Rottcodd @ Rottcodd @lemmy.world

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It's so bizarre to me that a politician saying that the grotesquely corrupt psychopath in charge of an apartheid nation that's carrying out a genocide on one front and an incremental land grab on another while they also try to provoke yet another nation into attacking so they can play the victim as they continue their egregious crimes "should resign" is a newsworthy event.

The world is in the hands of insane monsters.

Best of luck to them.

It's true in essentially all industries, but it's especially obvious in rideshare that there's a layer of parasites who get paid far too much money for nothing beyond the fact that they won the fight for the position of "parasite who gets paid far too much money for doing nothing."

Anything that might even just decrease the number of overpaid parasites would be a benefit not just to the concerned industry, but to society as a whole.

Russia is seeking to subvert Western support for Ukraine and disrupt the domestic politics of the United States and European countries, through propaganda campaigns supporting isolationist and extremist policies...

And it's certainly not a coincidence that those isolationist and extremist policies are being actively promoted by the MAGA Republicans.

How deliciously ironic that this is paywalled.

Yes - there have been widely differing accounts of events throughout this war.

On the one hand, there's been Israel's account. And on the other hand, there's been the truth.

Ah...

Yes - that tracks.

I continue to wonder how it is that anyone holds to the belief that the election was stolen when every single actual investigation - even by Trump's most determined supporters - into every single accusation regarding it has failed to provide sufficient evidence to support the claim.

I mean - yeah - obviously it's some combination of a desperate desire to believe and affirmation through the constant barrage of bombastic headlines over stories that don't actually say anything of substance, but isn't there an upper limit to credulity? It just seems ro me that any reasonable person has to conclude that even to the extent that there was near certainly some fraud, it still wasn't and couldn't have been sufficient to change the results.

And yeah - I know that a lot of these people simply aren't reasonable, but it seems that the number of people who (claim to) believe that the election was stolen far exceeds the number of people who could possibly be that unreasonable, even in this benighted country in this benighted century.

Just another of those instances in which I find myself looking around in dismay, wondering how it is that I came to be in a world that's so blitheringly insane, and how it is that seemingly no one else recognizes how insane it is.

A white cat to go with the blue horses...

I'd never seen this before - thanks.

I never really liked Reddit. I avoided it for a long time, but finally relented and grudgingly signed up in 2011.

I was always on the lookout for a new home, and would follow links to any place that looked promising, but none of them ever panned out - they were always too dead or too narrowly focused or too shitty or behind a paywall or something. And I'd go back to Reddit.

Immediately after Spez's petulant AMA, I happened on a link to join-lemmy.org. I was especially eager to find a different forum then, just because Reddit was set to get much worse much more quickly and the CEO is a twat, but I really didn't expect anything of lemmy. I assumed that, just as with all the others over the years, I'd browse around a bit, be unimpressed, and leave.

Instead, I looked around and liked what I saw. And the more I looked, the more I liked it. And I just never went back, and have been here ever since.

I don't think we can gatekeep it either.

But we can, or not, encourage it. I'd rather not. I've never - not even once in more than 30 years online - seen a forum get notably popular without it also, and obviously as a direct result, going to shit.

The great thing about the fediverse is that people have control over which instances they are around, and there will always be some more isolated ones if that’s what you prefer.

If the masses discover the fediverse and move here, that's not going to remain the case, guaranteed.

They'll bitch and moan because content isn't centralized (we've already seen that), and the rent-seeking fuckwads will, one way or another, rearrange things so that it is centralized, and specifically so that they can then squat on top of it and suck profit out of it, and it'll end up just another facebook/twitter/instagram/reddit.

Count on it.

Why on Earth would we want to do that?

The last thing in the world the fediverse needs is a bunch of idiots blundering around in it.

Everybody else doing it.

Good luck convincing cats of that.

https://lemmy.world/u/phreekno

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Mmm... yes and no.

College towns are more lively and interesting, and notably more likely to have cultural things that similar-sized other towns don't have - bookstores, galleries, music venues, museums and the like. That's appealing.

But there's a downside to living in a college town as a non-student. The town is mostly geared toward serving the students, and that can get tiresome, since it's near certain that some significant number of the students are going to be... well... assholes.

Someone elsewhere in the thread mentioned tourist towns and their similar appeal, and I'd agree. But with the exact same proviso.

The survivors, after the ones that Israel has already killed and the many, MANY more the deaths of whom by malnutrition and disease they're currently very deliberately engineering.

Yes.

Broadly, the whole situation is only murky and complex if you grant some credence to Israel's rhetoric. If you start with the presumption that Netanyahu and his hard-right cronies are lying and that conquest has been the goal all along (and not just from the beginning of the current hostilities but for years now), then everything falls neatly into place and it all makes perfect sense.

That's certainly not a coincidence.

That's rather obviously been one of Israel's primary goals from the start - to destroy as much infrastructure as possible, to create as much hardship as possible for the Palestinians.

And rather obviously, that's in service to their longer term goal of taking full and direct control of Gaza. They want to render it uninhabitable, so that they can cast their planned occupation as a practical or even humanitarian necessity, rather than what it in fact is - brazen, and brazenly illegal, conquest.

The central point to keep in mind as far as all of that goes is that Netanyahu and his hard-right cronies have, at every turn, entirely rejected a two-state solution and any form of Palestinian autonomy. To just the degree necessary to maintain a PR facade, they claim that conquest is not their intent, but if it's not going to be a two-state solution, conquest is literally the only alternative, so it is and can only be their actual goal, and their claims to the contrary are and can only be quite simply lies.

And not coincidentally, the wholesale destruction of Gazan infrastructure in which Israel has self-evidently engaged fits right in with that interpretation.

Right-wing political elites strongly believe in personal freedom and states’ rights. Right-wing regular folks believe strong in personal freedom.

Curiously, this is demonstrably false.

At this point virtually every time one sees somebody call on the government to step in and interfere in something, it's a right-winger.

As with so many things, they actually are exactly what they claim to oppose - fragile babies who constantly cry for mommy and daddy government to protect them

I think it's long past time for a serious international conversation about profoundly mentally ill politicians.