Hey man, uncalled for.

Don’t go after good hydration like that.

There’s a massive difference between “believing you are the wrong gender is mental illness” and “being born/sorted into a gender that doesn’t represent you causes mental illness.” This is the latter.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such blatantly and unapologetically racist government policy in my life time.

Don’t get me wrong, we’ve come close, but this genuinely might just take the cake.

Except now the app pushes ads to you through notifications.

Capitalism is inherently short-sighted.

Because as long as they get clicks, they don’t care, and anything with “Gaza” or “Palestine” in it will generate those clicks. Plus, running such stories is substantially less likely to result in someone lighting a fire underneath them then the other stuff they should be covering.

You should probably not try to swallow a red pill that large. You’ll choke.

Because a marginalized group has never been misled to accept and excuse abuse before. What a fuckin’ take.

Not sure what you mean by my “own house.” American white women are a demographic I’m displaced from in a number of ways.

Thanks, SatansMaggotyCumFart. Enlightening as always.

They are.

Marginalized groups can be more or less marginalized than others. That does not make them powerful relative to the rich-ass white men that run the world through financial influence alone.

Ya’ll motherfuckers act like just cause women can vote now, sexism is “solved.”

I’ve also heard some “running it offline avoids all the Chinese biasing and spying” anecdotes. Though I haven’t seen any first hand evidence of this. Needs testing, imo.

Missing Fern Gully, but a pretty good list nonetheless.

Your best bet is to be in a lot of instances. My experiences so far is that basically any singular instance has its bias’, and while some unapologetically ban users for disagreeing with them, the ones that don’t still down vote for disagreeing with them.

While one of these forms of censorship is worse than the other, it’s all censorship, and the only way to see a variety of views is to stay in the varying instances.

The mods of .ml are pro China/Russia authoritarianists, and will ban you for posting comments that disagree with them. I’ve received a ban for discussing my experiences teaching Taiwanese and Chinese students, because I described the way the Chinese students reacted in the face of evidence that Taiwan is a self-governing sovereign state as “brainwashed.”

I was banned under rule 1, which is listed as being polite and civil. Trust me when I say I have said far more less polite and civil things directly to mods, so it’s concerning that politely expressing real lived experiences that contradicts their opinions on Chinese authoritarianism is what counts as being rude and uncivil around those parts.

I haven’t blocked them. Many of those communities include the founders/creators of Lemmy, so to block the community feels disjointed from the app, to me. But I think twice about wasting my time on individual conversations in or from people in .ml.

Spend a week in memes and you’ll see how categorically untrue that is.

I’m not sure I’ve ever stumbled across a worse opinion. Amazing. Well done.

I don’t have TikTok, but if you do, isn’t this easily verifiable? Just go try searching one of the relevant terms.

Eh, I suspect most of those Russia/China fascism lovers posing as “leftists” are mid-30s white dudes, and as a mid 30s white dude, my grandmother was alive during WWII.

The options remain the same, though.

Great position to take as someone who isn’t in the targeted minority. Immigrants and transexuals don’t have the option of just waiting it out. And we shouldn’t sit by and watch them suffer.

Seriously, read a Holocaust memoir or something. “Night” is quite good (just read it with my grade 11s), and really puts the “it won’t be that bad” rhetoric into perpsective.

Trump’s rhetoric echoed Hitler in 2015. Sit down and actually read Mein Kampf. They’re the same person.

Don’t get me wrong I am glad to see that the mainstream world is catching up, but man, it’s frustrating to see 9 year old revelations as “news”.