john mitchell @daeyoung@qoto.org

@Pat thanks for the link. I can see you feel very strongly about the Covid response. But Covid no longer occupies the public consciousness anymore. I’m fairly liberal and I’ve stopped thinking about Covid for months, if not years. Polls show the #1 concern is the economy and Dems should’ve tackled it head-on

Dems wrapping up election-day eve on a "democracy is on the ballot" note is probably gonna cost them a lot of seats in Congress. Republicans are undeniably proposing and implementing changes that will erode democratic institutions, but average voters care more about the economy right now. They should've zeroed in on how they stanched economic meltdown, citing the grim circumstances in Europe, and how Republicans are floating massive cuts to social security and health care. I can't help but think dems have, more often than not, so much disconnect with the average voter

#election #uspolitics

@masterbatedone lmao i see. Thanks for the chat and enjoy Masterbatedone :)

@masterbatedone I’m in Connecticut. I assume you’re a Brit. May I ask why you feel strongly in favor of Trump? Or are you American?

@masterbatedone oh that’s actually fake. You can type (colon)verified(colon) and it’ll turn into . No verification at all

@nawalmoafa no I know lol. Or at least he is fully convinced of his own bogus free speech nonsense

@masterbatedone Elon Musk is just a joke not (only) because of his political beliefs, but because of the inconsistencies he’s demonstrated in terms of free speech

@masterbatedone then, no. This is not democratic social media. Open-source folks lean libertarian and you’ll find people of all sorts of political stripes here. But with more mass twitter exodus coming our way, you will definitely run into more democratic-leaning people as well

@gaymanifold I have these two desires clashing inside of me as well. How relatable

@gaymanifold your fart is being federated 💨

@masterbatedone can’t figure out if this is sarcasm or not

@nawalmoafa but what about free speech? /s

@junecasagrande Not that election meddling is justified because we do it too, but prefacing it with “autocracies” kinda lets the U.S. off the hook. We should focus on preventing election meddling across the board, regardless of political system

@junecasagrande I think there has never been a shortage of Russophobia. The U.S. also meddles in foreign elections, rather blatantly and unabashedly—e.g., sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela for electing the “wrong” president. Heck, the audio recording of a CIA director got leaked saying “we need to install *our guy* as president” after the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine

Legacy media are writing articles on Mastodon!

#mastodon #nytimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/technology/mastodon-twitter-elon-musk.html

@trinsec Omg this is a game changer. Thank you so much!