I don’t know if I’d really call Tankie a slur just because “tankies” don’t use the term. That’s like saying Thatcherite, carpet bagger, TERF or brownshirt are slurs. You may not identify with the term but we have a long way to go before its a slur.

It is a decentralized open source communication protocol offered for the public’s use, which means people can modify their instances and generally do, say, or think anything they want in regards to the original founders of the project.

“They chose this”

Ah yes, the drowned children and the women carrying ectopic embryos and the detainees all down to a man chose this by voting. Sure.

There’s an empathy shortage on this planet and its gonna drive us extinct. People on this site delight in the suffering of faceless unknown Americans like my grandparents delighting in Christendom’s pillaging of the heathen Middle Eastern countries because “they chose wrong,” that choice being non Christian and non-white.

Nazi Newsom

The fediverse is a bunch of websites that talk to each other with the same protocol. If you’ve been banned from one, you can still talk on all the others. If you are banned on your home instance I am pretty sure you can still post on all the others.

Point out in the image file where this is relevant to the topic in the OP, please.

Isn’t this central feature of how the fediverse works great?

Bubble, echo chamber, besieged fortress syndrome…

Hmm, maybe we should consider this viewpoint on its own merits. Oh wait

I mean what the fuck, just ban the person you don’t like.

B does not follow A.

Users who don’t like what an instance is doing can register with a new instance.

I know some folk agree with the feddit.uk admins approach of pushback through discussion and voting, but this instance is not designed to be that kind of space. Blahaj lemmy is meant to be a place where we can avoid the rampant transphobia universally visible on nearly every other social media platform, and where we can exist without needing to debate our right to do so.

This thread glows so much my insides hurt.

I first started seeing this on reddit (who knows where it actually came from though) which I believe schools its users to want to say SOMETHING, ANYTHING for attention and engagement. I agreed with or rather understood its meaning at one point but this phrase along with has “let me Google that for you” has fostered an abysmal internet culture. I think a much more servicable and sympathetic version of what this phrase was once trying to say, when said in good faith, should be “its not my responsibility to engage with this post right now”, which isn’t spoken aloud but is applicable to everyone online, and which I find myself thinking more and more when a comment makes me groan. The problem is how driven we all are to say SOMETHING, ANYTHING for attention amd engagement. I think it was a valuable realization at the time that felt so good to fire off uncritically on Twitter that people really hurt themselves, others, and the internet’s culture when they did.

I could use some optimism so may I ask why?

Da, totally based my commie bros! Class consciosness is when you want the working class to suffer for your vague political ambitions! Migrants being pulled off the streets is totally praxis! We will seize the means of production from the beaches of El Salvadore out of the hands of dead detainees!

In case it wasn’t clear, go fuck yourself, psycho asshole.

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The amount of dogshit takes from 2 week old to 3 month old accounts is absurd, Lemmy instances should institute a one month lurking period or something. Some fuckass actually posted Asmongold to a gaming group. Its a tidal wave.

Uh oh, looks like sacrificing that trans character and replacing her with entertainments first out and proud Christian didn’t have the effect they were going for.

Calm down. Agitprop is just what it is, not a value judgement. I’m not offended at all, I just asked a question. The US military is powerful but hasn’t won on its own terms in awhile, so I wasn’t clear on what you meant.

Victories in the Middle East

I’m honestly not sure what this refers to in recent memory unless you’re talking about the initial battlefield victories, executing Hussein, killing Bin Laden, or dropping MOAB to make ourselves feel better. We fled Afghanistan with our tails between our leg, left a power vacuum in our wake and the people to be ruled by their theocrats. It was godawful and we lost stupendously more than we gained at least in the public sector. Nice agitprop though I guess.

“The Gang Gets Inked”

If you can’t find anyone else I would be glad to step in.