Lack of education, and decades of brainwashing including an explicit underlying message purposely tied up in religion to benefit from that suspension of disbelief that everybody on the planet who isn’t a hardline far right Republican is explicitly part of a worldwide conspiracy against you specifically, low income white dude in BFE County, US with a population of 5,000, and every announcement, news story, discovery (scientific, archaeological, astronomical, doesn’t matter) is all fake to prop up the conspiracy against you specifically.

Weirdly, even today, huge swatches of immigrants too. Legal AND Illegal.

Turns out pulling the ladder up behind you knows no racial or socioeconomic bounds.

“The court has investigated the court and found no wrongdoing on the part of the court”

TIL

I’ll admit it lol

Does anybody under 30 even know about the http:// part of urls?

Yo fellas, is it gay to take lunch to work? 😂

I wiped my history and got banned from half my subs for using a script to do it. I keep it for local use only, all those bans just make it easier to stay strong and not leave my local shiz 😂

Have they actually been censoring it? I keep hearing that the fuck Spez stuff is being deleted but Idk if they’re doing it or it’s just getting overwritten lol

“We should judge this movie on its merits as a movie and not on social values like wokeness”

Judges movie exclusively on levels of social values like wokeness and corporatism without once mentioning a damn thing about the movie

Unfortunately all the masses want is maximum ease of use, full stop. Just look at the Reddit exiles -

“Welcome to Lemmy, pick a server any server be a winner”

“WTF IS THIS NERD SHIT SIGNUP TOOK MORE THAN ONE ACTION ON MY PART RIP LEMMY LONG LIVE REDDIT IS LEMME JUST REDDIT YET NO FUUUUUUUUU”

Wouldn’t it be neat if she faced consequences for her actions, instead of the US working overtime to make sure potheads do as much time as they possibly can before they’re finally forced to admit they lied about pot

She needs to be investigated immediately!

Fun fact: She won’t be!

Lemmy is strong enough that Reddit trolls have to come and try to lure us back to Reddit by badmouthing the competition.

Seems like Lemmy is doing pretty well to me. 😉

I’m not terribly surprised but I was excited at the potential of everyone going “fuck it replace me then” and Reddit trying to limp through an IPO with a whole army of noob mods with zero moderation tools 😂

I think I recall hearing about TOTSE. Wasn’t it BBS?

Except for the veteran sub where I got perma banned for literally saying I don’t like fascism, I never had many paths cross with mods.

Where I lost respect for them is when Reddit started telling them to open up or get replaced and most of them complied. I’d have some more empathy if it was at work where getting canned meant scrambling to pay bills - but we’re talking about Reddit. They claim to stand for something but the second they’re asked to give up anything for that belief they cave.

Psuedo interwebs powers just trump morals and values these days.

“Here’s your free speech zone 6 blocks from the event you’re trying to protest behind a huge black curtain so nobody can see you”

Cool story bro

Now try being this angry about cops when THEY break things and steal shit and yknow KILL PEOPLE.

This. Even “liberals” are out here “PROTEST IS COOL AND ALL BUT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY JUST MAKES EVERYONE HATE YOUR CAUSE” over a fucking sticker or sign stuck to something.

If it’s the same writing I’m thinking of I’ll try to remember to link it when I get home.

"Tolerance isn’t an ideal, it’s a contract you’re automatically entered into at birth. The contract protects all involved who agree to the contract, but if you break the binds of the contract you are no longer entitled to it’s protections. To be intolerant of an intolerant person does not break ones commitment to the contract because the intolerant person is no longer protected by the contract. "

Paraphrased AF