Say "no" to NATO

maybe now’s a good time to share that Reddit has always had rampant Russophobia. Back in 2016 when the Enough Trump Spam subreddit was made, they added “no xenophobia” to their rules. but every other post was xenophobic towards either Russia, China, or the DPRK. Hell, I got like a thousand downvotes on a comment where I corrected the OP on the reach of DPRK’s missiles (it was one of those “oh no, the north koreans are going to nuke us next week” posts), and nearly all of the thousands of comments were calling me a Russian bot, or using slurs to insult me.

Russophobia was a big part of the Democrat’s strategy against Trump in that election, claiming that Russia helped Trump win and whatnot. Russophobia is at this point, perhaps, the oldest propagandist tool used by the American state. Ever since the revolution in Russia, and honestly even before it, they scaremongered supporters into supporting whatever it was the politicians or the media wanted them to support, using Russia, the Soviet Union, or Communism (which was tied to the Soviets for them) as the leverage. Black people want rights? can’t do that, that’s communism, and look at what’s going on in the evil USSR. Workers want rights? can’t do that, the evil USSR. so on, so forth. It’s very disheartening that they still use this tactic today, but it’s even more disheartening that in the information age, where anyone can simply look the information up and disprove the propaganda, people still eat the tactic up like day-old fries.

their grievances are multifold, and there are at least two groups I’ve heard of who will be participating. Both of them have different leaders, one of them is the CEO of a trucking company, and different group names (or no real name).

The main thing they’re going to protest is Covid-19 safety stuff, things like wearing a mask, social distancing, etc. Then they have a whole myriad of things they’re upset about, but to my understanding, it’s all of the run-of-the-mill stuff American conservatives are worried about.

Likely not much will come of their protest politically, but they will be blocking travel in the D.C. area and there are decent odds that they’ll cause a short-term shortage of various consumer goods. Of course, not every trucker in the US agrees with them, but a decent amount of truckers who can’t make it to D.C. to take part in the protests will be doing sit-ins until the demands are met. Surprisingly, to conservatives striking doesn’t work and should be opposed, until they’re the ones striking.

So, expect little to no political change, and expect stores to lack certain items you might be looking for.

The US supported the rise of the far-right in Ukraine in 2014, which started the ongoing civil war. If that’s not an affront to not only Ukraine’s sovereignty, but the sovereignty of all of eastern europe. Then I don’t know what is. The only military action Russia has taken against Ukraine was the invasion of Crimea, where the bulk of Russia’s naval ports were, which NATO was trying to isolate from Russia.

Russia isn’t the aggressor in this matter, it’s the United States.

this is exactly what political satire should be imo.

not just a joke to make fun of a politician or a political ideology, but a joke that points out a flaw or hypocrisy of the politician or political ideology. When I was in comedy school, this is absolutely the kind of satire we would’ve examined.

I don’t know much about it, but seeing as it’s just a bunch of far-right chuds, it’s probably going to fizzle out and become something they use as a badge of honour on their forums, but nothing ever comes of. Just like always happens when these sorts of people hold rallies.

One of the worst parts of Reddit is the hundreds of reposts you’d see over and over and over and over, that were only reposted because someone saw that it got a lot of upvotes previously. Or the posts that were only posted because the OP wants some sensationalism upvotes.

Then you’ve also got subs that require a certain karma threshold to post, users to bully other users for having low karma, etc. Just a pain in the ass all around, that gets addictive because “imaginary number go up, that mean people like me”.

The karma system’s probably, at least in my opinion, one of the biggest things that ruined Reddit.

you can click on ‘modlog’ on the sidebar to see which mod/admin banned them, and what the reason was.

Members who were banned on an instance will still be visible to that instance if they keep posting on a federated instance. So, while they contribute to one instance (the one you see them on), they’re banned on a different instance (likely the one you’re seeing them from). So, as a Lemmygrad user, I’ll see the ‘banned’ tag on users of the Lemmy main branch because they post to lemmy.ml, but were banned on Lemmygrad.

I’m not dead yet, so that’s pretty good.

GTA III was the game of my childhood, I’m extremely excited to see it with updated graphics and some bug fixes.

Then you always have a libertarian who makes the argument that it’s “Corporatism not capitalism” that they’re talking about when they talk about corporations being bad, or when someone else talks about capitalism being an unfavourable system.

Which is, by far, the biggest cope I’ve seen come from any political group. They’re always so close to understanding that they’re against capitalism at core, but also always so far from it.

Because you have a disability, I’m not sure any of the things that made homelessness bearable for me would work for you. You’re probably unable to hop fences and stealth camp in abandoned factories or in wooded areas, I don’t wanna make a broad assumption at your abilities though. So If you are able to do those things, you’ll rarely be without a place to sleep and store things in the short term.

Otherwise, if you have a support structure in place, now’s the time to start using it. Offer your friends services or assistance, in exchange for things you need. I couch-surfed and stayed fed by doing handiwork for my friends.

depending on where you live in the US, busking/begging will have wildly different outcomes. Where I was homeless, begging gets the cops called or guns pulled. Which is the main reason I tell people to find other means of finding the things they need, but if it’s the only option available to you there’s two schools of thought on doing it. You can either be very honest and direct with people, or you can be dishonest and try to tear-jerk people into giving you stuff. Both work, both have drawbacks, do what feels best for you.

No matter where you stay, if it isn’t a closed room with a bed that expressly says you can sleep there, you will eventually be flushed out if the certain group who hates the homeless finds out where you’ve decided to keep safe. If you squat, be smart about it. Don’t stay in one place for more than a night (or two if you’ve done the research and have found it to be safe), don’t build a fire or do anything to generate light at night, if you hear people just heckin’ get out of there. I’d personally also add to that, only stay in the squat house at night, as soon as the sun comes up, you need to already be somewhere else, and you need to stay gone until the sun comes back down. Many of the same things go for if you’re camping.

Public libraries are a wonderful place to go for short durations during the day, if you have a laptop or can pay for a library card it’s worth it to take a little while checking the internet. Public libraries also tend to hire pretty liberally, same with most public services. Though, it’s tough to tell people to “just get a job”, because forced poverty is a thing, and it’s possible to be too poor to be considered “hireable”.

If you need to steal food, do it during the busiest hours in the most crowded stores, or try your hand at dumpster diving behind stores. Though those dumpsters are usually locked, and if you don’t have lockpicks it’s a no-go.

I’m not sure I have any other advice, But whatever you end up doing, just make sure you do it safely. Safety is the most important thing to surviving.

love to see it

They might be just as environmentally bad as cars, but they tear up the roads less, cause less traffic, use less fuel, and force the rider to be more conscious of their surroundings.

Also if you daily driver a motorcycle, grocery store runs become a lot more strategic and frequent, which saves money (per trip) and forces the buyer to think about what they’re buying, which helps with dieting.

If people have to use private vehicles (and, given that electric vehicles aren’t quite to a point that they offset environmental effects enough and are built using industries that benefit from immoral working conditions), I’d far prefer if people bought motorcycles for their daily driving and tried to only use four-wheeled vehicles if they have a disability, have multiple people to transport, or need to haul a load further than it’s economically viable to rent a van.

Plus a decent bike costs about as much as a bad car, and it’s honestly easier to learn to ride than it is to learn to drive. (or, at least it was for me, your mileage may vary)

This would be neat to have, at the very least.

But would it start at the federation, or would it start at the beginning?

Lately, or for the last few years for that matter, I’ve mostly just used email for work and to do confirmation emails. Occasionally I’ll be emailed something to print, as I have a printer hooked up to my computer and that seems rare these days. But, the last time I sent a “Greetings, How is it going friend” type email had to have been like… 2012?

No, not allowing people to be racists, or sexist, etc is what Lemmy has always been about. Which is why I say, if you don’t agree with our decision to limit hatespeech, then Lemmy was never meant for you.

People who come in and say “well, people should be able to say these hateful words” set up the exact culture that turned every other site into cesspools. There’s no need to “see both sides”, as all that does is give the Rightwing a voice where they don’t deserve it. Lemmy isn’t a site for the Rightwing, plain and simple.

The stance we’ve taken on what we’ve called “oppressive speech” is anything that can or has been used to oppress other groups shouldn’t be allowed.

It’s much better to take away the voices of hateful people, than it is to let lemmy become a cesspool. We’d much rather have a community that upholds the mental well being of oppressed peoples, than one that tolerates hatespeech because someone not within the oppressed group doesn’t think the term is that bad.

So, no slurs, no offensive language, and absolutely no hatespeech.

If you don’t think this is how we should run the site, then lemmy might not be for you. Because the admins aren’t gonna budge on this.

IMO cities shouldn’t just adopt more cycle lanes, but also shut down major roads close to their centre and in areas with lots of non-commuter traffic to make cycling safer. At least in the US, many cities were planned specifically to incline residents to buy cars to get around. Important facilities are placed in weird places or far apart to make it impossible to reach them with any semblance of convenience without a motor vehicle. So it’s a little difficult to ask already well established American cities to accommodate cycling, it requires replanning the city, and local governments aren’t willing to pay potentially millions to make that happen.

I live in Texas, every attempt Texan cities have made to become accommodating to cyclists has failed horridly, and most of it just has to do with how cities have been designed. You can’t expect cyclists and motorists to share dangerous roads and be harmonious, especially when local government’s aren’t willing to build cycling bridges over interstates, so cyclists end up barreling into oncoming traffic. So, even sectioning off parts of the city to be motorless transport only zones kinda fails to make it safer or worth doing.

This is a very long (and half asleep) rambly way of saying; it’d be cool to have in the US, but it’s not strictly possible.