There is also the Whig party for reference. They were one of the two parties until they refused to take a meaningful stance on slavery. They were the ‘bipartisanship states rights solves it’ party versus the ‘pro-slavery’ party.

There is no longer a Whig party and the slavery party went to war over a decade or so after the anti slavery parry formed.

So there’s that alternative to Party switch.

Damned turtles refuting conventional knowledge of space and time.

Only northern hemispheres exist.

You have no idea the effect your words have on a globally accessible service.

The size and reach of Lemmy is nothing like what you are supposing here.

Mainstream media dominates the political discussion amongst the electorate. Viewing Lemmy comments as anything close to being electorally influential or as mainstream is going to leave you with some warped perspectives I think.

Imagine having 3 not lead to 1.

They already banned a swathe of pro-palestinian political streamers in the run up to the US election, so this is likely retroactive reasoning.

Sounds like there was a wave of bannings too, judging by the comments.

There will be plenty of topics to come that will provide similar outlets considering what is pending.

I always thought it’d be interesting if one senator were elected only by the most populous municipality in each state.

Is it too political to suggest this may be considered a hatecrime to Gollum?

There are a whole lot of folk that plain demand full support of genocide as the cost of doing business/having rights. Reluctance to support genocide is viewed as eroding the foundation to their very way of life.

“I am not actually ‘shoving’ you into a locker Timmy. I am merely using mechanical force to shut the locker door through its hinges and simply allowing your body to find the path of least resistance: inside of it.”

Asheron’s Call hit up player housing early on too.

Compare to Brazil. They had a similar scenario play out with Bolsanaro. He was prosecuted and barred from office until I think 2030 for his stunt. It doesn’t seem controversial.

“Is” huh…?

There was a whole era of gaming from the late 90s to like 2010 where like a couple developers made something special, left, and then the company coasted on the code for a decade.

For me it was the Company of Heroes series.

Squirrels aren’t a typical vector for rabies. There was no indication the squirrel was exposed to a rabies vector, like a bat, any more than a household pet or human.

It bit a NY cop though, that’s what happened.

If they can deny a genocide is occuring in Gaza they can deny that Bernie would have won with the same intellectual rigor.

All I ever saw were ads of Obama asking for five dollars. Everytime I saw it all I could think was “Damn this is going to piss people off.”

The final days and weeks the Trump campaign hit the swing districts saying all the things people had been asking Biden and Harris to say.

Biden made sure there was no question there would be 0% chance of course change. Trump, being Trump, could shrug his shoulders one day and decide to change course. Higher than 0% but still probably 0%.

Dishonest politics, but that’s how campaigns use issues to win elections. It sucks and we’re all in for the very preventable ride now.

That’s the thing that’s hard to determine: if he gave up because of Lieberman or if Lieberman was the cover for backing off.

I didn’t think so at the time, but given the track record and actions of the party since then? I kinda do feel Obama wasn’t so all-in for it.