people vote with their wallets first and foremost

they also report you and/or ban you if they are a mod. because if you don’t agree/respect their massive whiny entitlement you are literally ‘the enemy’ and must be silenced.

her messaging was ‘let’s just keep doing what we are doing’. so if you liked Biden, yeah it was ‘good’. But if you didn’t like Biden or establishment Dem politics it was a nothingburger.

which was stupid and not want american voters wanted. they wanted change. Trump offered it to them.

Trump ran a better campaign and got more votes. It’s as simple as that.

medical tech.

nobody wants AI fucking up their patient file.

they also have massive corruption, which is the biggest problem the russians have.

the russian military was massively undertrained, underequipped, and underexperienced. all of their ‘stats’ were massively inflated due to the instiutional corruoption rampant form bottom to top that inflated everything.

yes.

feelings are not love. the yare feelings. love is the actions you take.

it doesn’t exist. but i work for a company that does real work. it doesn’t bullshit.

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I’ve been independent since 18. I don’t maintain my independence… it’s never been an option for me to be a dependent on anyone else.

the interface. of which there are many, and many are quite poorly designed.

they need an enemy to cohere around. so leaving it open for men to comment and vilify helps them build group solidarity.

ironically i can post there and nobody calls me out. because my comments pass as a woman. i am too feminine to be a threat or something.

my experience of lemmy is groups 1 and 2 just attack and insult group 3.

at best they try to ‘educate’ you about how stupid you are for not being a communist or anarchist.

groups 1 and 2 don’t seem to have much tolerance for anyone who doesn’t believe in their ideologically rigid world view

80% of the comments i get screaming at me how i am a fascist pig are .ml users.

the major benefit is there isn’t enough of a dipshit brigade to drown out the genuine smart people who are saying insightful things… yet

but i’ve been here over a year, and the dipshit brigade is growing rapidly. soon enough they will become mods and start banning anyone who doesn’t agree with their dipshit agenda. but at least their power will be limited to only banning you on their particular instance.

reddit used to have lots of cool diverse voices, and that all ended once it became popular enough that your parents new what it was and corporations were desperate to use it to shrill and advertise.

personally i felt like anytime i sub went over 100,000 subscribers it rapidly went to shit. if it was under 100K it was usually a pretty cool place that allowed productive and interesting disagreement and various POV. then once the userbase grew the mods would always become ban happy for anyone they didn’t like who didn’t agree with their agenda/beliefs, and would hypocritically start lecturing users on tolerance and diversity and non abusive behaviour, while banning people over personal disagreements they had with users. i remember i once got banned in cycling subreddit because is said I thought Doritos were gross and the mod basically told me to go f myself for not like the same snack food as he did. lol