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 @39199a26 

I've got 4 tabs open in #Firefox on Win11, and #Mastodon  Advanced For Web slows down to a crash twice an hour.  The resaoureces Mastodon deck eats up and abuses are out of control 
 I get that everyone mourns at their own pace when an online community is lost, but the fact that ... 
 @38fcf2ec 
@098a11ae 

After Facebook increased the volume and reach of MAGA, I deleted my account and all my content there, that day.

After Twitter started hosting a Tucker Carlson talk show, I deleted my seldom used Twitter account that day.

If you become dependent on any particular online community, and don't posses the presence of mind to know what your core values are as a human being, you're gonna get used up.

I think it was PT Barnum who said "There's a sucker born every minute" 
 @6d6ec790 

what the fuck is wrong with you posting rt.com links, you cunt 
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 @098a11ae @5465e5e6 @8388665a 

same, but I stopped watching network news during the first operation desert storm when sadaam huessein was bombing tel aviv, i didn't want to watch the end of the world realtime, and have found no logical reason to ever give those garbage networks, and those garbage people my eyeballs every since 
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 @a125d25e @7f07bf0d @098a11ae 

the one imagined by the founding fathers sucked shit because black people only counted as 3/5ths of a human being, and were allowed to be kept as slaves.  miss me with the founding fathers stuff.  republicans are racist, misogynist, homophobic, christian white separatists.  they want the complete destruction of democracy, since democracy itself has a liberal bias.  they have and will attempt to stymie any governing at all.  this is who and what they are 
 @7f07bf0d 
@098a11ae 

the GOP wants to end American Secular Egalitarian Representative Democracy, shutting down the House for a week is just fine with them, they want the power to end government, not practice government.

How are people still missing this? 
 "It is now the responsibility of the GOP members to end the House Republican Civil War. Given the... 
 @e814e036 

hahahahahahahahahahahaha 
 Elon always looks like he's so desperate for people to like him. 
 @540c4aef 

that's his schtick, he really doesn't care, he's got more fuck you money than anyone else in the world outside saudi arabia and the kremlin 
 We need to emphasize, over and over again, that the United States is neither a real democracy, no... 
 @a461cadf 

yes yes of course alex, all our leaders do this, both sides even, always, forever, all the time, it's both sides you see, both sides 
 @e7d43022 
@098a11ae 

boy how i dislike this "GOP may never recover from" pronouncements, of course they'll recover from it, they dismissed and forgot about it the moment after he finished speaking.  Republicans have to shame and are laser focused on destroying american secular egalitarian democracy just because they want to 
 @edc128e6 
@098a11ae 

Mitt Romney built THIS Republican Party. Institutionalized racism, misogyny, homophobia, and white Christian separatism as party platform. No matter how "conservative" Republicans claimed to be, The Southern Strategy was the core value and singular driving force for the past 60 years. MAGA isn't a symptom, it's result 
 I still cannot abide Mitt Romney. He remains affiliated with a so-called U.S.political party that... 
 @26f2d622 

Mitt Romney built THIS Republican Party. Institutionalized racism, misogyny, homophobia, and white Christian separatism as party platform. No matter how "conservative" Republicans claimed to be, The Southern Strategy was the core value and singular driving force for the past 60 years. MAGA isn't a symptom, it's result 
 @NEW1 

it's ok to like what you like