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I’ll maybe start pacing around, but I can do this shit all day.

It’s an ADHD thing, I think.

Doesn’t work, I’ll just daydream.

I think the format promotes conflict. Lemmy ultimately is made to be Reddit-like, so we shouldn’t be surprised when it produces Reddit user culture. Ultimately we need an entirely new format that promotes cooperation over conflict.

As for moderators, I also think the volunteer model is bad. They do important work and should be compensated for their labor.

And I will never be able to convince you otherwise! I could say that I think there are other factors which made you change your mind, give examples from my own evolution from anarchism to Marxism, we can trade replies back and forth for hours or days, ect etc

It would all accomplish nothing.

One thing I firmly believe is that arguing on the internet is 100% pointless and never accomplishes anything. We are too alienated and isolated and atomized on the internet to ever truly reach someone else across the gap of ideology and prejudice, everything bounces off because we’re all just strings of text on a screen. Every debate is another random encounter in the posting RPG. Rather than a public square, it’s a mob farm for exp.

I think online spaces can still be useful, but conflict is entirely useless. It’s just for fun.

Uhm ackchually you’re wrong 😏

When I was younger it seemed politics were more rational and cruelty never seemed to be the point of doing nothing.

The cruelty was outside our borders. The rational, reasonable debate was for domestic issues. Foreigners got the bullet.

As the empire collapses the cruelty turns inwards i.e. fascism.

No, you basically just accused other instances of being hysterical leftists that think everyone is a fascist.

A more accurate characturized way to describe them is reddit.world

Maybe someone wants you to think that Russian influence campaigns are a problem and so they feed you articles.

No, they have the intent of working for themselves. That’s it. They don’t give a shit about the country and you should never presume the ruling class of your country has your country’s best interests in mind.

The US has had three different distinct Red Scares, and before those it had a wave of white terror that defeated Reconstruction.

So, yes, this keeps happening. We’re just living during one acute part of a longer cycle.

This is complicated by the fact that the English speaking world isn’t safe, or won’t be for long. The UK is having its own wave of transphobic reaction which has spread to Ireland, Canada is being threatened with a trade war and being the 51st state, Australia got couped that one time by the CIA, and New Zealand is a hard place to get into since it’s basically the bunker nation for billionaires since COVID.

I might apply for asylum outside the English speaking world but that’s extremely challenging in lots of other ways. I’m cramming language lessons atm to give myself a chance if I am forced to flee, but it’s dire.

And they use the threat of trans people getting government healthcare as a way to stop socialized medicine. They also use racism this way, and sexism, and homophobia, and xenophobia, and other reactionary ideologies. These things are directly connected, we can’t really ignore one to focus on the other.

Besides, we need to form a mass movement, and you can’t form a mass movement by telling minorities to shut up and wait their turn.

Also I might lose my healthcare in the next few months. It’s kind of fucking urgent?

The transphobes are getting ready to take away my healthcare, I think I have to be very worried about that.

If I can’t get my medicine I will die.

I’m a moderate and believe in supporting the lesser of two evils, which means critical support for enemies of US imperialism. I’m also something of a centrist because I believe anarchists and Marxist-Leninists and other left tendencies all have good ideas.

So yeah, I’m a moderate centrist.

They’re testing how hard they can squeeze their customer base and still profit. Prices will continue to increase as long as people pay.

Is anyone arguing at this point?

It’s not decentralized. There’s no argument.

It’s a long term committed relationship!

There was actually plenty of toilet paper, it’s just that panic buying causes pointless shortages. If we had a functioning government they’d have rationed toilet paper to make sure everyone could get enough.

States without currency sovereignity or trade sovereignity probably can’t respond to pandemics without indebting themselves. If they can’t print money and can’t marshal the forces of production they’re basically reliant on market forces, and capital is happy to punish them for daring to get in the way of profits.

Related, COVID also proved to me that the EU is not a progressive historical force. It similarly turns sovereign nations into dependent states without currency sovereignity or trade sovereignity.