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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Or else what? Withdraw the nomination? (You can't withdraw a nomination lol)

Harris chose this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Oh? Pulling a “Republican”? My wife made me do it? Wasn’t my fault? Attempting to distance herself so she can make a run for office again.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, seriously. She's an adult. She could have just said "Thanks Joe, now go away." What could he have done? Fired her?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

If anyone wants some good rage material, watch the Pod Save America interview with Harris staffers

[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

She was elected, not appointed. She could say and do what she wanted and theres not much Biden could have done about it.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I did, when I voted for Joe Biden, as did the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You voted for Joe Biden, not for Kamala Harris

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris with the explicit understanding that should Joe Biden become unable to serve, that duty would fall to Kamala Harris.

I understand how elections actually work. Don't apply your own ignorance to other people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago

She was not elected to the the presidential candidate for 2024, she was anointed by the party without an open primary.

If you can’t have a conversation without resorting to character attacks, that says a lot about your (lack of) character.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 21 hours ago

She is her own person and has to live with the consequences of her choices like everybody else. It's all in the past now and just a footnote in history.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Honestly this behavior is going to keep getting highlighted from Biden because he was an absolute stubborn idiot. He had polling showing him losing to Trump with over 400 electoral votes for MONTHS before dropping out. He blamed his family for staying in as long as he did, obviously it was him or what was left of him.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

History will not look kindly on Biden for fucking over his one job of stopping Trump. Didn't arrest him, didn't defeat him, didn't stop most of the Jan 6 protestors, didn't go after the enablers of his actions, didn't really stop anything Trump did to avoid debt and jail and we ended up with him for Round 2, Even Worse This Time.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago

100% agreement. He should have arrested Agent Krasnov and his henchmen on the first day of his presidency, and detained them in isolation without bail or access to the media, until their trials were resolved. If he had done that, Krasnov and his Gang would be in prison right now, instead of the White House.

Instead Biden appointed a weakass Republican as his AG who gave him a 2 year head start to run out the clock.

The Dems had the perfect chance to defend our country from the MAGA scourge, but they totally abdicated their responsibility. It will be 100 times harder to take it back now, and I don't see it happening without violence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Look at democrats now. Still doing absolutely nothing. Even if they won they still wouldn’t have stopped Trump or Musk. They’d probably just stand aside if there was another Jan 6.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I am wondering if the mods of [email protected] and [email protected] regret censoring the people who rightfully said these things and it would cost us the election. Like there's mods in here who go "yeah that sucks, I knew it." but also just defended Biden/Harris and removed good faith users who posted citations that even their beloved Media Bias Bot said was a good source.

They did it, banned the people who said it, and then people went "where are all those critics now? i guess putin turned them off! hurr hurr haw haw!"

Genuinely wonder if they question their choices of just doing this for free with literally zero benefit to their website and the country as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Genuinely wonder if they question their choices of just doing this for free with literally zero benefit to their website and the country as a whole.

No, they dig their head in the sand and continue to play stupid. If they ever actually acknowledged reality they'd feel bad, so that's not gonna happen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Just posting to remind/inform new users there's been repeated drama with .world policies and mod/admin team in that past. It caused a lot of people to spread to smaller, more varied instances. Which is actually a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I just started and still don't understand this lemmy. I thought one of the perks was being able to interact on any server despite which one holds your account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

The way it works is communities are hosted on the instances and when moderators do things in communities that makes people mad those people can only go to that community's instance administrators.

And then people get really angry at instance operators and admins with differing policies and rules about content and moderation.

So those conflicts can and do drive some culture wars. (Ex: Blahaj has little tolerance for gatekeepers, .ml has no patience for american liberal politics, .world is particular about zionism, and so on.)

But otherwise except for instances that defederate from each other the perk is absolutely that instances don't really matter for registering and posting as a user.

At most just check the instance rules before posting and you'll probably be just fine on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Yeah that's true more or less. Some instances block others for ideological or technical reasons. Sometimes posts/comments take time to propagate across the network. But in general yeah you can see everything on all the other instances regardless where your home account is. You could even spin up your own instance and see everything, all the back-end traffic and raw data, if you wanted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

That's really interesting. Are the people/entities who own individual servers (or even certain servers) known to the general public? I love the idea of social media not being centralized in the hands of billionaires, but I worry about trusting all of the same information to someone whose identity I don't know at all. Flip a coin, they're probably Russian or Chinese.

Basically I'm just asking about how/why we trust the owners of these servers. I still have a lot to learn about this technology.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Most of them are pretty visible and interact in their communities and I'm sure their contact info would be relatively easy to find.

But yeah I don't think there are any rules demanding they be public and you definitely should not trust them by default. They're people just like anyone else and can have their own agendas and ulterior motives.

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