this is just bad faith engagement, and you can see them doing this and other trolling techniques in their comment history
this is just bad faith engagement, and you can see them doing this and other trolling techniques in their comment history
I don’t believe flyingsquid has an appropriate temperament to moderate a current events community
I don’t like being spied on
whatever you say about discord, all i can hear is “you don’t own the data, you don’t control the servers, and the terms of service are subject to the whims of a for-profit corporation”
no feature set, and no “community” built on such a platform can convince me it’s worth my time to use it for anything more than bare utility. for instance, sometimes my pokemon tournaments require i join a discord. i install the app for the course of the tournament.
unless the Democrats want to give up one of their main vote-driving issues, voting for them isn’t going to solve it either.
i don’t want the government involved in anything. why would i want them deciding the degree to which they should be involved in someone’s healthcare?
that’s been overturned. you cant get it reinstated without an act of congress.
, it’s a strategic decision taken to advance your goals.
this part also assumed universal goals. one of my goals is to smash capital and the state. the democrat party will most definitely be part of that. voting for them doesn’t advance my goals.
Voting is not about putting your support behind a candidate
this is the bit that i found most objectionable. almost all the rhetoric around an election talks about support: financial, popular, or political.
voting is definitely supporting a candidate, pretty much any way you slice it.
Voting is not about putting your support behind a candidate or identifying with them, it’s a strategic decision taken to advance your goals.
maybe for you, but your values aren’t universal.
It seems pretty clear that queer people would be persecuted a hell of a lot more under Trump than Biden.
from what i can tell, it’s getting wors, not better, in the last 5 years. i have no reason to believe it would get better with either of them.
hitler could never imagine having the power of the presidency under pax americana, but he would have loved to translate the “racial jungle” speech. the supreme irony of biden’s dog literally attacking federal law enforcement while people are in prison for the same thing is palpable. kids in cages, building a border wall, and supplying arms to the middle east to prop up an ethnostate. look… how much hitler are you willing to tolerate?
They’re analogous to the far right is the main thing. Anarchism/communism/etc. is the gateway to such views. Most lefists don’t go that far (good) but some do. Same thing with the far right, they start off as libertarian, ancap, or run of the mill conservatives etc. and end up going into cuckoo land after they watch too much cable news and facebook conspiracies.
i don’t think there is a reputable source to substantiate this.
you could look up the rainbow family. hippies are still around.
I don’t consider tankies leftists. I’m an anarchist. I consider myself far left.
Certainly no justification for Russia enacting war and doing a multitude of war crimes.
i don’t think anyone is defending putin here.
i asked duckduckgo
amnesty international azov battalion
this was just the first result
edit: here’s the search
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=amnesty+international+azov+battalion
if we see people using these phrases do we get to call them bots and shills, or is that reserved for pro war users?
irc and xmpp federate…xmpp is highly extensible.
this claim is not falsifiable. it’s a tautology with no genuine predictive power. it’s not science, it is storytelling.
everything you said after this was also wrong