I have some great ideas: improve education, reduce inequality, introduce preferential voting.

Seriously though, these problems are occuring the world over. I’m not an anthropologist but IMO the root cause is income inequality. Basically the working class are increasingly dissatisfied and the frustration manifests in very strange ways. There’s no fix for this other than societal collapse as a result of economic, environmental, or societal unrest. This part of the cycle will probably take 300 years or so, depending on the whole climate change thing.

They’d only get thrown in jail if they weren’t willing to bend over for the new regime, and they’ve already shown that they’re very willing to do that.

I was wondering about this, like deep down inside does she really believe that this is the path to a better world? Doubtful.

I have no doubt red states will start banning Democrat candidates

They didn’t ban him because they didn’t like him. There’s a constitutional amendment that precludes him from being on the ballot.

Agreed. I despise Trump but we can hold ourselves to a higher standard than getting whipped into a frenzy when someone with a personal vendetta writes a blog post with no new information.

Polling isn’t as simple as adding up responses and reporting the percentages.

They use complex methodologies to account for inaccuracies exactly like your good self.

That’s not to say that polls are necessarily accurate - clearly they aren’t, but to say “polls won’t capture voters like me” is incorrect.

What play could that make

Oh I don’t know, perhaps contrition?

There was threats against them also right? So maybe relocating, some kind of on-call security or something, IDK.

He acknowledged in his closing argument that “my client has committed wrongful conduct against” the pair and had “harmed” them, but asked the jury to keep in mind the good Giuliani had done in his lifetime.

He told them the message he believed they should send is, “You should have been better, but you’re not as bad as the plaintiffs are making you out to be.”

This has to be the worst closing argument ever. This might work if say, a teacher commits a drink driving offense, or a crosswalk attendant steals some laundry detergent, but “think of all the good” that this sycophant did in his life is just going to inspire heavier penalties.

The only way to answer this question is to investigate the circumstances of specific examples.

Generally, the person just doesn’t have the money. If Giuliani bought his nephew $100m in shares 10 years ago, who’s to say those shares do not in fact belong to the nephew.

That’s not how polling works

I’m incredulous.

There’s a phrase or quote about this that I can’t remember…

Something about how the people you would actually want to govern would never volunteer to do so.

Playing sounds? sure.

Rearranging keys - hell no.

Fair point.

There’s nothing wrong with Lemmy growing in an organic sustainable way, but I dislike the attitude that lemmy ought to be a reddit replacement or that lemmy should grow from the ashes of reddit.

Lemmy should be it’s own thing with it’s own culture and history and communities.

I get a bit peeved when lemmy users (not necessarily you) get a bit obsessive about transferring communities to lemmy from reddit. Just focus on creating good content for Lemmy and forget about the rest.

I’d like to see a sudden growth in Lemmy and fall of Reddit, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near

I don’t. Let the idiots stay on reddit. Leave lemmy how it is. Is it so terrible that one might have to visit reddit to find some niche communities?

Wasn’t there like a bot defense team that published a ban list or something but they just gave up during the exodus?

Yeah 100%.

Imagine around the advent of readily available photo prints. People might have been thinking “this is terrible, someone I don’t know could have a photo of me and look at it while thinking licentious thoughts!”

Australia here. SMS is the lowest common denominator. I use it to talk to clients all the time.

I’ve heard of the blue bubble thing but only from yanks I think.

Yes but we all know that’s not going to happen.