john mitchell @daeyoung@qoto.org

Sometimes the textbox here in a web browser is laggy and I haven't got a single clue why this is happening. I suspected the federated timeline might be the cause of it and disabled advanced web view, but the browser seems to have it still being updated real-time in the background?

@freemo @mssunshine Which third party do you recommend? I do think we need at least one more dem-majority term so that they can fix the campaign financing law that the Roberts Court broke. Then, third parties will have the wherewithal to rise to public visibility

@freemo @mssunshine I mean I do read some bills—I admit I don’t read all of the bills, especially when the Dems keep drafting mammoth bills to finesse the razor-thin majority with the budge reconciliation that they can use only so many times a year, I don’t have the time to read >1,000 page bills.

That being said, Dems generally have the direction correct—at least on the surface level. So you are right in that they make their evil less obvious. I think the problem is that Dems don't seem to *actually* solve problems cuz then they lose the reason for people to vote for them. So they either make the solution lackluster so the problem still lingers and people still need them in power, or solve one but create another.

That being said, I also don't think paralyzing Congress is the way to go. Personally, I won't be affected—I can get by every day. Some vulnerable people who need help and the earth will not survive another Republican-majority term

@freemo @mssunshine and as much as I normally rail against the establishment and the Republican Party makes sound like an institutionalist when I have no respect for all three branches of the government, we can’t have the Republican Party burn down the entire house. Especially the electoral system where we collectively decide who will wield powers. So although I despise almost all Democrats as well, I cannot in good conscience vote for Republicans

@freemo @mssunshine if it were normal times, I would agree with you. But republicans are actively trying to disqualify thousands of ballots, upend the election, entrench their powers, and install rubber-stamp federal judges to hijack the judicial system. I think people don’t realize how extreme the Republican Party has become and just vote Republican because they don’t like the Dems. There’s no real leftist party in the U.S. with the Dems being elitist fucks

@neurolili I feel the same 🤭

@PonyPanda @taylan lol go back to twitter

@Ahkns here’s the link: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

@PonyPanda @taylan “rightfully fired” doesn’t sit right with me and risks falling into the trap of cancel culture. Not defending doxxing tho. Never trusted WP, not to mention Taylor Lorenz, as a credible source of information

@bonifartius @dimi ugh at this point DoJ should bring the antitrust hammer down on Google

@davoloid interesting how the UK and the U.S. are so different and this to me sounds awfully discriminatory on the basis of race but it might be acceptable in the UK? Idk. One thing I’m sure is this kind of race-exclusionary eligibility criterion will never fly in the U.S.

@bonifartius @dimi too bad we can’t yoink Firefox into this thread

@Ahkns I’m in the same boat as you, slowly learning how the fediverse works. The federated timeline has interesting stuff & most people don’t change their usernames so you can look them up if you remember their twitter handles. I also saw a GitHub repo with lists of interesting mastodon accounts for each field but I don’t remember. Let me give it a search 🔦

@reallyedbrown Suez Canal?

@scottjshapiro will Jack pay $8?

@mmasnick aspiring to rise to the level of having shittalkers

@pganssle @QOTO @freemo thanks! As we will see more influx of twitter diaspora here, it will be helpful to have some sort of online tip jar set up for willing people to make donations