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Toot by Kitchen Priestess (She/Her)Kitchen Priestess (She/Her) (babka.social)

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka If they take over the government, then that means enough people in the US voted for them to take power. So yes, that would mean that enough people in the US either specifically voted for them, or did some other thing necessary for them to take power, like abstaining or writing in or any other electoral thing that would cause them to win.

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Toot by Kitchen Priestess (She/Her)Kitchen Priestess (She/Her) (babka.social)

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka "They have the right to choose a fundamentalist Islamic/authoritarian government" is great in principle, except Gazans were granted that right, enough of them chose the fundamentalists to allow said fundamentalists to stage a takeover, all of which has culminated in October 7 with the supposedly moderate PA being little better and yet the international community wants to hand everything over to that entity while pinky swearing it'll reform. All of this then becomes literally a problem for Israel and Egypt, just for starters. Proponents of the two-state solution have yet to seriously grapple with any of this, and I don't think the people doing the moving and shaking in that space are going to do this any time soon. And until that happens, and there's some major changes in Palestinian politics, a two-state solution isn't happening.

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Somebody on here mentioned the other day that they're going to spend the entirety of Pesach offline or at least off of social media, and you know what, that sounds like a terrific idea I think I will do this. So from the 22nd until the 30th I'll be off the socials.

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Toot by [jan@dembowski:~]$ :idle:[jan@dembowski:~]$ :idle: (dembowski.social)

I used to believe this, and then I spent the last six months watching Mastodon users explicitly and probably purposely forget that the content warning feature is there because they've arrogated to themselves the decision on whether or not someone should proceed because their activism is the most important thing in the entire world and how dare you ignore us for one single second (TM). So now I'm not so sure the feature in and of itself is doing that much good.