It’s hard. Walking now is harder. Not nearly a nimble as I was two years ago

Ultimately my personal opinion is that Lemmy is going to persist, even if it doesn’t cross certain thresholds, it is still a part of the larger Fediverse and due to its interoperability, Lemmy can benefit from the success of the Fediverse, even when not being all that successful by itself.

Exactly

Eh, I go back on Reddit every few days, it’s definitely worse. Faker, more moderated than before (tons of deleted posts and banned users). People are the same assholes as usual though so that hasn’t changed much. Also these communities take time to grow, alternatively, there is nothing wrong with them being small either.

Also, another unrelated story from that trip. We were walking around the memorial fountain when a lady comes up to us “We are going to thank our veterans, come join us in thanking our veterans”, they seemed to be WWII veterans and my German friend says “Well I guess I should thank them for not killing my grandfather”

I was touring DC showing it to a German friend that was studying in the US. We were standing behind the capitol building when were approached by two missionaries(?) trying to get us to join their church. One says to me, “everything thay has happened and everything that will happen is in the Bible”. So I straight up ask him “When will DC get sacked?”, and they decided to cut the conversation right there because they assumed I was trolling. Well, what do you know, two years later, same place where i asked that question, Jan 6 happens. I guess it wasn’t such a stupid question after all.

Well, I’m there with you buddy. This is the first I see it.

I’ve been bulking, this is accurate

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This has left me at a loss for words. I wish Tucker the worst, I truly do.

Yeah, not saying that isn’t true. These conspiracy kooks are wild. I just grew up in a Jewish community, so being force fed propaganda from the time I was a child got kind of exhausting. Especially when I got older and started to see through it so I think I have more of an averse reaction to it than most people would.

It’s pretty common to see in the Jewish culture. They generally really don’t give a shit about anything outside their bubble but when something happens to them they demand they world drops everything to help them or otherwise you’re a piece of shit.

This would be a massive L for Zelensky. Non of the top analyst think it’s a good idea.

And now we are back at the start. Voting Trump vs Biden, Trump is worse. At this point we are going in circles.

Steak

You can say the same about the RNC especially since they are not the ones with an incumbent and are voting for someone that already lost and has a really bad history. But that’s all beside the point, the US democratic system is broken and that’s an entirely different discussion

Sure I get it, but by not voting still benefits Trump.

I was at the gym the other day talking with a friend I see regularly. She says “I might not vote, I don’t like either of them”, I kept my mouth shut but I couldn’t stop thinking like holy shit lady one is wayyy worse than the other. I’ve seen it before where people aren’t aware the depth of Trump legal issues and general personality problems however i assumed it was because they only watched fox or something, but hearing it from her really threw me in for a loop. I cant believe I’m living in this reality

Free speech party