Isn’t hard real time in the kernel now?

Thinks… Well, one side generally annoy me more than the other side.

I can generally be around right wingers longer than left wingers and traditionally the right have been more tolerant of libertarians like myself, so I guess maybe.

First of all, good conversation. I’m enjoying it.

I’ve been around almost five decades, and I can say without a doubt that yes, there are and have always been divisions in society, but not this segregation into hate camps that exists now. Not on this scale - previously, only extremists would be so disconnected from society. Now, we drive them into their safe spaces.

Even milquetoast blue and red flag wavers are shooting each other regularly where before there would be some mild eye-rolling, and this coincided with the rise of social media, which, as you say, has always been segregated.

Understanding and moderation comes with only one thing - compassionate discourse. You can’t do that if you block ban entire segments of the community.

Did you read the article I linked? What are your thoughts?

You just triggered my PTSD

Holy shit that took me far too long to get.

Stoicism teaches us to only concern ourselves with things we can control. Everything else is external, and you can’t affect it.

Read Marcus Aurelius and feel better.

Oh, fuck that. I’m so tired of that shit.

I’m not pro- or anti- either side, but the_donald were dicks.

Amen.

I don’t tote anyone around. I just got here. My experience is from Mastodon - I have some good friends on shithole servers - granted it’s like 2% of the server and the rest are fuckwits, but I’m glad I know them and have the power to block the rest.

I’m not going to argue that some of the dislike she receives isn’t due to racism or misogyny. There has to be an element of that.

But yes, phony is the perfect word.

I’ll take that on for you, brave warrior. It’s the least Ican do.

So I see where you’re coming from, and it’s a valid point.

There’s a but here though.

Point 1: Corpo soshuls don’t connect you to everyone. They have very specific rules that they abuse to ban people with inconvenient (and admittedly sometimes schizophrenic) beliefs.

Point 2: As a user, you can block somebody (or should be able to block) anyone you find distasteful or upsetting. why would you want someone else to make that decision for you by blocking a whole instance? Don’t you want that control?

Why you do dis lol

Good question.

You just destroyed my childhood by the way

Yeah you know what? I’ve had enough of fundies, I’ll leave that thought there.

Long time Fedi user, first time Lemmy user here.

Defederation is one of the reasons society is so fractured now. We can’t talk to our enemies, so we can’t bring them round with compassion and logic. We just cut them out and they spiral into a more hateful and extreme version of themselves.

Obligatory post:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/18/daryl-davis-black-musician-who-converts-ku-klux-klan-members

1. She’s a democrat. that means 42% of the population automatically hate her.
2. She’s grossly inappropriate and cackles at exactly the wrong time, and that creeps people out.
3. She was a “tough on weed” prosecutor who became a bleeding heart liberal overnight when she got her new job. That makes her seem disingenuous.

Just what I’ve picked up from other people, I have no feelings about her whatsoever.

ELI5 (because I signed up about an hour ago) - what’s wrong with the Exploding Heads instance? I thought about joining up because I suffer from Exploding Head Syndrome (really)

It puts it’s Configs in /etc/ or it gets the hose again.

Ms Pac Man obviously