once again UTC showing its superiority to timezones good work lemmy team!

Surprised this brazenly says to vote no. Usually telling people how to vote is the line they dance around with all the negative "facts"

Most redditors will say that democrats are better than republicans, but that does not make someone a leftist. Democrats in America are center right at best and ripe with a ton of corruption of their own. Noticing that both parties are evil and we need economic reform beyond what either of them offer is the entrypoint to crossing the centerline

My experience has been the opposite. I've found that the majority of users tend to lean towards neoliberal and center-right ideologies. I guess most of them are probably American, so their warped worldview has them considering these ideologies as 'left-wing' instead 🙃

Currently using signal but have been intrigued by some of the no phone number alternatives like SimpleX

Capitalism gonna capitalize...

There's only been a limited selection up until this point

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