acronymesis

1chemistdown, 10 months ago

As a genX-er, I grew up having to say it through elementary and middle school. I quit participating in the mid ‘80s. We were forced to attend John Birch Society events in school hat would talk about how horrible Russia was and how they fed propaganda to the kids from an early age. Reagan would always talk about all the horrible things USSR would do with their childhood propaganda too. I realized right away that everything the school was doing was the same thing.

I got labeled as a bad kid. Not Christian enough and not obedient enough.

1chemistdown, 10 months ago

Nope, public school

Hairyblue, 10 months ago

If you don't believe in having an abortion, don't have one. Don't make laws to force others to live by your beliefs. This is shameful.

Vote out Republicans. Women deserve the right of choice over their bodies

GeekFTW, 10 months ago

Sounds pretty cunty of em.

DarkGamer, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

"We lost $100 million from attacks by the box stores, the shopping networks, the shopping channels, all of them did cancel culture on us."

Funny how when people show them the door for being lying antidemocratic assholes, that's "cancel culture." Meanwhile the right seems quite happy to exclude people from public life, refuse services to groups they don't like, make it easy for bosses to fire employees for unionizing or speaking out, and right wing media is quite fond of cutting mics or banning people when they disagree. They are quire happy to perform their own boycotts because they hate trans people and companies that don't. For some reason they don't call any of that 'cancel culture.'

Mike, people just don't want to support you and don't want you around because you're a dangerous, disingenuous, fascism advocate. Our nation would have been better off if he had remained a crackhead and never participated in promoting and amplifying Trump's lies.

ProximaC, 10 months ago

Feeding them to the machine that is Late Stage Capitalism. nom nom nom.

tiredofsametab, 10 months ago

Japan: yes. Most dentist appointments are quite cheap.

-spam-, 10 months ago

I feel you. I'm near that for three protruding discs in my neck with one pushing on my spinal cord.

12 months to see a hospital physio who got me in front a surgeon the next day, he wondered how I was still walking. 9 months later, im still waiting for something to happen next.

HandsHurtLoL, 10 months ago

Sincere question: does this statistic represent the sentiment that they A. like that Trump is a security risk to national interests or B. see this indictment as further proof that he's actually the messiah who was close to unearthing JKF Jr and QAnon stuff, so clearly he was thisclose to draining the swamp?

I've said it before and I'll say it again: what is the role that Oppositional Defiance Disorder is playing into such a huge number of people??

wagesj45, 10 months ago

These highly organized local action groups are really concerning to me. We had a group of ultra conservatives running for our local school board as a group. Very worrying that they're organizing so effectively.

CeruleanRuin, 10 months ago

Cults are nothing new. But the big media outlets aren’t helping anything by avoiding using that c-word for this phenomenon. It is undeniably a cult, and it needs to be called that.

OpenStars, 10 months ago

You are missing the point that while you are free to do as you please, others also enjoy that same freedom. I don't WANT to make posts about fashion, cooking, politics, or non-techie things, but if you do, then by all means, please do that? Be the change that you would like to see in the world, and all that? I hope you find your bliss.

While I am at it though, "nobody talks about anything else" is objectively false - it is a "feels like" statement that falls prey to the hyperbolic fallacy that your POV is the only one that matters. In point of fact though, there are TONS of such discussions happening, right now, all across the Fediverse! Granted, probably not at the frequency that you want, or perhaps not as easily discoverable as you wanted. Have you considered that Reddit or Twitter or Facebook etc. may legit serve your needs better at the moment, and that's okay too?

For fantastic artwork here though, check out magazines such as m/digitalart@lemmy.world, or here's a post sharing a youtube video with nice music. For cooking, I see THOUSANDS of members making THOUSANDS of comments across MANY different places: here's a comprehensive list of those across all of kbin.social - e.g. m/food has 2243 members and 2209 posts, and m/food@behaw.org has >1k comments (looks like concentrated mostly in a few posts such as https://kbin.social/m/food@beehaw.org/t/71429/What-do-you-eat-that-other-people-think-is-odd). Surely people might even talk about politics here, a tiny bit?:-P

And now we both are breaking your rule: discussing things about the fediverse. This place is for those with an early-adopter mindset: we don't have daddy spez over here "taking care of us", so we must build our own things. Thus, we often resort to talking about actions that involve that process - which I for one don't think is a bad thing? It makes us better, to have these civil conversations about how to make things better moving forward! Although I think your post is poorly written, using inflationary emotional language that misses several points. Even so, I am absolutely LOVING how the comment section here isn't full of harassers saying things like "U SUK", but instead people offering constructive feedback, both positive and negative. To me, THAT is the difference between this place vs. Reddit that makes me enjoy being here more than there. Even though, admittedly yes, it does have FAR less content, and it is all of a biased nature (towards the topics that we here enjoy posting about).

knoland, 10 months ago

But there’s no algorithm that makes rep valuable here. Presumably on threads the more followers and engagement you have, the more your content will be pushed to peoples feeds.

Different carrots.

DiachronicShear, 10 months ago

Conservatives want to eradicate anyone that isn’t Straight, White, and Christian, so why would I ever move to a red state if I’m not in that group?

FfaerieOxide, 10 months ago

No thank you.
I've seen that anime; don't like where it leads.

kuontom, 10 months ago

I'm aware. I was hoping people would understand sarcasm without an explicit /s but sigh

Gur814, 10 months ago

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