‘yeah ok it’s not perfect, it’s mass produced chocolate’ and ‘it actually contains a fuck load of lead’ are two very different things lmao

I’m nearly 30, I don’t need a babysitter

c/gossip is the actual name of the comm, chisme is just Spanish for gossip and like a decal name for the comm

if the ‘devotees’ to the ‘enshrined rights’ of private property can just steal your shit when they feel like it, yeah you’re not gonna want to keep your assets in their banks

he is undeniably the only leader to institute a formal codified constitution in Britain after the violent deposition of the monarchy, and his actions cemented the eventualities of the sovreignity of parliament. Washinton owned slaves, most French revolutionaries did not think too highly of the Haitian revolution, and Cromwell brutalised a rebelling Ireland. liberals do not see the contradiction in their ideals of maintaining the colonial order along side the claim all men are equal and free

as much as I love Robespierre as a historical figure in the ‘doing the shit that needs to be done’ department, the guy was very anti left. the blooming beginings of French socialism and feminism had begun, and he absolutely tried to stamp those out

Montesquieu, Locke, Robespierre, Washington, and The Poster Reading This 🫵

when British neo libs cut, they cut everything. Cameron back after 08 did soft cuts to the army and police got such big cuts increasing funding was one of Corbyn’s policies lmao

this is it, it’s finally happening. you can take away the treats of many British people, and they’ll goon over it being like ‘this is just like the war! :O’ but the bins? the bins are the underlying fabric of the British psyche and state aparatus

every American election for the next decade is just gonna be ‘the other guy stole the election’ lmao

thank you for sharing this. for many people beging forced to log off and shouted down to go touch grass basically means ‘socially isolate yourself for a time away from your core socialisation’. I get extreme bouts of anxiety at times that make going outside hard; I am lucky enough to have people in my life who can deal with my anxiety and help me, but before them? being told to ‘log off and touch grass’ just meant sit in your room alone for me

I am nott saying there have not been signs of unreconstructed misogyny of late. I saw the cheating thread and others like it, there is an undercurrent of a problem at certain times. you do not do service to the space projecting those problems onto a bunch of people you do not know in a space where we supposedly pride ourselves on good faith engagement

I’d like to add that a thing creeping into a lot of these discussions is the survey. the survey is not a representitive of all users, it is a self selecting group of people who took one to give us a sample of the userbase that we have extrapolated. the survey itself says around 600 people responded. a look at the side bar will show you the number of users a day/week/month regularly exceeds this. people in that thread of the survey results were debating about how many trans men and cis women were even on here because the data does not tell them this, so they invented readings from it.

furthermore, the survey does not say; are the 'he/him’s cis, are the ‘he/hims’ white, are the ‘he/hims’ straight. you do not know who is behind the prounoun tag and username, do not invent a bogeyman out of users based on a survey. it is not empirical evidence. cis het jacketing he/hims is not useful, and can do a lot to hurt people in ways you do not know. I’ve seen this shit hurt trans men friends of mine so many times

thank you, honestly. social spaces are never just a website, or just a this or that. people care, and some people get very attached to a community they invest in and invests back in them. it’s not easy for a lot of us ND posters to just not care about certain things, that’s not how my brain works. you have shown some amazing sincerity here and I respect and admire that a lot

I’m not smart enough to come up with usernames all the time

the things that stop me telling people to come here are not the dunk tanks or that type of culture. this being such an insular place with an often defensive mindset does a lot more to removedoff new people who don’t know the party line* yet does a lot more than ‘they shit on random nazis’

*I do not mean liberals and bigots, I mean leftists. ofc there’s no place for scum here

not really relivant to the actual procession of events, but between 15 and 16 we have Alaskaball banning themselves as a bit and refering to themselves as a ‘fella’ on their admin alt, leading to a mini drama bomb as it looked like another admin misgendering the userbase moment

I honestly hhope our admin team (whatever’s left of it) appolagises to them for it. even if it ‘doesn’t matter’, we were rude in a way that would piss me off if another instance dragged that kind of shit over here. we’re not the cool kids who own lemmy, we supposedly voted to be part of a wider community

that’s part of whhat I mean. ofc us shitting ourselves doesn’t look great, but then also bringing the detachhed ‘fuck you, lol, you think I care?’ posting into their space is just embarassing. they have their own thing going on, and some of us did not respect the vibes while well meaning federated comrades who hang out ere were trying to work out what the fuck was going on and any potential fallout to their community

anybody else kinda embarassed after looking at the Lemmygrad thread asking what the fuck is going on with us