Average ‘ML users aren’t that bad’ post defending blatant propagandists.
No we’re not talking ‘socialism is actually good and here’s why’ posts, we’re talking posts like ‘China, the ethnostate, is a bastion of tolerance compared to a place like the U.S.’.
Fuck no to everything you’ve said supporting federation with .ml . The people on the platform deserve their fate if they can’t see through the bullshit, I feel no differently about MAGA.
Yeah I simply do not understand how you can be an ML user and have somehow missed the blatant abuse of moderation powers surrounding users like Cowbee.
You either just don’t pay attention or you aren’t on Lemmy much.
These fucking assholes are looking at different cameras to seem like they’re normal human beings, and that these pictures are taken naturally — rather than being staged.
I hate these fucking people.
Fortunately 28 years doesn’t make a single reference to 28 weeks, so you really can just enjoy it as a sequel to 28 days.
Guys, you’ll never guess, I made Bigfoot but he’s hiking with a GoPro! Guys he says the most out of pocket shit, it’s so FUCKING funny!
Right, because Canadians are the only victim here.
The hypocrisy is palpable.
Yes everyone know’s a Canadian’s shit doesn’t stink and the country definitely doesn’t have it’s own fascism problem.
Definitely.
413524 because I’m not a lizard person (this is a joke, I am joking, laugh)
It’s the 32 toes on the foot that get me
Oh I just assumed that every Conservative jerks off to kids
So do the people that support Netanyahu not recognize this hypocrisy or are they all in on the grift?
There’s a whole lot of words there that I do not like together
Ah, that’s surprising — I swear I’ve argued with Flying Squid before and never received any treatment like that.
Not to say it didn’t happen, I’m just surprised. I was also mostly surprised at the ‘he killed himself’ comment, as I was under the impression he had decided to take a break from Lemmy (after a series of these events you’re describing, I’m assuming).
Flying Squid did that a lot before he went insane and killed himself.
Huh?
You’d think he’d pay someone better to play
The older I get the more I understand why the concept of demons was something people could accept.
Idk, some people are just bad. A cousin, adopted but my uncle’s adopted son nonetheless, is a good example of this. He’s no longer with us, thank fucking god, but this little devil was bad from the moment I met him to the point he died at… idk I think it was 18 or 19 years old.
His parents got him a pet weasel. It ‘disappeared’. I don’t remember the specifics but it was pretty clear it didn’t just run away. His brother would show up at the dining table with bruises around his neck. Just fucking evil shit like that. Ended up running away at 17 years old, died in an attempted robbery sometime after that (his memory is not something I try to keep alive).
Point is: there is such a thing as irredeemable. At least, in my eyes.
Oh, don’t get me wrong — my position has never been that UBI can’t work under the right conditions.
My position is that UBI cannot work without very major changes first. I don’t doubt that UBI can inject a lot of good into an individual’s standard of living — without some kind of regulation associated with it, which requires those regulatory agencies to not be inherently corrupt, UBI seems impossible.
I mean, yes — but the reality is that universal basic income dictates that everyone gets the money.
For instance, let’s say Congress allows the perfect UBI bill to be put forth. For whatever Bizarro World reason you can conjure, because we both agree that they would never agree.
What happens next? We’ve already seen what regulatory capture has done to sectors like real estate. Corpos buy up shitloads of land, whether it’s individuals looking to be land barons or alongside corporate interests.
How would true UBI result in anything other than higher prices? Seriously, in the current markets that exist within the United States — how, without some kind of serious societal and economic shift prior to it’s introduction, would this actually play out?
Maybe it’s better in other democracies, I actually can’t really argue for any other nation — I can only apply this concept to what I already know. I just think UBI is a concept that can only exist in a place entirely separate from corporate greed, and that is definitely not the United States.
In controlled environments, maybe — however those controlled environments still interact with currently established economies.
I’m just not convinced that UBI scaled up will actually result in anything other than what takes place in the Expanse.
You’re right, and I don’t blame you for being a passive user.
Here, you can try it yourself — pay attention to users like Yogthos or Cowbee. 9 times out of 10 you end with threads of them monologuing to themselves against deleted comments.