ITT: “Leftists” who love the police state and draconian punishments.
I’m just some guy, you know.
ITT: “Leftists” who love the police state and draconian punishments.
as a person with a trans gender identity
I’m gonna go ahead and stop you right there chief. Transgender people don’t write “transgender” as two words. Big “as a black man” energy here, cishet loser.
*Record Scratch*
She doesn’t.
I feel like every time there’s a story posted that’s even tangentially related to Israel, there’s some Lemmy user in the comments ready to complain that the article wasn’t written with their preferred anti-Israel slant…
At some point, we just have to accept that you’re complainIng for the sake of complaining, not for the sake of adding anything to the conversation. You seem more interested in being heard signalling virtue than actually saying something of value.
This is a very Lemmy-specific observation that isn’t strictly true of other ActivityPub federated services.
You should also get off of ML if you don’t like being affected by terrible admin decisions.
It’s really hard to unsubscribe from Amazon when you live in one of those places dominated by Amazon. The closest grocery store to my home is an Amazon Fresh. Second closest is a Whole Foods. And my apartment building has a dedicated Amazon delivery locker with expedited delivery options.
It’s dystopian as shit that one company has this much influence, but not using them would require significant effort on my part, especially in trying to buy everyday essentials since I don’t have a retail store like Walmart or Target anywhere near me.
I’ve tried to switch to other stores, but I end up with nothing but problems. I order something and it takes 2 weeks to get to me. I order something and it comes damaged or the order is incorrect and the seller doesn’t do anything to fix it. I order something large and it doesn’t get delivered, instead I get a slip telling me it was too big for my mailbox and to come to the USPS center across town to grab a 30Lb bag of cat food that I’ll now have to take home on the bus…
That, and as I mentioned, there’s a dedicated Amazon locker. If you order something for delivery, and it sits in the mail room, there’s about a 20% chance every day that it sits there that it’s going to get stolen. But not Amazon purchases, those get locked up…
I’d have to either move somewhere else or get a car or something to eliminate them from my routine at this point. Just the fact that they’re the nearest Grocery store means that a handful of food purchases pays for a Prime sub. I’d actually end up giving Bezos more money proportionally if I cancelled Prime, even if I were diverting 90% of my other purchases to non-Amazon retailers.
Once had a lucid dream about a big dream convention full of people collectively dreaming. Hung out with some cool people who told me that the “convention” is always going on, but it’s hard to get to unless you know how to dream about it.
This group of “dreamers” told me to look closely around the building we were in, and to think about the interior of the building when I’m falling asleep to bring myself back. They also warned me that it was impossible to share personal details with each other because we’ll never remember those parts when we wake up.
After a while I was warned that if I didn’t wake up soon, I might not remember this dream and I might not be able to try to come back. They gave me a drink that I was told would wake me up immediately, which it did.
I remember everything vividly, except for anything identifiable about anyone I met.
I have never been back, not for lack of trying. It was a pretty standard hotel convention center environment. I think about it before bed now and then and hope I find myself back there. Maybe I go all the time and dream-me never thinks to get that super-helpful drink that woke me up last time…
Huh, the slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” makes more sense now. It was a threat.
No violence
No dishonesty
No malice
Yeah, I was about to say, are we really giving the lead organizer of the “Hetero Awesome Fest” the benefit of a doubt here?
A right wing realtor in a red state is offering free home-selling services to liberals as a hateful “get out of my state” gesture, knowing that nobody is actually going to take advantage of this offer (because you want your realtor not to actively hate you).
I know this is all very stressful, but you do need to calm down.
If you can’t make the basic choice to support the candidates that stand up against full-blown Fascism in this country, you are an inhibitor to progress. Defeating Trump is a battle we must win if we’re going to win the proverbial war.
Anyone campaigning against Harris or Walz right now is campaigning for Trump. Anyone campaigning for Trump should know that he’ll happily let Israel wipe Palestine off the map entirely. Don’t even fucking pretend you’re “anti-genocide”. There’s only one candidate that could actually deescalate this conflict, and if you’re going to fight back against them or blame them for this conflict, you’re a bad faith actor who has absolutely zero interest in real world outcomes for the victims of this Genocide you prop your narrative up with.
Palestinian groups are backing Harris/Walz. Privileged American “leftists” are playing the same stupid purity game they play every 4 years, with zero regard to the real human lives on the line.
Good, she needs to win the election. Biden Beat Trump last time, trying to differentiate herself too much from him could tank her chances this time.
Let’s see what happens once she’s in office. Or, I guess we can watch as Trump funnels infinite firepower to Israel so that they can “finish the job”. The voters will decide that, so maybe consider what’s actually at stake.
anti-genocide progressives
Is that what you contrarians think you are? Cute.
I know this is said a lot, but it clearly needs to be said again. The “Free” in FOSS means “Freedom” not “Gratis”. You can sell FOSS. You can make money off of FOSS. People do it all the time.
which feels especially wrong coming from a black woman.
What I’m hearing is that you are both racist and sexist.
Buddy, the vocal support for Harris from Palestinian groups isn’t enough to convince the bad faith actors here. Following the money is literally asking too much of their intellect.
Uh huh. Sure. Let’s find out how much.
Ah, the answer was “not at all”.
Okay.
Rehabilitation? Mental health care? All of the things that European countries do better than us?
But somehow in your book it’s perfectly moral to lock them in a cage until they die? I’d take medication and institutionalization over being tortured to death any day.
Ah yes, the slippery slope of not throwing people away like pieces of trash. Would hate to fall down that one… /s