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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 2mo ago

DuckDuckGo is being unsurprisingly unhelpful with this because all results are influencers or brace brands (most of whom don't even specialize in hypermobility or EDS):

Can anyone with hEDS or similar show me a shoulder brace that lets them use their arms but protects their shoulders from subluxation? *

I only need pictures, can't afford to buy one myself so I'm gonna try to DIY 😅 additional information also appreciated, I'll be researching anatomy for it too

#hEDS #EDS #hypermobile

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@vervain @tinker this is also why I love fedi, I'm realizing. No algorithm to appease, no need to search for imprecise vibes. Hashtag cats shows me exactly what it says on the tin, and most of the people I follow are autistic too 🤷

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@i_give_u_worms @oz1sej @joelle it would leave people no more disengaged than our scrolling habits do. Every time they do a pilot to test UBI, it goes well. Every time. It's not that no one has come up with a practical plan for it, it's that oligarchs would have less power if workers were less desperate.

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@alice@lgbtqia.space @eruonna@lgbtqia.space @Bel_tamtu@meemu.org people's guesses of others' sexuality is wrong all the time, too. I think when I flirt with women, especially cis women outside of sapphic specific spaces, they usually just assume I'm being friendly. Once I mentioned a girlfriend and my coworker looked at me with a lot of confusion for a sec before going "OH, you're BI!" 🙄 I don't even like men.

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 3mo ago

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@JustinMac84@mastodon.social @ptoothfish@beige.party Cory Doctorow is fedi infamous for his AI shilling... he talks about the benefits of scraping, and he talks about the benefits of using LLMs in his work. I don't think he's a particularly good source for the point you seem to be trying to make (that scraping is good in some situations and shouldn't be assumed to include LLM training?)

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 3mo ago

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@JustinMac84@mastodon.social I assume @ptoothfish@beige.party meant "scraping in order to plagiarize" like all the AI companies do. Scraping in order to increase access to readers/watchers/etc, in a way that links back to the original source, is more akin to piracy imo

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @ratsnakegames@mastodon.social the way I see it: 1) kids who are not at all interested in politics probably won't vote anyway 2) personally I was writing youth liberation zines (without the language) at 10, so I am absolutely positive there are kids at least that young with real political opinions they should be allowed to express in a way that makes a difference 3) some kids will be coerced into voting for XYZ. I see no difference between them and the many adults that are 🤷

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@zed @Stoori @Mimesatwork it's not okay if they *all* have fees, or if it's really hard to find one without. What is someone supposed to do if they don't even have 50 cents? I've had people ask me for a quarter before, and I've avoided being a part of public life myself over costs of about $5. 50 cents may be extremely accessible to you, or to most people even, but not everyone, and personally I'm most concerned about those with nowhere else to go, because if they can't afford any bathroom... 💩🛣️

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

Is there a term for the section of the web and software that is designed with the user's health and well being in mind? (or at least acts like it, intent isn't particularly important as long as the design ends up being healthy for the user)
Websites that give specific pieces of information immediately, apps that let you quickly get to whatever you opened them for, things that don't glue you to the screen

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 3mo ago

"you just haven't had the right dick yet" yes I have and it was on a woman

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@tinker thanks for making this connection, I'm getting really tired of people making fun of me for being bad at web searching all of a sudden :/ turns out I'm just not good at communicating with neurotypicals, or with stochastic parrots of neurotypicals trained to respond like them

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@rancholibertad @dbattistella not all of us, anyway. There are indigenous people all over the world continuing to serve local ecosystems, but keep getting interrupted and sabotaged by colonizers. Colonization parasitizes the planet and will continue killing it until enough of us decide to fight against it at the (extremely worth it, negligible imo) cost of our convenience

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@ghouston@mamot.fr @alice@lgbtqia.space @airshipper@cloudisland.nz @BenHM3@saint-paul.us going up to a stranger and telling them you want to have sex with them may be creepy. Complementing the color they dyed their hair could be flirty or friendly, and it's not creepy as long as you let them choose which it is. If they don't want to flirt with you, they won't, and it could just be a passing friendly complement

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@flancian @cwebber reskilling into what exactly? What skill are you practicing by asking a computer to do everything for you?

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@cy that's a fair point. I'm not quite convinced you can't talk about covert predation without policing other's language abt overt predation, but I understand the desire for a word. I'm not talking about thoughts 🤦 someone coming up to me to tell me what they want to do to me is not engaging in thought crimes, they are saying words aloud and they are usually making me feel unsafe. Idgaf what someone thinks of me as long as they don't force me to listen to their fantasies of me as a sex object

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @redsad@ohai.social lmao what? I love the "good post, friend" button. I love that it's nothing more than a communication from reader to writer, instead of being required by some shitty algorithm for anyone to see my posts

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@kitkat_blue I 100% agree with what you're saying, but I don't think it goes against what @evacide said--threat modeling is harder than it looks because we don't know what and where and why data is being collected about us. No one (here) said it's our fault. It's made so difficult on purpose by evil corporations. The end users aren't to blame for that, and I didn't take "harder than it looks" to assign that blame whatsoever

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@mrmasterkeyboard okayyy taking that off the favorite FOSS list, that sucks

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@zed @sammy yes. The only way to make things accessible to people with no money is to not charge money for them

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @foone@digipres.club that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard 😅 if I were to rank social media spaces on how anti-queer they are, fedi would be at the bottom of a long list. I guess they picked a very different instance than the ones I've been interacting with! They could've said it's anti-Black or anti-Semitic and I wouldn't bat an eye, but anti-queer? Lmfao

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@hollie@social.coop @bookstodon@fedigroups.social next Christmas I'm just gonna send the link to this device to everyone in my family in case they were tempted to get me an Echo or some shit 🙃 (I'm the tech nerd, which must mean I want any piece of tech I can get my hands on, right?)

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@claralistensprechen3rd @hiisikoloart@writing.exchange I appreciate the support, but for the record, there are a lot of cis people in the queer community and most have never questioned if pride month is for them. Cis people can be gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, etc just as well as trans people can

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@coba@gruene.social @LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @ratsnakegames@mastodon.social hm, well I'm conflicted on that. I don't think setting any minimum age is fair because kids develop at their own paces, but I fear that framing it as an extra vote for the parent will encourage people (especially those with more dehumanizing political opinions who are less likely to care about how much a kid will suffer when they have kids) to just have more kids specifically for political power, the way some people already have more kids for servants

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@HappytoBe@mastodon.social @futurebird@sauropods.win it does make sense that they'd chase Independents the hardest, though. I'll consider registering as an Independent, although it'll suck not to be able to vote in the primaries

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@HappytoBe@mastodon.social @futurebird@sauropods.win I'm wondering what would happen if more progressives changed voter affiliations to Republican (but don't actually vote for Republicans except in primaries). I'm sure Republican politicians would be more willing to listen, and I bet Democrat politicians would too 🫠

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place that, on the other hand, might actually help!

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@NMBA@mstdn.ca @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I honestly would not be that surprised if this is the direction we're heading in. It's plausible after banning kids from using computers ""for their protection"" (they're doing age verification at the OS level which is probably how that's gonna go) and banning married women (at least those who changed their name) from voting

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@UpLateGeek@bitbang.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Meta has been fined, at least for scam ads, but the amount they were fined was negligible compared to what they were making from the scam ads so they just kept doing it. The fines have gotta be sliding scale to work, a huge chunk of their profits. Or they should start dissolving corporations--a human being can be executed for horrible crimes against humanity (which I do not support ftr), so why the fuck can't we "execute" corporations for the same at a much larger scale?

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@Lstn2urmama@mstdn.ca @amydiehl@mstdn.social wow, that's not even "multitasking," he had one job 😭

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@ghouston@mamot.fr @cy I wouldn't know about your first claim but it does sound plausible. As far as the latter, I've only heard women called creepy if they're sapphic, trans, autistic, or "ugly" (usually combinations thereof)--the average woman flirting with a man who's sexually interested in women will not be considered creepy, because patriarchy sees women as a sexual commodity for men. So many will see that as "yay, free sex!" (and others will shame her for being "slutty" but not "creepy")

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@Lstn2urmama@mstdn.ca @amydiehl@mstdn.social no one (here) said women don't *do* more, just that it's not *easier* for women and men have absolutely no excuse for not doing as much as women do. They (men) sure will take the opportunity to let the women in their life do most of the work, often using this very myth that it's somehow easier for women and their poor "male brains" just can't handle it 🙄

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@cy I'm using it in the colloquial sense, behavior that sexualizes someone without their consent and is likely to make them uncomfortable. I'm sure creepy used to mean people who did it slowly, but that's not how it's always used now, and that's not the most common use I've seen for it. Hate it all you want, use the term however you see fit, but language evolves and you can't stop it from doing so without having more control over other people than anyone should ever have.

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@octothorpe@mastodon.online @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @lisamelton@mastodon.social good! I don't want there to be any global superpower, but if there is I'd much rather China than the US. If only to survive climate change for long enough to actually fight against the power structures that have taken hold of the planet

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@nessotropheion@glaceon.social this is a great example of why we don't need LLMs: people are not only capable of cutting and pasting text from arbitrary sources, but much better at it!

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@artemis@dice.camp there is a little, at least in/around the song, but what's important to me is that it's not validated or allowed to go unchallenged. Darryl's response is basically (iirc) "have you not been listening to my song???" which imo sends the important message of "stop telling people who they are and start fucking listening when they tell you"

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social @bookstodon@fedigroups.social if any European, USian, or tbh anyone from a powerful country anywhere is still having a hard time conceptualizing that not all citizens support the horrible things their government does, we should start *their* war crimes trial

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@rancholibertad @dbattistella I'm so sorry. I need to read more than the post content before replying. My response was totally inappropriate to whom I was responding. I'm committed to listening more fully in the future (including checking to whom I'm talking) before reacting to a piece of what someone said. And thank you for staying human to the ecosystem /gen

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@ichbindabomb@nerdculture.de considering the way fascists love to accuse everyone else of their own plans, and the accusations that have been made against Hamas by US fascists, I wouldn't doubt it

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@quinn @GustavinoBevilacqua with that in mind, I'd say pretty much *anything else* we do to protect kids from these corporations (and other bad actors online) would have the added benefit of protecting adults, too. Most of the ways kids can get hurt and used online are happening to people of all ages, and we all deserve protection from it. Just shunning kids protects no one, not even the kids because they'll just find ways around it because they feel left out of the torment nexus adults frequent

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 2mo ago

I wanna make sure that I follow all the rules the kids have to unless there's a really good reason why there's a double standard (eg "I can use knives because I know how to be safe with them" or "I can be in the office because I won't take other people's belongings and get food all over them or throw them")
That "do as I say, not as I do" bullshit did nothing but set up a hierarchy of hypocrisy

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@zicklepop@nyan.lol @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social it appears neither is free :/ still a cool service, seems likely to be worth the money for those who can afford it

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@sinvega @AmyZenunim I have two examples of this: knitting and songwriting. I learned the very very basic building blocks, experimented on my own for a decade or two, and then once I finally sat down to learn more of the official strategies people teach each other, I was already using most of them. Everything I've learned explicitly about music theory I was already implementing in my songs. Most fancy knitting techniques I had already figured out myself from knit, purl, and slip

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange @Gargron@mastodon.social seconding at least "You are/were interested in it and actively pursued it." I had no more access to tech than the average lower middle class kid who grew up in the 2000s, and mostly had no idea how computers worked until my Twitter circles offered Mastodon as a liferaft, and then my fedi circles offered Linux, and then I had Tech Issues that I kept having to look up and solve. I sought a path away from the technofascism I was raised in and I found it--others can do the same.

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 5mo ago

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@mathowie they're not an ableist slur, they're something much worse: a fascist (who probably loves flinging that word around even more than you do)

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu @octothorpe@mastodon.online @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @lisamelton@mastodon.social who said anything about invasion? It seems they're gaining power primarily by offering people supplies to get through the climate crisis. I'm gonna want to subvert that power too, of course, but I also don't mind their assistance in toppling the empire that's currently destroying the homes of every living being on the planet for the enjoyment of a handful of child rapists. My priority is in stopping that, and then we can stop China too.

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@mikemccaffrey@wandering.shop @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @Petesmom@kolektiva.social idk, I think it's pretty relevant that they're getting help and who they're getting help from. It seems like it'd be some sort of clickbait to let us wonder how the hell they're pulling it off

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Morgan ⚧️ @raphaelmorgan@disabled.social

· 4mo ago

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@HappytoBe@mastodon.social @futurebird@sauropods.win I assume you're saying that from experience calling as a registered Republican, but I'm honestly surprised. The elections I've seen over the last decade or so have seemed as thought the Democrats are *only* interested in feedback from Republicans who are considering voting outside party lines--when they get feedback from registered Democrats (or God forbid, leftists), it seems to me their default response is "but we're still better than Republicans so vote for us anyway"

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