[-] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago

It's not hate reading, it's loving honesty. The article frames the story as an anti-government civil liberty issue, and the community is letting blind rage at the mention of a car create a blind spot over self-defeating libertarianism.

[-] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago

Angry, vindictive Internet dwellers love to identify with the left while arguing on behalf of libertarians. So long as Somebody On The Other Side is getting punished the specifics of self responsibility and internal consistency don't matter too much.

[-] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Counterpoint: grow up and learn to say no to your 15 year old self. "I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare!" is only a waypoint on the path to maturity, and immaturity is poorly disguised by pleas to "please somebody think of the children!" Children are welcome to have all their own thoughts and feelings, but having thoughts and feelings doesn't entitle or qualify anybody to amplify them into leadership and policy.

[-] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Life on an island applies pressure to compromise. Lemmy emerged comprised of those who wanted out specifically not to have to compromise. I think the federation concept will serve to reinforce isolated thought bubbles, and a platform migratory pattern will emerge as people crave a return to society and then an escape to their own private beaches. There's a maturing period to grow through for sure, though.

[-] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Disagreement? In this echo chamber?? No nuance, netizen! Back in line!

[-] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

I started to prepare for 2026, but the thought that "Blue Wave!" fails is so preemptively humiliating that the only logical conclusion was to roll over and let the fascists ride on through 2028. I truly wish I could help or do anything at all but I'm safer here on the couch! Besides, The Capitalists rigged it all anyway. I think if I feel bad enough for anybody who isn't as safe and I starve, deprive, and isolate myself then I can make up for my own sense of helplessness.

[-] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

There was a disestablishment during the Revolution that seized land from the Catholic church. Revolutionaries also socialized vital records and institutionalized divorce, which had all previously been under the church's dominion.

[-] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

I think it was during the Dominion suit that Fox argued their propaganda was Merely Entertainment, Actually not to be taken seriously once the damage was done, and the Internet got all mad about the convenient arbitrariness in that double standard being used to prop up the Trump machine.

[-] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Thanks I hung it on the fridge.

Did you share it with everybody in this thread having serious discussion on the topic or just the person you disagree with?

[-] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

It reads like a trinity of meme community, soapbox, and echo chamber

[-] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

OK let's start by redistributing wealth hoarded in churches, prioritized by a product of the number of hectares of land owned by the church and the volume of redistribution propaganda the church has promoted

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