we should be able to have sane and respectful conversations where no one is insulting each other, or anyone else
Why should we?
Your personal opinion does not give you the right to delete comments and block users, just because their opinions don’t align with yours!
Actually it does. Just like IRC, the fediverse is not a democracy, it’s a dictatorship. As a user, you have no rights at all. You’re offered the privilege of being permitted to connect and participate. Don’t like it? Nobody cares. Go start your own server/network/whatever.
This is a false equivalence. An election is not a sports game and voters are not a team.
Not wanting to take part in that kind of thing even when it’s mind-bogglingly trivial (as voting is) is going to exclude you from the majority of good things you can do.
Firstly, not voting doesn’t seem to disqualify one from those jobs. So this is not “good things” that one would supposedly be excluded from by not voting.
Secondly, I’m not a US citizen which does seem to disqualify me from those jobs.
It’s not my problem if you weren’t able to find them.
Can you tell me what you’re expecting me to look for? Or even better, to save everyone’s time, just give a link to exactly what it is that conveys what you’re trying to convey? Or even better, if you’re really serious about this whole communication thing, copy and paste the text and provide a link to where it came from? And explain clearly why you’re quoting the text?
bad-faith combativeness
No idea why you think my questions are either in bad faith or “combative”.
The upcoming slaughter of the Tory Party will be biblical in scope and doubtless provide many hugely entertaining moments as some of the world’s most entitled incompetents are handed their backsides by a public that can simply take no more....
Oh ye of little faith. The public can take plenty more. They want it. They’re screaming for it. Look at them line up to show fealty to their rich, corrupt king.
Okay, let me rephrase for you: in choosing which of Microsoft’s stinking piles of shit was the least stinky, some people chose Windows 2000. However, most people just left the stinky area and didn’t look back.
Don’t get me wrong, I will probably cave at the last minute and vote SNP again for a number of reasons. Mostly, being supportive of a number of their progressive policies that I have benefited from over the years, and also because my constituency is a two horse race between them and the Tories who I will never vote for. Though...
That webpage does not describe a current ability to vote none. Instead it simply argues for a possible means of achieving a future ability to vote none. And to me it’s a pretty feeble suggestion.
What you’ve said is not true. One does not have the ability to vote none.
These mods on their power-trips really need to stop
I just got banned from linux@lemmy.ml, which seems to be the biggest Linux community out there....
Pardon me for not finding “vulnerable people need to die for my ideology” very convincing. (mbin.grits.dev)
Who designs a easter egg box like this? (lemmy.world)
David Cameron meets Donald Trump amid push to shore up Ukraine support (www.theguardian.com)
British foreign secretary will also urge congressional leaders in Washington to advance aid for Kyiv in its war against Russia
The fragile fantasist of the Vale (nation.cymru)
The upcoming slaughter of the Tory Party will be biblical in scope and doubtless provide many hugely entertaining moments as some of the world’s most entitled incompetents are handed their backsides by a public that can simply take no more....
5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity (www.zdnet.com)
Anyone else considering spoiling their ballot in the next election?
Don’t get me wrong, I will probably cave at the last minute and vote SNP again for a number of reasons. Mostly, being supportive of a number of their progressive policies that I have benefited from over the years, and also because my constituency is a two horse race between them and the Tories who I will never vote for. Though...