He really looks like a walrus, with that moustache. Right?
ZombieMantis
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You're on it now, bud. It's here, you're in it. Welcome!
Neither Amazon nor Google are not part of the Fediverse. If you use their suites of software, you'll be part of their non-federated, closed systems.
Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Threads, and many, many others are Federated, but not the big corporate entities... Except Threads, stretching out from Meta's own little digital fiefdom.
That question wasn't about trans rights, it was about trans identity. A lot of people think of trans people as "those odd queers over there," but also, "Well they seem to be minding their own business, so I don't see why they're supposed to be a roblem," when it comes to discrimination against them.
Remember, the 2022 midterms were largely about abortion and trans rights. The GOP lost that fight pretty hard. Most Americans are supportive of trans rights in the same way they're supportive of gay marriage: "Well, I wouldn't do it, but the government has no business meddling in people's bedrooms!"
The median American political disposition is, at times, more socially conservative than we might like, but still has a strong believe in civil libertarianism. Or, as Tim Walz likes to put it, "Mind your own damn business!"
All money has been play money since the end of bartering and establishment of currency. Coinage is just more widely exchangeable for goods and services than my cows, donkeys, goats, and geese. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Little do you know, we've been encircling big crypto with our own group of great swords ⚔️
Always using the back door, that's the fun door 🚪
... Kinky.
Our only solace is that this might give Kamala just the slightest more of an edge in Texas. She's already expected to narrow the gap from ~5% in 2020 down to 2-3% this year, with a fraction of the campaign dollars spent. Here's hoping she can manage blue-Texas 🤞
I'll hold off on my celebration until their whole class ceases to exist, abolished and left in the past.
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What center?
Between the Democrats and Republicans? The GOP that wanted to brutalize Pelosi on the steps of the capital? The GOP that laughed when a man with a hammer nearly murdered her husband with a hammer? The GOP that wants to roll back all civil rights to a time before the revolution? The GOP that wants to install a fascist dictatorship?
Or do you mean the center of where the American public stands?
The center of what Americans want is a hell of a lot more progressive than you, Nancy.
Not by throwing somebody at the presidency once every 4 years, no.
You need to develop local political establishments, structures of dual-power, and either replace one of the 2 parties at some level, or change the electoral FPTP (First Past the Post) system that gives us 2 parties.
Be it ranked-choice, approval voting, S.T.A.R. voting, pretty much any of these are better (though admittedly, with their own unique setbacks) than FPTP voting. That's not to mention gerrymandering, or electoral finance reform!
There's a thousand steps before you get to the point of electing a President who's neither a Democrat nor a Republican.