PTB. Not sure why this would be assumed to be trolling unless there’s more information missing here?
In my opinion, “trolling” should not be used as a ban excuse at all. It requires an assessment of a user’s intentions and internal mental state. Which mods have proven completely incapable of making accurately.
The theory put forth here doesn’t make a lot of sense. Are we sure left leaning people aren’t just becoming more anti-car in general?
For me, 5 years ago, buying an EV seemed like a great idea, albeit one I couldn’t really afford. But then I realize I could just reduce my driving by 90% and achieve the same benefit while saving money. So I don’t really need an EV anymore now that I barely ever drive.
Why not just use a pump?
This is what cracks me up about all the people calling for guillotines on Lemmy. You think they’ll stop with oil company ceos or whatever? No chance.
I think he’s full of shit but just how full of shit is an important question.
I feel like that’s probably including a lot of trolls or people who barely know who Stalin is.
On any survey with two responses you will get at least a few percent, even if the option is rather odious.
Not to mention that unless their sample size is huge, the margins of error will be very large on a small subsample like this.
So I mean I’m not saying it’s wrong per se but there are a lot of reasons it might not be completely accurate.
I don’t think they’re even close to that many but I have actually been curious if there has been much polling that can estimate the size of fringe ideologies like this.
I guess it will be tough to measure due to the margin of error.
For reference, Claudia de la Cruz got .1% of the vote in 2024. And some of those people probably just protest voted without really understanding her platform. So I think we’re dealing with a tiny number of people here.
Also, the only way they would affect the outcome is if those people would have otherwise voted for Harris. Which is far from obvious.
It’s pretty clear that Harris lost because she was not well liked by all sorts of voters. The far left is just one tiny piece of the larger phenomenon.
The second part is true though. Terminally online leftists have no power to change anything.
Good news. Although, as we’ve seen, elections don’t guarantee any real self-rule by the people.
Still, a positive step.
Terrorism is a nebulous word that means whatever the government wants it to mean.
This is why anti-terrorist laws should be abolished.
Why would you need to be famous to ignore social media?
Very good point. To be honest, I haven’t paid much attention to this story but maybe I should.