Leftists decided punishing Democrats was more important than the rights of marginalized people living in the US, so now we have Trump. Thanks leftists. You’re the reason we will have concentration camps again.
I say this as a US citizen, for AT LEAST the next four years, do not rely on the US for ANYTHING. Even if Trump says you can count on the US, even if he signs a contract in blood, it isn’t worth even wiping your shit with.
He will give everything to Putin. That’s the only thing you can count on.
It’s time for a different superpower to pick up the reins or ascend. The EU can become that, but they really need to stop pretending the US is going to do anything for them.
It’s called being a disgusting creep.
Craiglist is close to perfect. If only they had a Personals section.
When will the boomers fucking die already?
One thing I learned as I grew up is that in politics, words mean the opposite of what they mean.
Examples:
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is neither democratic, a republic, or for the people.
The Nationalist Socialist Party had a problem with actual socialists. They were okay with nationalism though.
No I get that thinking it will go back to normal in 4 years is optimistic. But there’s nothing else I can do and being optimistic is the only thing keeping me from blowing my brains out.
We live in a blue bubble so I’m just ignoring everything the next four years and saving money.
My biggest dream is my state along with the other western states just decides to leave the US and we create our own thing.
Nice to see supportive parents. My dad wanted me to go to gay conversion camp.
Only from my phone and I never connect to work wifi with it.
Indiana Jones 1
Indiana Jones 3
V for Vendetta
I live in one of the bluest cities in one of the bluest states in the US. And even here, the average Lemmy is nowhere near representative of the average person you meet in real life. If you think they are you are either deluding yourself or have an agenda to push.
Reddit is already an echo chamber and Lemmy just turns up the echo chamber dial to 100.
The real answer is that there is no platform that is perfectly representative of real life population. Everyone self-segregates into spaces they fee comfortable in.
This is like that libertarian/ancap copypasta.
Lemmy only really became usable for me after I blocked certain instances/communities. Tbh if I wasn’t permabanned from Reddit I probably would have quit early on and went back to Reddit.
This wasn’t because of UX. It’s was because some of the most active and highly upvoted instances that had posts hit All constantly were full of terrible people and idiots.
However now that I realize how powerful that is to be able to block whole instances and curate your experience and realize that it’s basically impossible to Permaban someone from Lemmy, I’m enjoying it a lot more.
The entire world including lots of Europe has been shifting significantly right despite what leftist US haters often say about the US left being a European right. That hasn’t been true for a decade or more.
Apparently they’re so rich that their money keeps coming in without us because…
I mean, this is true. They can do nothing and probably make millions on interest. That said, it doesn’t mean a general strike wouldn’t be effective. While the normal person would be perfectly happy with millions coming in every year for doing literally nothing, these people aren’t satisfied unless they are making billions off the labor of others while they do nothing.
Sounds like the point went completely over your head.
The younger generation has a problem with externalizing their issues to others without feeling responsible for these issues themselves.
There is always some other party with influence and power who is either antagonizing them or should take care of them like a parent and when they don’t, everything is the fault of that “parent”.
For example, it’s the “DNCs fault” we’re in the state we’re in apparently even though a lot of people didn’t vote and encouraged others not to vote. The democrat party is not some nebulous entity or corporation that exists to cater to your whims like you’re some customer it must please to earn your vote. It’s made up of people. People like you who got together with other people to try to enact their political ideals and vision for the country.
If you don’t like that vision, you need to get with other people who share your vision, start from the ground up, win local elections and start changing the party bit by bit. But this is hard work and much more difficult than screaming that the octogenarian politicians are ruining your life when nobody your age is actually doing anything to replace them because you don’t want to become career politicians.
Stop behaving and whining like perpetual petulant children and actually do the hard work to make the change you want to see instead of waiting for someone else to do it for you.
The Winds of Winter? At this point though I’m not sure I’m actually waiting anymore.
Is there an alternative to Google Drive that doesn’t lock me into using MS Office. I particularly need to ability to share and edit files online.
This should be a wake up call to invest in your own carriers and military. Stop letting the US have the monopoly on firepower.