Yes, because we should spend 100% of our time doing praxis, and 0% of our time having some fucking fun.

Yeah, and one could even argue that WWII wasn't really about fascism, but expansionism, as Franco was allowed to continue to exist. Hence, the kinda in my original comment.

The US doesn't recognize the ICC, so it wouldn't matter anyway. Netanyahu addressed Congress less than six months ago.

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

Whenever I see the media being silenced like this, I'm always reminded of a Tyrion Lannister quote from A Clash of Kings:

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”

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.

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.

Defederating from Facebook just seems like it's motivated by giving them the middle finger.

Well I've found where we disagree! I think defederating from Threads is more of a safeguard of the users of this instance from Meta's predatory data practices, and history of employing the classic Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy. Personally, I think having zero connection to anything run by Meta is certainly giving the users of the instance the best possible experience.

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.

ACAB proving itself true yet again.

uncorrupted government

Impossible, because that's an oxymoron.