The 100th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch was last week. History doesn’t repeat, but it certainly rhymes.

The US public has repeatedly demonstrated that it would rather die than make even minor adjustments in their lives. So don’t expect anything to get done.

Yes, but Fox has no incentive to do it well. They have incentive to make an atrocity, and televising it gives them the means to do it.

A stance of “Both sides are bad” is just a stance that favors the Status Quo.
The underdog needs the extra assistance, the superior doesn’t.
So for that reason I’m pro-Israel, don’t want either side winning, don’t want aid to either side, so that defaults to a pro-Israel stance.
I’m comfortable being labeled as such.

I’m still mostly on Reddit, but I’ve definitely cut down my participation. For example I stopped up/downvoting posts entirely. And haven’t really been participating in askreddit / eli5

The post I’ve made are either mirrored, or limited to relatively obscure communities.

As for lemmy, still lurking, not quite ready to dive in.

Their entire identity revolved around reddit. They devoted their entire life to the site. With that level of commitment you find the time.

But what if I want to be a mome?

It’s open source and not centrally run. So they can’t really “push an update” and even if they could, it would be quite easy to revert and continue development in a different direction.