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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I mean denying those things just makes you equivalent to a flat earther. What makes you a doomsday cult leader is being on board with the “China is collapsing!!!” nonsense even though we’re on the 100th failed prediction already.

I know the reading comprehension skills of flat earthers and doomsday cultists tend to be stunted so I’m being patient with you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Doesn’t it bother you that you’re wrong all the time? Don’t you think that after 15 failed “China is LITERALLY COLLAPSING RIGHT NOW” predictions you ought to think about whether your source of information (the CIA) is flawed?

Does it ever occur to you that to a neutral observer you appear identical to a doomsday cult leader on his latest “Um, well, I guess I was wrong, but the world really is ending next month” pivot?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
What kind of complicated issue? Simply adding them as non-steam games seems to work fine. I’ve managed to get jank ass pirated 90s visual novels running, fan-patched, on a steam deck lmao
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
McAfee was a perfectly competent programmer in the 80s and 90s. I think by the time most people heard of him he had already fried the part of his brain responsible for programming with copious amounts of every drug.

I’d still take him over Musk any day.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
There’s no such thing as a soul, and again, if your enemies have to be inhuman for you to fight them you aren’t going to fight them. Reality and your point of view cannot be reconciled.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Curing cancer sometimes requires it to be cut out. It’s not ethically abhorrent to use deadly force to defend yourself or others from certain deadly force.

That is correct. The evil people you have to defend yourself against are human. If you continue to delude yourself that you are only allowed to fight against that which is not human, and thus all your enemies must not be human, you will fail because of the contradictions inherent to this delusional point of view.

You need to take a principles stance against fascists, that they are fought because of what they choose to do and what their choices require of the rest of us. They aren’t born this way, you can’t find the fascism gene under a microscope, you can’t do phrenology and determine that fascists all have this or that skull shape. They’re just human. If they have to not be human for you to be willing to fight them, you will lose.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You have completely missed my point. If you insist on deluding yourself that your enemies aren’t human, you will be surprised by the reality that they are.

Quit trying to dehumanize your opponents. Not only for the reason that I keep reiterating, that it is bad strategically, but it is also ethically abhorrent.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dating⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You’ve gotta take the first step yourself, no one can do that for you.

Or don’t. Be a shutin. Fear the mailman. Die a virgin. I’m not your boss.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High value⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t get me wrong I’m no stranger to our lord and savior Fargoth, bosmer bussy, or Nords and their secret wives. The Elder Scrolls is fantastic because you can simultaneously take it so seriously and … do whatever it is we lore nerds get up to.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Ranting about the untermensch to show how much I’m not a Nazi…

If you really think Nazis are subhuman, you’re not going to be prepared to do what needs to be done when the time comes. These are human people. They laugh, they cry, they have moms and dads and brothers and sisters and husbands and friends. They look just like you or me, you bump elbows with them in the grocery store. You’ve shaken their hands, made small talk with them, and laughed at their jokes.

None of that changes what must be done.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I got banned from reddit last week for “threatening violence” basically because my comment contained the word “die.” It wasn’t a verb.

Reddit is super aggressive with this shit now. If you say “Don’t drink bleach, that would kill you.” Their AI bullshit just sees “kill you” and bans you for threats.

Site is fucking useless, don’t even bother at this point. It’s mostly robots talking to other robots at this point anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High value⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
CHIM isn’t really meta like that. It is a state of enlightenment achieved after coming to terms with the fact that the Elder Scrolls setting exists within the ‘dream’ of a godhead. The godhead is a mysterious and high order entity, think Lovecraftian gods, which isn’t really sleeping and dreaming in the way we normally think of it.

Typically when one comes to understand the nature of the dream they inhabit, they vanish, becoming one with the dream in a process known as zero-summing. It essentially means coming to the conclusion that all things within the dream are one and the same, that the individual is an illusion.

CHIM is achieved by facing this fate and asserting that, though all reality is a dream, your existence as an individual with thoughts and feelings and agency within the dream matters and is valid. Some suggest this state confers great power, such as the ability to reshape the landscape or perform miracles, like when one lucid dreams. However, I find this position poorly supported. Rather, CHIM seems best viewed as one form of enlightenment, a state achieved through great wisdom and insight but which brings with it no particular power. Vivec can be slain, after all, and relies on his connection to the Heart of Lorkhan to exercise divine power.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If it wasn’t meant to be analogous to prejudice based on immutable characteristics why did they make it prejudice based on immutable characteristics? Sea lions in the universe the comic takes place in are clearly sapient people, capable of complex thought, communication in English, and the ability to navigate human society. The person in the comic isn’t being “metaphorically racist” or expressing something “analogous” to racism; they’re simply being racist.

As you say, what the sea lion is doing is harassment, it is hostile, it is aggressive, and the racist depicted in the comic deserves it. It is model behavior, we should make people dread the idea of expressing racist views in public.

If you substitute the racist opinion for a mundane one, of course the comic changes and the sea lion becomes unreasonable. You’ve completely changed what the sea lion was responding to. If you swap all the Nazis in Wolfenstein with peaceful dogs who aren’t doing anything, now it’s a game about being a cop. Now you’re being completely unreasonable by shooting them. But that doesn’t tell us anything about the validity of shooting the original Nazis. When we look at the original context of Wolfenstein, shooting the Nazis is completely reasonable because they’re Nazis and not dogs.

Furthermore, even if we do substitute the racism expressed in the comic for a more mundane opinion, like enjoying pineapple on pizza, it still seems inapplicable to internet arguments. A significant part of the reason the sea lion is unreasonable is its persistence. At no point do the other people in the comic engage with the sea lion but it won’t stop harassing them. But on Lemmy, this behavior is so universally punished that it almost never happens because it would obviously get you permabanned from your home instance no matter what it is. Most people I’ve seen accused of “sealioning” are simply replying, one comment at a time, to people who are actively engaging with them. You can’t be “sealioning” unless you are following someone who isn’t engaging with you somewhere else, meaning in this context a different thread, to demand further engagement in the conversation. Which, again, would get you banned so fast that I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen it happen on Lemmy.

On no level do most accusations of “sealioning” seem to hold up to scrutiny, in my opinion.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The sealion in the original comic is completely correct, which makes me very suspicious of anyone who dismisses someone for “sealioning” and as you say, it usually is just used as an excuse not to engage with what someone is saying.

The sealion in the comic overheard someone being racist against them, and stepped in to say, “Hey, why are you being racist?” And for some reason is wrong because… they’re persistent? Or because they’re annoying? How is that not literally just every “anti-woke” argument?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

But do they have to submit a request if they tell the audience “fuck it, this is now a sub about X, we’ll remove everything that’s not about X”?

No that just isn’t allowed. I’m not joking, the admins have removed entire mod teams and installed new ones because the mod teams decided to change the topic of the sub.