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For all his flaws I don't believe Macron is fundamentally a fascist. I think he's a corporate stooge appealing to the wealthy, the old, and the business types. France has indeed had fascism creeping in, especially with the likes of Le Pen. But France also has a long history of leftist movements and protests. So the pendulum could really swing either way at this point for them. Macron is shitty, but he's not Le Pen. Hopefully at the next election, people vote leftwards and don't fall for the typical fascist tactics of convincing people that immigrants and LGBT people are the real problem. Le Pen particularly scares me because she's very cozy with Putin and has isolationist, anti-NATO tendencies. The west is already struggling to maintain a united front in support of democracy and in opposition to global authoritarianism. If France elected Le Pen, pandora's box may be opened and there may be no coming back for France.

Do you have a source for Meta working with mastodon.social?

Do you have a source for Meta being involved with mastodon.social? That's highly concerning because the same people that run mastodon.social also run lemmy.world.

It's shit like this that opens the door for fascists like Le Pen to get into positions of power by rightly criticizing the incumbent government for censoring speech. Macron is a fool, but he's a necessary barrier to keep fascism out of France and idiotic ideas like this only hand more kindling to those fascists. The free speech ideals of left or centrist candidates tend to be one of the more important appeals that pull voters away from authoritarian fascism. Remove that incentive by implementing authoritarian policies and suddenly there are a whole lot of people far more entranced by fascist arguments.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you lima bean? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Beans, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Adzuki, and I have over 300 confirmed bowls cooked. I am trained in garbanzo warfare and I'm the top cook in the entire US bean forces. You are nothing to me but just another customer. I will feed you beans with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fava. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of bean providers across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, marrowfat. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your lentils. You're fucking cooked, kidney bean. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can feed you over seven hundred different recipes, and that's just with my black beans. Not only am I extensively trained in pinto combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Great Northern Bean Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little split pea. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have prepared your fucking mouth. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn soybean. I will shit beans all over you and you will drown in them. You're gonna be fucking full, baked bean.

Which AI are you using to generate these? I've gotta get in on this shit ASAP

There was a time when men were kind When their voices were soft And their words inviting There was a time when love was blind And the world was a song And the song was exciting There was a time

Then it all went wrong

I memed a bean in times gone by When hope was high and life worth living I memed, that beans would never die I memed that Lemmy would be forgiving Then I was young and unafraid And beans were made and used and wasted There were no downvotes to be made No meme unposted, no bean untasted

But the haters come at night With their downvotes soft as thunder As they tear your memes apart As they turn your beans to shame Beans spent a summer by my side They filled my days with endless wonder They took my childhood in their stride But beans were gone when autumn came And still I meme they'll come to me That we will live the years together But there are beans that cannot be And there are storms we cannot weather I had a bean my life would be So different from this hell I'm living So different now from what it seemed Now life has killed the bean I meme

Beans beans the magical post, the more you upvote the more it grows, the more it grows the better we'll be, so let's upvote bean posts in all of Lemmy

I grew up Catholic, converted to Evangelicalism, and am now an atheist. The one thing I'll always give the Catholics that at least I grew up around is that they took the "feeding the poor message" pretty strongly to heart. They had a HUGE food pantry and they gave food to the local people in need of it every week. There were always drives happening for food and clothes and whatnot. It was enough of an institution that they had full time staff dedicated to it. I'm sure this isn't the case for many other Catholic churches, but my anecdotal experience of at least one midwestern Catholic Church was pretty good on feeding the homeless. Now, the transubstantiation (literal bread turning to body, etc) stuff was bullshit and played a key role in my deconversion. People in my community didn't even know that we believed that and when some of us kids found out, that was a bit of a reckoning 😆

Evangelicals, on the other hand, had their acts of charity but they were weak sauce compared to the Catholics. Occasional Christmas toy drives or whatever. They did free car washes. It was pretty inane compared to what the Catholics had been.

The LIBERALS want to REMOVE "Under Beans" from our PLEDGE. Those ASSHOLES are all going to get BAD GAS when the GREAT BEAN punishes them for their lack of FAITH.

Mmmm, I love beaned cans.

Oh yeah, this will undoubtedly end up being a fraction of us. As long as it pays the bills it's enough. I'm sure the admins will sound the alarms if they're falling short on funding needs.