I can’t believe there’s even a risk of people voting in someone as morally repugnant as Trump.

“I was beaten as a child, and I turned out fine.” ~ Person who is not fine.

I engaged with you in good faith, and you were merely a troll. Got it.

I find it fascinating that the one of the most consistent groups that I hear about playing hardball with Trump is a conservative group - The Lincoln Project. Like, do we not have any sort of “we play dirty” liberal groups that dig up shit like this to show Trump’s hypocrisy? The Lincoln Project is buying billboards, they are all over the news week after week? We need a liberal party with that same sort of girthy, 12" dick swinging energy.

Yeah, but at the end of the day we either want Lemmy to grow, or we don’t. And if we make it difficult or awkward for people to use Lemmy, then we’re shooting ourselves in the foot if our goal is to grow Lemmy’s user base.

Marxist Leninist Socialists primarily, if you read my comment. I’m a Social Democrat, and I’ve received enough disrespect from ML Socialists, that I’m done trying to interact with them entirely. I get that your trying to minimize my argument, by acting like I’m attacking socialism entirely and act like I’m some sort of government plant…hence, again, why I’m stating quite plainly that I’m a Social Democrat.

The otherside of the coin is that I want to reform our system by trying to fix the problems of capitalism, and they want a revolution to completely dismantle it. I believe that the reality of implementing a socialist economy is completely unrealistic in a country as big as ours within the next 25-50 years, and that a revolution (which they are essentially advocating for) would introduce chaos and uncertainty into our country, and inherently the world. There’s no reality in which the movement gains widespread popular support in the short time frame that ML Socialists want. I firmly believe that the transition to a social democracy is a safer, more logical transition, and that as we adopt socialized programs, provide a better landscape for unions, and start reigning in inequality, we will naturally have more widespread support for a transition to a more socialist economy.

Metaphorically speaking, I want to slowly fix the problems that have cropped up around my house and upgrade things over time…they want to burn it down and build something that they believe is better. And they don’t like me because of that, that I’m essentially impeding their progress.

Still “irony” at it’s finest?

My experience with ML Socialists has been nothing but hostile. Anytime I’ve had questions or tried to have a discussion with a socialist about socialism, the response has been nothing but pure acid from them. Change is slow, and we’re slowly becoming more liberal as a people. They view socialized democracy as cowtowing to imperialism, and they seem to advocate for violent revolution to enact they’re goals. I literally can’t support that.

I would love for the US to become more socialized, for the workers to be more empowered, for people to live with better healthcare, less stress, and better safety nets…but as a social democrat, I’m the fucking enemy to them. As they described me, I’m imperialist scum.

I considered myself pretty far left…but those people? They fucking scare me…

… But if it’s more convenient for you to believe that I’m a paid government shill, then so be it.

I just blocked the whole of lemmyml and lemmy.blahaj or whatever it is, and my experience has been 100% better.

Always line something else up first. If possible, also have enough money to last 3-6 months without a job - makes things a hell of a lot less stressful. We would essentially just bank any bonuses throughout the year, and it would afford us a nice nest egg in case something ever happened. However it needs to remain untouched.

Yeah. It’s photoshopped. Good catch mate.

If this is the typical Israeli sentiment, then I might have to change my opinion on Israeli people. Since this genocide began, I blamed Netanyahu and the IDF. As more and more horrible things come from the mouths of Israeli citizens about this conflict, I’m starting to feel that the Israeli people…are not good people. This is disgusting behavior, and the apparent fact that there’s no protests over there…no shame, no public outcries. Nothing…that they must be okay with this. They must be okay with the broken bodies of children and babies. That it’s okay as long it’s the children of the “other”. Our company has fully stopped all contracts and refuses to do business with any Israeli company. May they feel the same pain and suffering that they inflict on others.

Yeah, that was my fault. Whoops

Poor buggers just can’t catch a break.

It most certainly should not.

“Who in the fuck automates away art before plumbing?” ~Uniplex-9000 (SMBC)

Agreed. If anything, Musk has just bought himself a politician. Trump will be beholden to him, much like he is with Russia.

Actively? No. But the war has never technically ended. It was sort of put on pause. With both sides on either side of a line drawn at the 38th parallel with 1.2 metric fuckloads of troops on either side.

Start the community that you want to see! Let me know if you do, I would contribute every now and again.

Old boy needs a monocle and a top hat. Pip pip! Cheerio!

Hell yeah! My work has completely dropped a large Israeli client. No one wants to work with them. It’s fucking blood money.

Oh shit, I read the community title thinking it was too lol

Whoops