, I was explaining how the only way to get better at chess is to play better people, and there’s no reason for any classes based around gender. And the explanation for difference in skill, is simply that the best men refused to play women, so they never improved. The first female grand master was only that good because her dad was crazy good and made her and her sister play him constantly.

    You need the experience of high level play to be able to play at a high level, and any gender divide in division just prolongs that. So I was arguing against any segregation at all.

    That’s why they let it stay up a year until I blocked the mod of that community.

    And suddenly it was transphobic.



  • Nah, I replied to OP and they deleted the comment.

    Maybe that looks weird on some federated instances or apps tho.

    If it looks like I’m replying to someone else, that would explain the down votes.

    OPs post gets reposted pretty frequently, always by new accounts which tend to disappear a day or two later after some lazy posts.

    I really do think it’s the same person who’s bans are in the screenshots.

    It’s too random that a bunch of brand new accounts all find the post and quote it with perfectly formatting including all the pictures just to repost it the same place they found it.

    Especially since the new account always claims they’re “helping new users” like they’ve been here forever.



  • On the other hand, I’ve blocked both those instances months ago and it’s been great.

    Strangely I did notice I got banned from a blahaj community like a week ago despite not commenting there for at least 6 months, maybe ever?

    Which is kind of the whole point of me blocking them

    Both have mods/admins that are very very opinionated about things. And they tend to refuse to let things go (much like OP or you making that sub)

    So if they see something they dont agree with, they’ll pre-emptively ban an account, because, and this is doubly important right here:

    It’s trolls feeding trolls drama in a big loop

    You making that sub, OP making this post…

    All you’re doing is encouraging them

    Can you really not understand?

    I’ll try and remember to come back and check if you respond, but I don’t get notifications from instances I’ve blocked.

    Edit:

    I was banned five days ago apparently for this comment from a year ago:

    https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/3159844

    Definitely not because I blocked that mod five days ago and they desperately found a way to “get back”.

    Great example of my point tho, silly instances like that there’s no point in fighting them, just block their instance and go about your life.