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  • You’re just repeating the same tired old “Liberals are just as bad” bullshit everyone has heard a thousand times already. Not a single point here is true.

    I have zero reason to believe she “blindly supports the military”, though I suppose that depends on what level of support for the military you object to.

    She has spoken far more directly about a ceasefire and has been more concerned about Palestinian civilians than most other politicians.

    As for the “compromises with fascists” claim, that’s just bullshit, and you know it. Yeah, I know, she’s got the endorsement of many old school Republicans, but Trump isn’t an old school Republican. It makes sense that more intellectually honest Republicans, even if I disagree with them immensely, aren’t interested in another Trump term.

    Unless you have something productive and realistic to recommend on how we both stop fascist accelerationism by defeating Trump, and also gain more progressive leadership than Harris, I honestly don’t want to hear what you have to say, because I have friends and family that might not survive a second Trump term. A couple of people close to me didn’t survive the first Trump term…

    (And you can leave third parties at the door, because I’ve already made it clear I don’t want another Trump term)




  • This guy famously just provides reputation rehab for KKK members.

    He doesn’t talk Klansmen out of their hateful ways. He absolves them on behalf of Black people so they can pretend to be reformed and get jobs again. He’s doing them a service, and they frequently pay him for it.

    It’s like the real life version of the “With Apologies to Jesse Jackson” episode of South Park, where Randy says the N-word on TV, and expects the world to forgive him after he literally kisses Jesse Jackson’s ass as an apology. (Spoiler: this doesn’t work)

    I’m not a fan of letting fascists take off their uniforms and return to normal life like they didn’t do anything. I’m more of an Inglorious Basterds kinda guy…





    1. Adding animal abuse to their TOS was a good move. I’m surprised it wasn’t already there.
    2. Encouraging people to feed a cat a vegan diet is a call to abuse a cat through deliberate malnourishment.
    3. Mods on c/vegan were directly calling for animal abuse, and censoring anyone countering them.

    I stand with the admins on this. Zero sympathy for animal abusers.

    leaving .world is a pretty fair response

    Okay, .world account…


  • We’re making fun of them for getting forced out. We’re saying “good riddance”. Nobody is sad that the vegans are leaving, that community is so malicious that most people are cheering on their departure.

    You’re the one that seems upset here. You seem hurt by our celebration. If you want, you can always follow the vegans to the cesspit they’re moving to in solidarity.


  • Yes, this is a feature of the fediverse, and we’re celebrating it here.

    When shitty toxic communities create issues for the wider Lemmyverse, instance admins can lay down some ultimatums.

    On the toxic community’s instance, the instance’s admins can demand that the toxic community correct their behavior, or the community and its offending users will get banned.

    On other instances, offending communities can be blocked, and if users are regularly misbehaving, instance admins can pressure each other to enforce basic community conduct, or face defederation.

    Once a community is given an ultimatum, they can either change their behavior to meet the expectations of the wider Lemmyverse, or they can find an instance that will allow their behavior.

    If they choose to migrate to another instance, it will likely be a more extremist instance with poor moderation that has been significantly defederated. They have to exist within that narrow network of fringe instances now, giving them significantly less reach to harass or spread disinfo or whatever got them booted from the last place they called home.

    And us users play a central role here. When we see communities doing harm, whether they are endorsing fascism, or pedophilia, or animal abuse, we need to stay “not here you don’t” and demand that action be taken.

    When those communities end up migrating to some fringe instance full of dipshits, we need to applaud the mods and admins that sent them there, and let them know that their hard work was appreciated.

    Federation works. Every fringe community in exile is proof of that. This is all one big community effort, so we can’t stay silent about what’s happening and expect that it all gets taken care of behind the scenes.






  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldWho Wants To Be A Lemming
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    So basically, “gender pay-gaps are fine, because the value of a woman is decided by the free market.”? Fuck that capitalist drivel…

    Tear down the entire sexist gender-segregated professional sports industry for illegal/unconstitutional gender discrimination and require professional for-profit sports be co-ed like every other industry in this country is mandated to be.

    The fact that the NBA doesn’t admit women should be grounds for dissolving the NBA as an illegal organization. The fact that the NBA and WNBA operate in-tandem while maintaining such an egregious gender pay-gap is proof of a conspiracy to discriminate against women.

    Fuck the centuries of sexist tradition around sports. Just because it’s the way things have been, doesn’t mean it’s the way it ought to be. I’m sick and tired of the sexism and sexist apologia. If you think women deserve less, I don’t care what your excuse is, especially if your excuse is “the free market”. smh…


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    They built a gender segregated system where all of the marketing and airtime goes to the men’s side. It’s an industry where women get less than 1% of the pay that the men did for the same job.

    This system is so deeply ingrained, it is a fundamental part of our higher education system, where it benefits men 100x more than women.

    But it’s my fault for not watching?

    The corporate overlords thank you for redirecting the blame away from them.