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I don't want to minimise her suffering but I'm sure there are many other people in similar situations that we haven't heard about.

I'm not so sure that we're not sliding into fascism?

Dutton seems to be modelling his campaign on Trump's.

He's hardly going to usher in a new era of tolerance and inclusion.

Yeah. They really didn't read the room on that, amongst other things.

Yes.

Don't try to mirror something from reddit. There's an instance that does that, lemmit.online, and many if not most instances have defederated because it's a blight on the land.

It's counterintuitive but making a bot to post reddit content here acqually squashes engagement here.

The best thing to do is to post content.

No one can speak for everyone else, but I personally would prefer reddit remains the main stream aggregator and lemmy can just rumble along.

I'd love to see lemmy mature and evolve and be awesome but IMO it's a mistake to think that attracting reddit users is the way to achieve that.

Another way to say the same thing: it's confirmation bias.

Other forms have been imagined and in many cases tried but representative democracy (even when it's really just an illusion) is the only way to organise large populations of people.

I'm not in the market for a BYD but I'm stoked to see Telsa taking a beating.

Oh man. Do you really want to have a debate about the meaning of the word synonym?

Please, by all means, continue believing you're right about everything.

Pretty sure everyone else will continue finding you insufferable.

He probably means vandalising Teslas

Partly correct.

It's true that anyone with nefarious intent would still be able to encrypt things.

However, it means law enforcement doesn't need to bother decrypting things to make arrests.

thesauris.com, merriam-webster, and collins all disagree with you.

They aren't synonymous if they describe different things

This is clearly false. Obviously the degree of difference determines whether terms are synonymous. You're correct that not all taxes are tariffs. Apparently however that doesn't mean they're not synonyms.

Additionally one term being a subset of the other evidently does not preclude being a synonym.

If you have a bet, and every dictionary says that you're wrong, then you should just graciously pay up.