I actually think a lot of people are confused because they didn’t read the article or know what community they’re in, so I’ll take the downvotes in stride.

Trans people are people too no matter which arrow you hit.

Is being a terrible person with bad takes against the rules? I haven’t checked.

Swarmy ole gaius

Props for seeking out answers and sharing

Austin and Houston have fairly liberal populations.

But yeah, it sucks here. 1/6 of the texan population are immigrants, and 10% aren’t citizens and can’t vote. The right want you to victim blame. I’d encourage you to see it as people being oppressed by an overreaching corrupt government, similar to Florida. Sure there are idiots and racists but a lot of it is voter suppression and disenfranchisement

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That’s a good point that I hadn’t considered.

I’d expect someone to raise it as a point, though, because I’ve seen the Nazi in a bar meme a million times but never has anyone pointed out the problematic linkage of punks and nazis.

I think it’s more likely that there are bad faith trolls here already that, rather than engage in a discussion, downvote to silence views they don’t like.

Why are you getting downvoted for perfectly answering the question?

Fascists already invading

Sorry bud, how about you start a thread and get some community feedback? Maybe your opinion is problematic or maybe the mods made a mistake.

Idk I’m not psychic

Engagement is a two way street, you need to post something worth engaging with.

Occasionally I’ve seen a valid opinion/idea with some downvotes but there’s still usually responses that get a discussion going. Only the true shit has the massive one sided downvote ratio with, unfortunately, a few replies from people who took the bait.

You’re being downvoted because you straw manned, not sure if intentionally or not.

If your solution to a problem can fit on a bumper sticker it’s wrong.

Like…really? Do you think that this community, or anyone worth talking to, thinks that it’s that easy?

Totally agree - when people start coming out as trolls/bad actors/fascists is when they’re rightly silenced

One of my friends won’t quit twitter because there’s no good sportsball on mastodon/Lemmy/kbin that I can find. Any groups, people, communities that talk about sportsball?

Would appreciate recommendations

I laughed at the thought that you were being sarcastic about spending time with family

It’s all about pushing the needle and normalizing this shit. They can do whatever they want in Florida so they test drive their facist ideologies there.

I don’t think Desantis is being tooled as a viable candidate, just a useful ton of dead weight to push the scales further right.

I just loaded the front page without logging in out of curiosity. It’s utter garbage.

The timing of twitter collapse, threads paid celebrity launch, and reddit implosion feels… Very foreboding.

And bots. And sponsored content.

It’s perfect

Its by design. CEOs are replaceable, the corporation is not. Once all the shit changes are done they’ll get rid of Huffman (who will get a fat golden parachute for his hard work) and new CEO will walk back maybe 2 of his changes. Suddenly reddit is loveable again and to say otherwise is asking for too much.