Nixon (also Reagan and Johnson) severely damaged it, Trump is just the end stage.

If they used Mastodon or Lemmy, those people would be less tense.

If they had more normies on it, maybe. But Lemmy seems to be composed primarily of the tensest people in the world to me.

In my experience, most self-identified centrists, at least in the US, are to the right of what anyone reasonable would actually consider center. And I don't mean that in an "um ackshually the Dems are center right" way either, I mean they're often just Conservatives who don't hate gays (but do hate trans people) or something.

Taylor Swift is clouted up. She can move away from Twitter and people will follow.

Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Kirby Planet Robobot for the same reason: while not the most innovative games and not necessarily my favorites in their respective franchises, they represent nearly flawless implementations of their respective franchise's ideas.

Sometimes I feel like Mario and a couple popular indie games are the only platformers that get taken seriously honestly.

Both Mario Odyssey and SMB Wonder are only innovative in a vacuum where Mario is the only platformer franchise. Which for a lot of people I imagine is the extent of their knowledge about platformers.

The things people call "innovative" about Mario Odyssey are just half Kirby and half Banjo-Kazooie. Yeah Odyssey's biggest maps are way bigger than Banjo-Kazooie, but SMO runs on hardware that can emulate the N64, and it still has quite a few maps on the smaller side

SMB Wonder... I don't actually know what people call "innovative" about SMB Wonder, but I've seen people call it "innovative." It's the best 2D Mario made in the 21st century and it has a pretty cool gimmick. What's innovative about this?

I... don't really know? I legit don't know whether I'd feel dysphoria if I woke up in a female body unless it happened. I don't feel dysphoria in my current body but I like crossdressing and I'm not really that attached to the notion that I'm a man.

As someone who is perhaps more worried about the state of the country than most (my predictions are "the Israel-Palestine conflict will lead to Republican victory" and "over half the population might have to flee" )...we just carry on I guess. What can you do? There's rising labor power in the US, Biden's been a net good for that, but that's a small silver lining that would be completely meaningless in a worst case scenario. Won't help the bigger problem of religious fascism. The Republican Party's clear incompetence and the fact that most Americans want abortions legal could've saved us, but then the election became about Israel, and that splits the Democratic base. The government failed. Knew about Russian influence for years and completely failed to effectively combat it.

Hopefully one Trump court case or another makes him unable to run, but that does not mean the Republican Party doesn't win.

The overwhelming trend in non-US Westerner commentary on US politics is to is get the facts right...and then dilute it with exaggerations, stereotypes, not understanding the culture, not respecting the culture, not believing there is a culture, a general lack of empathy...

More and more American cities are removing them too!

Voice commands. I get the utility if you're disabled or elderly, but it seems like a hassle to anyone else.

Any smart home tech that isn't fully self-hosted. I'm far from a privacy hardliner, but that's one line I won't let the corpos cross.

And the government isn’t the only monster.

Very important. Otherwise you become a Libertarian or a Theocrat.