That is horrible situation to placed in. Helping save someone who is actively trying to ruin your life and hurt you. They did the right thing, but there must be little satisfaction in helping these oppressors.

I’ll never get over old mate putting the whole whisk in his mouth! 😂

Isn’t the enforcer based on Alastair Campbell, now does Rest is Politics Podcast, or at least his reputation from the Blair period.

One element of Lemmy that is being underutilised by many people is the ‘together but separate’ nature of this social media.

This is probably due to a lot of the user interfaces, be it desktop or mobile, not prioritising showing a distinction between servers.

The app ‘sync’ is one example that does prioritise this, (although its not been updated for ages so is slowly breaking).

This app allows you to visit each server individually, not just single communities. This means you can spend your time on some of the country specific, or special interest servers where the very ‘reddity’ US politics posting is minimal, if present at all.

So my advice, go explore some specific servers. I don’t know what DB0’s server is like. Just had a quick look, seems like a tonne of bots posting on the local, so maybe not the best example of what I mean.

Try my home instance (aussie.zone) theres a group of regular posters, and while we have an ‘overseas news’ community, it isnt the most popular community on the server, and US stuff is far from the top three of subjects.

Other examples of what I mean are,

Lemmy.NZ Feddit.UK Programming.dev Slrpnk.net

We have the ability to have whole servers dedicated to niche topics, and their different facets, while still being connected to the whole, its quite fantastic.

So go explore different servers, maybe even move to a server that particularly interests you, that way when you can’t do the content on ‘all’ or ‘subscribed’ communities, theres the ‘local’ or ‘favourite’ servers there as well.

Barbaric humans. Give food, shelter, medecine, and fuck off your jack boots from children’s necks.

Thats really sad you say that considering your home instance is slrpnk.net, which is based off a movement that reaches for a genuinely positive outlook.

Maybe. I don’t know. People have a lot less rights in other countries than their own. Theres a clear propaganda line I can see there, maybe it’d be flimsy, but it doesn’t seem to take much ‘justification’.

😂

Bet ‘The don’t tread on me’ sovcit folks are knotted and contorted messes now. Where’d all yer flags go now, ya cunts.

I think its not even the average football fan.

The peaceful suburbanite psyche of the average ‘western’ person hasn’t been penetrated yet, even with all thats happened. Thats in large part due to the media, and how they don’t cover the increasingly serious corruption, murders, and traitors.

A great current example is the sentencing and jailing of that national traitor from Reform UK. It caused barely a blip in the media, just phenomenal there wasn’t a classic british media circus around it, so phenomenal I find it suspicious.

But its surely more than the media, maybe willful ignorance? Simple lack of care, a sort of “thats their business, not mine” attitude? I don’t know, human behaviour is weird when it comes to inconvenience.

So much of this world seems to run on whatever is most convenient, (to be read as least mentally taxing), for the person in the decision makers position at the time. Be it a president, local cop, lawyer, teacher, or any other authority position, it always comes down to was it easier for that person to make that decision, or this decision.

Importantly, i think its the making of a decision not the outcomes of said decisions. So the easy decision could lead to harder to manage outcomes, but the decision maker at the time found that decision easiest to process as opposed a more complex option as the decision to go with.

Ah, no your argument is definitely on the same page then, but at different ends of that page.

So your disagreement goes to degree of breaking and ability for remedy.

Their argument is, the degree of targetting and surveillance has surpassed normal constraints while the ability for a remedy within the normal constraints of the social contract is no longer possible.

To take your example if a murderer is arrested and tried then order is restored and with it the social contract begins to heal. If the murderer however isn’t arrested and tried, then continues to murder, then what alternative remedies are available to be resorted to.

Its a breaking of social contract argument.

Its bad when everyone does it, the point isn’t whether its a good thing to do or not. The social contract only works if people largely adhere to the conditions. The argument is that these people have broken their part, therefore are no longer entitled to the benefits of the bargain. It is a loss for society in general, and the action is a proposed remedy (as a social cost) aiming to restore the social contract.

Cool, stalagmites but different got it! 😂 I’ll look him up. I’ve heard the name, author and book, never given them a proper look though.

Ooh cool! Will check out. I just went to the first to return in search. Actually second link, i went to wikipedia first.

Oh yeah, i had that same thought about Trantor. The books Are really great so far, i picked up this 4 in 1 book from the local vinnies/thrift store. Only problem with reading them like this is, i can tell i’ll get confused between these four, and which
events occured in which book.

It can also be rephrased as, Russia has been struggling to take Pokrovsk.

Lets do it. Lets count count count.

Corruption has made the US a rotten place, if Republicans without brainrot wish to live in a country that isn’t tearing itself apart again they need to reject the corruption at all levels. They need to reject what they have so far accepted from their side as equally as they’ve rejected the corruption of the other side. The gains they think they’re making under this regime are crumbs from the table of corruption they unleash. There is no reason for anybody to be honest actors if the Republicans refuse their responsibilities to all their countrymen.

Ffs hired security… glad you all went prepared, but thats such a ridiculous need to have to think about for a protest.

Hope you stay safe. This was the photo where i thought the people had the most guts to be there. If its really that supportive of your fuckhead in chief, i can’t imagine many friendly onlookers.

Although, i suppose with the smallest voting bloc being republican, and largest being non-voter, maybe you’d get more disinterested people than outright aggression.