Ace T'Ken @ AceTKen @lemmy.ca

I advocate for logical and consistent viewpoints on controversial topics. I

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We were kidding at some point?

• Every thread against people not strictly aligning with Leftist politics will be boiled down to: “There are three types of people: reasonable people who agree with me, crazy fascists on the other side, and lily-livered wimps who can’t pick a side (and are also secretly fascists who just won't admit it)!”
• Anyone with passable writing skills will be downvoted because creating cogent arguments against them is hard, and heaven forbid anyone see a smart argument that doesn't align with your views perfectly.
• In a similar vein, people will use the downvote as a "fuck you" button without commenting or adding any value to the conversation whatsoever.

(Edit: Yes, yes. You're all hilarious. I may not have a button to hit, but fuck you too.)

The internet existed for a long time prior to monetization of it. People used to do things because they were good ideas, fun, or helpful.

Revenue streams made things worse.

With 400 permutations of "Fuck this clown" and "how can I block mentions of him" in the comments.

Unfortunately, shitty billionaires make the news. Get rid of billionaires and they won't be in the news.

Near Kingston! Maybe I just wasn't paying attention?

I am 40 and Canadian and have lived in three provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario). I have never seen bagged fucking milk.

And maybe a less brutally aged console to play it on.

If I may ask, what would you be running if you had to pick today?

196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

They are something else. Think like TheDonald was on Reddit, but for trans people and memes.

My first exposure to them was a thread by a mod saying that you MUST post absolute and unconditional not just approval, but promotion of what they say politically or you will be banned. It was fucking wild and nearly put me off Lemmy altogether.

That's not exclusive to Reddit.

Looks at 196 here on Lemmy and their massive pissy baby ban list.

Edit: If you disagree, go look at the bans and their reasoning in the mod log. It's insane, and I mean that word in the literal sense. Some fun things: they ban people for not agreeing with them vocally enough. They've banned people for arguing that the world isn't beyond saving if we try. They've banned because (and I quote) "Get out of here with that my children matter shit". It's a lunatic brigade run by a clown.

So since you're the one providing the labour in the transaction, this means you're getting a tip FROM the gas station, right? R... Right?

It takes me no longer to gain immediate access then it does for a stream user to search and play the stream, even with rare or weird songs.

I mean, I'm 41 years old. My best friend in high school was gay. He talked about it with other friends, and I'm in a pretty right wing province.

The internet is pretty far from the only place that you can discuss these things, and the kind of parents that aren't going to give you the privacy to discuss also are definitely not the kind to just leave the internet alone and let you go crazy on it.

You're talking about extremely psychotic (and completely ineffectual methods of) helicopter parenting.

Assuming the entirety of the rest of the world beyond social media doesn't exist that is.

I just looked on a VM I spun up for risky shit. It seems to be opt-in only.

Is it a good VPN? No. Is it worth the overreacting that Lemmy seems to do every time someone mentions Brave? No.

But hey, social media.