Even that will be warped by the platform. The engagement reward influences all.

No one will be safe if Trump wins, not even his most devoted supporters. The mob always eats its own, and given enough time even friendly oligarchs will start to mysteriously fall out of windows. Social peace is a spectacularly unnatural creation of millennia of human effort. It can be lost.

DMdanmcfadden.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 12:56pm

Trump's work to normalize violence among his supporters is working, even when the target is a fellow Republican. Look at what they are doing to *a lifelong Republican and two-time Trump voter* who merely said that Haitian workers at his business do a good job: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/u...

There's always hope if people are willing to stand up.

The last time you went to bat for a reporter for giving favorable treatment/equal space to absurd lies, it turned out she had a sexual relationship with the article in question’s subject. I’m a little hesitant to trust your judgment here.

Right, and it looks right now like that might actually work. They just have to not fuck it up

It’s not an insane argument from SCOTUS precedent, which seems to say “you must recite the magic words, ‘I am accepting this bribe for this official act’” for it to be a crime. He’s not disputing the quid, or the quo, but the “pro.” SCOTUS’s interpretation just permits laughably open corruption.

Ah, the old “pre-act gratuities” argument

I don’t think it’s out of the question that they *have* coordinated something, but might need to wait for a retrospective to piece together what’s happening

Regardless, *the rockets have not all been aimed there*! I don’t even know where this person read that. It seems completely made up