Skeptic

There seems to be a lot of people who confuse their right to have a ridiculous opinion with sharing it on my TL.

Just stopping by to mention that there are other social media platforms which provide news feeds and commentary but have not devolved into a cesspool.

Say, @KatyTurNBC, the question Jake Sherman posed should be about Republicans continued support of Trump, not about Democrats lack of support for McCarthy. Really need to do something about all the false equivalency.

Hey, @MSNBC, there is news beyond what is happening, or not happening, in Israel. Why don't you try reporting on some of it?

Anybody else out there unwilling to agree to Elmo's TOS for his POS?

If Elmo thinks I'm going to accept whatever diabolical terms of service he's cooked up to use this thing, he's got another think coming.

Taking away Tweetdeck, eh?

I mainly used Twitter for access to stories and headlines from, generally, fairly reliable sources. I can get that same thing on Mastodon, but without all the ad hominem attacks. While I miss interactions with some individuals not on Mastodon, it doesn't seem too hard a choice.

With the exception of missing some people I follow here, Mastodon World is a nice alternative.

I don't know what happened to Tweetdeck. I'm not sure if I'm going to hang around to find out.

It's likely impossible to stop a lawless cult by locking up some of its members; holding the cult leader accountable is much more effective in ending the cult.

MAGA didn't take over the GOP. The GOP constructed a coalition of deplorable people to achieve power, and now they are them.

If guns make people safer, why do we have more mass shootings than we have days this year? abcnews.go.com/US/mass-shoot…

Republicans have a perfect symbiotic relationship: A gullible base desperately seeking a fact-free narrative, and their leaders who feed them a steady stream of lies while picking their pockets.

The concept of the far-right and the far-left is just a media illusion: The far-right has just become so far-right that it makes anybody not embracing their insanity appear to be fart-left.

The Manhattan hush money case is important, but soon it will be just one burner on a six burner stove.

It appears that the GOP thinks its job is to do anything but their job.

If DeSantis gets the GOP nomination, it seems more probable that Trump would trade an endorsement for a pardon promise than running a doomed third party challenge. It's the transactional thing to do.

When it comes to Fox, Trump, and the GOP, MAGA will gladly accept every lie, but reject every truth they're told. It's not tribalism, it's a cult.

I'd like to think that MAGA would be upset and embarrassed that everything they were told were lies, but even the ones smart enough to figure it out will likely never admit it and just try to find another rabbit hole instead.

If everyone is going to insist that there are two echo chambers, I'm going to choose the one where thoughtful people make reasoned arguments using facts rather than the one full of hatred and conspiracy theories.