Aside from the aforementioned Discord server not being directly mine (nor are most of the community’s users on the Threadiverse, unfortunately), not only is there a difference between linking to a community Discord server on an associated Lemmy community versus doing so on a Lemmy news community, but the ownership structure and organizational goals of Discord (its gradual commercialization, walled garden, and degradation aside) are a far cry from Twitter being owned by a fascist, transphobic billionaire largely responsible for getting Trump elected.

They still could have made their own post with a proper article as the post URL rather than directing additional traffic to a right-wing social media platform.

Surely there’s a better source you could have linked to than Twitter.

He’s not scrambling to do anything, the headline is deliberately misleading.

But if it’s god’s will for them to die of measles, surely they should be respecting that? /s

When ICE is violently attacking civilians, there’s nothing controversial about naming and shaming the fascists involved.

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The article seems much closer to a PepsiCo marketing piece than proper journalism.

Fascist sympathizers.

New Yorkers hate Trump more than anyone else, so I’d say Trump fits much better (in the current political climate, at least) in his adopted home state of Florida.

Fines that don’t exceed profits are inevitably going to be treated as merely a cost of doing business.

has to be banned by legislation

The list of things that the legislature needs to do is a mile high, but things will only get worse and not better as long as fascists are running the show.

We need to follow Brazil’s lead and imprison fascists, not reward them for insurrection.

American law is as stable as a house of cards when half the country would rather base the law on presumptions of what 18th century white supremacists might have preferred to the needs of Americans in the 21st century…

You and your transphobic perspective are the problem, not the other way around. Just as there’s no place in civilized society for racists or bigots, there’s no place for those who go out of their way to deliberately put people down for expressing who they are.

Good thing they don’t believe in evolution either, or they would see the political Darwinism of geriatric MAGA voters not only being less likely to survive COVID, but also less likely to take any protective measures against it whatsoever.