I’m not so sure they want to “persuade the leftists”, I think they probably just want to find other conservatives to validate their feelings. But there isn’t any space for that on Lemmy atm.

They’ll probably need to make their own servers, which will immediately get defederated en masse. But I think Lemmy should be for every human being who seeks knowledge, even conservatives. That doesn’t mean we need to federate with them, but that’s the nature of open source software. You can’t pick and choose who uses it.

I just try to avoid it entirely. Every post gets heavily downvoted anyway because conservatives are totally outnumbered on Lemmy. So it’s mostly people mocking them.

I feel like it’s so confusing if you just see the comments without the posts. But also the comments are the best part of Lemmy so it kinda makes sense.

I’m already addicted to Lemmy so that’s not an issue

Wow. I never even noticed that option before. That’s actually pretty cool.

But kind of sounds like a bug in that case, because if the admins wanted to remove the community then it shouldn’t be possible to view comments from there either.

If you can’t see the community itself, then how are you seeing comments?

When you view people’s profiles?

Pretty sure that’s been a thing for a while. It’s like when lemmy.world blocked [email protected]. They are still federated but they just blocked that one community.

I assume that’s what lemmy.ml is doing with the conservative community.

He was an all time great baseball player. Aside from that I don’t really care too much about him as a person.

But since you’re asking, he just seems hard headed and grumpy, and the allegations of being a major racist seem mainly based on discredited biographies from 50+ years ago.

Aside from the very valid points that others have already made, I have some input.

First of all, I do agree that there should be a maximum age limit for positions of great power. But it should be like 80 or 85 years old imo, so it wouldn’t really change much.

Older people are actually far more concerned about the future than younger people in many ways, usually because of their experience and their children. Whereas younger people don’t quite grasp how critical our actions are in shaping the future.

Secondly, and tangentially, I wouldn’t be so sure that Gen Z will ever be a dominant political faction. Similarly to how Gen X was basically steamrolled by the baby Boomers, Gen Z is likely to be the victim of millennial elites. Gen Z is a smaller cohort than millennials, partially due to declining birth rates but also due to the ripple effect.

There were a fuck ton of baby Boomers (1946-1964) due to high birth rates, and most of their kids were millennials (1981-1998). Conversely, there were much fewer GenX kids (65-80), partially because many of their potential parents were killed in wars and also because of rapidly declining birth rates. This demographic reality has spilled down to Gen Z, which is less numerous as well.

Then you’re also going to have to deal with Generation alpha right behind you, who are largely the children of millennials and have grown up in a chaotic environment. Who knows how the fuck they’re going to turn out.

So yeah, good luck wresting political control from the millennials, because it’s unlikely at best.

Well said

It’s bad dude, I’ve always had shit handwriting but since I left school it’s just gotten so much worse. When I have to write a check or mail a letter I feel so fucking uncomfortable and awkward.

I think the point about the individuality of handwriting is absolutely fascinating, people’s handwriting really does offer a window into their souls and their mental state at the time.

That being said, typing is also pretty amazing if you think about it. I feel like I can type so much faster than I could ever write, and thus express my mind so much more seamlessly and clearly. Ideally you should be able to do both.

Heh, you old af. My condolences.

But at least that’s a nice round number.

Bro… this is a fucking wild comment I hope it’s satirical.

Lol I’m pretty shaky on the details too, but I definitely think there’s some really good ideas in there once you can parse all the philosophical lingo. I hadn’t even heard about the rhizome until you mentioned it, but it does seem like a useful concept for sure.

Gilles Deleuze

I only found out about him within the past couple years, and I probably have only scratched the surface of his philosophy. But I almost immediately understood that he was a person of tremendous genius, and historically recent enough that his ideas have yet to be fully comprehended. His synthesis of Marx and Freud is like a wet dream for me, I couldn’t imagine a better topic of inquiry. This article provides a pretty good summary of some of his major ideas and theories.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/#AntiOedi

Interesting, thanks for the detailed reply. I haven’t remembered my dreams in many years. Definitely think it’s time to take an extended break, and then if I start to experience a loss of creativity maybe I will dip my toes back in eventually.

Also I mainly smoke joints/spliffs so it’s really bad for my lungs, if I do start again I’ll probably switch to vaping because it’s more healthy.

I smoke too much. It’s difficult for me to use in moderation. I’ve got shit to do and it’s hard to find the motivation when I’m always high.

You good my dude?

I’m going to try to stop smoking weed. Wish me luck 🤞

I’m on the side that wants to produce meaningful change for human society. I want to help people.

If you just want to kill people without thinking or caring about the consequences, then I guess we aren’t on the same side.

I’m on your side. You’re speaking out of desperation, lashing out instinctually.

But as I said before, directionless anger will not get you far. You and those like you will surely fail, and all of your rage will amount to nothing.

As they say, when you come at the king, you best not miss. As bad as you feel the situation is now, it could be far, far worse.