On the bright side, it’s never been a better time to switch to an immutable distro…

Sure, you’re right about that. I should have said no good reason.

I can’t believe we’re betraying Ukraine for no reason.

Oh wait… Actually I can believe it, i knew it was going to happen, and I voted against it.

Oh totally. I agree with that. I’m mainly talking about the people who appear to have come by, made a community, and then left (leaving it unmoderated and likely even more difficult to grow.)

That doesn’t both me and I think it comes with the territory of federation. Personally I never liked theory of the internet where there should be only one place to discuss a certain topic.

Maybe there could be some kind of combined view, where all of the posts from various communities are mixed together into one feed or something.

Imagine being the type of person who has conversations with Elon Musk’s computer and trying to roast anybody. Wild.

The problem, as I see it, is the abandonment of communities by moderators.

For example, if I make a community community called “Baking”, never post anything, and then disappear off back to Reddit (or whatever) I’m basically polluting the namespace of my server with a dead-end community that has no hope of ever growing into something active. Sure someone could make “Baking2” or “RealBaking” or whatever, but that kind of sucks and is messy.

Sure, but the fact that you’re at least still active on Lemmy and paying attention makes it less of a problem.

The ghost communities I’m really talking about are the ones where you click on the moderator’s profile and find that they don’t even seem to be active on Lemmy much at all anymore. At that point, those communities have zero chance of growing because they’ll quickly be unmoderated, and to my knowledge we have nothing like Reddit’s “subreddit request” in place where unmoderated communities can be taken over from absent moderators.

Obviously not every community is going to be super active all the time, that’s not a problem. The problem are the communities on popular servers that have “reserved” good names, are inactive and effectively unmoderated. Those types of communities are only serving to pollute the namespace of the most popular servers, imo.

We take the Pacific and Atlantic coasts first, blockade the gulf and then move inwards with our allies from all sides.

You’re forgetting that there are plenty of people, bases and equipment in blue territory. The neo-confederates will have no access to trade as they will very quickly be cut off from both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, and you’ve already blown any chance at a alliance with neighboring countries. These dumb fuck Republicans in flyover country have already painted themselves into a corner and they don’t even know it.

Come what may. We will fight, and we have all the infrastructure, money and equipment to win against y’all fat ass redneck farm boys. We beat those dumb fucks once and we will beat them again. Make no mistake.

Need I remind you how the last civil war went?

The west and the north east will be ready to fight, and we have plenty of military bases, equipment, infrastructure, logistics, money and people to fight with. The neo-confederate rednecks will be cut off from trade in every direction, as we quickly take both coasts and form alliances with allied countries (not just Canada and Mexico, but also Europe, Japan, and South Korea, who will need to continue trading with coastal American states).

All the 400 lb good ol’ boy mall ninja rednecks in the world are not going to be able to face the reality of what will come to them if they fuck with the west coast. People in Buttfuck, Oklahoma will be eating dust off the ground in the dark by the time we are done with them. And this time there will be no forgiveness or reconstruction.

it wont

None of this is good, and it’s going to cause a lot of big problems across just about everything but, theoretically at least, none of it is unsalvageable.

Remember that elections are run by the states, not the federal government.

So unless you live in one of the most hardcore Trump-sucking red states, you likely will be able to vote in 2026 and 2028, your vote will probably be fairly counted, and you will be able to determine not just the makeup of Congress 2 years from now, but also the types of people that we send to represent our interests and fight back against Trump.

Of course, Trump is wasting no time grabbing power, but it still remains to be seen whether or not Congress and the Supreme Court will surrender their power enough for him to get away with it. As much as the massive cucked-out bitches in Congress and SCOTUS pretend they love Trump, they actually hate his guts and are just as hungry for their own power as he is for his.

Finally there is the possibility of a genuine constitutional crisis in which Trump rejects the concept of shared power by coequal branches of government, in which case the entire constitution is rendered null and void and the USA completely ceases to exist as a federal entity and the union breaks down.

This would probably lead to a civil war, in which case the side that wins is the one that has the best logistics and strategy. I’m confident that the blue states, especially in an alliance with Canada and Mexico, would have no problem beating the land-locked redneck morons in flyover country. All that would be required is to bring the fight to the Southern coastal areas. They’d be totally surrounded and blocked in from trade on every side.

Hey man, rule #1, no stupid questions.

It’s right in the name.

“This is not just a crime, it’s a reflection of [a] system that enables [the] rich to treat [the] poor as disposable,” another said.

Nothing else needs to be said.

A block of fresh yeast.

He’s a changeling.

He’s coming to terms with it, if in a slightly judgemental boomer “this can still be fixed” sort of way.

Look at the date, lmao.

You sound like the type of guy who drives a cybertruck and practices Elons “odd hand gesture” in your bedroom at night.