Why? There is a long list of suspicious deaths of people who have been recently critical of Putin, including multiple falling out of windows. It seems weirdly credulous to believe there’s nothing connecting them. Seems to me you’re the one making the strong claim that needs to be backed up.

Why pick two of his better quotes to make your point? It just make your argument look weak.

What about the constant resist dog whistling? The “eating the dogs” stuff? The wearing proud boys colours?

I get what you’re saying, but would people in germany in 1932 have been able to predict what was going to happen in between 1934-9?

What do you think is a normal rate of death-by-falling-from-a-window for well known people who criticise the leader of the nation, in most countries?

The conversation here is about mastodon

I think this is a pretty good take. Aligns fairly well with this podcast, which seems like the clearest view I’ve heard so far.

The Ezra Klein Show: The Book That Predicted the 2024 Election

https://nytimes.com/2024/11/09/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-patrick-ruffini.html

The vast majority of users are on general instances without demands like that. If you don’t want to join an exclusive club, just pick a sever that is not intended to be an exclusive club (I.e. nearly any of the big ones).

If bluesky ever becomes actually federated, won’t it have the same problem?

How do you come with an opinion like that from a domain like yours??

Uh, wut? That’s your whole explanation?

How do you explain the drop in the dem vote between 2020 and 2024 then?

No, they didn’t, but I think a lot of people didn’t vote for Harris who otherwise would have

No no no, it’s a “Wikipedia-ending debate”

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector

I guess that’s what it means now

As an anarchist, I too would prefer Nobody for president.

(But given current practical realities, I hope enough of you Americans cote dem to keep the fascists out)

I don’t know how you’d measure driving “goodness”, but I expect the distribution would be something like exponential (there are billions of non-drivers, and only a few rally/stunt drivers). So the average is likely to be higher than the median.

This is hilarious

After you answer the same question

Yep. The thing I worry about is, even if the dems pull of a win that gives them the power to do this, would they actually do it? I doubt it, somehow.