Stop watching Fox News, dad

People would watch that shit. Don’t give them any ideas.

If that’s how you feel, imagine how I feel every time you talk

Blaming everything on capitalism is oversimplistic and reductive, to be honest.

Climate collapse is a result of industrialization and not capitalism, to start. Unless you want to explain how Stalin and Mao were still burning coal.

Because they’re cowards who think they’re safe sitting in a three ton fiberglass shell

There were actual studies done on it. In similar situations out in the open, people act completely differently than they do in cars. They think they’re armored in those cheap things.

Ancient alien theory is extremely racist and I am shocked people don’t reject it on those grounds alone.

Pizza rolls are disgusting.

And it does, because I am the one who has been calling out popular instances for this crap since day one and have been banned repeatedly for it. To which you don’t bat an eye because who cares what happens to an inebriated pachyderm? Instance admins would never abuse their power to protect their feelings or cover up their wrongdoing with you. You’re kind and sober, after all.

Ask yourself where it is you’re going to go when .world admins ban you for criticizing them, or other innocuous shit like your political speech, or simply because they don’t like you. .world controls the vast majority of Lemmy’s userbase so what happens to you and any followings you build then? What will happen when major protests erupt next year and they censor people like fucking Reddit did?

All I can do is warn you. And once again you’ll refuse to listen to me because you’re too busy, how did you put it? Making it all about you and your hurt feelings from my words instead of displaying the humility and wisdom required to do what’s right. And the one who will pay the price for it is you.

And yet here I am, telling you facts being the one to suffer the most from calling them out, while nothing bad happens to you. Fancy that

I agree with you. I am merely pointing out the facts of the matter, that’s all.

That’s not gonna stop them. They can arbitrarily make as many accounts as they need to do it, and just bounce from account to account one comment at a time if necessary.

Most people have at least a few alts on other instances simply by virtue of instance shopping. Meaning most people already can evade bans.

It’s just a bad, broken system.

Here’s the problem I have with the whole wack-ass federation system:

Those Hexbear trolls could just make accounts on other instances and keep messing with people without consequences.

Most major Lemmy instances aren’t heavily moderated and the ones that are are only modded to serve the emotional whims of the mods and admins, and not for the benefit of the users.

The whole-ass structure still has a hierarchy and therefore is still problematic.

Welcome to the wonderful world of bilateral genocide.

Those others are their friends and family, not abusive authoritarians causing the very violence they convinced you they’re here to stop.

Excuse you, Mr. You’re-An-Invalid-Not-Capable-Of-Defending-Yourself? Your whole point is deeply insulting and offensive. Be civil and stop making it. See how that works? Anything can and is uncivil to somewhere at sometime. So don’t cry to me about your poor sensitive little feelings when you give not one single fuck for mine.

If he doesn’t have a gun and can’t fight, then he needs cops to protect him from people who do have guns and can fight.

No, the answer to not having a gun and not being able to fight is to get a gun and gain the ability to fight. If you cannot do that, ally yourself with friends and family who 1) do and 2) are willing to defend you, even with their lives.

That’s the only real answer because we’ve seen clearly that cops 1) legally are not obligated to protect anybody, 2) won’t, 3) are tyrannical and more interested in entrenching power over other people than doing anything positive.

Cops are not the answer to the human condition. Only friends and family are, really. Only you youself are, ultimately.

Is that everyone? No. I never said it was.

That’s clearly what you’re implying, or did you mean something else by your obnoxious threatening statement?

Most people in the U.S. either have or can easily get a gun. A substantial majority of people can, in fact, fight. You’re a fucking idiot.

I am telling the truth, too. I myself even have touches of dyslexia myself, and yet here I am not using it as an excuse to make life harder than everyone else.

So do millions of other people. And so are you, responding with high school/college level spelling, vocabulary and grammar which you are somehow mysteriously capable of doing when you want to win something.

So clearly, it is possible to expect dyslexic people – like myself and my friends – to be held to the same standards as everyone else.

You don’t have a right to demand people assume everyone who refuses to watch their spelling and grammar is dyslexic.

You don’t have a right to demand no one hold anyone else accountable for anything intellectual or to not let us expect people to know, understand, or do anything. That’s not how life works.

If you are dyslexic, you have to be doubly careful because of it. And it may not seem fair to you, but life isn’t fair, and what you want is an unfair burden on everyone else, including us other dyslexics who do understand that.

You doing that is insulting to the rest of us who do have various learning disabilities and struggles who have to be associated with lazy, selfish people like yourself who think that you’re entitled to skate because of it. You are not, we want to be treated as equals to everyone else, and here you are fucking it up using our disability to imply we’ll never be as good as everyone else and therefore have to have our hand held and treated as an inferior, and I am telling you no, you will not demand we be mollycoddled because you think no one has a right to hold anyone responsible for anything.

Disabilities are not excuses and you’re not going to turn them into one. You have to adhere to the same standards as everyone else whether you like it or not.