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I live in one of the bluest cities in one of the bluest states in the US. And even here, the average Lemmy is nowhere near representative of the average person you meet in real life. If you think they are you are either deluding yourself or have an agenda to push.

Reddit is already an echo chamber and Lemmy just turns up the echo chamber dial to 100.

The real answer is that there is no platform that is perfectly representative of real life population. Everyone self-segregates into spaces they fee comfortable in.

This is like that libertarian/ancap copypasta.

Lemmy only really became usable for me after I blocked certain instances/communities. Tbh if I wasn't permabanned from Reddit I probably would have quit early on and went back to Reddit.

This wasn't because of UX. It's was because some of the most active and highly upvoted instances that had posts hit All constantly were full of terrible people and idiots.

However now that I realize how powerful that is to be able to block whole instances and curate your experience and realize that it's basically impossible to Permaban someone from Lemmy, I'm enjoying it a lot more.

The entire world including lots of Europe has been shifting significantly right despite what leftist US haters often say about the US left being a European right. That hasn't been true for a decade or more.

Apparently they're so rich that their money keeps coming in without us because...

I mean, this is true. They can do nothing and probably make millions on interest. That said, it doesn't mean a general strike wouldn't be effective. While the normal person would be perfectly happy with millions coming in every year for doing literally nothing, these people aren't satisfied unless they are making billions off the labor of others while they do nothing.

Sounds like the point went completely over your head.

The younger generation has a problem with externalizing their issues to others without feeling responsible for these issues themselves.

There is always some other party with influence and power who is either antagonizing them or should take care of them like a parent and when they don't, everything is the fault of that "parent".

For example, it's the "DNCs fault" we're in the state we're in apparently even though a lot of people didn't vote and encouraged others not to vote. The democrat party is not some nebulous entity or corporation that exists to cater to your whims like you're some customer it must please to earn your vote. It's made up of people. People like you who got together with other people to try to enact their political ideals and vision for the country.

If you don't like that vision, you need to get with other people who share your vision, start from the ground up, win local elections and start changing the party bit by bit. But this is hard work and much more difficult than screaming that the octogenarian politicians are ruining your life when nobody your age is actually doing anything to replace them because you don't want to become career politicians.

Stop behaving and whining like perpetual petulant children and actually do the hard work to make the change you want to see instead of waiting for someone else to do it for you.

The Winds of Winter? At this point though I'm not sure I'm actually waiting anymore.

Landlords all the way down.

Any alternative will just be bought up anyway since America decided monopolies are no longer a bad thing.

Is there an alternative to Google Drive that doesn't lock me into using MS Office. I particularly need to ability to share and edit files online.

Something is happening in your mom's bedroom, scientists say

Never put your trust in a centralized social service again. In the old days when forums were independently hosted you might get banned but you can just go and find another one or host your own.

Everyone has gotten too used to the convenience of these centralized managed social media services like Reddit, TikTok, Facebook, etc.

Lemmy is great because it's offers some of the convenience Reddit does but isn't centralized. So if you get permabanned on one instance you can just find another that fits your interests better. Or host your own and you're not reliant on a corporation that is trying to milk you and your data for all that it's worth for a little profit.

I don't use any centralized social media anymore. That shit is dead.

Democrats voted. It's independent leftists that didn't vote. And encouraged others to not vote or vote third party. Hope you're happy with yourselves. This is what we get because you ragged on Democrats the entire election season. Gtfoh.

I installed one and realized after the fact that my appliance won't fit there so I need to reinstall it.

Both democrats and republicans are in line with neoliberal thought about letting corporations get bigger and bigger and giving more freedom to capital than to people. A simple vote isn't going to change this.

Per usual, another lie spread by leftists. https://www.vox.com/2019/3/8/18253609/hr-1-pelosi-house-democrats-anti-corruption-mcconnell

As to the rest of it, our current democracy needs many changes to protect it from becoming an autocracy/oligarchy. The ones ones who are committed to those changes are Democrats.

But seizing power as Trump is doing to dictatorially implement changes to prevent dictators would be highly hypocritical. And if the basis of such reforms were based on such a shakeable foundation it would just waiting for the next dictator to come in and do what they want. In that case, then yes, what you'd say is correct, every new elected official will just be a dictator pushing their new whims on the populace. This is why I don't fault Democrats for trying to do things the proper way democratically through our voting process even if it seems slow or inefficient.

Sadly half of Americans have decided having a dictator isn't a deal breaker or something to exercise their vote for so that's left us here.

Money is only this powerful because people didn't vote when it mattered to keep money out of politics.

Out, loud, and proud homosexual liberal (actually I am also homosexual)! Fuck tankies!

Yeah I figured that was the reason.