politics

I think I'm the only one that never bothers to look at someone's domain, and just approach all posters on equal footing instead of relying on some weird sectarian nonsense based on what website they found that has decent up time and open registration...

lemm.ee has one of if not the best admin, and was always running more smoothly in earlier versions. More than that, when other bugs were taking out .world and many others, lemm.ee was already immune and the admin helped the other instances sort theirs out too. lemm.ee has a lot of good users.

However, when hexbear was banned, users on that instance started moonlighting on other instances. There were very few instances that were still federated with hexbear but also with the others, where all the conversation was - many wanted one account that could browse both. Several went to lemmy.ml, the instance run by the formal lemmy developers, and there was a noticeable shift in user behaviour from the instance. But lemm.ee never really was targeted by the hexbear brigading that led to their defederation with everyone else, perhaps because lemm.ee doesn't really have any massive communities itself, not as big as the others.

So yeah, lemm.ee can still browse hexbear, and with that you get a sizeable chunk of their userbase spilling over. So some lemm.ee users do indeed suck. It's not as bad as .ml, though, and I think that's in no small part thanks to the lemm.ee admin team keeping the more extremist users in check.

The moderates that tolerate fascists and thus enable them are always the problem, actually. The fascists fail without them but succeed with them, every time.

Maybe learn like, even a tiny bit about the history of fascism and how it comes into being and how it takes power.

Until ‘we’ shows me that they can organize a weinie roast, I’ll stick with the people who are actually on the ballot.

I guess you missed the part where we were manning barricades and taking tear gas canisters to the face in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.. directly confronting fascism on the streets and taking it to them. Your obtuseness has no external meaning.

I also notice that you had nothing to say about registering voters as an actual tool.

If voting changed anything about this system, they'd make it illegal. Voting as a strategy to stop fascism was attempted in 2020. The result was a 4 year hiatus, but with no real ability or intention to take action against fascism. Biden could have had Trump arrested on day fucking one of taking power. He chose not to. Democrats chose to only make a show of any kind of consequences for a literal attempted coup, because to them, it simply wasn't a priority. Voting as a strategy to change the system doesn't work when the people you are obligated to vote for as the "opposition party" are not, and will not, and have no interest in changing the system: ie, Democrats.

It is one of my pet peeves. My grandma was the sweetest woman on earth, one of her go to phrases doesn’t deserve this one dimensional understanding! You can only have it as an insanely effective burn if it’s usually sincere! I will get up on a soapbox and bang pots and pans about this all day if I’m allowed, haha.