Going for the record of most total downvotes on Lemmy?

I think you are wrong, but only in the you’re not thinking about the big picture.

Elon “I traced the DDOS to Ukrainian terrorists” Musk is in charge of this. Someone on Twitter (probably his alt) is going to post a conspiracy on Twitter about Ukrainian or Canadian hackers being behind it, and he’s going to retweet it with some plausibly deniable bullshit like “not far off,” and rally up his cult of reactionary prokaryots to demand a economic or military response. It’s yet another golden opportunity for the crony collective to sweep their own incompetence under the rug while simultaneously scapegoating another country to push their unspoken-but-obvious agenda.

To anyone with critical thinking skills, sure. Try convincing the morons who believe he’s not a disinformation superspreader about that, though.

now he’s just a step removed from screaming about gay frogs.

He wouldn’t. He’ll bring on an “expert” on “gay frogs” and start Just Asking Questions-ing off while pretending to disagree. Once Gay Frogs Gary is platformed and given some time to spout off shit, then he’ll start subtly agreeing and posing conspiratorial questions under the guise of continuing his JAQing off session.

Oh, are we “shredding” instead of “slamming” now? An even better idea: acting on it

It’s always the emoji that rile up the reactionaries…

You do know the American political compass is special among political compasses, right? Compared to Europe (or even Canada), our definition of “moderate” is their equivalent of “conservative”. Likewise, our “left” is “center”.

Wishing the already-not-left Democratic Party starts shifting even more right is wishing for a two-party system where the options are conservatism and fascism.