jiml78

jiml78, 10 months ago

Correct, calling China a communist country is laughable. Just like it is laughable when people call any US senator a socialist. People don't know the actual definitions of the words they are using.

China and Russia have authoritarian regimes.

And it is sad to see people who call themselves communist, support regimes like China. They refuse to admit their shit sticks. At least I will happily admit where my country falls so far short of my leftist ideals.

jiml78, 10 months ago

I was just hoping they would integrate it into Proton Bridge for linux. Essentially exposing the volume and let linux users decide how they want to handle the syncing. It seems like that would be relatively easy to implement and most linux users are tech savvy enough to setup syncing for how they want it.

jiml78, 11 months ago

Lets just take this to the extreme and see where shit lands.

Take the common leftist view. What happens to the country if we "got" our way. Everyone has healthcare coverage. Everyone with regard to their gender, orientation, race are treated equally and with dignity/respect. Everyone has a living wage. Everyone that wants to go to college can go to college without huge debt. Oh, we have to figure out how to pay for it.

Man that sounds fucking awful.

Now take it where the common right wing idiot that is consumed by the culture war wants to take it. Gay marriage outlawed. Transpeople wiped from the face of the earth. Fuck minorities. No minimum wage. Lower taxes for the 1%. Privatized social security, privatized medicare. No federal minimum wage. Gov't restriction of free speech.

And yes, I say right wing dipshits want to restrict free speech because they are the morons removing books. To quote Rage Against the Machine, "They don't have to burn the books, they just remove them" That is exactly what the right wing morons are doing.

The right getting their way leads to a dystopian shithole where only the wealthy have decent lives.

I would actually be ok arguing economics with a conservative. But the conservatives lost that fight when they embraced the religious right and decided to economically spend just as much as the liberals. Both parties are big spenders. So economics aren't a talking point anymore. It is purely a culture war that the right started.

jiml78, 11 months ago

Going to take an easy one for you.

"What is the result of lower taxes (the right wing is for lower taxes for everyone, not just the rich - your 1% claim is an outright misrepresentation of their views): more money that can be used to invest."

We have the data over the past 70 years to show that is 1000% false. Straight up false.

Go look at economic investment in the 1950s to now. Seriously, go look it up. When we had the highest tax rates, especially corporate tax rates, we had the highest level of investment into research and salaries.

When you have the lowest tax rates, what you get is stock buybacks and huge salary payouts to executives. You obviously have done very little research in how low tax rates work in reality. Hint, it doesn't trickle down. And we know because we have hard facts and how the markets have worked over time.

EDIT: And I want to give you the reason why high tax rates lead to more investment. If you have a choice between lowering your tax burden by using it for research and salaries, you would rather do that than give it to the gov't. That is why high tax rates work.

jiml78, 11 months ago

Do you eat bananas? They are carcinogen too. Hell water will kill you.

That is the problem with this type of non-sense. Everything is about dosing. Aspartame is not carcinogenic in the amounts humans consume.

jiml78, 11 months ago

People in their 50s that have good looking skin did :-)

jiml78, 11 months ago

Well, lemmy.ml is the lemmy devs. Kbin is a competitor to their software. They might hate that Kbin is growing really fast and I think is overall better than straight lemmy.

jiml78, 11 months ago

Or things like cisgender. Those words need to be banned? Dude is an 8 yeah old tool

jiml78, 11 months ago

My mom recently had a stroke. She said the same thing about never wanting to be in a nursing home.

She will never have independence again. She has no money or retirement. That means she gets placed in a home that accepts Medicaid here in the US. These are the worst of the worst. If they gave my mom a button to push that would end her life, I am certain she would push it rather than go where she is going.

But she physically can’t do anything so her taking her own life isn’t possible now

jiml78, 11 months ago

It is both. And I don't think Lemmy/kbin can ever be truly successful without a large and diverse 3rd party app support. Everyone isn't looking for the same type of interface. It is why an "official" reddit app will never truly be successful. I was always more into subreddits that were text content. Having the interface with giant pictures isn't going to work for me. However, that is what my wife wanted.

As for censorship, that was always an issue with Reddit. But that doesn't change on lemmy/fediverse. You can easily be banned by different instances. For instance, lemmy.ml doesn't tolerate any criticism of the Chinese gov't at all. When you decide to be on that server, you are agreeing to deal with that type of censorship.

jiml78, 11 months ago

The fediverse can’t ban you but at some point I guarantee there will be instances that dominate with the amount of users. When that happens, if you are banned, you will essentially be banned from the communities that primarily exist on those instances.

Sure you could even create your own instance of lemmy but you will be talking to yourself.