I don’t listen to or support any scientologist, including Beck

Agreed, Putin has kompromat on Trump. I hope you’re right but not holding my breath

He’ll do what Putin tells him to.

Well if you give them infintiny time… maybe.

I’d be thrilled when I realized it was an avocado and not cadbury

More rational than most religious beliefs.

Dibs on uhhh… being the uh… cucumber

When your finally breaking out of your shell and Ride of the Valkyries starts playing

Hi friend, I’m Bob from Ohio (or maybe Florida!). Anyway, I promise there’s nothing to worry about… other than the billions of human flesh eating illegal immigrants flooding across the border to torture your family for their sadistic pleasure. Just vote for Trump and everything will be fine!

Its good, but is it too sciency?

I think this is too nuanced for lemmy.ml to handle, they prefer black and white

Fair enough, I see your point. Thanks for explaining.

That does nothing to solve the problem. I want to see the Fediverse succeed.

I’m considering leaving the fediverse altogether

I’ve had moments where I considered it too, because of all the tankies and propaganda, but I’m still here because I really want to see it succeed.

Unfortunately, I won’t even admit to anyone that I use it, let alone recommend it. I think from a rational outside perspective, the unfiltered Fediverse is an extremist echochamber. Some of the things that get said and heavily upvoted are wild.

I’ve had death threats multiple times from Hexbear users, and I’ve abandoned an account because Lemmy.ml users followed me around and downvoted everything I posted (which was mostly memes at the time).

We can’t expect people to deal with all of that when there’s already a relatively steep learning curve when joining. There’s no corporation running the show to fight propaganda, we have to deal with it, or the Fediverse is at risk of going the way of Voat.

Thank you.

More like another Afghanistan, like the one the broke the USSR.

Except Russia has already lost ten times as many troops in a fifth of the time.

Shrimps is bugs, whales is whales

Weird to see a non-biased post about this conflict with a respectable news source on Lemmy.

They’re not even really Marxists/communists, it’s a facade for propaganda.

Yeah, theres a lot of propaganda and people fighting about it.