@spiegelmama wrote:
<<< For the love of all that is holy, Erik, we're talking about a white man saying a Black woman isn't Black. Kamala Harris is Black and Indian, and her opponent said she used to be Indian and is now Black - factually incorrect. >>>
Are you people responding to what you think that I mean (possibly prejudiced because I am old white male who could have been a bit thinner), or what I actually wrote?
In my opinion it is irrelevant what 'modern" politicians lie to get elected.
What matters is what they'll do once elected.
If I, as a non-US-citizen would be able to vote during the election of a "world leader", of course I would not help Trump return to the oval office.
However, where was Kamala when the first 30,000 people were murdered using US-provided bombs, and Joe drew red lines saying "we cannot afford another 30,000 deaths"?
Meanwhile the number is 40,000 at least - including thousands of indisputably innocent children.
And all stop signs are red after their murderers humiliated Joe's administration by exterminating the "terrorists" primary negotiator.
It's your "democrats" who are playing with fire in countries belonging to other people. And who told the #ICC, #ICJ, #UN, #MSF etc to go fuck themselves.
I will *not* applaud *any* democrat until they prove that they are civilized human beings.
@johnaldis @Thad @mastodonmigration @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews
@ErikvanStraten @spiegelmama @johnaldis @Thad @mastodonmigration @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews
Perhaps you could take this somewhere other than this group, which has a specific focus.
@richardgrant wrote:
<<< Perhaps you could take this somewhere other than this group, which has a specific focus. >>>
Uhh https://infosec.exchange/@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online/112885281501431823 started this topic mentioning:
<<< It's journalism's job to correct blatant falsehoods, not air them and give them life as part of their horse race coverage. >>>
I'm not a journalist, but what part of the words "blatant falsehoods" do you not understand?
Why does each polarized US citizen only wants to be bothered with "proof" of why the OTHER party sucks?
Why do you guys not see that this may end in a civil war - yielding two domestic losers (and more abroad)?
@spiegelmama @johnaldis @Thad @mastodonmigration @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews
@ErikvanStraten
"Uhh https://infosec.exchange/@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online/112885281501431823 started this topic mentioning:
<<< It's journalism's job to correct blatant falsehoods, not air them and give them life as part of their horse race coverage. >>>"
Yeah, and they said some other stuff right before that, you disingenuous twit. @spiegelmama @johnaldis @mastodonmigration
@richardgrant @ErikvanStraten @spiegelmama @Thad @mastodonmigration @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews I wasn’t aware we were in a group—in fact I didn’t even know that groups existed on Mastodon. I saw a thread discussing the role of journalism in the maintenance of truth, and added to it. Even scrolling to the top of that thread doesn’t suggest the conversation started anywhere else?
I'm sorry, John, I didn't mean to include you in that cris de coeur — this thread has been posted to a Friendica group, (at)kamalaharrisforpresidentnews, so it's automatically reposted to everyone who subscribes — roughly 1500 of us right now — and this Erik fellow has more or less commandeered the entire discussion. There are moderators who *ought* to be responding but, as you likely know, the fediverse is a work-in-progress. Please join in as you please!
cc: @tchambers
@richardgrant @johnaldis Looking into this from a moderator pov.
@johnaldis
Glad to see this comment and the response. I'm following a group just to see how it functions in the #Fediverse
@LFpete Hm. Looking at what this actually means, I feel like implementing groups as accounts which boost *all* mentions is a bit weird, given Mastodon at least is “reply-all by default”. OTOH we have threading, so I’m not sure why we actually *want* to @ mention everyone the previous poster mentioned (or even the previous poster). I don’t see a setting in the Mastodon iOS app though (the one called Mastodon, in case of confusion).
@LFpete Given the current state of @/replies, I’d have expected this kind of “forwarder group” only to forward things which come from someone who’d opted in (eg a follower of the group account). Of course when I post here I know it *can* be seen by lots of people—but I’m only expecting to be “shouting in the ear” of the specific people I @/mentioned and my own followers. If one of those people boosts my post, IMHO it’s up to the booster to make sure that their followers won’t be annoyed by that.
@johnaldis
Well, if there's some way for a post/reply to be misunderstood and somebody being offended inadvertently, it's going to happen. Seems like some sort of icon could be developed for identifying group posts. I did a little refresher look into Fedi.Tips. But I'm definitely one of the non-tech users.