All of them I would think.

Sure I was at them, just like I’ve been at a lot of protests for other topics too. But I don’t perceive that any of them were large enough to specifically be the key factor in swinging an election that was frankly not that close. A lot of political radicals aren’t very persuadable anyway.

Anyway your last comment is puzzling. I have no more sway on democratic policies than you do. Your last comment is weird. I think dems should reject genocide too. I just think they should do it because it’s the right thing to do, not because it would magically make fascism disappear through some mysterious and unknown mechanism.

Surely the Russian revolution involved the general public?

I just find the idea that Gaza swung the election so improbable. Do most Americans even know Gaza exists, let alone what is happening there? And how many who do know care about what’s happening to people they’ve been told are all terrorists?

So I don’t find its omission that surprising.

Well AWS is much harder to avoid that’s true. I’m not sure how you can even tell if a site is working with them. Only way to be sure would be to never go online.

True that’s the main reason I would shop online because some things can’t be purchased otherwise. But I don’t run into that super often.

Next time I’ll pay attention to see if Amazon is involved in some way… I have been boycotting them for a few years now and would like to continue that as best I can. Frankly, with how awful their site has become I haven’t missed it much.

Really? You mean like other websites you buy from are secretly owned by Amazon?

So maybe there is more to discuss here than I thought.

Still I’m a big proponent of brick and mortar shopping. Or better yet, borrow from a friend or freecycle. So I rarely buy things online anyway.

Are they wrong?

I’m not angry at people who have done nothing. Lives are busy, people were not educated properly, etc.

But the people who are actually protecting the thieves I fucking despise.

I just buy most things in person. If that fails I do a web search and buy from another platform. So I’m not sure how much there is to talk about but maybe I’m missing something.

If you have questions or ideas/resources it probably makes the most sense to just post on the existing de-Amazon com, since the audience there is likely to be interested. With the size of Lemmy it’s important not to separate our communities that are too niche, or they won’t really fire.

Very misleading summary of the events that led to Morales’s ouster. He’s just another wannabe dictator. Not that that excuses the US’s meddling.

Very optimistic to assume these people will remain in the minority long enough for us to repair things.

I always thought if I lived through the rise of an authoritarian cult of personality I would understand the process better and it would be less baffling than the ones you read about in history.

But no it still seems completely fucking crazy after watching it for over 10 years.

If they could learn from their mistakes it would be nice. But now that they’ve turned on Trump they’re ready for the next grifter to absorb their support.

Pretty surprising finding. I guess untangling myth from fact for these sort of conventional wisdom can be difficult.

I mean it’s totally possible it’s higher in your local area. It’s a national average so there are also local factors at play that aren’t visible in it.

No worries I didn’t take it as anything rude.

Sure but that’s not what the poll was asking. It just asked whether COL was higher or lower between them.

But maybe you’re right that there are better questions to ask.

There was a period (the start of the Russia/Ukrainian war) where gas prices were higher than now. So it’s not that crazy I don’t think. The best way to compare two periods would be to average the prices over time but people can’t do that on their own really.

It’s really not too bad. Just imagine weighing yourself down and laying flat on the bottom as they crawl over you. As long as you don’t try to move they won’t bother you.