The party caved on asking ICE to not wear masks.

Those characterizations often seem more retrospective about the weaponization of the movement. Especially with it being so extremely lopsided. As in, those who saw #MeToo as a political opportunity absolutely did. Since it wasn’t an inherently political (party) movement we all got to see it shoved through that lens.

So we Americans saw Democrats torch their own like Al Franken into resigning over a USO act while the GOP categorically defended their abusers. I am sure a similar dynamic played out across other political regimes as well.

Isn’t the whole thing with expats is that they explicitly keep their US citizenship? Most the self described expats I know are overseas military that married a local so my perspective may be skewed here.

I know people who literally worship police. Like, the crying and reaching out to touch the sheriff during a parade type.

The cult is widespread and deeply entrenched.

Israel, Russia, Trendy Aqua, whatever. Ultimately the USA has failed to maintain its obligations to civil society, allowing those who operate the mechanisms of power and policy to be susceptible to such exploitation. Classic blunder.

That subject is usually just the convenient outlet for being hateful. And hate’s a hell of a fuel.

I mean, sure. He plausibly would’ve been in the Epstein files had be lived in the right era. He would’ve fit right in.

That’s generally how people find out. Until then, it is both at the same time. Schroedinger’s douchebag and all.

Ooh, new sounding arc!

Need to get city planners on that bike, not bus drivers. That worker isn’t the reason for the lack of proper infrastructure.

That’s entirely possible, as it’s closer to being the very public conflicts of like a dozen people. You could have blocked one user and inadvertantly insulated yourself from almost all of it.

Or: crimes are crimes and elected public office doesn’t inherently require or extend any immunity to that.

It’s actually kind of worse. He thinks his job is to serve the interests of an imaginary family that votes Republican and are Zionists whom he calls the ‘Baileys’.

He is the leader of the Senate Democrats.

That looks like two posts from one user.

The piefed dev also posts about tankies on MWoG.

https://piefed.social/c/meanwhileongrad/p/1723607/tankies-celebrating-financial-problems-at-the-un

So I feel like there’s bad faith enough to go around, (like with anything where ‘tankie’ comes up). The user posting on .ml there was just outright deleted off Piefed by the dev. There’s clearly an ongoing thing with those right now.

Sounds like a flood control for community creation would be appropriate.

It used to be in the early days instances would vet users at signup. Is there no mechanism for an instance admin to do the same for the creation of a community? They just can’t be vetted before creation?

That got built and implemented before that problem was realized and removed? Damn.

Even so, if the system is tracking votes as reputation, how were the anonymous votes actually tracked? That hash either hid the user or it didn’t.

It seems the chief complaint people have about Lemmy going to Piefed are how admins operate their instances. Not sure any of this will change that, or even help.

Not to mention all these are just a game for trolls and spammers to tool around with. Like: Up/downvotes were built before vote manipulation became a problem.

This stuff is the difference between building a bridge and governing who crosses it.

Which would appropriate for a client-side user-level filter instead of a server-side instance-admin hard-coded setting.

Looks like Piefed really is Lemmy with SpezTools.

current_user.reputation -= 1

So what exactly is going on there?