I use Firefox with ad blockers to watch YouTube. Chrome seems to be allowing them to block my ad blocker

Yeah I’m comparing 3rd party votes to voting for the less harmful duopoly + activism, you’re comparing it to doing nothing.

You’re right voting 3rd party is better than doing absolutely nothing. What a high bar

What are you even talking about? I’ve seen videos of cops shooting at dogs wagging their tails. I’ve seen cops shoot at small dogs and accidentally hit the owners. Here’s just one of many videos, see if you can watch it without being disgusted by these pigs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D1wzZU14h0

That’s true until it isn’t.

The way you change that is election reform. Not thoughts and prayers and spoiler votes when one of the 2 big parties is running a wannabe-dictator.

Think, if fools in Florida didn’t vote 3rd party in 2000 you’d never have bush or the war in iraq, and we might have given a shit about global warming.

Please, tell me you’re a child who knows nothing about the US electoral system without telling me. People like you got us Trump

Too much of a baby to read and understand the spoiler effect that comes with FPTP? Too impatient and short-sighted to push for election reform (RCV or approval voting) and just want some low effort immediate option that requires nothing more than casting a vote? Child. Democracies require effort to survive.

Did you just scoff at the idea of competition improving a market?

USA strikers should take notes

Britain did brexit and a bunch of other countries elected right wing nut jobs in response to globalization, not just the us

Ah yes, the nuanced thinking of a 5 year old - everything is black and white and everyone who doesn’t agree w me 100% is evil

spoken like someone who has never had religious nutjobs take over their government.

When do you start the timeline though? The Palestine / Israel conflict has been going for 100 years right? Are you comfy saying Israel is the original aggressor?

Full disclosure: I dislike all fundamentalist religious societies. I don’t believe in holy land, and I think people on both sides are reaping what they’ve sown by insisting they are gods chosen people. So I’m not defending Israel, but I’m not defending Palestine (and especially Hamas) either.

Seriously, the news prints the headline as if the rest of the article doesn’t make it really clear this is a claim from nowhere.

Its the same with drawing.

Its funny how no one gets confused about lawyers having to practice law, etc. We need better PR.

Somewhere an Elon fanboy is explaining why this is peak free speech

really good points. Thanks for the thoughtful response. I find the forum format the most comfy, but I’m the techy one so I think you’re right that others would probably prefer chats

They don’t care about the quality of television. Writing a story that goes on and on and offers the possibility of several spinoffs is the equivalent of micro-transactions in video games : they make more money that way.

Capitalism only maximizes money, it doesn’t maximize quality. It eats quality to make more money.

zulip could work I think. Hadn’t heard of it / considered it before now.

What I’m envisioning is smaller communities that aren’t open to everyone like school / family / friends based communities.

After making the above comment I started reading about self hosting a lemmy instance with the idea that I might run one for my relatives and I to share photos, plan vacations, help w homework etc

because conservatives believe everyone thinks like them and are just scared to admit it

just need to preserve this line because its so spot on

May the next iteration of the internet include more people journeying to smaller communities that fit them, and less scooping everyone up and exposing them to as much outrage as possible to addict them.

Ideally all social media use goes to near zero