The simple reality is that it is not possible to maintain good relations with the US. Donald Trump is an idiot and a fascist whose agenda is driven by his whims as much as anything else. Starmer could bend over backwards to appease His Orange Majesty on every issue and Trump would still fuck the UK just because.

Unless there’s a coup when the Supreme Court finds against Trump and he ignores them and Republicans keep Congress from holding him accountable the only way the Court will let them.

Reddit being popular is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy.

When you get right down to it: people don’t care that Reddit is selling their information, that the site itself is a piece of garbage, that running the site requires a bunch of no-life weirdos whose numbers will only increase going forward and whose power will likewise, or that the design actively encourages bots to the point of disincentivizing actual human beings from using it.

They want their memes, they want their news, they want their niche little interest subs and they want their porn. The simple fact is that lemmy is a smaller version of Reddit with fewer options and to the majority of people who don’t care about their data or the objectively dogshit running of the site, there is no reason to cross over to Lemmy.

Until Reddit takes a Musk-type turn into being totally unuseable, lemmy will only see a trickle of users who are burned by Reddit.

Not so much irony as in keeping with historical precedent.

Donald Trump isn’t just evil. Donald Trump is stupid.

Not only does his agenda not further the interests of America, it doesn’t further the professed values of the Republican Party.

The sole guiding principle of the Republican Party is: Hurt the right people.

I would welcome fifty new Congressional districts, the overwhelming majority of which would vote Blue within an American political framework.

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As it turns out, there are about 2,000 pounds of difference between Republicans and Democrats.

It insists upon itself

It mean it’s trying to be deep, but is really just pretentious and shallow.

Historically speaking, it tends to work.

And for the record, Machiavelli didn’t exactly rule it out.

And how’d that go for him?

Thank you.

It’s mostly a matter of getting over it in my own head.

I recently got booted off of Reddit and I’m hoping participating here on Lemmy will help me get over the need for social media I hadn’t realized I had developed.

I was banned, so I cannot.

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Mostly I watch horror movies and Halloween specials from when I was younger.

I also still live with my folks, so I manufacture reasons not to have to hand out candy.

As someone who only recently joined Lemmy (as a result of getting booted from Reddit) it ultimately comes down to it being bigger.

You can talk regularly about series have been over for a decade. Just about any niche interest has a vibrant community. The reality is the average person doesn’t care about it selling our data, putting a fingerprint on our gear one step above spyware, it being overrun with bots, every level of administration being dominated by megalomaniacs. If you just want to look through some stuff you’re interested in while you’re bored, it serves a purpose that lemmy unfortunately can’t at it’s size.