Element/matrix aren’t part of the fediverse, either. It doesn’t speak AP.

There is no real need for the kind of permanence you think you need.

Imagine if a building could only be a bar, for perpetuity, and nobody opened any other bars, because that first bar existed.

Bars would suck for like… 99.99999% of the human population, huh?

So…

Start alternatives, on a host ypu maintain, and then everything can be ran perfectly how you want it to run

Problem solved.

Or… the ones after him didn’t bother to finish the job, because they wanted it to fail.

It’s not like FDR was elected right before Reagan or something here.

He ran on something quite different… Remember, he was running a campaign long before 2013… Like… 2007.

Ah my bad there! Yes, it was in Rambo III where that appears

Congressmen aren’t individually drafting bills, they direct their aids to draft the bills and hammer out the details

One slight point, this isn’t how they get legislative drafts. Legislative drafts come from thinktanks like Heritage, ALEC, Vote Blue, etc.

Oligarchs write legislation, and then find a congresscritter that owes them a favor. They “lobby” for it, ie they stop into the congresscritter’s office, drop the envelope with the text, drop a check for their campaign fund, and then the congresscritter gets it to pass.

NYS pays more in federal taxes than we get in Federal dollars.

I think we’ll be ok.

The FCC has authority to punish whomever is the enemy of Reich Wingers, and Trump more specifically. Nothing more, nothing less.

Can the FCC punish a social media company for censoring the approved ideology? Yes. Can the FCC punish a social media company for not censoring the approved ideology? Yes. Can telcos be punished by the FCC for the same two things above? Yes.

It’s all about punishing the enemy, not logical consistency.

Bottom line: precedent, rulings, laws, etc have no bearing on the courts.

What matters to the courts is paying back for the favor of appointment. Which means they will rule whatever our oligarchs tell them to rule.

It was happening before the ACA as well.

So, the problem was never fixed.

It got us the privilege of HAVING to pay insurance companies, who make up reasons to deny, delay, and depose.

And if the individual can’t afford it, we funnel tax dollars to those same corporations, who make up reasons to deny, delay, and depose.

Its a cash grab for the insurance industry, really.

Democrats at best had a tenuous veto proof majority for not even 2 weeks.

They had the house, the senate, and the POTUS. That’s “veto proof”. And it was for nearly two years.

If you mean “filibuster proof”, the filibuster is just a made up rule by the senate. A rule they could have, and should have, discarded the moment they took the senate.

I don’t want to say that the Democrats should be playing on people’s anxieties the way the Republicans do, but it clearly works politically.

The Dems most certainly should be shouting from the rooftops, that things are f’d, and the way to fix them is via radical, progressive, working class-focused policies.

What we get instead is “How about some more trickle down economics? We’ll call it Bidenomics, this time, though. And, we’ll toss in some lite genocide. Does that make you happy now?”

The Dems are offering piecemeal incremental bland realistic changes that while certainly for the better, they won’t rock the boat too hard.

Hell, the Dems aren’t really offering that, either. They are offering just enough to placate the masses, while still shoveling money into the pockets of billionaires.

ie, Dems are still offering bread and circuses, while the GOP is offering gladiator battles.

Give it a watch, and enjoy the honoring of the Mujahedeen! The first one was literally dedicated to the peeps we now know as the Taliban.

Money.

Lots of potential tax revenue with cannabis.

Same here! Which is a huge reason I actually enjoy lemmy, for the time being. It’s a forum, complete with subforums, and decentralized!

For example: usenet groups are essentially unmoderated

That is highly dependent on the newsgroup. Many newsgroups WERE heavily moderated. The ones in the alt branch were not, generally.

But, say, comp.os.linux? It was very moderated.

Additionally, a couple of projects tried to put a really nice, forum-like UI on top of NNTP, and it worked pretty well. The problem was a lack of uptake, really, because “Well, we have facebook and reddit already!”

One of the “bigger” attempts at this was done when forums were basically dying, and everyone was moving to facebook and reddit, away from forums.

So… the latest terrorist was an American citizen, from Texas…

The headline should write itself there