It seems to me more like a game of “chicken” - you wouldn’t really vote for the other side, would you? (Immediately votes for other side.) Okay yeah, but you wouldn’t like, do exactly that yet again, would you? (Immediately does that again.) Okay yeah, but you wouldn’t like, do exactly that still yet also again, would you? (Repeat.)

This is what people miss about conservatives: they seem to be getting things done. When you have a single-minded focus on a particular thing, like abortion, then regardless of whether you should have done so or not you are going to get it done when you put in the level of time and effort that was done.

Never mind that it was a cover for lowering taxes on the wealthy - The People voted for it, and so got both in the same package. In contrast, the Dems seem to stand for… what exactly? Besides being merely less obvious about making payments to corporations?

Survival of the Fittest for now looks like it has doomed the USA Democrats. We’ll see if it has doomed democracy itself (this one globally). All I know is that afaik no democracy in history has ever survived devolution into a 2-party system - the parties each merely claim that they are not the other side, which incentives them to avoid actually doing anything themselves, which causes systemic collapse (hrm, sounds familiar somehow…).

I wish I could see a way out of this.

Ironically they would have been happier if they had remained ignorant of such matters…

I hope OP is okay…

Babe I love you but… not that much!?!?!? 😛

Counterpoint: number must go up! 💲💰💸🤑

Actually the OG is ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ (yogthos@lemmy.ml), although we can see the cross-posting chain as well as the true OC attribution in the lower right corner so perhaps no real need to provide such a mention at all?

Answer ready: it is 42. Now, would you like to know the question?

Hrm, I would hate to think so but… maybe? If only it would helpfully label itself, we could appreciate the message itself untainted by such worries.

Yeah that’s what I am starting to realize over the last couple of days - that while Reddit was bad, in some ways at least, they were less bad than Lemmy, or as you say at least lemmy.ml.

The key ingredient there is the transparency: Huffman may be a dick, but at least he is upfront about things: “you are landed gentry, under MY dominion, mu-wha-ha-ha now all will bow before me” indeed, but contrast that to claiming that lemmy.ml is for “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers.” - but did you get banned for spouting paid software? Or for violating privacy? No, or at least doubtful (I didn’t look:-). Look at the four rules - which ones did you break, that would warrant a site-wide ban? Some people get banned for none, e.g. for claiming that they have Uyghur family members staying with them who have experienced discrimination and potential genocide and… BAM, ban hammer. Bc neither Russia nor China can ever do any wrong - it is the USA that is “evil”, that is “capitalist”, and “democratic”, and “doing genocide”, but again, not precious Russia or China that does so.

I am looking heavily into alternatives that will allow banning lemmy.ml users across the Fediverse. One is lemmy.cafe, another is the Tesseract UI as implemented e.g. on dubvee.org, and another is Mbin (maybe, unless a bug no longer allows that? I saw one report of such anyway, but don’t have an account so cannot confirm), and I am leaning heavily towards joining PieFed, bc it’s so exciting what it is positioning itself to become in the future. Sublinks too but it never seems to be updating anymore, so I guess it’s stalled somehow.

Dessalines can do as he pleases. If we don’t like it, we can leave Lemmy. Those are our options.

So what you are saying is that since you are banned from lemmy.ml, you cannot participate in communities such as Firefox@lemmy.ml, for reasons entirely unrelated to anything that you said in that community?

Which means conversely that from your perspective, that entire community - and all others likewise hosted on lemmy.ml - are “held hostage” behind you either outright agreeing with whatever stance is taken by the instance admins, about whatever subject matters they choose to be the defining criteria for exclusion from the instance, or else at least you need to STFU about your true thoughts, about e.g. China, and capitalism, and Russia, and whatever else they feel like adding at any given moment.

It would have been nice to have had a warning presented to you, wouldn’t it? Like when you first go there, have a popup or sidebar note saying “Warning: you must agree that neither China nor Russia is actively engaging in genocide in order to participate in this community discussion about… <checks notes> the popular Firefox web browser”.

I bet reading the sidebar notice presented on lemmy.ca did not quite prepare you for that!?!?!?

It would be nicer to segregate “political” communities and instances from apolitical ones. Except these days, facts themselves are political, and all we can do is suck it and swallow.

Cowbee is notorious for not actually answering questions, just throwing up the same articles to read and asking people to DM them to continue the conversation. Make what you will of that info - are deeds done in the light of logical discourse inherently “better” than those done in darkness, i.e. are facts that can stand up to scrutiny somehow more “correct” than those that can only be whispered in the dark to those most vulnerable individuals still living in the cave?

Ikr!? Although how else would we know that bosses are incompetent and meetings suck? (besides experiences lived through daily I suppose:-) 😜

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Somehow I read this as Scott Adams and was confused for a minute… :-P

People forced to by work:-P.

It would be bold of us to believe that they did not?:-)

You were looking for this one, right?

I mean, probably not originally, but now you’re looking at it!? :-D

Oh yeah and your choice was indeed a lot more funny than his explorer clothes:-)

Doubly funny bc of the title of this post: “People still manage to get it backwards.” 😜