Key word here is civilized.

Project 2025 outlines dispanding the Department of Education, and you don't think education is going to change that much?? Truly a space cadet.

I'm sincerely worried for all of the people this presidency of sick fucks threatens.

Unfortunately, with his climate policies, that's every human on earth.

YMCA'd

I dunno if it was intentional or a typo, but this is the funniest thing I've read all day.

AOC is a breath of fresh air in the extreme right political climate of the US, but calling her "radical left" is just hilarious. She's slightly left of centre at best.

The prologue of the first Wheel of Time book, The Eye of the World is one that has stuck with me, and had me absolutely hooked.

“Ten years, Betrayer,” Lews Therin said softly, the soft sound of steel being bared. “Ten years your foul master has wracked the world. And now this. I will. . . .”

“Ten years! You pitiful fool! This war has not lasted ten years, but since the beginning of time. You and I have fought a thousand battles with the turning of the Wheel, a thousand times a thousand, and we will fight until time dies and the Shadow is triumphant!”

I've got high hopes for Lemmy, and the Fediverse in general. Voat's issue was it was a haven for fascists and fascist sympathizers, and a centralized site made that the general vibe. The federated model makes it so they can do what they want in their own little corner of shit, and the rest of us can ignore them like they deserve.

I'll just direct you to @ProdigalFrog's comment in this thread because I think it responds to your points better than I would be able to. Meta is bad for humanity as a whole, and they shouldn't be allowed to infiltrate an open platform such as ActivityPub.

Thanks for your input, and all you do around here!

I definitely agree re:Tumblr. A corporate entity for sure, but a seemingly much less malicious and data-hungry one.

That's great for kbin users and all, but this community is meta for the slrpnk.net instance, which runs lemmy.

edit: that also seems like it would just make links to said domain invisible. They can see you, but you can't see them. I could be wrong, as I've never used kbin before.

Not trying to be rude or anything, but you're not even here. This isn't kbin. This is a specific meta community for this instance, slrpnk.net.

uncorrupted government

Impossible, because that's an oxymoron.