It’s about what the donors want

Yes, but the reason “donors” matter is precisely that their money can sway public opinion. Not the opinion of anyone intelligent, you understand, but that’s still most people.

we’d get waaay more votes if Dems just didn’t support genocide.

This is sadly false. Again, public opinion is with Israel for now. That’s reality. Wanna change things? Come up with a way to convince racists and folks with an IQ below 100 that genocide is bad.

The reason for literally every single one of your complaints is public opinion. If you want things to change, you need to change people’s minds. That takes time and effort and it’s incredibly frustrating. I’ve given up trying to persuade people that torturing animals in factory farms is bad. Don’t forget 99% of human history had institutionalized slavery and rape. Most people are hopelessly morally bankrupt, unimaginably stupid, and barely sentient. Still, if you want the world to change, you gotta persuade them. No other option. Getting mad at “democrats” or “republicans” makes no sense when they’re the embodiment of their voters’ hideous opinions.

You want me to have empathy for the people killing me? Your world is already replete with violence. I guess it just doesn’t count until it’s directed towards you.

Yes, your bizarre and irrational distaste for self defense is killing the planet. Thanks for understanding.

Daily reminder that authoritarianism and socialism are logically, theoretically, and obviously incompatible. That’s why tankies sound so incoherent.

You’re upset that I said the f-word @IntergalacticTurtleFucker@lemmy.world

Jk

It’s like that gif of an orangutan fighting the bulldozer. I’m not sure why you think it’s an “emotional” response to defend yourself from the people literally trying to end all sentient life on this planet. It’s folks like you who’re pusillanimously marching our collective species into the afterlife.

Also, btw, all normative decisions, “logical” and otherwise, are fundamentally “emotional.” You’ve no other mechanism for evaluative judgement, you dumb moralizing motherfucker.

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Discord is fashionable. That’s it. The whole app is fantastically impractical if you want to use file or screen sharing. It’s just a bunch of gamers circle-jerking each other, which is a perfect way to keep them from infesting the rest of the internet.

Yeah the file limit on Skype is 300mb and has been for like a decade. Gamers are the dumbest fucking demographic on planet earth.

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The people downvoting you are the ones who eat up the enshittificaion. Discord is unusable for anyone who wants file or screen sharing. Skype, by contrast, has screen sharing that’s smoother and higher quality, and a file sharing limit of 300mb, all free for the last decade.

But yeah most users are barely computer literate so Discord keeps humming along.

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Anyone “logging” the rainforest deserves to immediately contribute to the nitrogen cycle. No questions asked.

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Ahh, what wonderfully reductive nonsense. Let’s slap it on a picture of a tree.

It’s not hard to encrypt messages ffs.

It is if you’re a boomer in charge of the government and apparently news websites. The internet is a series of tubes.

I wish you were right, but you’re not. Internet providers have monopolies because the cost of laying fiber or launching satellites is so high. That’s precisely what the argument over net neutrality has been about.

The podcaster is a brainless douchebag who interviews everyone and expresses no opinion. When I say brainless, I mean he might actually have been lobotomized. Lex has no character, personality, or principles. Just a goofy smile and lots of money.

They’re just garden-variety reactionaries with no political philosophy or principles besides hating the nebulous “liberal west.”