TheFonz

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Dude. This is awesome. We need to make this into YouTube shorts or tik tok. Anything to get civic education out. We are extremely in need...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Your comment was about 1900. Did we already move away from that? Specifics matter in the context of history and geopolitics. Or do we just not care about specifics?

Also, why don’t you address the full comment instead of snipping parts?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

There has never been a country called Palestine. What are you talking about?

There are more Arabs living in Israel than there are jews living in all the current Arab nations combined.

In other words : it's not so simple to solve

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This comment needs no be posted and stickied everywhere. I mean everywhere. Thank you for your detailed response and explanation of how the executive works. I'm saving this comment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Wow. So brave. Watch out, don't cut yourself on all that edge

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (12 children)

Remember: the only people who say this want to see Trump win. You can vote with your conscience all you want, but it's only mathematically possible for only one of two parties to get elected.

If third parties or independents actually wanted a shot, they'd put in the work outside of elections, building coalitions and locally from the ground up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Eh sort of. She was favored to win but the odds weren't a clear dunk peopre keep insisting.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There are only two options based on this statement and calling them out will violate community rules.

Sorry, I know it and everyone else on this platform knows you're making this up.

If you did vote third party in this election you actively voted for the party that is legislating (and has already succeeded in some states) to remove school lunches. We know you know this.

Now fuck right off with your lies.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (17 children)

When there is nothing at stake for you you have the luxury of voting third party. That is essentially a vote for Trump. We know you know this because it's been explained to you in every post. Must be nice having all that privilege.

The rest of us, in the meantime have to live with the consequences of your decision. As parents, as students saddled with debt, as members of every minority community under attack, as children whose school lunches are being taken away, as children of DACA: a very hearty fuck you from the bottom of our hearts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They're both identical, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Read the room bro. Not the time or place. As if OP has some control of the geopolitical instability in the entire region.

Hey @[email protected] why don't you solve the entirety of the middle east conflict?

This guy is just sharing their personal experience in this shitty situation. A little empathy goes a long way.

 

My experience on this platform has been mixed so far but one thing I've noticed the most is a significant contingent of the user base is really reactionary in their discourse.

This is a very typical exchange I have here :

User: I don't like this color because it's red.

Me: I don't know, looks more like purple to me. What about red is bad?

User: Why don't you fuck yourself in the face you fucking cuntfuck!

Me: OK...

Like, what gives? I don't have this experience on other platforms. I have arguments but never this shutdown meccanism.

 

I don't know if others are experiencing a similar situation. My all feed is very sparse with engagement. If I sort top six hours or by top 12 most posts have between 5-10 comments. I feel like there was more in the past? Is engagement dropping off? I'm on lemmy.world as my instance.

 

At least on Reddit there was some leveling of downvotes built into the algorithm. This site is making it seem like any slight disagreement leads to downvotes thus encouraging more echo chambers. Maybe it's the communities I'm commenting on?

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