Any connection is tangential at best and the forces against either are wholly different, and so is the nature of the allegations and everything else that surrounds them.

🤷 I can’t blame you for wanting to be blissfully ignorant. It does help.

He also was not removed, people called on him to step down but he made the call. He could have refused - it would not have made him friends but it was within his right to remain the candidate.

There was no need for him to stay, the kangaroo court had already decided. If the allegations are false, it could be seen as a removal from the race.

As for arrest warrants and so on, Platner’s goals were directly opposed to the Epstein class. Taxing the uber-rich for one, pisses that class off quite a bit as they suddenly have to contribute to the society they are stealing from. Accountability is toxic to them, so he was shaping up to be a thorn in their side.

So yes, while they are different people at different levels, the parallels are:

• getting dangerous for the upper class
• allegedly hurt women
• removed or forced to vacate an existing or future position of power

How so? Wasn’t he accused of maltreating women (strangers and partners) and had to drop out without any court case i.e due to allegations?

It’s kinda convenient that these things can happen behind closed doors without the allegations even being established as fact. All it takes is the allegation.

wat?

How do so many people own a home? There’s no way that’s right. How is this being counted? Is this a percentage of adults? Does it take the number of home owners and divide it by the number of adults in the country? Does it count adult children living in their parents homes as “owners”?

I need to see some methodology.

Depends which country you’re in. UK: Greens, France: LFI, US: independents, Italy: Partito Democratico, …

Anything but vote for somebody to tax wealth instead of work.

This is in the vein of my question. It seems like I have to manually find every company that’s working on digital sovereignty and then check each other job pages manually too.

They don’t actually read their mail anyway, it usually goes to a staffer. At best, the politician gets a summary like “X real emails, Y auto emails, generally bad vibes on CC”. Even the reply will likely be written by the staffer (if not auto generated entirely).

Yes, and that would be another signal.

Seriously, who under 30 or even 40 uses email for communicating with people on a regular basis? Email for me is just for two-factor authentication, notifications for everything that isn’t installed as an app on my phone, and spam. I barely ever send anything to anybody. My “sent” folder has maybe 100 things in there from the last 10 years.

Also, it’s not about them replying, it’s about sending a message. They need a signal to see how people are responding to things. A finger on the pulse so to speak. Right now, they only get signals from nutters on Xitter and geriatrics on Facebook. Politics are a big subject on the fediverse and beyond, but politicians barely ever know of it unless a news article comes out about it. Maybe they pay some company to do analysis of what people are saying (Cambridge Analytica), but they aren’t directly exposed to it.

Politicians were surprised during the chat control vote when they suddenly got emails thanks to https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ and were saying “it’s undemocratic”. That was however exactly how democracy should work: they suddenly “heard” the voices of people, not lobbyists and were flabberghasted by the fact. We need more people in the face of politicians, virtually and physically.

Dating apps are brutal for men, especially 4channers.

About fucking time. Fat pricks like Orban shouldn’t be able to hold up 26 other nations because of their extra-national dick-sucking abilities.

I see, that’s understandable. We all have pet-peeves. Mine is the date format in the US that has spread month-day-year. Most of Europe is day-month-year and it’s very confusing when people start adopting US formats because they watch so much stuff from the US.

USAian defaultism is always hilarious

Not to take away from the achievement, but how long can heat be stored though? Isn’t pumped hydro a better solution?

How am I not on it? I literally mod !twnw@fedia.io and it’s just about taxing the rich and billionaires. Guess I need to be more active there.

Thanks. I don’t know why the survey didn’t just show all and then give you the option to give your opinion all at once, nor why they didn’t link to this page.

That, I can agree with. I don’t know why the picked birds.