That’s like a trunk.

I wouldn’t believe their supposedly high IQ otherwise.

Right? How dare them?

Starving children and invading countries comes with a cost! Help the state that hates you!

To start with?

Why? Just why?

I wish the pandemic and second Trump term wouldn’t happened, but even with these unfortunate events, things are looking good here. Certainly, things can and should get even better.

This is the way. We did it in Mexico, it isn’t perfect, but it’s moving things. Corporate media and the USA government don’t like it, but most Mexicans do (like 70-80% by some polls).

So, cannibalism is fine for vegans, as long as there is consent? Is this limited to gametes?

Sorry if you are not an expert here, I just jumped to the opportunity.

I always come back to the voting system criticism that I started in Reddit. Unfortunately, the voting system was brought to Lemmy, but it’s less “damaging” the way it’s used around here. Moreover, in Lemmy you can hide the voting system, which is the way I use this platform, with a positive effect in my social anxiety.

I believe the voting system is planned, primarily, as an “emotional pit”. With this term I mean it’s like having a sentiments pool of the community members points of view on some issue. A highly voted comment is ideology and enotionally-charged in a given way, and it’s usually read within the context that was provided by the emotional discharge of massively liking or not a comment. Try always to read a comment without the votes context in search of a different meaning of the author than what the community reads. This is also affected by the cultural framework of the participants in a community. Most prominent among these factors is the English language, which is not spoken daily by many users of Lemmy, frequently sending a tone that may sound harsh, flamboyant, ignorant, sloppy, etc. to native speakers.

So, going back to OP’s discussion, yes, I believe the voting system exacerbates the differences between the members of a community and casuals looking for knowledge about some issue. Communities are not random and neutral, they have defined affinities that frequently imply others which may remain hidden. When someone unrelated to a community comes with new knowledge for them to share to a seemingly familiar group of people, they are welcomed by the “champions” of the community in case. These '“champions” are just people immerse daily in a specific mindset and discourse, who also receive an overwhelming emotional support through votes, so their confidence is very high. Add to this that sometimes they even have the right to ban you if you don’t follow their rules and you get a lot of attitudes like the ones you describe.

Anyway, the use I do of the voting system is something that, I believe, levels the ground of discussions. I can’t see votes, I hide which instances are users coming from, and I only vote positive and reserve negative votes to, basically, comments and posts that go against human rights.

Try rebooting.

This is the best kind of publicity anyone can get. If anyone was doubting him, now they are sure.

The USA don’t have a Ministry of Education, their country has barely any history to teach, and they deny climate change and vaccines effectiveness. They elected a pedophile and a convicted felon as president of their country, which has the largest military budget and the second largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Sure, leave UNESCO, leave everything except Israel, both are in the same class of State.

Smashing nuts is woke. That’s my final opinion on the matter.

Does the dismemberment include genitalia?

Sorry to answer with other questions, but as a foreigner I have to. Do investigations like this can just be published by the POTUS? In my country, it would be the sole decision of the AG, and they would probably won’t publish anything because it could end up damaging the investigation. Or so they’d say.

It’s really baffling the power of the current POTUS, having all the power of the state in his hands. To me, he just telling Pamela Bondi what to do in such a delicate matter feels just wrong, as in lacking the due seriousness on the matter, utterly sloppy and populist in a bad manner.

Sure they can. It’s not like the USA gives two fucks, anyway, like they have been doing for decades against Cuba, always supported by their little racist experiment.

This is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read online. I just love it.

Isn’t that why that rule works for them so well?

His pimp associate.