Israel isn’t just playing nice, the ceasefire is ongoing. Hamas wouldn’t play along if it was all fake. Every day Gaza isn’t being turned into rubble is a win and lives are being saved.

Yes, Israel is doing this because they want to help Trump. That doesn’t mean the ceasefire isn’t a good thing.

Israel will face justice for its crimes, but that will happen regardless which demon gets elected president of the Great Satan.

The ceasefire is still ongoing, despite Israel’s provocations. I know you’re horny for more genocide so you can feel good about being “right” about the lesser evil, but so far the number of dead children has dramatically decreased since Biden was in office.

Biden floated a plan to displace all the Palestinians in Gaza too, but he was unable to get any Arab country to go along with it.

Trump will face the same obstacles.

We spent over a year using every means of pressure we had to bend the party and all we had to show for it was more billions for Israel. Nothing would have changed if we voted for the party that spent the last year ignoring our demands.

If they did all that, they’d be part of the solution. Surely that matters?

So you… don’t want anyone to confront Republicans?

Give pregnant people guns? 🤔

Oh no, I think defederation is only necessary when an instance becomes a problem. Until piefed.social becomes a haven for trolls to manipulate vote counts (which might never happen) then it’s fine.

But if a dozen anonymized piefed.social votes start downvoting everything I say because they’re monitoring my account then their admins would need to do something about it. If they didn’t, I’d want defederation.

And we can call them fascist collaborators, class traitors, and neoliberal pigs. 🤷‍♀️

Primary every single one.

The country did vote, if you recall.

I’m saying the voters chose Trump because he promised to break the rules, not really because he’s right wing.

I don’t see the country moving right, I see it rejecting the norms. They want someone in power who tells his opposition “fuck you I do what I want” and breaks all the rules. People want things to change, no matter the cost.

Democrats moving to the left wouldn’t necessarily solve this problem either. A farther left candidate that still wants to follow all the rules would lose. They want someone who is going to break stuff.

Yup. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, or however that saying goes.

Oh I see, you were talking about a hypothetical where all instances hide their votes and so no one knows who is voting on anything.

My assumption was that these vote records would remain transparent on most instances because the instances that hide their votes just get defederated, because those are always going to be instances where trolls hide.

If everyone’s votes are public then it seems trivial to see how any particular user votes.

If user shithead69420 downvotes literally everything I post, they’re probably not a good faith user.

Banning trolls would be doable - they’d have patterns where they target specific users across many different communities. If the same user downvotes everything I’ve ever said, from controversial political takes to pictures of food to posts about gardening, that’s probably a malicious user.

But “brigading” doesn’t mean anything and I don’t respect the concept. You can’t ban it because you can’t define it in a way that doesn’t include normal usage of the site.

But they can just be banned from those instances?

Nothing stops defederation, though.

It’s not a fucking alternative, you’ll still need insurance if you get referred somewhere else.

It’s just yet another monthly bill.

Well also, Trump hasn’t pulled the trigger on ignoring court orders yet.

If he runs out of new stuff to try he’s probably going to pull an Andrew Jackson i.e. “The Court has made its ruling, now let them enforce it.”