Stoneykins

joined 2 years ago
[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago

It isn't my job personally to worry about the employees of a massive corperation with more money at any given time than I'll ever see.

I pay the artists writers sometimes not because I think they are owed something for their work, but because I want to reward well done art that I liked. It isn't how I convince myself that piracy of media produced by large corperations is moral, I think piracy of media produced by large corperations is always moral because large corperations are inherently predatory on all public commons, especially when it comes to IP law. Just look at how they took away the entire concept of things entering the public domain from entire generations.

[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Those were for voting, not candidacy, AFAIK. Not that candidicy would have been any more fair then...

[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It is one of those "stop doing x" memes that are usually some blend of tongue-in-cheek and outright surrealism, and they always end in "they played us for absolute fools". Here is an older example of the meme:

Or if thats not the part that confused you, binary genders would be just two genders with no variations or differences in the gender of any two men, or any two women. It is a perspective that is antithetical to progressive/modern understanding of gender in culture, and the trans community generally opposes it. Trans communities usually prefer the idea of a gender spectrum, where masculine and feminine are the opposite ends of a gradient, but even that can recieve criticism for excluding Agender people.

[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 23 points 2 years ago

Every time I see it written down my brain just

[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you describing right now or making a prediction I can't tell

[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Oh I'm willing to have a few comments, I should have been more clear. I was just saying I didn't want this to just keep going indefinitely. Bye!

[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't intend to have a back and forth with you, I have reason to believe it would be unproductive and frustrating.

Maybe just consider that people have no better recourse to judge a person than their actions, and mitch has done terrible things. His motivations, and whether or not he is "evil" or just generally trying to do the right thing, are irrelevant in the face of his destructive political actions. People aren't happy that an old man had a seizure, they are happy the old man might not be causing harm much longer.

[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Not explicitly, no. It's just a red flag that if you engage with this person it will be unproductive and frustrating.

Conservatives wish death on pretty much all liberal politicians every now and then, sometimes on live television, and no one even bats an eye. A handful of leftist internet comments have "ding dong the witch is dead" vibes and you start clutching your pearls.

[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago

Mitch is a shitty traitor.

[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 9 points 2 years ago (9 children)

"both sides" is the fastest giveaway of a bad faith troll lately. At least the unapologetic conservatives don't pretend to take the moral high ground

[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hmm, thats hardly different from me. Guess it's not that lol

 

I was originally introduce to reddit by my dad about 12 years ago. He has been using it for about 16 years now.

It seemed when all the talk about the blackout started, he was completely in agreement with me. We both thought the blackout was a good idea, were cracking jokes about how we were gunna find something to do with all our free time.

I started looking around and found the buzz about lemmy and kbin. Started trying to figure out how federated sites work. It felt like information overload, but I didn't have anything else to entertain me so I made an account and started finding groups, and now I am enjoying my time browsing here a lot.

My dad had a different experience. He continued to check reddit through the first day of the blackout and by the second he was browsing it as often as ever. He seemed to have stopped caring about all the subs that were gone and protesting and just wanted some stuff to read and look at. When I tried to joke with him about it he seemed apathetic to it all.

I tried to get him to browse lemmy, to see how he likes it. He wasn't interested. I tried sending him links to specific posts, and he didn't really care or look at them. We used to share reddit posts with each other and talk about them, and I was kinda surprised he didn't care to do that at all if it wasn't on reddit.

Eventually I sat down with him in his office and got him to make an account on lemmy.world, but he browsed for less than a minute then just switched back to reddit. I just awkwardly left the room after that.

Today I shared another lemmy post with him, just still in the habit of sharing interesting stuff I see. When I asked him later if he looked at it, he told me to stop bugging him about this lemmy stuff.

It feels pretty bad to lose this routine that is an excuse to regularly talk to my dad. I feel like if I want it back I'm going to have to use reddit, because he seems to have a pretty negative perspective of lemmy.

Idk what it is I want from posting this. Maybe I want advice, maybe I want people to talk to because I feel kinda sad now, maybe I want to give people on here perspective on why some people aren't leaving reddit. Thanks for reading if you got this far.

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