This is a good comment that adds to this discussion and I agree with everything you’ve said.

I’m more for “ok”

Then we can start talking about “the Trump crime family” and how he sniffs little girls hair.

Yeah we let a bunch of confederate soldiers go home to their plantations and start weaving some lie about noble heritage and a difference of opinion. A whole bunch of traitors should’ve hanged but instead they went home and laid the groundwork for today.

That’s our history of being soft on traitors.

I’m kind of in the same boat I think. I definitely wasn’t one of the “popular” kids, I didn’t play sports and was a pretty average student. I had a smallish friend group, 5-10 of us; we had a big bench at the end of a hall by a window we “claimed” and hung out at.

I had a couple specific people that bullied me. It wasn’t until about a decade ago I realized there were a few people who actually did see me as mean and a bully. It put things in perspective and gave me a lot to think about.

The appeal of peaceful compromise only exists with the fear of uncompromising, violent extremists.

I wish the left had half the balls the right claims they do

Bro has been wronged by jellybeans and is hurting.

Any fast food place that has wedges gets a second look from me.

I fuck with potato wedges.

The older I get the earlier my bedtime/alarm gets.

My old person trait is my knees.

Same, moved to kbin then hopped around some after it went into limbo. Ended up on .zip and appreciate its kind of hand-off, user-deals with it, federation/blocking.

RIP kbin you were a real one and I hope all your devs (Ernest) future projects go well.

It’s not about stopping a specific incident. It’s about sowing enough fear in their little piggy hearts that they think twice.

Personally I’m more worried about a caravan of lifted F250s with MAGA flags rolling through my neighborhood but everyones threat model is a little different.

Surprise! You’re dead!

Guess what? It never ends! Hahaha!

Death panels always existed they just wanted them to be employees at a for-profit.

It’s the lack of profit that scares them I guess.

That’s wishful thinking. We’ve seen time and time again that parents are (willfully) ignorant about their kids mental health issues and will look their other way while their precious sketching hallways and figures out the choke points.

You’re responsible for the people your gun kills is a pretty simple fix and would probably lead to lots of people buying gun safes overnight.

Some of these jackasses are so brainwashed they’re still worried about the thing the masters told them to worry about for decades.

Hey, what’s up? It’s me, ur cat :3

This is how you justify inaction. Pretending shitposting is a revolutionary act, what a joke. And almost 40 basement dwellers agree.

We’re fucking cooked and some of you think you’re actually fighting.

Dbzer0 is one of the biggest instances on the Fediverse. It’s not some fucking rando.

I’m not sure how that’s relevant though, the admin is just another person with opinions but I’ll concede it’s a pretty big instance.

I still see HB and most of the .ml instances. It’s not that hard to see shit takes and just acknowledge it’s a shit take and move on.

The difference between the two is that the Palestinian genocide went ‘hot’ after Oct 7.

The biggest difference to me is my money isn’t going to exterminate the Uyghur population of Chinese provinces the way it’s being used to wipe Palestine off the map.

But sure let’s go with implying that two horrible situations are the same because I can only think in black and white terms. Nuance and subtlety are irrelevant as long as I can get internet points or something.

The ‘one dude’ is an admin.

Of a lemmy server, there’s no requirements to spin up an instance. Admin just means “person with the time.”

downplaying the Uyghur genocide isn’t unhinged

Comparing the cultural erasure/washing happening in Xianjing to what’s happening in Palestine is a tad disingenuous at best.

Yep, it’s always projection. They only know how they act so they assume everyone else would act the same way.