Something I learned the very hard way, against my will, is when you have a user who is seriously against the mods, and doesn’t really care about the sub, it’s often best to just ban them.

Normally, the max I give is a week or two, long enough for most to move on, but some people just get obsessed. Others will literally ask to be banned. Those catch a perma.

Not saying the LW admins are right, but moderation is harder than it looks on the outside. Also ban evasion is basically a feature of Lemmy, it’s so easy, and a lot do it.

It sucks, mods suck, being a mod sucks, everything sucks.

Dunno, that soundy pretty crazy to me. Shouod send them to the loony bin

And there lies the actual problem. Is a fetus a person or not?

For all the leftists out there, remember that gun control is class warfare.

Not everything is to be outraged about. This honestly sounds like their secular system is working as intended.

Acknowledging that Trump kept any promises at all is fairly conservative, and the downvote button is a disagree button. That’s why they’re downvoting you, because they disagree with you.

What double standard?

So because I dont censor it, that must mean I agree with it? Is that really your mindset?

You know what? Fuck it.

Crazy how you guys only care about gun violence when someone other than your own side does it. Especially given that most political violence is right wing violence.

Saying “Gun violence” instead of “Violence” is dog whistling that you care more about disarming people than saving lives.

That aside, yes, most political violence world wide is right wing violence. This is mainly due to Islamic terrorism, which is right wing. Note that is not American right wing.

Most shooters are straight, cis, white males.

Define shootings. Because with one definition, you can have 300+ shootings every year, but that counts gang violence, and suddenly white men aren’t the biggest contributors to the stat anymore. I’ll let you guess which demographic would, since you brought it up.

Alternatively, excluding gang violence, you can have under a dozen every year, and white men are the biggest contributors. Not per capita, but still in absolute numbers.

Yet you’ll never see fox news with a headline going “X shooting suspect identified as a straight, cis, white male with ‘kill all blacks’ written on gun”.

Guess what? They have a right wing bias. They generally don’t report shootings because there’s no angle. Left wing sites do report on them because they want to push an anti-gun narrative, that and ratings.

And here is an actually good source:

Don’t think I didn’t notice just how light on details that AP is. They talk a bunch about the victims and Joel osteen, but they barely give you her name. They are pushing an angle by omission. Same as fox, same as cbs, same as every news site.

Ive said it time and time again, conservatives are not a monolith. Please stop acting like it.

Fuck I just jinxed it.

At least in 2021, it was a low of 3 degrees. This weekend it’s a low of 10 degrees, so seven degrees warmer. Plus only a 20% chance of snow.

Well, the freeze that took out power broke the cold records by about ten degrees, during the height of covid. Shouldn’t be that big of a deal.

The gay frog thing was actually kinda true. There was chemical pollution, and it was affecting frogs. But it was turning male frogs into female frogs.

In any case, I think almost everyone can get on board with factories not dumping chemical waste into rivers.

I fully agree. Small groups have limited resources. But google and facebook have a ton of resources, they can handle more oversight.

That brings up another thing. At what point does it become a “public space”?

Theres an old supreme court case on a company town that claimed someone was trespassing on a sidewalk. The supreme court ruled it was a public space, and thus they could pass out leaflets.

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/marsh-v-alabama-1946/

Imo, a lot of big sites have gotten to that stage, and should be treated as such.

Part of the problem is who decides what is misinformation. As soon as the state gets to decide what is and isn’t true, and thus what can and cannot be said, you no longer have free speech.

Current trend? Lolis have been a thing for decades in anime.

Yakub is a few decades old at this point. Its just a black supremacist myth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_(Nation_of_Islam)

Plenty of fascists got their start reading 1984 and distrusting the news.

What isn’t a pipeline to facism?