Posts by carodjah@mstdn.social
(DIR) Post #ATlp5euYUiNHIKiHQG by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-03-19T08:15:53Z
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In my lifetime and memory, the GOP went from a party that loved guns, church, anti-abortion billboards, Reagan (for taxes and probably his allowing for gay people to die), and semi-quiet racism post-civil rights, to a party that endorses violence against migrants, cameras in school bathrooms, automatic weapons in school classrooms, violence against school faculty—with or without the automatic weapon—and one-hundred percent extermination of any non-christian beliefs from the US. #politics
(DIR) Post #ATlp5gUOcwdcBmUPvU by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-03-19T08:18:07Z
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(Obviously there’s a lot left out there for both the older and newer GOP, but brevity is the soul of thicc, as they say)
(DIR) Post #ATlp5i3WnoKn31vzKC by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-03-19T08:21:59Z
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There’s talk about how the Democrats lost the farmers, and the GOP swooped into rural spaces, corrupting them into culture wars to keep them distracted from how GOP policy actually hurts them.Think someone wrote a book on it, titled something like, ‘Shut Up, Liberals!’ or something. Can’t remember.If that’s true (anecdotally, my state’s been pretty conservative its entire existence, no shifts I can see in data), then what made them so successful at it to gain increased power?
(DIR) Post #ATlp5jbx1JSns52zcO by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-03-19T08:26:43Z
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Is it that the GOP is so great at marketing and brainwashing, they somehow convinced millions of people in rural places to hate gays and threaten teachers? The US Rural Pop. In 2020 was 14%, or 46,000,000.If so, then why did this shift only work on rural populations? Did they just not try it in the cities? Or is it that their marketing and brainwashing powers only work in places with no more than one Walmart?
(DIR) Post #ATlp5l9JIlk4dpf9Fo by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-03-19T08:30:28Z
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Maybe, if this shift did happen, it wasn’t brainwashing but simply perceiving what dogs responded to the whistle.And then amplifying their bark, while preparing nonpologies and conspiracy theories whenever they bite someone they weren’t supposed to, or in a way that made you look bad.
(DIR) Post #ATlp5meXi8JrIzHbZg by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-03-19T08:34:32Z
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Now before you misread:I’m not saying all rural people are anti-trans bigots who want christofascism and direct access to school bathrooms.After all, I’m a rural people and I know several who are just fine, and plenty just live in the background not really caring or making a nuisance about politics.Just saying that the entire GOP strategy can be summed up as “get worse, see what floats”. And clearly enough has that we’ve gotten to this point today.
(DIR) Post #AUBHNwaZZjMDLPm652 by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-03-31T14:13:18Z
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@seldo @Red_Shirt_no2 Don’t forget the evil part. Thiel made New Orleans his personal experiment for a mass surveillance police state driven by an algorithm, Musk tried to get an employee killed by cops for whistleblowing.
(DIR) Post #AUURTDniYfs4oIEPbs by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-04-09T22:38:57Z
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#Texas forced her to have a baby that had zero chance of survival. Texas forced her to pay thousands in funeral expenses for the baby they forced her to have.And because neither Texas nor the Christians who supported anti-#abortion laws would help her, she’s never having a child again. #news #politics https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/06/1168399423/a-good-friday-funeral-in-texas-baby-halos-parents-had-few-choices-in-post-roe-te
(DIR) Post #AV9TpBcAfJ42jxHAO0 by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-04-29T18:04:21Z
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@stux Needs more karaoke bars
(DIR) Post #AVFuD2rec6BQJBJaNc by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-05-02T19:25:20Z
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Oh cool, so #Biden is sending 1500 troops to the US/Mexico border.Cool cool. Not actually horrible at all. Nope. Not the same thing Trump did whatsoever. Nope. #immigration #politics
(DIR) Post #AVFvJlpsQLZbTaFpgW by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-05-02T20:26:40Z
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Made a #funny that is specifically designed to appeal to phone #anxiety #millennials like me. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRwybhwa/
(DIR) Post #AVFvJmW3tVJjaPzWRE by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-05-02T20:37:41Z
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For those #anxiety #millennials who don’t want to click for #funny, here’s the vid (with captions)!
(DIR) Post #AVFvJn7zcTetU3joYq by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-05-02T20:38:42Z
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Hey @stux, any idea why I get a “422: Error processing thumbnail for uploaded media” when uploading any video bigger than 5MB?
(DIR) Post #AVFvXjwYFxTTf42OJs by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-05-02T20:43:16Z
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@stux I had to drop it from 1080 to 480 to get it to accept, dropping file size from 27 to 4MB. It wouldn’t accept at 720 and 12MB either. From this thread, sounds like it’s an internal error that hasn’t been patched in mastodon itself? https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22335
(DIR) Post #AVHlSufgKfbAGB7tdw by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-05-03T17:59:44Z
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@stux I…I ran a red light in my dream last night. I’M SO SORRY!!!
(DIR) Post #AVSjRyXkO8JMoGOpHM by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-05-09T00:59:01Z
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@stux the answer to “what has to happen” is nothing could happen.a smarter person than me pointed out that all hope for gun control died with Sandy Hook, where republicans saw dozens of kids slaughtered and reacted by doing absolutely nothing.I’d say that’s reinforced by how a gunman shot one of them at a baseball game and they still saw no problem.even when the threat is to their own lives, they just don’t care. More votes and money for them that way.
(DIR) Post #AVcEcTQjjiT74FXDbk by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-05-13T00:32:24Z
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Until reading this piece, I had no idea how extremely pampered the US dairy industry is by the federal government.USDA rules tie school funding to requirements that they serve milk and don’t offer alternatives like *bottled water*. #news #education #agriculture https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/12/dairy-milk-lawsuit-school-lunch/
(DIR) Post #AVdh0Lw4FEIYeEKACm by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-05-14T07:52:42Z
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@seth Pretty freaking amazing, right? So many ways in which we could be making lives better, but don’t, because big lobbies have locked things down in ridiculous ways.
(DIR) Post #AVhJQfplGVMpcgESUS by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-05-15T20:49:43Z
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Families who lost loved ones in the 2022 #Buffalo #NewYork massacre are suing several social media companies, from Meta on down to 4chan, as well as gun manufacturers, for aiding a white supremacist in his bid to target Black people with violence.Their lawyer is being aided by the Social Media Victims Law Center, Giffords Law Center, and the lawyers who helped take down Alex Jones. #news #tech #BLM https://www.wired.com/story/buffalo-shooting-white-supremacy-lawsuit-4chan/
(DIR) Post #AWEITAy4CFyw9wmQs4 by carodjah@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T23:42:49Z
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@stux Was it at least a post you were proud of? Like one with a particularly titillating pun?