He wants to play the martyr, thinking it will help his candidacy. It helps him in the primary, as it pumps his narrow base up, but how many people can be undecided about Trump at this point? I’m hopeful this circus will turn off anyone not wearing a red cap already.

The best part of Lemmy is the low userbase in comparison means it’s easier to be original and not try and say the same thing a hundred times.

The graph charting donations received vs when he was indicted and arraigned was one of the more interesting parts of the article to me. I knew that to his supporters the legal news was proof of the deep state and nothing would turn them off of him, but I didn’t realize what good press all the news about it would be. I assume the other bumps in the chart are other, smaller news items about him.

16 years there. Once Boost stopped working I got off the site and migrated here. I’ve read threads that come up in Google searches, and looked at some specialty subs since, but nothing longer than 5 minutes every few days.

This is it exactly: the difference in the discussions and posts between when I joined a few weeks ago and now is striking. It’s reminding me of early reddit before the Digg migration and I’m hopeful it will continue to improve

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