PhilipTheBucket

Of all the sins that got us booted from the Garden of Eden that was the early internet, I would say "my growth is more important than your good experience, so let me tweak things to boost my growth, and put my stuff in front of you" is probably a strong contender for the top spot.

Again, I get it. A lot depends on the specific details of the community and posts we're talking about. I don't think wanting to grow your small community or insulate it from unfairness is automatically a bad thing, but wanting to adjust things to make sure your small community will grow is not automatically a good thing, either.

Is it helpful for the Malay community to get all these downvotes from non-Malay speaking lemmy users who are too lazy to hit the block button?

That's a great analogy. So, if the posts are marked as English/Unspecified, so they're cluttering up everyone's feed with posts that practically all users literally can't read, then yes having them sort of "marked down" for the majority of the community to keep the overall feed clean is probably the right answer. It's easily solvable by teaching people to use the language setting correctly on their posts so they're hidden from people who don't enable Malay, and that's probably a better answer than spamming everyone's feed with Malay stuff and mechanically preventing anyone from filtering it out for other users via downvotes, because "it's not fair to me that you don't want this in the feed."

I know that's not quite what you meant. I don't want to argue back and forth about this issue indefinitely, but I think it's just another instance of the same "depends on your perspective" issue, of the average user who wants the algorithms assembling the feed to work right, versus the community creator who obviously doesn't want everything they post to be downvoted. I think they're both valid viewpoints but it seems like you guys keep repeatedly emphasizing the second point of view and not really considering the first one.

Or, he could put it through, and make friends enough with the terrifyingly oligarchic forces that run our society that he might all of a sudden become the "default choice" in the same way that Biden and Hilary were, and they might agree to kneecap anyone who tries to Bernie Sanders him. And we might have six more weeks of winter, so to speak.

This wasn't your question exactly, but here, a good horror movie for you:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8hpcx5

"Pikunikku" from 1996 is supposed to be pretty good too.

I mean, it is going up. Every year that goes by when that chart is above the 0 mark, is additional damage when the systems are already to their breaking point. We're still hitting the patient every day with a hammer. We're not healing him. We're just hitting a little less hard, but not by much, as the days pass and pass, and he's already shattered.

So many things got put into place under Obama and Biden that our emissions are actually reducing, and thank God for that. But it's not enough for them to go slightly down. It's a sliver of morphine, maybe, once a month as his bones are still splintered.

Got it. I tried to watch the movie but I wasn't into it. I may check out the comics, they are clearly a masterpiece. Sometimes you don't have to look at too much of something to tell.

Clearly. Even though it actually frees up money for investment into free enterprises, and preserves everyone's property rights and freedoms. Oops, I mean, communism, boo hiss.

@shplane@lemmy.world @sunzu2@thebrainbin.org I can't see sunzu's posts, presumably because they're instance-banned for propaganda or something, but shplane asked a question about "when did AOC sell out to Israel" that has a really important answer, and so being unable to post a direct reply I'm just making it at top level.

So, what happened was that a while back MTG introduced an amendment to one of those big horrifying money-for-war bills that every so often passes through the US congress and unleashes a really unfathomable amount of tangible suffering on the world, without much more than a few hours' attention being paid to it at all either inside or outside congress. MTG's amendment would have removed a small amount of funding for Israel including a grant which is used among other things for some of their "defensive" weapons for civilian areas, while leaving intact the waterfall of money for their offensive weaponry. AOC voted no on that amendment, along with practically everyone else, and then said some dumb shit about why she did.

Of course, later on, she voted no for the massive funding bill which spent $830 billion on various types of killing, including $6 billion for Israel for offensive weapons.

Some people seized on that single vote and claimed that it overshadowed her no vote on the main bill, her protests in favor of Palestine, her attempts to block funding for Israel in ways that were a lot less stupid than MTG's amendment (to the point that at one point Biden got mad at her personally and they had a meeting about it or something, because she was materially gumming up the works), basically all of her support for Palestine which is super rare in the US congress. They're still talking about how bad she betrayed Palestine. It becomes a whole narrative, where she's now pro-genocide irrevocably forever, and if you challenge them on it, they can run and hide behind the fact that she did, in fact, vote against that amendment, and so it's proved now. She's bad. Don't vote for her.

For some reason, this only happens to the left-est of left politicians. You will never heard someone randomly start cursing about how big an asshole Joe Manchin was when he did absolutely incalculable damage to the planet by blocking the first iteration of the IRA. No, you will only hear these kind of neatly-packaged reasons not to support a left politician deployed and repeated (there are only like 10-20 of them, you start to see them repeat after a while if you pay attention) against the leftest of the bunch.

Wonder why.

Trump’s biographer Michael Wolff previously said on The Daily Beast Podcast that the president has a less-than-flattering nickname for one of his most loyal henchmen: “Weird Stephen.”

Honestly, even with his brain mostly rotted away now, little glimpses of Trump's idiot-savant ability to bully at a grandmaster level can still shine through sometimes.

Is this "Weird Tales"? I found some of them in a comics collection when I was little and some of the stories fucked with me.

they're fascists with different messaging

Biden: Claims he's going to close Gitmo, releases 25 detainees leaving 15 in custody thus reneging on his promise

Trump: Expands Gitmo to 30,000 and makes dozens of little mini-Gitmo black sites all across the US, actively works to put people into them literally as fast as he can make his rapidly expanding machinery ramp up, soon to potentially include you or me, our US citizen passports may stop working, too.

FlashMobOfOne: Literally the same picture

I honestly can't think of a reason you would claim this other than to try to work to shove the edges of the Lemmy hivemind's Overton window. There are not going to be people who believe you on this, you're talking like we are not inside the US watching it all happen right now.

Honestly, the fact that people are still trying to claim there is no "clear difference" should be a wake up call that it was always just a bunch of shit. I can maybe understand someone from before the election, just ignorant of how things were going to play out, or just wrapped up in a certain ideology or upset about the Democrats in general which is 100% understandable, something like that. At this point in the present though, it's either total self-delusion or dishonesty on purpose. It's like banging the table and swearing the sky is red and the ocean is malted milk.