Honestly Misskey forks for all their flaws can absolutely take this opportunity to properly advertise themselves as viable alternatives. As someone who uses a Misskey fork, I love the UI in comparison to Mastodon, and the communities in Misskey forks are a lot less techie and a lot more laid back and goofy most of the time from my personal experience.

I’ve been out protesting, there’s been weekly ones here that I attend.

A lot of these people that were disenfranchised by the Democrats ended up voting for Cornel West or Jill Stein instead. I already know what people are going to say, something something wasted vote, but I’m really sick of that entire argument because all it does is delegitimize third parties and keeps this status quo of “lesser evil”.

If this entire notion that you have to vote for one or two parties is going to keep going on as it is, then I’ll gladly point to the senate election in Nebraska where an independent aligned with the Forward and Reform parties only lost to the Republican by about 6%. Do I agree with Osborn or the Forward or Reform parties, not fully, especially with how interesting a candidate Osborn was, but the fact that he gave such competition in a traditionally safe Republican riding shows that voting for other candidates is NOT wasting your vote.

Alright, if you’re so sold on making the voter out to be at fault, then be my guest. Tell someone grieving the death of their relative as a Democratic party member that “hey, we only allowed one of them to die, they’ll have two of them die”.

See if they’re not insulted at that notion.

If the Democrats wanted to bring these people out, then perhaps they should’ve changed their stance when it comes to Israel.

Sorry, but voters are going to vote based off their values, and if they see nobody who reflects their values, then the onus is on the parties, not the voters.

If you’re Arab-American, and you see that your country is facilitating the bombing of the country your parents were born and raised in, then you’re not gonna vote for the party in power that’s actively allowing that to occur.

Why don’t you go ahead and tell the people in those shoes that they should go out and vote for the people who refuse to stop supporting a foreign government that’s actively killing their family members? Go on, say it to their face that they should have supported the people who support the country that killed their cousin. Tell them that they should have chosen between the person that’s killing their relatives, and the person who’ll do it even more.

Y’all really coming into my community now to downvote shit because apparently anything that starts with naz = nazi.

Grow up, why did I even bother posting here?

You share a community, and get a solid 8 downvotes with people coming into your community to downvote the content you posted in the community you made and shared.

Thank God I have no other communities to share because genuinely what the hell. Why bother sharing a community you made if people that clearly aren’t interested in what you’re sharing only come in to downvote content they know doesn’t appeal to them?

Hell yeah! Been loving PieFed. It’s still got quirks here and there, but I also love submitting issues so it works out lol.