city government: run by suburban car lovers, absolutely intractable, getting bike or bus lanes might as well be happening on the moon

state government: run by liberals who largely run near or entirely un-opposed. They do good things sometimes, but are simultaneously incapable of forcing municipalities to do good things, and roll over the feds when pressed. For example, no resistance to the fucked up ICE kidnapping campaign that’s still going on.

National government is a hot mess and voting in my state has had a zero percent chance of influencing it in every election I’ve been alive for.

“democracy”

not sure what you’re trying to say here, many Europeans and USians will act like they are. the ‘russian bot’ accusation is an automatic response to shut down dissenting speech that taps into that xenophobia.

I don’t care what Putin says, just pointing out xenophobia when I see it

clearly everyone who says something you don’t like must be a Russian bot, Wikipedia says it

Lemmy users 🤝 governor of Utah

“I wish we could blame foreigners”

This is the same guy who was like “I wanted so hard to believe it wasn’t someone from here that did it” Seems like he really wants an outside threat to demonize, surely people won’t fall for that- oh right never mind lmao

forgot to turn off bighead mode before entering pvp zone

I swear I can’t enter a comment section without the accusation 💅

Maybe if the seals spent less time trafficking and doing drugs they would fuck up less

I fucking hate the rat, but this is when you gotta hit them with the ‘weird’

I know a bunch of people from in person organizing in the US who are ML/maoist and have positive opinions of China, Russia, Cuba, etc, but it’s generally the kind of critical support you see on hexbear. A lot of them are trans/NB and have grown up in the US propaganda bubble and reject it.

Also pretty sure both lemmy.ml and hexbear.net are blocked in china. It’s probably just because they block all foreign social media as a general practice though. If they’re looking to do propaganda work they’re probably going to do it on platforms with more people tbh.

hiiiii I disavow the Israeli fortnite girl

time to check in on the straights, how bad could it be

had a great week, did a full shift at the anarchy factory and went swimming

I’m pretty sure it’s called ‘the troika’

I wear a lot of adidas and pirate stuff, plus I’m great at squatting

hey, it could also be the way he clears homeless encampments