I thought this was going to be more of polling post.
Anyway I did. I deleted my account and haven’t gone back for anything since then. It’s rough too cause now there’s no connection to the local groups here.
I joined a local instance hoping there would be local people posting but I guess that’s not how lemmy works.
“Welcome to Town, USA! Please stay seated till the aircraft has parked at the gate, the temperature outside is 69 Freedom Degrees, the local time is 6:19 PM so good luck leaving the airport with any amount of haste and no there isn’t an air-rail link, we thank you for flying with us, enjoy spending almost as much time in...
Seinfeld made a joke about how car rental companies don’t understand what a “reservation” actually is nearly thirty fucking years ago and jack fucking shit has changed
Not only that but holy shit if a lot of customer service interactions aren’t just like that now. They use doublespeak to get around customers and look for ways to give people indirect answers so no one ever gets any real help.
we’re so back. anyways as you can tell by the other pinned post, we’ve been a little busy with a lot of stuff on the backend and that’s probably going to continue into the foreseeable future
My week just started cause I work Mon-Fri and I’m super nervous for tomorrow cause I have a project I have to do with someone I am not use to working with.
I’m gonna go get an edible after work though and hopefully I run into my crush.
Same here. I have the flip 4 z and it’s been great! And before this I had the galaxy note 20 and the galaxy note 4. Both fantastic phones. I do miss having the stylis but I didn’t want to get a fold.
Yeah the bloatware doesn’t interfere with anything I do. I use some apps like I’m trash so I use a dating app, and I use a podcast app to listen to a show and a banking app.
The bloatware is just kind of in the background and I never fully install it when I get a new phone so it just stays in limbo.
I know of someone who says they listen to Joe Rogan podcasts (political I assume) but I don’t know what this means or what the connotations are. Both this person and I live in east asia.
Right? Like the person who was insisting he was always bald due to some weird blind hatred. Like the guy use to just be a dumb stand up comedian/actor. As far as I remember he wasn’t outspoken in the 90’s like he is now.
The main thing I’m trying to say is these people historically were blue
How do you know that? What are you basing that off of?
I mean, I have an example of what you’re talking about but its the only thing I can think of where I’m like, yeah I know for sure that was the case. And only feel comfortable saying that because there is recorded evidence of someone stating that they use to be a democratic, and then switched to vote for Bush who ran as a republican.
And as for the alt right stuff - I only feel comfortable saying what I said about that because I spent several years of my early 20’s being really misguided and I was knee deep in that shit.
Trump talked about running for president since like the 90’s so that was already out there as information. The alt right groups were looking for a “new hitler” as they put it and eventually pushed for Trump. They did this through social engineering. Over the course of several years.
People laugh when I talk about this but it is a real thing that happened.
In your perspective, you’re witnessing the disintegration of America.
It’s been disintegrating for awhile now.
You can’t just chalk this all up to gullibility.
I’m not. Both things are at play here.
If people were having happy stable lives where their needs were being met financially and emotionally, they wouldn’t vote for these proto-fascists
Again. How do you meet the needs of people who are filled with hatred? I’m genuinely asking since you keep bringing this up.
Of course I remember the “meme faith” thing that was happening in 2016 and it seemed like it really worked. All those alt right pepe memes infesting everything and they picked Trump as the focus
Oh I’m talking about waay waaaay before 2016. I’m talking 2008. They were looking for a new hitler.
What Trump did was unprecedented
I can’t agree because there is evidence of Trump talking about running for office since the 90’s. We should have seen this coming but any time it was talked about, it was laughed off and ignored.
I live in a liberal and wealthy area of a red state. I make good money, live comfortably, and have a diverse community of people available to me. All sorts of recreation, social events, etc.
I live in a liberal area of a blue state. I make okay money and live kind of comfortable but not really and I miss out on a lot of things due to racism and having to combat culture wars because of who I am as a person.
So I’m feeling the disintegration. I get the brunt of it dealt to me first hand. People fucking hate me because I am who I am.
That being said -
Economic reforms. Large investments in infrastructure. A real Green New Deal - trillions of dollars spent building all sorts of modern infrastructure would require lots of labor. Build high speed rail all over America. Start programs that give companies incentive to return manufacturing jobs to the US.
I agree with this. I agree with raising minimum wage and universal healthcare - I’m even for universal basic income. I agree with a lot of what you are saying and I think it would help a lot of people.
Seriously, it’s not a coincidence fascism came about right after the Great Depression
I get that too. It’s history and you can’t argue against it.
But I’m telling you about a current enemy and its one I know very well - in my early 20s you could easily have lumped me in with that same group of people. I’m not anymore but I definitely was.
And even when I was growing as a person and slowly removing those ideologies on my own from myself… I still interacted with people who are never going to stop being that way.
I don’t think its all insecurity. I think some of it is just as simple as pure hatred. I’m telling you. They get off it. I don’t know how anyone would change their mind when they totally want someone to go out of their way to try and change their mind. They want someone like you to try and get rid of their insecurity so they can laugh at the fact that you tried.
How do you change someone like that? How do you help someone like that?
The only reason I changed is cause I chose to do that on my own.
also way to piss me off. Like are you trolling? Did you miss the context of my original post? You sure glazed over the discrimination I was talking about just to correct me on something that didn’t need to be corrected.
This really comes off like you’re trying to make this out like I said something I NEVER SAID.
yes I’m mad. I feel like you’re fucking with me and you better not be. Like do everyone a favor and be honest. Are you really trying to have a good faith discussion about this?
I deal with enough racism and homophobia in real life. I don’t want to deal with it here too.
How many people actually dropped Reddit for Lemmy?
It is possible to estimate?
Flying into a car dependent city be like (lemmy.ml)
“Welcome to Town, USA! Please stay seated till the aircraft has parked at the gate, the temperature outside is 69 Freedom Degrees, the local time is 6:19 PM so good luck leaving the airport with any amount of haste and no there isn’t an air-rail link, we thank you for flying with us, enjoy spending almost as much time in...
how's your week going, Beehaw
we’re so back. anyways as you can tell by the other pinned post, we’ve been a little busy with a lot of stuff on the backend and that’s probably going to continue into the foreseeable future
YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead (fortune.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3320637...
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What are the connotations of Joe Rogan?
I know of someone who says they listen to Joe Rogan podcasts (political I assume) but I don’t know what this means or what the connotations are. Both this person and I live in east asia.
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A New Wave of Neo-Nazism Has Become Visible in Wake of Jacksonville Shooting (truthout.org)
Just say 'No' to TERFs and tankies! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)