I think it might be fractured as a feature on Lemmy, which is why putting it in the body is also allowed.

On Voyager, once I upload an image, there's a little stick figure button that lets me "Add an accessible caption" (the alt text). On desktop, there's an "Alt Text" option that shows up once I've uploaded an image.

Since I have no clue if all UIs do this or if users know where it is, body posts are fine if slightly less(?) useful for accessibility.

Some mobile clients such as Thunder support it. But if you don't use a client that supports the feature, then you're generally expected to put the transcript into the post body.

Those people were too busy cranking their own holier-than-thou hogs to consider it. Which is why they’re confused (see OP) and retreating to their FSB-designed playbook.

Scroll up, there’s more than a few sunk cost fallaciors still about.

Still can’t.

Excellent username btw

Maybe because it's a disingenuous and ignorant defense that plays into the right's framing that "their transing the kids", ignores the reality of 'de-transitioners', sows doubt on puberty blockers, and is just the casual whitewashed version that is used to make the more controlling legislation palatable.

Like why should you get "close enough" points for this take on Lemmy of all places.

$20 says they’re not a US voter

So you actively campaigned for more of it. Sounds like you fucked yourself. Is that so hard to understand?

Thank you for demonstrating the point in the most predictable way possible.

Now we're arguing about Hitler (D) who wants to put trans people in prison

This is insane bullshit.

Both candidates are willing to launch a nuclear weapon in behalf of Israel.

Also bullshit. Your version of fox news is terrible.

The reason you get downvoted is because its, in your case likely unwitting, concern trolling.

It is nobody's decision but the person receiving treatment.

While it's important that people are fully informed of the risks and potential downsides associated, the specific wording of the talking point you are repeating is designed to infantalize and remove the option under the guise of "caution".

Ironically this is a perfect example of how liberals end up supporting conservative and/or fascist policies.

People said that about Harris too. You see how that’s going, yes?

they mostly agree with

No it's a candidate you mostly agree with. I for one don't care for a party that doesn't fight for medicare for all, doesn't fight to restore the courts, doesn't imprison traitors and rapists, that supports genocide, that pumps more funding into cops and ICE, that strives for "the most lethal military in the world", that continues to subsidize fossil fuels, that legally bars workers striking, that doesn't bother to codify Roe, and ultimately when they finally get around to doing something, they assume that giving government money to market driven companies will best solve problems.

I meant in regard to the big text.

But my point in this thread is against those saying not to vote blue in the general election. I've tried to make it clear that we should also change the system - whether by running for office, civil war, whatever. Not all options are equal.

But again, I'm just arguing against the people defending not voting for the non-fascist in the general election. Because people are supporting that.

Blocked

Ironic, I've been blocked by a fascist supporter who doesn't comprehend basic English.

I can empathize with non voters without encouraging it.

I wish I could ignore it all. I hate politics and that I need to be aware of it. It’s a stupid game with dumb rules I can never win or even quit.

I honestly can’t blame them.

No one’s arguing voting Dem is a magical cure-all. Your local Dem will not be 100% aligned with your worldview (unless it’s you in office).

But 65% is more than -200%. A shit-ton of so-called “lefties” cannot do basic math.

If Gavin Newsom is the dem candidate I will not be able to stomach voting for him, im a trans person and I refuse to vote for someone who would actively backstab me

Username checks out.

fuck you back, war crimes supporter. You should have made the dems do the right thing and you didnt lift a finger to do that during the entire campaign season. Dont come pretending you fought the good fight now. You didnt.

--the entire world

I can empathize with non voters

I can't empathize when they are part of the problem.

I can empathize with their frustration. I share it.

That’s because yOu LoVe tEh GeNoSiiiiiDe!!11!

I, however, am SO much smarter and better than you. I choose to let trump win.

. . . Wait how was this supposed to work again?

Thank you for not engaging with a single part of the actual argument.

That "single issue" is literally genocide. I don't really care if Adolf Hitler aligns with me on wanting to make train rides free.

Yeah you're right, we should vote blue no matter who, even when the blue candidate does their best to appeal to right-wing voters. Surely this will have no bearing on the political leanings of democratic politicians in the future

I think the question is, what is the best way to get politicians who aren't genocidal. Which is a specific case of the question of how you get change implemented.

I have seen people advocate for incremental change, and I have seen people advocate for revolution. The problem with incrementalism is that it looks like too little, and it's uncertain in direction and can be reversed. The problem with revolutionism is that absolutely nothing happens until a cataclysmic change occurs, and then it's absolutely not clear that the change is what people wanted in the first place.

Conservatives have achieved the monumental changes they wanted over the course of five decades. I find their goals repulsive, their methods disgusting, and their personalities (people in power) revolting. But I begrudgingly admit that their approach worked. They got absolutely everything they ever wanted, and their problem right now is that they, too, can't live in the world they decidedly thought they wanted.

And wouldn’t it be nice to just… stop. Just for a bit to exist in a place where the world isn’t ending and it’s all your fault?

Where you have agency in the world and aren’t ruled by a bunch of idiots?

Where you aren’t killing children and starving children and poisoning the planet?

Where you don’t feel like the best solution is to just kill as many of these assholes as possible because that’s honestly the best thing you can do for the climate?

Wouldn’t that be lovely?

pro-access to hormone treatments in most circumstances for adults

So you want to take away access to care for some adults?

Labour UK has been kind of astounding to watch. They started strong then somewhere around six months in it started to get wonky. And now it’s like some sort of Labourexit. Bizarre. But I guess that's why the Greens are growing.

Just like last time

yep, and the Dem leadership still support israel no matter what they do. They learned nothing and will try to set up the same voter hostage situation in every vote from now on.

“Americans”

Source?

Yeah.

That's the thing: that sounds reasonable until you take 5 minutes to research and find that there are already a fuck ton of roadblocks and checks in place to make sure it's what they want and the best option. That statement is either made in bad faith or in ignorance. A trans person trying to get access to surgery and a woman trying to have her uterus removed have similar, but unique, levels of difficulty.

Pretending anyone can make that choice on a Tuesday and undergo serious surgery on a Wednesday is either super ignorant or a bad actor. You can't even do that shit for normal healthcare procedures.

But the viral right found its token examples, and those examples became the face of an entire problem that didn't exist.

Gazabrained take. Protest another two state politician while Trump posts AI memes of hotels on Palestinian land.

Biden Administration Bypassed Congress on Weapons Sale to Israel

To start with, he could have, uh, not bypassed congress on weapons sales to Israel.

the floating pier from day one was to have israeli guards at the end of it. It was a pretend situation where Israel could have instead just opened one gate into gaza instead for the exact same effect. Its a transparent and idiotic PR game and always was, and evidently you fell for it. Or you're pushing the same braindead propoganda narrative with a straight face. How was the pier any different than a gate on land?

"Scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds."

What country do you vote in?

I'd love to get my leg back and to not have had six heart attacks and to not be on dialysis for kidney failure, but that's just not an option.

Sure, it'd be nice - that would be an understatement.

But if you don't take things how they are - if I lived like my kidneys still worked, I'd be dead in a month or two, tops.

The 65% brings us further right so the Republicans can be more evil.

You're getting downvoted for being right.

I used to agree, but after seeing how lefties will refuse to vote for the most pointless reasons, I can see why they thought that strategy was better.

It wasn’t, of course, but I can see how their math said that.

Does it.

No. Stop being wrong.

You just can't help yourself.

Leopards snacking on the left after feasting on the right.

Pretty trivially easy question.
Biden could have done a lot of things -- vetoed funding and stopped running interference for Israel in the UN. And he could have called it a genocide and illegal on the world stage. Biden refused to call it a genocide. He could have called for an international force to stop the killing. He also flew recon missions for the Israelis with US drones over Gaza didnt he.

And "starting a war"? with who, Israel? Are you stupid? That war would last 5 minutes. Biden took massive amounts of money from AIPAC his entire career, and called himself a zionist all the time. Your pretending he had no choice and was simply a victim of circumstance is pure lies. He was massively bribed. A corrupt peice of shit genocide supporter. He would absolutely lose his case and be imprisoned if the US had done the right thing and signed onto the ICC. He belongs in an orange jumpsuit, sharing a cell with trump.

What a stupid world.

Messages don't rule the country. Policies do.

You are correct although I don't even think the two party system is related to the constitution. I think it's more about precedent than anything else. The country is too conservative to change the way things are done even when it's not legally bound. I'd love to leave this shithole. The day trump won in 2016, I lost faith irreparably that we'd ever be decent again. As you can imagine, 2024 nuked the tiny sliver of hope I had again. I expect the worst moving forward. I grew up in a world that this generation was supposed to be able to fix. But the oligarchs have ensured only the oldest most corrupt rich asswipes alive can access power so that dream is dead.

Yeah. I didn't handle that well myself. But in all likelihood people were not going to change their minds anyway. It's like trying to speak English to a duck.