You will never stamp us out btw!

Dual boot temple OS

Finally, the sweet rest I long for

Death to arch!
I use arch btw

Derpian

Hannah Montana OS

Because apt sucks. Pacman for the win.

Because I use KDE and they killed that spin years ago. Also LM is bloated in my opinion so I prefer installing only what I use/prefer vs the kitchen sink approach of Mint.

Also portage > apt

Because I have hyperphantasia and don’t like tasting mint every time I turn on my computer.

OpenSUSE Thumbleweed

I don’t think it’s the internet. I remember 90s internet because I’m old apparently. Forums, mailing lists, blogs were the dominant form of internet media. And while trolls and bad people existed it wasn’t nearly as bad. People found together in interest groups and things mostly went fine. It was really when algorithm based browsing of content became the norm that things changed.

In my opinion the reason is that it is engagement driven instead of topic or content or interest group driven. And the strongest and most reliable form of engagement is anger and rage and overexaggeration. So we see a lot of that and people who are good at that become the loudest and most popular. It also incites anger towards others and thus splits societies. Fashists and populist thrive. We need to regulate social media ASAP.

They follow me around and Downvote me, like literal ghosts…

Lemmy is tankie heaven

Reminds me of

Of course the Bible was written in English. How else would Jesus, the greatest American ever, write it?

This is (was) literally Mormonism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_teachings_on_skin_color

I’ve always been curious to when people will realize that voting Republican or Democrat is really the same thing. They both grow government, one side just happens to want to take away a particular set of liberties while the other side wishes to take a different set. In the end nothing changes because we’re too scared to vote for a candidate who actually cares because they have “no chance of winning.”

This was obvious ten years ago, I thought the internet would have caught on by now. Perhaps not though, because since they’re so similar they HATE one another because they really dislike that they have many of the same views so the ones they differ on are so extremely upgraded in importance.

Note: I know I’m not the first or only one to figure this out, plenty of people realize this, so no offense to you. I’m just surprised the truth is such a niche category online, in-person, in the media, etc…

He certainly didn’t lie about the meme.

It doesn’t even matter. Hard right and hard left are all just fucking nut job low IQ idiots with different flavours of asshole populism.

Horseshoe theory is as clear as day to anyone not on the extremes.

True. But it was left wingers who killed millions of Russians in gulags, who committed the Cambodian genocides, the long marches and purges of Maoist communism.

So maybe there’s something to be said for moderation eh?

There’s a reason you’ve never heard the term “enlightened partisan”

You’re acting like this didn’t literally just happen.

Or this, back in 2018.

They also definitely never bombed the Capitol.

Those are all right wing conspiracy theories.

Like I said, it’s the OTHER guys who are at fault for this.

Therefore, we need more prosecutions and also guillotines. There can be no peace on earth until the other guys are all dead.

What, you don’t agree with the FACT that the other guys are a bunch of despicable low lives and criminal child abusers for whom death would be too merciful of a punishment? Fuck outta here with those conspiracy theories, you just want to enable them.

Interesting turn of phrase. I’ve read “if not Nazis are sitting at a table and someone else sits down and they’re not a Nazi, you’ve got 10 Nazis sitting at a table”

I like yours better. looks like it’s closer to the original German too.

Well yes of course there is that.

But even if they were possible it would not be an appropriate response. The centralist position in this case is barely any better than the defeatist position. Ukraine still ultimately ends up losing and Russias choice to attack is justified. After all what they’re after in that scenario is gained land.

Europe had perfectly normal political debating until about the mid 1980s

Did you miss all of European history from neolithic times to 1950? They have been at each other’s throats the entire time, starting 2 huge wars that dragged everyone else into it. Plus all the other Europe only wars.

Even after 1950 there was… the Cold War. Europe was literally divided in two parts with nuclear weapons pointed at each other. If you think Europe was civil, you are only looking at a few political parties in a few Western European countries for a few decades.

Only one part of our political system has led to the current polarization, but it was enabled by a series of media developments going back to the 1980s with the abolition of the fairness doctrine, the subsequent rise of right wing AM talk radio, the invention of cable TV which catered to niche markets for the sake of advertising, the creation of Fox News --by an Australian who’d made his fortune in British tabloids-- and then finally the rise of social media which in turn fragmented media audience --what advertising companies like Google and Facebook sell to advertisers-- into ever tinier and increasingly homogeneous target groups with the result that cultural identity is now more important to how citizens make decisions than are actual policy issues.

To see that this is true, one need only look at the fact that people almost never change their minds about anything on the basis of facts or evidence for the very good reason that they don’t form their opinions on the basis of facts and evidence in the first place and instead rely on cultural identity as a guide.

That’s the cartoon, but it’s not accurate. A centrist is just someone whose positions aren’t strongly correlated with each other the way they tend to be on both the left and the right. Like there’s a reason I can accurately guess your position on abortion and climate change if I know whether you live closer to a Cracker Barrel or a Whole Foods; a centrist is just one of the people whose position on abortion isn’t strongly correlated with their position on climate change.

that sounds exactly like what a radical leftist would say. is anything right of your viewpoint “far right” too?

Dems are so center-left.

Your dems are more right than Union of Right Forces and Republican Party of Russia back when they existed.

I can probably come up with issues Democrats are further to the left than most other countries on. Abortion, for example.

Actually, I don’t have numbers on China, but in USSR throughout most of properly recorded economic history 10% of the wealthiest people owned about 20% of all money in the country, give or take depending on the year. In modern Russia, it is about 65% from what I remember, and that doesn’t include offshore funds of the oligarchs.

Also, they weren’t fascist by any definition. Authoritarian - yes. Fascist - no.

Not arguing for anything here, both countries could be way better, but your claims are wrong.

The word “communism” is clearly and explicitly stated by original commenter as an economic system (“Bridled capitalism is a better system than communism”) and not ideology, as per definition you try to give.

USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam etc. had socialism as their economic system, and that’s an encyclopedic fact, not semantics.

Communist-ish.

Also Dictator-ish.

I live in belgium where it is 4€ to see a doctor and maybe 50€ to see a specialist.

Wait times are 1 day max. Wait times for a specialist are usually a month.

When I was employed by a big hospital living in the US, my wait times were triple that even with “great health insurance” and I would pay $350 for a checkup with something routine like shot updates or an STD screen.