Sure ok, but my explanation as to why people aren't shooting at ICE agents remains the same.
The "they came for" quote is emotive, but a great many people are indeed "speaking out", and taking action in non-violent ways.
Quite obviously, people aren't shooting at ICE because they don't want to get shot.
Not necessarily. There's loads of ways to resist without getting myself shot.
Its also disabled in the secure soft forks like librewolf et al.
There's no doubt that it's more wear and tear on your clothes.
Like if I put on a pair of shorts I'm probably going to sit around in them for most of the day and then take them off before bed. Several hours in the drier where it's hot and they're rubbing around on everything is surely going to be the equivalent of many days worth of "wearing them".
“let him cook” which, I think, meant ‘give them a chance
I think "let him cook" generally means "let them do whatever they're planning and make their own mistakes".
"it's cooked" means someone has made some mistakes and now it's just a mess, with no undo.
Indeed. Similar to "picking ones battles" or so.
They dont "win" but yes, im sure life is easier in some ways.
Some people win the genetic lottery, and are tall and attractive, others dont.
No point fretting about things you cant change, just be the best version of yourself you can be.
Just buy from wherever and then pirate the copy you read.
All these polls are the same: "Some Americans are feeling unsure of Trump's god status and worry about the ecomony".
It's my firmly held belief that the majority of Americans are uneducated idiots.
People just don't want to be involved, and I'm not going to judge them for that.
As in, I have a wife and 2 young kids. My purpose in life is to care for and support them. If I'm at work or whatever and some goons show up to abduct someone I don't know, I'm not going to start blasting and go down in a blaze of glory because of an ideological position.
I've been here since the before times.
It was just weird back then. I had no idea what tankies were and the content just seemed bizarre without any content. I wasn't here daily but kept checking in.
Since the reddit 3rd party app fiasco there's been more content so you could block .ml and have a somewhat satisfying experience.
Piefed is very comparable to lemmy but without the ideological stink and better filters - I thoroughly recommend making the switch.
Mods in the fediverse generally have better intentions than their counterparts on reddit. There have been a number of fumbles but for the most part they're better community stewards, although they do still have the same inherent problem of being fieflords.
The content on the fediverse lags behind reddit. For emerging stories there's way more interesting and up to date content on reddit. I've been using redlib for the last few years so I browse reddit but can't log in. It's a reasonable compromise IMO.
I do have some concerns about the fediverse.
Firstly it's an echo chamber. Quite often if a commenter points out some kind of nuance which doesn't align with the approved opinion they just get piled on. One recent example was the "Trump shat himself" video. Someone said something like "I can't really see it, you can hear a little squeak that could be anything and green lady is just looking around", they got downvoted to oblivion and loads of responses basically saying "how dare you not make fun of the POTUS".
We can't discuss things here. There's like 6 types of posts and we all just make the approved responses to each of them.
Secondly is the dwindling content. Things have deteriorated in the last few years with smaller communities drying up. Everyone's aware of it but no one can or will do anything about it. I don't have the stats but I suspect that 99% of posts are made by about 4 different users.
Not lots of detail, probably just photos and fingerprints for Australians arriving in the US.