I’m trans and I don’t think conservatives just hate other humans. I think they’re scared and they don’t want “bad things” to happen to their communities and their children. They know things are fucked up right now, and they are right about that. It’s something we can all agree on.

The problem is that they’re being offered a bunch of things to point the finger at as a cause of their misery, like LGBTQ+ people/rights, immigrants, diversity, etc. On the other hand, those of us who are left-leaning are being offered the same type of thing, except in our case, it’s them. The media is doing such a good job of othering both sides that we’ve lost sight of their humanity and we don’t even listen to a single thing they have to say. Nobody is there to agree with them when they’re right and nobody is there to actually have a conversation when they’re wrong. Both sides just write off everything the other side has to say. It has to stop. If you think that these people only care about guns, taking away abortion right and getting rid of LGBTQ+ people, you’ve been played.

Politicians won’t stop using these things as political tools until we stop giving them reasons to. It is working so well for them.

Reality is that both sides are being manipulated. People on the left and people on the right are the same people and in these times we need to actively make an effort to remember that. Saying that conservatives just need to die out is so ugly and dangerous.

We need to start talking to each other again. We need to stop the constant consumption of outrage. I know it’s not an easy thing to do but you can do it, it can be done. It is an addiction that is destroying us all and it doesn’t matter if other people still consume, these things start with “You”.

I’m sure one day they’re going to be selling those user created levels back to the users who originally created them.

Also true. 🖕 🫡

Yeah but I respect other Sysadmins. They are formidable opponents.

As a sysadmin, I feel like this is 100% accurate.

Basically non-existant but of course when it does happen it gets repeated over and over again. The main reason why anybody detransitions is because of how they get treated during their transition.

LTSC gang

Oh well good! Then I probably didn’t cause too much trouble!

Baked Beaaaaans

Edit: Sorry, didn’t notice which community this was, thought I was in shitposting 😅

Oh absolutely. In no way is it any better, it just adds to it.

It would be good to know what percentage of users/posts were from country #2 and Russia as well.

I’d really like to know that too. US maybe?

This.

I also don’t think it’s a good idea to go to other communities with the intention of spamming and shilling Lemmy.

What we have is a really nice start and we should work on making it nicer instead of just trying to force things and risk just becoming another Reddit.

No

Bahaha damn yeah hahah I used to love Brice de Nice. Haven’t thought about that in ages!

Hahah yeah I figured. No worries it was pretty funny.

Edit: I actually don’t know what the actual translation of “Sick burn” would be now that I think about it.

Yeah that’s the thing, it’s my native language too hahah

Oof, thanks. Would’ve taken me a second.

Oh I am very aware of that but this guy doesn’t seem to be. He came to me with his daughters school laptop because he had purchased an external harddrive so she could put The Sims 4 on it. They were having issues installing the game on it.

He bought a 40$ 2TB external harddrive that was fake and kept crashing when you tried to access it. At least I managed to get him to spend a bit more on upgrading the SSD instead of having his daughter suffer through loading games from a shitty USB HDD.

I almost bought an SP NVMe SSD yesterday for a client who insisted on saving every penny possible but went with another cheap brand because I saw a lot of reports of failures with the NVMe ones as well. Now I’m hoping the other cheap option that was available won’t suffer the same fate.

LOL