Arrow+Ctrl gang rise up!
Kichae
joined 2 years ago
It's a familiar enough looking place, with some good discussions. But what's super cool - at least to me - is that "Lemmy" isn't just Lemmy. There are people here using websites running all sorts of engines. Mbin is a different reddit-like platform that cross-communicates with Lemmy. Friendica is a Facebook-like engine that can talk with Lemmy. NodeBB is a traditional forum. Mastodon, Misskey, and Akkoma are Twitter-like platforms that can show up here, too.
It's a mesh network, with each node having different strengths and weaknesses, different UIs and UXes, and different rules and goals.
It's both familiar, and also something totally different, both at the same time.
Welcome to the wilderness!
Well, Reddit endorses fascists, so I think it makes perfect sense already, really.
"Don't hurt my friends"
That's the point. Opposition bills in the US are often put forth to force members of the majority party to publicly vote against it, so that there is public record of their position on things.
It's an easy system to game, too, since it's trivially easy to include a poisoned pill in the bill that will push the members to reject it.
Anyone in the system is a servant of the billionaires, and that is most of us. The masters tools and all that. I don't know about you, but I'm not living a life of subsistence farming in some forgotten plot of land with no meaningful interaction with the outside world.
But that doesn't mean servants can't or won't look out for other servants.
Hasn't Trump already said this? This isn't the press sec saying anything Orange Mussolini hasn't already been explicit about. It's one of their talking points.
Your feelings are no less valid than others. But your feelings and your reactions or behaviours are different things, related as they might be. And those reactions and behaviours may be making others think that you are challenging their feelings.
That doesn't make those reactions unjustified. I have no idea what situations you're encountering, or how you are reacting to them, but some people are often quick to try and shut down discussions or actions that make them feel bad, particularly if they think they are or should be in a position of authority over others.
Canada: Has a supply management system for dairy, is careful not to overproduce, exports next to nothing.
USA: Subsidises dairy overproduction, can't sell close to what it makes, and desperately wants to dump its product on foreign markets.
Who is this supposed to hurt?
The thing is, should people have the right for their voice to be louder than others, and to participate with more force, just because they have more money?
Really tempted to say things that will get me put on various lists now.
I long for the day when the American empire is forgotten by the history books.
Oh, owned by Linus Media. Yay?
:-/
I've had to get a criminal background check for most jobs I've ever had, a check that my employer gets to see before they decicde to hire me.
Only seems fair that people running for office have something similar.