Fugicara

As in because the pendulum swings from the far left to the far right? Or were you just mistakenly conflating those two completely opposite political theories?

For real, the state is saved by having Chicago in it, otherwise it'd be as much of a shithole state as the surrounding ones.

Mary Miller comes to mind. Illinois Nazis man.

This couldn't be a more astroturfed comment if it tried. This reads like it came directly from the mouth of Steve Bannon.

Almost all TV media is left wing. Most online media is left wing. Social media is left wing.

Literally none of this is true. The only universe this is true in is the one where anything left of fascism is "left wing."

If it's anything like Ohio in 2022, they just ignore the court order to redraw it and there's no recourse.

Relax

Unfortunately I still have to use Reddit for D&D stuff, otherwise I'd be able to switch more easily. Also the subreddits I used to be able to browse for hours just don't exist here so I can only basically get on Lemmy for maybe 5 minutes at a time before I'm bored and have to close it. Maybe it'll continue to grow and get better in the future; here's hoping.

I don't have anywhere close to enough time to actually be the person who starts and moderates communities. If enough people start them and start participating in them then I'll start participating again, but "be the change" only works when people have free time to do it. I would love for Lemmy to take off, don't get me wrong, but all I was saying is that it hasn't yet and the claim people try to make here that it's already good enough to replace Reddit is pure cope.

I didn't say you did? Weird response.

Lemmy doesn't have nearly enough people to be worth using as the only platform people are on unless you never engaged with any niche subreddits. I was pretty active on subs where only like 100 people participated, so finding things like that on Lemmy are impossible. Lemmy is only decent for tech people at this point, it needs to get a tremendous amount of extra people joining to be good enough for anyone else to drop Reddit entirely. And even then, lots of info exists on Reddit and nowhere else that still make it a useful tool for other purposes.

Sorry I just don't buy that a large portion of people are already using Lemmy and nothing else (you might be, idk) unless they only care about memes of beans and nothing else.

An easy way to pick out racists in the modern day is if they just casually call black people "blacks." It seems to be one of the words that, although it's not used by non-racists, hasn't been phased out by some of the less explicit racists yet in the way "colored people" has.