peregrin5

Cascadia Now!

I live in one of the bluest cities in one of the bluest states in the US. And even here, the average Lemmy is nowhere near representative of the average person you meet in real life. If you think they are you are either deluding yourself or have an agenda to push.

Reddit is already an echo chamber and Lemmy just turns up the echo chamber dial to 100.

The real answer is that there is no platform that is perfectly representative of real life population. Everyone self-segregates into spaces they fee comfortable in.

This is like that libertarian/ancap copypasta.

Lemmy only really became usable for me after I blocked certain instances/communities. Tbh if I wasn't permabanned from Reddit I probably would have quit early on and went back to Reddit.

This wasn't because of UX. It's was because some of the most active and highly upvoted instances that had posts hit All constantly were full of terrible people and idiots.

However now that I realize how powerful that is to be able to block whole instances and curate your experience and realize that it's basically impossible to Permaban someone from Lemmy, I'm enjoying it a lot more.

Surprised they are still letting the EPA exist.

The entire world including lots of Europe has been shifting significantly right despite what leftist US haters often say about the US left being a European right. That hasn't been true for a decade or more.

Apparently they're so rich that their money keeps coming in without us because...

I mean, this is true. They can do nothing and probably make millions on interest. That said, it doesn't mean a general strike wouldn't be effective. While the normal person would be perfectly happy with millions coming in every year for doing literally nothing, these people aren't satisfied unless they are making billions off the labor of others while they do nothing.

Sounds like the point went completely over your head.

The younger generation has a problem with externalizing their issues to others without feeling responsible for these issues themselves.

There is always some other party with influence and power who is either antagonizing them or should take care of them like a parent and when they don't, everything is the fault of that "parent".

For example, it's the "DNCs fault" we're in the state we're in apparently even though a lot of people didn't vote and encouraged others not to vote. The democrat party is not some nebulous entity or corporation that exists to cater to your whims like you're some customer it must please to earn your vote. It's made up of people. People like you who got together with other people to try to enact their political ideals and vision for the country.

If you don't like that vision, you need to get with other people who share your vision, start from the ground up, win local elections and start changing the party bit by bit. But this is hard work and much more difficult than screaming that the octogenarian politicians are ruining your life when nobody your age is actually doing anything to replace them because you don't want to become career politicians.

Stop behaving and whining like perpetual petulant children and actually do the hard work to make the change you want to see instead of waiting for someone else to do it for you.

I quit Facebook the first Trump presidency. The reason was I didn't want to hate my Grandma. In most ways she's a sweet old woman but goddamn, get the woman started talking about politics and she becomes a nazi.

I wanted to pretend that part of her didn't exist and I couldn't stay on Facebook without calling this kind of stuff out for her and everyone else in my family who are all Trump supporters causing lots of drama in my life. For the sake of family peace, I quit and never looked back.

Never even started Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok.

All I did in the meanwhile was Reddit which was nice because it was all anonymous, but got permabanned there for being a little too supportive of my boy Luigi. So now I'm here.

The Winds of Winter? At this point though I'm not sure I'm actually waiting anymore.

Landlords all the way down.