lemonaz

That’s my gut feeling as well. Gerrymandering is a Republican tradition and they’ve been doing it in red states for decades now. Hard to believe there’s much more to squeeze from it. Blue states however…

Somehow I doubt the trumpers are worried. They just want to win. If anything can guarantee their state goes for Trump they’ll take it.

I’m not American, but from my limited experience, my QAnon relatives (who are immigrants themselves in another western country!) were ok with martial law and taking away women’s rights as the price to pay to get out of the “dictatorship” they imagined with “forced vaccination” and “LGBT indoctrination” and immigrant “invasion”. They also have no problem with taking away LGBT rights because “they have too many now, look at Hollywood”. They constantly bring up about how Jews run the world and how bad Israel is, but they have no problem with Trump being their lapdog and enabling their worst atrocities and fantasizing about building a riviera in Gaza. When all the Palestinians there will have perished (something I dread is likely to happen), they’ll probably credit Trump with ending the genocide. And don’t get me started on Epstein, which was their whole reason for joining QAnon. Back in February they were excitedly telling me, unprompted, how Pam Bondi says the files are on her desk. They haven’t said anything since. Wanna bet they’ll get defensive if I ask them about it now?

My point is these people don’t care about democracy or human rights, they just scream about them when they experience disconfort, but really all they want is a godking who punishes “the right people” and reminds them every 10 seconds how special they are and how they deserve freedom and sovereignty not like the bad people who they are always persecuted by.

Don’t expect people to like you when your job is to distort the discourse their spaces.

I reported both as such and added tags and 10k downvotes to Voyager for each.

Nice! I’m not entirely sure how the Voyager thing works since I only use Sync on Android, but it sounds like a good warning sign for others so I appreciate it.

I feel there are many more such bots on Lemmy than I previously expected.

Yeah… It might be a nicer corner of the internet, but it’s still the internet unfortunately.

I’m just gonna copy paste a message I sent to someone else on this thread:

I think that person is a bot. Someone double-posted by mistake and got the same reply to both messages, but from two completely different accounts, one of them being this one. That doesn’t just happen. Most likely it’s some bot network reacting to a type of message (in this case the message had /s at the end, and the two identical replies were about how “maybe we should say egregious things without the /s to keep people guessing”).

In this case, it’s the other account. I’m certain they haven’t been to neither jail nor prison. If they’re even real, then they’re in the dimly lit open space of a troll farm.

Came here to say you should block me too because I agree with everything they said.

I think that person is a bot. Someone double-posted by mistake and got the same reply to both messages, but from two completely different accounts, one of them being this one. That doesn’t just happen. Most likely it’s some bot network reacting to a type of message (in this case the message had /s at the end, and the two identical replies were about how “maybe we should say egregious things without the /s to keep people guessing”).

Interesting. You double-posted (I assume by mistake) and got the exact same reply from two different accounts, making it extremely likely they are both bots. Nice work exposing them!

The sequel to “The Man from Earth” which was called “The Man from Earth: Holocene” (if memory serves). The first one was so good, probably my favorite movie ever. It was hard to imagine they would top it, and they really didn’t.

I get what you mean. You’re saying we’re sliding towards something that brings back political correctness in its original definition, and I agree with you.

The idea is to impose an avaricious financial-might-makes-right

This resonates a lot. I’d argue we’re already there. All this talk of “meritocracy” (fallaciously opposed to “DEI”), the prosperity gospel (that one’s even older), it’s all been promoting this idea of worthiness determined by net worth. Totalitarianism needs a socially accepted might-makes-right narrative wherever it can find it, then that can be the foundation for the fascist dogma/cult that will justify the regime’s existence and legitimize its disregard for human life. Bonus points if you can make that might-makes-right narrative sound righteous (e.g. “merit” determines that you “deserve” your wealth, when really it’s a circular argument: merit is never questioned for those who have the wealth, it’s always assumed because how else could they have made that much money!).

You’re right but the example you gave seems to illustrate a different effect that’s almost opposite — let me explain.

The phrase “politically correct” is language which meant something very specific, that was then hijacked by the far-right into the culture war where its meaning could be hollowed out/watered down to just mean basically “polite”, then used interchangeably in a motte-and-bailey style between the two meanings whenever useful, basically a weaponized fallacy designed to scare and confuse people — and you know that’s exactly what it’s doing by because no right-winger can define what this boogeyman really means. This has been done before with things like: Critical Race Theory, DEI, cancel culture, woke, cultural Marxism, cultural bolshevism/judeo bolshevism (if you go back far enough), “Great Replacement”, “illegals”, the list goes on.

Wouldn’t that be the reverse Martian?

He’s great. Reminds me of Folding Ideas.

I’ve been there. Always been awkward, always struggled with it, always had complex emotions about it. I can confirm though what the previous person said: building yourself up as someone with your own rich world that people would be interested in, that’s the healthiest way. You should try as much as possible to do this, I know it’s hard. I know you just feel like it’s never your turn. But you have to try. I’ve never met anyone on dating apps but that’s also because I used to go out a lot for specifically this reason. But pubs and clubs aren’t exactly healthy, it lead more to wasted years, wasted money, and meaningless hookups that left me just as miserable… It was eventually when I took up traveling with organized groups (where I could socialize with like-minded strangers around a healthy topic that we had in common) that I met my current partner.

We’re taking the scenic route, but eventually we will all be crab. So it is written.