True crime is a brainworm I'm not willing to touch with a ten foot pole, so I won't be clicking that. I'd suggest others do the same tbh but its your life
Chronicon
joined 1 year ago
Yeah there was a bit of a struggle session/squabble and your admins blocked that comm because people were being mean to them or something?
this was the initial post: https://hexbear.net/post/2830702
The post was eventually removed (after generating a lot of discussion and getting the original user in question banned from lemmy.ml)
then there were some follow up posts more focused on two lemmy.ml admins that were perceived to have given the original reactionary mod way too much leniency and stood up for him. I think that perceived "targeting of admins" (criticizing them), is what prompted the defed of the_dunk_tank
https://hexbear.net/post/2844167
https://hexbear.net/post/2843745
Some modlog sleuthing will be necessary if you want to read all the replies back and forth, as our mods removed a lot of the comments made by davel and such for "defending pedophilia" after he got very upset that people were "casually labeling someone a pedophile"
I still don't 100% understand what part of this necessitated blocking the_dunk_tank specifically or if that will last. I hope not, but I also don't think users here were being unreasonable in being upset when they saw a guy with a long history of being shitty taking it beyond the pale, and some lemmy.ml admins rather than going "woah shit, guess that guy wasn't salvageable, sorry", came after us instead for being too aggressive about how we went after the guy and the admins that had seemingly enabled him. There was one user that may have had a personal grievance against one specific lemmy.ml admin, but even if that's the case I don't think that invalidates the rest of the genuine issues.
in the US.
I don't think it would be entirely a bad move for the dems honestly. Not as good as him stepping down earlier ofc, but I think most voters would be like 'oh thank god' more than they would be annoyed about the hypocrisy of lying for the last year, and depending on who they replace him with (maybe someone that isn't a charisma vacuum?) they could maybe win (if the person they pick doesn't have super glaring weaknesses.)
It would be a struggle to get name recognition up, but the media does still have a number of months to do it.
Newsom I think would lose because the rest of the country low key hates california, but he is charismatic compared to the average dem, so maybe he could thread the needle.
Bernard obviously won't happen but I feel like he could still pull out a win in the hypothetical where he's nominated. He's got a huge head start in the name recognition dept, and I feel like only the most committed hilldawg and warren stans still hold actual animosity towards him. downside is his age.
Idk if people (even the rubes currently planning on voting for biden) can get excited enough about pritzker but it'd be funny.
No matter what they do it's a dice roll but unless they juice biden up in previously unthinkable ways, swapping him out now might somehow be a better option
Yeah, knowing people who work in the environmental protection sector (though not at the federal level) it is varying levels of effectiveness, and the high end is still often like "would you pwease consider not polluting pwease" 95% of the time, even when they have the resources and authority to issue fines and such. But gutting all regulatory authority will absolutely make things worse, first for the people that can't afford to be nimbys (and eventually for everyone)
On the worse end I've heard of counties where the staff openly say "yeah we don't do enforcement". They go, they do their little inspections, and then they sit on their hands.
this is the kind of shit that legitimately makes me hope for the utter destruction of this country as a going concern
Woah we can upload videos with sound now (sorry not trying to hijack the thread)
I don't think I have an extended reply in me tonight but this is an excellent thread! I'll have to check out that manga
I'm on the younger end but it's hard not to feel pretty 
when I spent the last 10+ years of my life treating my body like shit because I was depressed and anxious and had no good coping mechanisms (slowly improving now). So I can relate to a lot of this for sure, especially the things you put under personal dysphoria :(
lol
thankfully it doesn't seem to have reached the same level of cultural saturation as peak marvel did.