I think the lack of correlation between public opinion and government policy is more than satisfactory to demonstrate how much our federal legislators care about your phone calls, yes.

LOL

Sure they do.

Deleted mine two years ago.

Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.

I can only assume BlueSky feels more familiar.

Mastodon requires a bit of effort, lacking an algorithm to drive content toward users, so you have to do a bit more yourself.

There aren’t any ads on Mastodon. :)

You just search hashtags or set up a column so you have a feed giving you everything under a given hashtag, though it may be those communities are so niche there isn’t much on the Mastodon instance you chose. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a specific instance for Buddhism itself, though, given that it’s such a massive world religion.

If *anyone were really worried about the nuclear family and abortion, they would make it so that a family could live on a single income again.

FTFY

That’s probably fair. There’s an abundance of smug assholery in the world right now. Apologies.

Must be nice to be so rich that you can just be this fucking weird in public.

I think this is the crowd that tried Mastodon and then abandoned it when they realized it required a modicum of effort.

“EDumper” is a great name for a dump truck.

I wouldn’t trust it. We now live in an era where, if you want control of any kind of information, you simply can’t share it digitally in any way.

I added ‘Missouri’ to the title to make clearer. Solid point.

Pretty cool story from my home town. Enjoy.

That’s wonderful. Happy for you!

This is the absolute weirdest thing about Trump’s governance to me: how sometimes he ends up doing good things for terrible reasons, like when the US redeployed from Syria.

No.

It’s over. Trump is never going to be held accountable for any of it. In a few years he’ll die peacefully in his bed like Kissinger did.

I wouldn’t be surprised.

I’m sure that’s true too, but that’s not the reason she lost, and Democrats will continue to stack losses if that’s the narrative that they go with.

Democrats haven’t been ceding male voters to Republicans for 16 years because they hate women. It’s because, in the liberal and activist communities, it’s become customary and accepted to treat men like shit.

Exactly. Harris was tasked with defending and indefensible record. It’s that simple.