Not gonna lie, subredditdrama was my favorite place to be during political seasons. This is the first real meal I had in years.
The JillStein Bot explaining why Joe Biden shouldn't be allowed to be the next president, really not updating their talking points
No, they're just super efficient and very good at planning. They know that Joe Biden can technically still be president for another term, so they're heading him off on his 2028 comeback run. /s
Ps hello fellow lawyer.
This is the first real meal I had in years.
Said someone who lives off popcorn! 🍿
I'm not judging you though. I used to love this sort of drama. (I still do, a bit.)
Didn't the staff behind AMA leave during the APPocalypse shit? I remember seeing something about how they've basically stopped vetting people to verify they are who they claim to be for these and I'm wondering how full of bots and trolls that sub is now.
If by staff you mean "volunteers", then yes. The actual Reddit staff that helped facilitate AMAs disappeared during the Ellen Pao drama.
Wow, I only briefly perused and that was a bloodbath. Hard to imagine how she might have imagined that going any better.
Someone linked her 2016 post claiming WiFi causes cancer.
That is absolutely ridiculous and also absolutely on brand for her.
You'll notice politicians largely stopped doing AMAs back in 2016 when /r/The_Donald completely swamped the system. Given the degree to which Reddit is a system by and for bot-farms, Jill was sticking her foot squarely into a bear trap just by setting this up.
American democracy is fucked because the voters themselves stoped believing that the two party system is bad.
You can’t be critical of both parties at once. One is evil, another is pure love.
Oooh no, don't you clump all of us together. A LOT of us fucking despise the two party system for the trash heap it is.
Anybody that understands politics understands that the two-party system is shit. They also understand that unless both parties agree that they don't like it and want to willingly allow more competing parties to sabotage their own efforts, it will never change.
So, saying that US democracy is fucked just because of that is a load of bullshit. Almost all democracies have two-party systems like that. Not even fucking Canada wanted to change their FPTP system, even when conservatives were abusing the system for 15 years. It was so bad that liberal voters in 2014 election had to tell their other liberal like-minded candidates "Yes, we like you, and we like your policies, but for the sake of the country's future, we have to vote for Trudeau."
The two party system is hot flaming garbage.
In order for ranked choice voting on a national level to get incorporated, the elected officials have to vote to change the system that put them in power. Neither of the two parties' politicians wants that, since it would then be easier for someone else to potentially beat them, so it doesn't happen.
Blue MAGA having a collective meltdown is a sight to behold.
"Let me ignore Democrats being fully bankrolled by israel. And committing literal Genocide. I have this 10 year old picture where Putin is on the other side of a table you are sitting at"
Funny, I often run into the most combative people with "ACKCHYUALLY" attitudes when speaking to libertarians. Republican Pot Smoking Edition models of political worldview tend to try very hard to defend their very nuanced mental gymnastics of being able to be a little empathetic on the surface socially while still turning their back on those less fortunate in actions.
Yes, here are the MAGA B-team campaigners on Lemmy, self-aware they are supporting a vile cult and so pretending "Blue MAGA" is a thing. Your main campaigners on larger platforms like reddit don't even know who the Dem candidate is, but they are serious candidates we should take seriously, for some reason.
like seriously. when will libs notice the democrats are also fucking them over big time, as if nothing has changed?
She did fine, if anything it was eye opening to me how many shitlibs are on r/politics
Taking Jill Stein seriously? You ok?
No, they aren't, and they won't be getting better, either.
Notable differences between Stein and Harris:
I live in a blue state and will be voting Green to try to build momentum for third parties and STAR voting. I do hope Trump is defeated and thrown in jail, and I'd reconsider my vote if I lived in a purple state.
what in gods holy name are you blathering about