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TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Try Truth Social, I hear it’s technically a Mastodon fork…

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ew.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, yeah, but it’s where they would actually find conservatives…

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        …ew.

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      • notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “”“conservatives”“”. Sometimes I think the DNC is the last place to find actual conservatives these days.

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  • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s mastodon? I thought it was a different fediverse platform.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      pcmag.com/…/trumps-social-media-site-quietly-admi…

      Trump’s Social Media Site Quietly Admits It’s Based on Mastodon

      Mastodon had originally threatened to sue Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ site for allegedly violating its open-source license.

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      • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh so it was X before Twitter. Lmao

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Gotta love the grift - how much did they sink on this thing? And then they just stole an open source project and tried to hide it.

        What’s next, TrumpOS? Reskinned Ubuntu with wallpapers and icons for $300?

        Actually - anyone want to join my OS dev team?

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      • notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        holy shit!

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  • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Whoa!!!

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can you imagine them federaring their content? What a stream of odd toots that would be!

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    • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It would be gab all over again

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• PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’re not going to get an answer that’s interesting or helpful out of them even if you go to where they live and ask and don’t get immediately flamed for asking.

  There’s no acceptable answer for it. I have plenty of conservative friends and I could make sense of voting for Trump the first time. Not for me, FUCK that, but not all Trump v1 supporters were racists and there were valid conservative reasons to vote for him. He was definitely an unknown, nobody could have told you with certainty how he would act once in office. I could have told you what I expected and it was about as horrible as I expected, but people often see things in politicians that they want to see, rather than seeing what’s really there.

  But any of the “OK to vote for Trump v1” falls apart completely for Trump v2. We saw what his first term was like and especially how it ended. His campaign in 2024 was even more unhinged and less grounded in reality than in 2016. Voting for him in 2024 is really inexcusable.

  The US will be unimaginably worse off by the time Trump leaves office this time, tariffs and tax cuts for the rich and inflation, it’s going to be bad for Americans on an individual level. On a global level, Trump will have shredded alliances and any goodwill we had built up over the past decades, while also validating and confirming the world’s worst concerns about us.

  And when Trump does finally leave office, the people you want to hear from will largely feel like it was a phenomenal presidency. It is a cult and logic and reason don’t have anything to do with it.

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  • folkrav@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d love to believe this, but cynical me is thinking about those conservatives that look at Milei in Argentina and legitimately think it’s going great.

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    • Triasha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Milei’s performance really does depend on your metric.

      If all you care about is inflation and regulations, then he’s doing all right. Somewhere between fantastic and “eh, he’s getting there” depending on how you squint.

      If you care about how many people are in poverty, or struggling to eat, he has been a disaster.

      Conservatives don’t care about suffering. The suffering is natural. Life is hard. Lots of people are losers. Trying to stop the suffering just moves the pain from people who deserve to suffer (the poor) to people who don’t deserve it. (The rich)

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some of them are, you just have to scroll way way way down

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• Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Conservative on sh.itjust.works appears to be conservatives.

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  • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have my doubts about that. Most of the mass posters are too “conservative” and lean extremely hard into stereotypes. They take racism and bigotry just a bit too far in many cases and it doesn’t quite align with actual conservative bigots and racists that I know.

    It wouldn’t be surprising if most of the “conservative” communities are part of the same troll farm that lives primarily on other instances.

    This is all speculation, of course. But, organized campaigns to spread discourse on social media are real and some of these trolls are really good at what they do.

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    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nahh, they were pretty conservativy when I tried to interact with them.

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• LuckyPierre@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sadly true. We actively searched for alternatives when we realised other channels were getting too manipulative and full of hate. Those who are left haven’t even realised it.

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