We’ve been having this discussion in the group I game/ play TTRPGs with. Like 7 of us total all windows, me and another switched to Linux, a third is a computational scientist who is forced to work with redhat frequently, and a fourth member was thinking of switching. After me and member 2 switched, member 4 saw that we had problems (entirely discord for me, all games have honestly worked so far) and changed his mind about switching because he doesn’t want to deal with stuff not working OOTB.

I can’t fault people who want that, hell I do, Linux is well worth it to me but I will begrudgingly admit there are draw backs to Linux.

Yeah I looked for a picture too, there are not any good blue monkey ass pics, wtf internet

Criticize the hell out of them man, I do it on a daily basis as well. Just know you ain’t doing shit but yapping unless you bring some plans to the table.

Oh yeah these people don’t ever ever ever give actual solutions on how to achieve any goals. They just constantly criticize and then act like the victim when you call out how absurdly outside reality they are.

As an organizer in my free time it’s hardly unrealistic to suggest other people do the same.

Im sure as someone who does it everyday you do think that

God forbid political power take work and time. Better to be ineffectual and rhetorically entrench the sociopathic status quo, eh

This is the largest point I’m trying to make the time and effort it will take cannot be completed before the election. I mean you even agreed:

Do you think this can be organized 1 before the election, 2 before the election with enough time to actually change things in it

Your response was No.

Yes. This is how it has been for hundreds of years. People with less time and means did far more than this

Do you think every American agrees and will just jump on board?

And to defend the status quo.

No defending it I hate it but stop acting like it can change before the election, it is not enough time which is my point, not a defense.

How much time do you spend on social media, for example? Why not spend that time organizing meetings?

Couple hours after work, 10 mins before work, and while shitting. Drive times alone wouldn’t be meet with this time.

How on earty could you ever take credit for anything?

Don’t know what I took credit for but sure

Do you even live in a swing state?

Do you even live in America?

They want us to magically fix all the problems overnight, while blaming us for everything in the meantime.

You gonna bother explaining the MAS movement and provide a reasonable road map for how to achieve it?

Nah it’s easy just rewire the whole government in your free time, that’s what I don’t understand about these people. They have all these great ideas about organizing and starting this and changing that. The suggestions they give are just not realistic in our society currently, but they act like you’re the problem for voting.

Y’all understand that your little suggestion of starting a whole ass movement with the only resource of “unified voters” in one of the most diverse countries in the world will take a ton of time right ?

I’ll even play let’s say we:

If you care how you vote, you should be getting organized with likeminded people to create a voting block that makes demands

Do you think this can be organized 1 before the election, 2 before the election with enough time to actually change things in it, 3 by people working full time jobs and probably living paycheck to paycheck 4 while being fought back against the entire time by media oligarchy? No it isn’t realistic

What is realistic is trying to save the country from a centralization of powers into the executive branch (project '25) that will almost surely lead into fascism, which will then in turn fuck the rest of the world even worse.

I personally disagree, mainly because the interactions have much more depth than the same 30 unfunny comments that people make on reddit ex: this. Don’t get me wrong it happens here as well, just way less. I also see people back claims up with evidence here way more, it’s not always valid evidence but at least an attempt is made more.

The thing I like the best is the lack of self righteousness (ironic I’m making this comment on this post haha) that reddit has, that was my personal biggest complaint there. Like on reddit if there is an animal in a video in any way shape or form you can almost always find someone screeching about animal abuse, even when it is obviously not.

I of course have bias in favor of Lemmy and this is highly dependent on the community. I will admit Lemmy is super left leaning, which I like, but definitely supports your hive mind argument. Even though I lean left I think it would be healthier for Lemmy to have more of a presence from the right. Unfortunately with how the political landscape is today I think it won’t be very achievable but hopefully when we hit the post Trump era divisiveness will ease making coexistence here more achievable.

I’m so tired of hearing this about America, we have one of the most diverse countries in the world. I understand the narrative that the media shows the world, the most horrendous of Americans (which are the smallest groups) get a totally disproportionate amount of media time because of their awful actions. A majority of the population tries to be decent human beings, of course bias exists subconsciously and people aren’t aware of it.

I am in the SE region of the US, which everyone loves generalizing as the most ignorant and racist area. I have seen true racist when I was delivering pizzas and my coworkers were black, it was horrendous. I can assure you the racists are a minority and a shrinking one at that. Not only that but it is exceedingly rare that they are under 50 years. Not only both of those things but both millennials and gen Z call out that shit immediately.

It really starts to wear on you when you actively try to fight these things and everyone still only sees your country as full of racists. Yes they exist but it is a shrinking minority.

Fuck yeah love the satire, I lost so much respect for JB over how he handled kyle glass’s comment. Tenacious D is one of my favorite sleepover movies from when I was a kid.

A whooping 30% of users requested it

There aren’t enough “got dangs” in this meme

The problem I have is when a gimmick is forced on me

Damn near everyone commenting is missing the point

How have we not started moving towards it when every company is trying their damnedest to get subscriptions? Look at new vehicles, they are paywalling features on an already purchased car, I bet you would have “bet against this” too before it happened. The problem is companies are slowly changing things over time hoping consumers don’t notice until it’s too late.

“Really?! I could not tell”

Translation: you just admitted to being in the out group I created in this post so any and all of your opinions are invalid. I will now judge you solely on a characteristic you had no choice in (we don’t chose where were grow up), you must be an ignorant racist hillbilly.

Wow what an insightful individual

“you just have to insert your opinion, and insult me while doing so, because you can’t take any sort of criticism”

You are so blind, you insulted their entire geographical area and you are acting like they are the ones insulting first?

“You cannot accept any truth with what I say”

They literally said the south has its problems

They obviously have a problem with your sweeping generalizations not your individual points and the hypocrisy therein, but I doubt you have the capability of self reflection.

Yeah but the south sucks is such an unpopular opinion! I mean this person has been to EVERY state, every one of them. They even lived in 14% of the states I mean if those are qualifications to judge a geographical area larger than most countries, what is? Yeah OP is a hypocrite and sounds very ignorant, but their “unpopular” opinion is obviously agreed upon by the majority so this doesn’t get brought up by others.

As communities grow from obscurity to populated change is inevitable. I used to use reddit and the #1 thing I hated was the condescending, holier than thou attitude that was rampant. I have seen it occasionally on here but for the most part Lemmy is a breath of fresh air, so I personally don’t think reddit culture has replaced it. I can definitely see a strong cultural influence from reddit but I personally think Lemmy culture is significantly different, in a good way.