Diva (she/her)

I had nothing to do with that, but this made me laugh

Too many overtly emotional blue haired folk in moderating positions there

Mostly they were left unblocked until their users started to invade other instances to spread their blatant propaganda.

isn’t the entire point of a federated platform that you’re going to be able to access other instances?

istg people hit the block button like they’re mashing the independent thought alarm

I check all/comments/new, see what people are talking about and if anything catches my eye I may subscribe

no worries, sleep deprivation can be quite taxing

Sounds like you have no reason to be defensive. Here’s some posts of yours if you wanted to edit the binary pronouns used for cis people to be they/them to be more consistent though.

https://lemmy.world/comment/16503438 https://lemmy.world/comment/16496354 https://lemmy.world/comment/16494651 https://lemmy.world/comment/16493799 https://lemmy.world/comment/16493764 https://lemmy.world/comment/16450566 https://lemmy.world/comment/16450226 https://lemmy.world/comment/16332934

And figuring out their preferred pronouns isn’t always easy.

usually the pronouns are listed somewhere or you ask

This isn’t as simple as a lot of people want it to be. Going neutral isn’t a slight. It’s not misgendering. It’s a way to avoid accidentally making an error even with the best of intentions.

There’s a reason many trans spaces in Lemmy require listed pronouns, it removes the guesswork and you can reference inline.

If you’re using gendered pronouns for most cis people but then specifically degendering trans people it’s going to eventually rub people the wrong way. People aren’t going to care if you make an error while being well intentioned, especially if you ask for more information and correct yourself going forward.

Point is that avoiding gendering text has been and will continue to be the safer option for general purpose writing.

I do the same, but if someone’s gender is known it’s really not hard to use one of their preferred pronouns.

I don’t think that’s being the ‘thought police’ and it’s certainly not something to focus on instead of hate speech, we can do both.

anyone who “preaches hate for America” will face deportation

welp that’s most of my posts

America has already constructed such an effective social murder state that you can pretty readily enact a final solution simply by cutting people off from financial supports.

The status quo is the system unpersons and kills you by neglect if you can’t make rent. This development is an escalation for sure, but it’s just the mask slipping, the senseless cruelty has been there all along.

Be outraged at this, but also please get involved helping people who are uhoused where you live, with money, food, supplies, whatever you can.

It’s not appeasement, it’s diplomacy. the kind of wars that don’t end with diplomacy are the ones where we all end up dead as a result.

I gotta agree, has gone on far too long and continuing to pump in money and weapons is only getting people killed. at this point it’s probably only making the outcome worse by dragging it out

no they’re not, I would have seen them at orientation

incel coup

Gotta second this, it’s a little hard to find from a separate instance- you need to go to /c/[email protected] and pick it from the pinned threads

when I say ‘fediverse’ people think I’m saying ‘fetiverse’ and sometimes they ask if it’s like open source fetlife. 🫠

yes

I had a friend in college who I was briefly interested in, she was nice but I found her to be way too conservative for me to really feel comfortable with so in hindsight I’m glad she ended up dating ( and dumping) one of my other friends instead.

Lemmy is my only social media interaction these days, the content has improved, and the communities feel more distinct than they did a year ago. That could just be me getting up to speed though.

It was a nice surprise finding out that the left wing instances on here are actually pretty chill, way more so than on Reddit these days.

How dense can you be??

I know it’s very difficult but try making an argument that isn’t just insulting the other person lmao

How involved do you actually think we are in this conflict??? This comment makes me think I’ve been talking to teenagers tbh. We have 100 troops in that region and that started about a month ago.

Last I checked there have been multiple carrier strike groups deployed over the last year attempting to keep their supply through the Red Sea open. They even shot down a couple of terrorists recently.

They deployed a ton of the naval logistics to do the stupid pier that was only used to launch a massacre in Gaza from too.

Part of the problem is that Democrats made it extremely clear that not doing the genocide was off the table, so the choice is genocide on this timeline and genocide on a slightly faster one. I’m still not clear how Trump could speed this up, short of getting more branches of the US military involved directly in the process, American troops getting the🔻 treatment is probably what it’s going to take for Americans to lose their bloodlust.

Either way, that’s no choice to be made and plenty of people resented the Democrats for acting like they’re opposed to this sort of thing while directly participating in the worst crime of this century so far.

Democrats also demonstrated themselves to be prolific liars (maybe not on par with trump, but close) when it came out that they had been pretending Biden had still been functioning for years, do you think that makes people trust you?