While that is a fair counterpoint, it does feel like there’s a difference between being prosecuted for like real estate fraud or whatever in one of the most left leaning states, and what’s currently happening with Bolsonaro.

If we get to a point where trump tries to steal an election, fails, and is actually facing extremely serious federal consequences, I would expect we would see a lot of trump supporters out in the streets.

He didn’t even get held accountable but the fact that he could fail at stealing the election in 2020 was enough to produce jan 6th, and I imagine jan 6th and how it blew up and (temporarily) got a lot of folks in legal trouble, blew off a lot of the steam and confidence needed for a bigger showing in response to the legal trouble trump almost kinda sorta got in.

I don’t think the way things are playing out in Brazil is terribly surprising.

I mean if Donald trump was being prosecuted and it seemed like he’d actually face legal consequences, he’d still have tons of people who support him in the US.

Cults of personality who use the support they’ve built to game the political system and try to uproot democracy do so through their ability to build support.

I’d wager he only got to the point where he could try to game the election because he had the ability to build so much support and was successful in doing so.

What an absolutely beautiful headline

Sorry, I know getting lots of the same response can be a bit much

Hope you have a lovely day :)

Its all from one spammer who threadiverse folks regularly talk about needing to manage spam from (if I’m not mistaken about who it is. They change usernames all the time and I don’t keep up with their accounts cause I’m not an admin)

The mods appear to have dealt with the issue appropriately. For me it only shows 77 comments as the “count”, but there are like a bajillion deleted comments by the same guy

Hmmmmm ಠ.ಠ

Thats a super cool visualization! This might make a really cool post for !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world! Maybe a screenshot with a seperate link to the site

Thanks for posting this! 😊

Thanks! It seemed like it might be fun 😊

Hope you have a lovely day!

You’re not wrong. Maybe that’d make for another fluff thread some time down the road

Rippp 😅

Fedlings is excellent! and also works for all fedi users which is kinda nice since the exact platform is kinda less important :)

You know what, piefites is a good neutral option!

If there’s a joke in saying it out loud or something my sleepy brain isn’t finding it

Hmmmmmm

This is a quite fun one

Pie peeps occurs to me as a potential option

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Cutie pies!! 🥹

The only downside is it might not be the most self explanatory

Magpies seems very cute, but like my other favorite so far, might not be super self explanatory

I completely forgot “lemmings” 😅😅

I’ve probably actually seen that one more, I don’t know how I forgot it lol

I’m also open to thoughts on “lemmites”! Its what I default to but I suppose it may be presumptuous for me to assume its what everyone uses, or wants to use :)