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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not great. Sort of lost my will to post after a bunch of experiments over at [email protected]

If I post pure questions in the weekly thread, the only people that respond are the few that can articulate things in detail.

If I post questions with some opinion added because people respond more frequently to those (even if I do not believe the opinion), we get scads of aggressive comments and downvotes which buries the thread quickly.

To top that off, if I respond in other threads in Lemmy, I get people digging up the weekly threads (or responses therein) and trying to use those as ammunition against me. It's super disheartening.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hispanics have a very high population of religious voters and many of them don't believe in abortion. For many religious people, even if they disagree handily with everything else the Republican party does, they will not vote Democrat because of the abortion issue.

There was a pretty large research study and a bunch of podcasts on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Grabbed the podcast! More detail never hurts. Much appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

usufruct

So... reading the Wikipedia article on it for more info, it doesn't seem to place any limits on what you can own. It simply lets you makes allowances for others to use something of yours. It doesn't seem to mention forfeiting unused property in the least.

It's basically just being a landlord, but with other stuff, no? I'm not following how this isn't corruptible unless there's something I'm missing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Me too. It's faster than texting and gives you a whole lot of missing context.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I read up on it, but I'm not sure how that's immune to greed. Are you able to explain?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (30 children)

No political system is perfect. Ever.

They require constant vigilance. They require battling. Human greed is capable of corrupting every system that a human mind can create.

Anyone that tells you they have a perfect political system that would never need fixing is a liar, an idiot, or both.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Have you ever smelled a beefy desiccated detached dick before? Cool. Now cover that in dog spit eight or nine times and let it dry in between.

It smells like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

All good! Up until the twist I really did enjoy the movie. It's well shot, it just kind of felt like a betrayal at the time.

I absolutely love horror movies and have a few lined up from the last thread to watch next. Hell House LLC, Lake Mungo, Longlegs, The Blackcoats Daughter, Color out of Space, Mandy, and the two most recent VHS movies are on the docket before the end of the month.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I have a furious fucking hate for this movie.

As someone who was routinely abused by religious family members who told me how evil I was, I went to the movie thinking I would see some kind of payback to these definitely evil characters.

Then the movie said "lol jk. The religious assholes were right because God said so."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Link Between Worlds was awesome as well.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Well you gotta kick boots. What else you gonna do, kick sandals? That's just insane.

 

I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on [email protected] to thank someone for a recipe that looked good, and found out I had been banned.

Odd, considering I hadn't posted to that sub at any point in the past. I checked the modlog to find that "Mod" had banned a bunch of people citing "Rule 5."

Their Rule 5 states: Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future (see current stickied discussion).

I (and hundreds of others) seemingly broke rule 5 of this community without ever posting there. What is going on?

And my apologies if this isn't the place for this, but I had no idea where else to post the question.

 

#What do you want to talk about?

We're brand new, but I hope you'll have a word or two. Looking for mods who can write and love discussing a variety of topics!

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

#First and foremost, let me say that I appreciate you actually engaging in a real discussion on Lemmy!

Why did I make this community? Well, mostly in response to the rest of Lemmy and the way many otherwise interesting discussion threads fall apart into downvoting and groupthink.

I don’t like people making baseless accusations. I defend people on all sides when people are wrong about their opposition. I hate it when people think they know what others think and project incorrect (and often evil) bullshit on each other. It’s important to be correct with solid reasoning and conclusions, not just one or the other.

I hate people being wilfully wrong because their group fetishizes a certain angle of the truth instead of the boring reality of the situation.

Ideas are important and I don’t feel we can get out of the current shitty slump we’re in with political discourse unless we clearly speak about and discuss the world.

So let's talk like people. What do you want to talk about?

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