shaggyb
@shaggyb@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 4 days ago:
All of those things you mentioned were right wing power grabs.
Taking the high road was letting that shit become mainstream.
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 5 days ago:
I remember how this worked in Sweden where I live
Yeah, things don’t work that way everywhere.
We tried being nice in America. It got us here.
You just go back to enjoying your ivory tower. We have actual problems here and your high road is not the solution.
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 6 days ago:
Here’s the thing.
The last 10 years have proven that organized online hostility is VERY EFFECTIVE at dictating public opinion.
That’s how we got the new fascist movements. Trump and the like. Because right wing hostility and bigotry went not only unchecked institutionally but unchallenged socially.
No solution has emerged for that from an institutional level.
So yeah, my socialist ass is fighting back. I’ll be damned if I’m going to spend the rest of my life under these fucking wastes of flesh and their bullshit antiquated opinions. I’m done taking it and I’m done tolerating it. Fuck every last republican and homophobe and transphobe and complicit liberal. All of them. And wouldn’t you know it, little by little they’re backing down when we stand up to them like the cowards they are.
Yes, I am deliberately far more hostile online, because it WORKS. And clearly nobody with institutional control cares enough to try anything else.
- Comment on China turns on ‘minors mode’ to keep kids safe online 1 week ago:
Parents need to do their fucking jobs and keep their shithead kids out of my business.
- Comment on On the Day He Was Fired as National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz Used an Israeli App to Archive Signal Messages 1 week ago:
The nation of origin is completely meaningless when it comes to software distributed over the internet.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 2 weeks ago:
Well I say Mark Zuckerberg is over.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 3 weeks ago:
I think an alarming number of Gen Z internet folks find it funny to skew the results of anonymous surveys.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 3 weeks ago:
I agree that this a colossally stupid idea.
However, it has the virtue of not being every other word I read online. For the novelty of it, I thank you.
- Comment on A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane 3 weeks ago:
Why, you didn’t even post this!
- Comment on Endurain is a self-hosted fitness tracking service designed to give users full control over their data and hosting environment 3 weeks ago:
I mean aside from the glass eye, he seems relatively healthy.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 4 weeks ago:
Very much this.
I was hoping to imply that with the phrase “road users” but I wasn’t explicit about it.
Cyclists too. If you can’t keep a cyclist safe you shouldn’t be allowed in a car.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Don’t listen to people who tell you not to.
The indicator is for communicating your intent to change the position (which lane you’re in) or direction (turning in or out of a road, parking space, etc.) of your car.
The safest thing you can do as a driver is to be PREDICTABLE to other drivers. The indicator communicates necessary information for other drivers to predict your actions.
Not using one when changing the position or direction of your car is inconsiderate and dangerous to other road users. It is also illegal.
Use them. Please.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 4 weeks ago:
You mean to tell me that not bashing children’s heads against a rock is a uniquely christian value.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 4 weeks ago:
You, specifically, possibly. I don’t know you and I certainly don’t care who “your people” are. But if you rely on a sky fairy to tell you it’s bad to bludgeon children to death rather than having basic compassion to tell you, signs aren’t good for you. All you’d need is for a charismatic sociopath to tell you the magic cloud genie changed its mind and then it’s all of our brains bashed in. History has proven that.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 4 weeks ago:
And this is why religions are so dangerous and terrifying right here.
If you can’t answer that question on your own, you are frightening.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 4 weeks ago:
Sin is defined is an act in defiance of god. There is no god to defy.
Your question presumes that harm can only come from sin. That presumption is nonsensical in the absence of a god.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 4 weeks ago:
Sin is a myth. There is no god to judge you.
Consider the harm your actions and beliefs cause. The rest is bullshit.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 5 weeks ago:
It’s important to note that even in that scenario, he’s limited to a total of 10 years. If he would take over from a VP position, he could exceed 10 total years as POTUS.
Whatever “limited” means in the current state of things is another question.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 5 weeks ago:
If we’re being real, it’s not likely at all. He’s probably safer than Biden was.
Not only does the secret service impose incredibly tight security (not perfect, mind you), but Trump doesn’t go anywhere except the White House and his shithole golf course.
In order to assassinate him, it would probably have to be an inside job. That seems exceptionally unlikely.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Is he good enough to be a coach? Or a trainer? Or work in sports tech? Media?
Maybe he can find a way to be invoked without being locked in on being a player on the field at the top level. If what he loves is the game, he can be a part of making the game better or safer or reach more people.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
You are incorrect. The republican party is the party of bigotry and cruelty. To vote for them is an explicit endorsement. Adults are accountable for their allegiances and their actions, and we have had decades to learn.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
When you need to resort to “but I have black friends” to defend racism, you’ve lost.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
Electing republicans is in itself blatantly racist.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
I certainly hope your turn to fight it never comes.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
People said everything you’re saying 30 years ago and used it to justify letting fascism grow unchecked. Now we’re here and you are still afraid to be firm. You are why they’re in power.
No more compromises. No more chances. No more conversations. People are being abducted. People are dying. There’s no time left for patience.
They change NOW. Or they can fuck off.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
I’m not interested in the reasoning behind bigotry.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
I am being clear. This debate is over.
- Comment on So this is it, is trump god? Will Republicans sacrifice their own well being to own the libs? 5 weeks ago:
Incontinence isn’t much of a put-down at this point. Trump has literally been in diapers for over a decade.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
Blocked.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
Nope. They’ve had plenty of time to see the results of their actions. They’re complicit at this point.