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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Lemmy users project their toxicity towards Reddit. This place can be quite hostile if you don't echo the 'correct' ideals.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I'm frustrated more people are complacent with the state of the world, including myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I think 10 years ago this would've been unpopular, but today maybe not so much:

systemd is great software. I don't use distros that refuse to ship it. Especially the init system. Thanks, Lennart!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

OMG IM SO SHOCKED A BUNCH OF SUPER POPULAR OPINIONS ON LEMMY!!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's insane how many removed call lots of the ideas here "Eugenics". Eugenics is about producing the best GENES possible, while a lot of the replies here say that bad parents should not be allowed to make kids. Nobody talked about stopping people who aren't so "perfect" (biologically-wise) to make kids. Just not have more kids suffering by growing in abusive and broken households or been poor and have it very hard in life.

People are Lemmy are not much smarter that those on Reddit, it seems...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Eugenics is a system of controlling reproduction. Many eugenesists may have believed that being a member of a certain race or having certain congenital diseases made one inferior (and thus unworthy of the right to reproduce), but the basic principle some people should reproduce and some people shouldn't.

Like why do you think people are against eugenics? Because they're afraid we might accidentally bring an end to genetic diseases? That there might be too many blonde people? That they care deeply about people who don't exist yet's rights to be some particular way?

So yeah, when you propose a rule controlling reproduction...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

your semantic understanding of eugenics doors not seem to understand why people opposed eugenics and eugenics policies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Eugenics is about producing the best GENES possible

"Eugenics" was a term decades before "genes"

Even if the etymology was different, you'd still be very wrong [about what "eugenics" is]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)
  • Black is a color!!
  • Dolphins are fish!!
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

These threads always attract a variety of reactionary opinions

[edit] whoops, didn't mean to reply. Yours were not the reactionary opinions lol. after the revolution, all tetrapods will rightly be understood to be fish

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