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Cake day: November 1st, 2024

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  • I try to spend time in both left and right spaces. Maybe I haven’t gone deep enough into rights spaces - I see them saying gender confirming treatments should be elective, not covered by any insurance and not available for any minors. I see support for mass deportation of immigrants who are undocumented or have overstayed their visas etc. I see them wanting to get “woke” teachers fired from schools, and some who want to ban abortion (but like marijuana, that’s a losing issue even in their base).

    But I haven’t seen them calling for the death of every Democrat voter, not in active chat. I have seen screenshots and read anecdotes. I have seen the opposite though, both here and on Reddit, so many times, people I’m chatting with saying we need to kill every Trump voter. I don’t doubt that it happen on the right, my experience is seeing it more from the left though. It disgusts me regardless of where I see it.

    Edit I saw this just a few posts below this post on “active” right after commenting this:




  • I grew up on the southeast side of Portland. When I was 10, I rode my bike to Multnomah Falls and across the river into Washington State. I moved away just before my 11th birthday so I’m very confident about my age. I also rode all around Portland. Into downtown, down to Lake Oswego, over to my aunt’s in Gresham…

    The worst thing that ever happened was an older kid on a bike came up next to me and tried to push me off of my bike, but it didn’t work and I took off and he was chasing me. I wove thru traffic and parked cars at a shopping center and he ended up slamming into a parked car at full speed. :)






  • It was the stupidest of ideas. Republicans were never going to vote for her in any numbers. She was all about gun control, she personally owned the 12 million border crossings, she had all those defund the police sound bites from her earlier years, and she couldn’t effectively separate herself from the difficult economy for middle and low earners - while failing to communicate that she even cared about the common man’s plight or would try to help it. Even her proposed tax plan raised taxes on lower middle class, at least the charts I saw (including here on Lemmy). And Republicans have seen four years of Trump and think all the Nazi and “all Republicans are racist” talk is literally the stupidest thing on the earth. Abortion was all Dems really had, and although lots of Republicans are pro-choice, Trump had promised to veto a national abortion ban (for whatever that’s worth).

    I remember when Democrats were for the working people. They need to stop being "We’re not the Nazis"and start telling us who they are. But I don’t think they want to tell us who they are. They’re no longer the party of the working man, they’re the party of corporate interest and global governance, and they’re also almost as authoritarian as the right. Maybe the collapse of the Democrat party will result in the birth of an actual socialist party in the US. We’ve seen major party changes in the past. Will it happen again, soon?