I guess the clue was in the name, I'm done with this shitty instance,
No, stop, I can't fucking breath.. 🤣🤣🤣
I find it a little frustrating that you think any of this started with, because of, or will end with cheeto.
This:
a fractured nation, a failing education system, crumbling infrastructure, and a healthcare system that leaves millions behind
has always been the case, and it is a feature, not a bug. Always has been.
And it will never change as long as you continue to focus on the things the system tells you to focus on (like team red vs team blue, or the clown at the front of the stage) rather than on the system itself (a state mechanism built on slavery and genocide from day dot, and designed and enforced by and for the rich and powerful, who are the ones actually pulling the strings) and abolishing that.
And before OP gets their underwear in a twist - all states are oppressive and should be abolished, but a country founded on and with the biggest hard on for capitalism on the planet, and who has the power to, and has been since its founding, loudly and aggressively dragging the rest of the world on a race to the bottom (if not directly with war mongering and political interfering, then with profiteering off of their enemies war mongering and politically interfering), deserves all the criticism it gets, and the fact that it's easier for you to create a straw person to dismiss the perfectly valid and long overdue criticism, than it is to hear them and sit with the mild discomfort it causes you to hear the truth and confront reality, is a you problem, not a lemmy problem.
Cat pictures pt 2 - continued education boogaloo
ID: photo of a black cat sat on a leopard print blanket, in front of them is an open copy of The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
In response to @Comrade_Spood's query on pt 1 (found by complete coincidence, but had to share considering that exchange lol)
I was about to say..
This may be a good awareness spreading tool, but actually being chronically ill, this game gets a big fat "no thanks" from me lol
I have to tell you, that Action Park shit is still sitting with me.. 😂
Seriously though, thanks for managing that community, it's a good 'un. I've woken up many a morning to a wiki page you led me to lol
E: also, it's 3:45am now, am feeling a little called out by op (though I had actually gone to sleep at 10pm too, it's just that I've woken up since 😭)
Your brother is on a (specifically designed and heavily funded) pipeline to being a total piece of shit (not just with misogyny, but racism, and probably queerphobia and ableism too), do what you can to get him off it. A quick search brings up what looks to be some good info to start you off:
Misogynistic influencers are trending right now. Defusing their message is a complex task
De-radicalising incels out of the ‘manosphere’ through Reddit
There are also many youtube videos on the subject, though I haven't watched any recently, so I won't link, but look up something along the lines of "manosphere right wing pipeline" and you should see some results.
If you’re really asking what it means, an Alpha is a
pseudo scientific myth that has been twisted and then adopted almost exclusively by toxic men to try and boost their own ego and justify their shit behaviour
FTFY
It obviously hit home with the bored loser, since they picked it for one of their latest account names lmmfao
(seriously though, the mods of this community need to get a grip on this spam)
So the queerphobia is gross in its own right, but the more quiet part is that ableism and abusing and discriminating against mentally ill people is a-ok too (and while sexual orientation and gender identity clearly aren't mental illnesses, there is also nothing wrong with being mentally ill, but unfortunately the readiness of some to distance themselves from and throw mentally ill people under the bus to save themselves will very quickly become apparent, and everyone needs to consciously be avoiding that trap).
Yes, but also "laziness" isn't actually a thing that exists:
https://medium.com/@beardedbestie/the-ableist-roots-of-laziness-9eaaf3026d6c
https://fortitudeandflow.com/you-cant-be-lazy-laziness-does-not-exist/
There seems to be this new trend of accounts being created to post this low quality rage bate and other boomer humour at best in this community. This is either a bot, or a really bored loser, either way, the pattern is very obvious (new account that posts 3 comics in a row here and nothing else), and easy to spot and block.
I know this will have little impact, but do yourselves a favour - don't feed the troll.
I love how the men who can't help but pipe up about how "ackchyually" this isn't the case because reasons all magically happen to anecdotally be the statistical anomalies of what decades of research (not to mention their reflexive reaction) has repeatedly proven is a real problem that exists across all walks of life.
Like pretty much all posts about anything even remotely feminism related, it is a self selection mechanism that they just can't help but react to.
Wow, I feel both seen and very attacked 😂
I do all of this and more. It's constant, and it's exhausting.
Ah, yes, women as possessions owned by their husbands and fathers, and used as objects to inflict revenge on other men with, how enlightened and progressive, and not just as shitty and harmful as when they do it. 🙄(heavy /s)
(and because defensive people like to make up straw people to protect their ego and cognitive dissonance - fuck the entire trump family, this isn't a defence of any of them, it's an indictment of how deeply misogyny is rooted in the entirety of society, including leftist circles that consider themselves "progressive" yet are happy to resort to this kind of counterproductive and harmful bullshit)
He wants to be king of the world, it's as simple as that. He already has the most money (not that that'll stop him from wanting more), now he just needs to have the most power, and actively supporting the rise of fascism around the world (which he has been doing for long before he let his mask start to slip and now completely come off) is his way of getting it.
The fact that you think he bought twitter, or is running it the way he is as some sort of troll, rather than a very real, and very effective, way of manipulating the public as well as politics as a whole, shows how well it works.
Firms to raise prices due to capitalist greed
FTFY
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, no matter how warm and fuzzy the marketing team is able to make you feel.
There are a lot of existing alternatives to temp mail, you shouldn't need to resort to anything he has to offer..
Right, because his tyranny will be so much better for us! 🙄
Cat pictures
ID: "You're always writing about politics. Why don't you post cat pictures like everyone else?
Me: Okay!"
Below is a photo of a tabby cat burritoed in a bright pink blanket on a sofa, they look to be intently reading Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto which is open in front of them.
New year rulesolutions goals
ID: drawing of a cute rond frog wearing a pink bow tie, who has waved a sparkling magic wand to produce a small fire in front of them, text says: "I will not be having problems this year. Instead, I will be causing them"
Credit: rainylune
Rule
ID: Drawing of a single flower growing in a pot, it is looking sparse and only has 3 petals left, 2 more petals have fallen off to the ground next to it. Text says: "It's okay if all you did today THIS YEAR was survive"
There is no legitimate defence for prioritising "legality" over morality, especially if you ONLY do it when a victim of oppressive systems fights back - that just makes you a bootlicking class traitor
ID: white text on a black background around a faded photo of a person with a black face scarf on and a hat that says "illegal" on it:
"But it's illegal"
"Saying that something is illegal is not an argument, it is an appeal to authority. Laws are arbitrary dictates to control a population, not universal standards of morality.
Credit: freethouchtproject.com
Lets feast rule
ID: A scene from The Addams Family, we see an engraved gravestone, Morticia reads it out to Fester: "Our credo, "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectos nunc.". She adds: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us." "Not just pretty words."
FYI he was the smallest fish in his pond rule
ID: image titled "Health Insurance CEOS and their pay:" above 8 photos of the CEO
Cigna, DAVID CORDANI $21M
WellCare, MICHAEL CARSON $23.5M
Humana, BRUCE BROUSSARD $16.3 M
CENTENE Corporation, SARAH LONDON $18.6 M
MOLINA HEALTHCARE, JOSEPH ZUBRETSKY $21.4 M
CVS Health, KAREN LYNCH $21.6 M
Elevance Health, GAIL BOUDREAUX $21.9 M
United Healthcare, BRIAN THOMPSON $10.2 M
Switching notifications off?
I'm not sure what happened, but for the last few days I'd had no notifications for new replies (which were coming in thick and fast), and it was absolute bliss.
Unfortunately I had a power cut and my PC rebooted, and now the notifications are back (including those that weren't showing before), so I assume it was an error on my end but still - is it possible to make this a real option?
In an ideal world it would be like on reddit where you could switch off notifications per post and even per thread, but I'll take an all or nothing option at this point.
Eh, what's up, schmuck?
ID: Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck next to a poster saying "CEO season" with a photo of Elon Musk
Rest In Piss
ID: On the left is a chart of "Claim denial rates by insurance company", ranging from Kaiser Permanente at 7%, through the Industry average at 16%, all the way up to UHC at 32%. Based on available in-network claim data for plans sold on the marketplace.
On the right is a photo of Brian Thompson on a cloud, bellow him is text: "Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson." -Ken Klippenstein
Allyship rule
ID: Drawing of a duck billed platypus underwater, they're wearing a rainbow coloured t shirt and a pink bum-bag, and saying: "Ally is not something you can self-identify as, it's a title that you earn. Let your actions speak for themselves!"
Credit: Sophie Labelle
Unexpectedly morbid rule
ID: screengrab of a list of tips and tricks for the game Pocket Build, it says:
- When making a circle with walls or fences, make a line in the middle first as a guide then proceed to place the fences while changing the angle one notch at a time. The change in angle has to be consistent for it to be a perfect circle.
- When you place a fish, you can scale the number of fish that appear but not their size.
- Since People and Goblins don’t disappear once they die, you can use their bodies for decoration.
Respect rule
ID: Person A posted: "Gen Z is too afraid to ask a waiter for extra ketchup, but will bodyslam a cop"
Person B replied: "We respect those who actually serve"
Person C says: "BRUH"
It's the most wonderule time of the year
ID: An edited image of two people looking at each other and smiling, maybe about to kiss, the background is black and the details are outlines which repeat, slightly overlapping, in neon red-green-blue. At the bottom is stylised text: "Ho Ho Ho mosexual"
Saw this random video, curious what kind of machine it is of
@[email protected] shared a link to this great site earlier and I've been watching random videos on it, and this came up.
It's of no importance, just curiosity about both what the machine is, and will anyone on here recognise it (could be pretty generic for its field, my guess might be medical/imaging? or could be something unique, I have no idea!)
Different rules for different birds
ID: the text "tfw you realise trump respects turkeys more than women" above a photo of trump about to pardon a turkey that's in front of him, asking "am I allowed to touch it?"
🍂Holiday fun fact🍂
ID: A scene from The Good Place in two images. Janet is talking to Chidi, Michael is standing behind her. In the top image she says "Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place" In the bottom image she continues "because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide."
.🍽.
ID: text "when you start the communist revolution and begin to eat the rich:" bellow is a photo of Gordon Ramsay saying "delicious finally, some ethical fucking consumption"
Bin it, set it on fire. 🗑️🔥
ID: a drawing for a wikihow to calculate bodily injury settlement, of someone about to step on a discarded banana peel. Someone has added the word "humanity" on the shoe, and "capitalism" on the banana peel.