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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So then why did you tell people not to reply to you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep telling you I am not an American, and things don’t always or often work that same way outside of America. Though there are parts of Europe struggling with similar issues now. None of what you are saying makes that much sense in the UK. There are young people who want radical right wing policies, but they aren’t voting for the mainstream conservative party. They are voting for Reform UK, causing the right wing vote to be split. This split is a large part of why they lost the last election by a country mile. Meanwhile Labour moving right, combined with repeated scandals by the conservatives has lead to even life long conservative voters changing sides. Them moving right has also lead to them being critical of transgender people. Our Labor prime minister has gone so far to say that even transgender women who have a legal certificate should not use Women’s spaces. It’s crazy honestly. This is the same guy that’s pro-nationalization and pro-regulation.

  You keep saying we even though we aren’t even in the same situation. It seems all you care about is the USA. Honestly I personally think the USA needs to hurry up and collapse already since that’s what seems to be happening anyway, and the slow collapse will just cause more issues.

  If you want people to cooperate better and get along together the best thing you can tell them to do is to not get involved in politics at all. Politics is a lot of what is causing this division and “atomization” as you call it. Neurodivergent people are easily radicalized by extremists of both sides both alt-left and alt-right. You are better off telling them not to get involved at all if you want people to follow community and stop forming cliques. Of course you aren’t going to do that, because you actually have an agenda yourself. I wouldn’t tell people to do that either for the same reason. Although actually you could do some targeted voter suppression and disenfranchisement with right-wing people if you wanted to steer things in a left wing direction. If all you care about is winning the vote then you need to start employing and using the same tactics as the alt-right use against everyone else. Pushing radical ideas and policies would be a good step in the right direction, since that’s exactly what the alt-right do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So much for talking to people you don’t agree with. It seems you can’t or won’t hold up to your own ideals of engaging with others in good faith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except talking to people I don’t agree with is exactly what I do. I am doing it to you now! Think about that! I regularly get in arguments online with the opposite side on reddit. I talk to people here I don’t agree with too. I’ve spent plenty of time talking with people offline too, though often with less aggression. I doubt I am the only person doing this. In fact I have seen evidence of others doing this. So I am not sure where you get your ideas from to be perfectly honest.

  The above is actually the exact opposite of what leftists are normally told to do, yet so many do it anyway. I am really wondering what is going on in your head mate. Me thinks you are delusional. Having people argue against each other often justs radicalises them further, this is a known fact. It doesn’t help “deatomize” them or whatever you are talking about.

  As for working with people you hate: you shouldn’t be forced to protest with people who hate who you are because of prejudice. That’s not something you should ever ask of anyone. It’s perfectly reasonable to use violence against such people in fact. It might even be effective. Things are often solved through killing after all, that’s what war is. That’s how the Nazis were beat last time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I already talk politics on normie social media, and in bars, and even to colleagues sometimes. I do all these things, for all the good it might do. You don’t fully understand who you are talking to, the demographic you are trying to address, anymore than you understand politics outside of America. Queer and Neurodivergent people are already some of the most radicalised people who fight the most. They make up a good chunk of the alt-right, and much of the alt-left too. You have just spent too much time talking to the chronically online individuals or whatever the term is.

  As I said here we had a landslide loss against the right wing party. Mainly because the British people won’t tolerate the kinds of scandals that the politicians got up to, certainly we wouldn’t tolerate Trump here. The outcome though was the left wing party doing the bad stuff instead. It’s not about compromise when people’s rights are on the line. I am not saying don’t vote where you are, and I certainly voted where I am. It’s just at this point that strategy isn’t working as well as it should. While screaming at people is great, I don’t even know what to tell them to do. Whoever I would tell them to vote for either won’t get in, will do harmful things, or are far too radical for normal people to go for, or some combo of the above. Not really convinced that screaming works either. Honey catches more flies than vinegar. Especially with someone like you who is screaming at the wrong people in the wrong way for probably the wrong reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who exactly are you going to form groups with? I am a bit lost on where you would even get started on something like that. Most groups I have seen advertised or have any success are extremists I wouldn’t want to be a part of. I don’t want to go back to being a Trotskyist just to have any meaningful impact. You berate neurodivergent and queer people specifically as not getting off their ass, yet those are the kinds of people in the ranks of these organisations. It’s not like your average person is going to go and join the Labour party either.

  Not all situations are like America. Here in the UK the backsliding is happening with the traditionally left leaning party who got in power using after massive fuck ups by the conservatives. So the right wing lost hard, but the other party have moved towards them. So you can’t even say it’s an issue with the alt-right like America. Instead it’s actually an issue with the left wing party and left wing moderates. Voting for and allying with them has enabled this behavior. It has enabled them to go after transgender people specifically. Ironically the conservatives might have actually done better in this case, as they haven’t expressed issues with queer people in recent times to my knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a good question⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay so what makes pine trees dicks? I knew about Jesus being in the wrong month and about taking over the pegan winter festival, but nothing about dicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So how come NASA was doing all these things before SpaceX even existented? SpaceX never put anyone on the moon. NASA did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is terrible from a security and usability point of view. Just stop using proprietary bs systems. Why do you think so many technical people use Linux and avoid IoT devices like the plague? So we don’t have to deal with companies doing stuff we don’t like without a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s a lot simpler and avoids the issue of dealing with printer drivers on all your machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If right wing (or even other leftist groups) came into ax explicitly tankie community and started arguing with people how would you react?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a joke?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think partisan is even the right word here as many Lemmy users are too far left for mainstream political parties. In fact I am further left than most any mainstream party, but am still considered a capitalist shill by people here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anti-tankies can be blamed when said tankies regularly engage in brigading of other instances. Like is everyone actually behaved this wouldn’t have been an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuclear actually releases less CO2 than renewables, because renewables aren’t nearly as clean as you think they are. Those solar panels and wind turbines have to be made somehow. The things needed to make solar panels and batteries aren’t exactly great for the planet to mine and manufacture.

  This concept of 100% clean energy is a myth, there are just more and less polluting sources. Nuclear being the least polluting, with fossil fuels being the worst, and renewables in the middle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know manufacturing panels and batteries have a significant environmental cost. Being a net negative though I am not sure about. Could you link some sources?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many of those incidents killed anyone? It’s the same with aviation, lots of incidents but few are actually fatal. We still fly everyday.

  You can argue all you want but unless you have something that’s actually significantly safer then what are you going to do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it can. Pretending it’s that dangerous in doses normally consumed by humans in say coffee would be silly though and that’s exactly what you are doing. Like you could make a dirty bomb from spent fuel rods, but that’s irresponsible. You could build outdated and unsafe reactors, but again that’s irresponsible. You could also burn people to death using the power of the sun and some mirrors. Do you get my point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually an interesting point. Maybe we shouldn’t put nuclear reactors in Germany.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t call nuclear dangerous when it’s literally safer than many other energy sources. It’s like calling Caffeine dangerous when meth exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait are you saying that renewables have too much environmental cost to make?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You do know what a city is, right? The regulations on nuclear are also around population density if I remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which cities? I haven’t heard of any cities being made unlivable, only towns and villages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since when? There are dams all over the place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I think most of this is true, I do doubt your claim that Chernobyl didn’t cause birth defects. Even if it didn’t cause defects in humans because they were evacuated, it still caused birth defects in animals that stayed behind. I mean the thing killed a forest. It’s easier to cause mutations than outright kill something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was never any real risk of ruining an entire continent. Stop watching TV shows like Chernobyl for accurate information. Perhaps some people thought that at the time, but we now know that kind of thing is impossible. It could have been a worse accident for sure if there was another steam explosion and it would have effected a wider area, but not even close to a continent lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way. Nuclear is actually one of the safer energy sources, and one of the more reliable. It’s also more expensive than most renewables. As always it comes down to local conditions and situations that favor one power source over another - like countries with lots of geothermal that can be exploited or solar probably won’t go nuclear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet it still has much lower deaths per energy generated than fossil fuels, and even less than some renewables. A single hydro accident can kill more people than even the worst nuclear disasters. It’s not fair to pretend that all the other sources are perfectly safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A hydro damn breaking has killed more people than Chernobyl before, and probably will again. Renewables are not perfect either unfortunately. Though some are slightly safer than nuclear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t put reactors next to cities for a reason. Meaning this scenario wouldn’t happen. Nuclear is also one of the safest energy sources overall in terms of deaths caused. It’s safer than some renewables even, and that’s not factoring in advances in the technology that have happened over the decades making it safer. This kind of misinformation is dangerous. It’s also not a good reason not to do nuclear. The reason why renewables are used more (and probably have a somewhat larger role to play in general) is because they a cheaper and quicker to manufacture. Nuclear energy’s primary problem isn’t safety but rather cost. It’s biggest strength is reliability.