I suspect that race issues helped lead to the discrediting of IQ tests which helped lead to college degrees as the sole determinant of worth which helped lead to everyone having to go to a four-year college which helped lead to massive debt crises, poverty, and social immobility (I am assuming you can fill in the holes in this argument).

Q: why are so many people struggling economically today?

Normal people: billionaires are hoarding money, crashing the economy, and have dismantled all social safety nets so millions are stuck doing shitty jobs they cannot decline.

Turborationalist: IQ tests are unjustly maligned as racist :'(

A French Lemmy instance hurt their feelings.

I don’t agree with the atrocity they are committing. Link me to my defense of Israel or (my preference) stop telling lies.

That’s could be just exposure to the internet, which turns everyone into a wretched and miserable gremlin.

Just totally normal stuff when leftists team up with the furthest right theocratic authoritarians against their true enemy, classic liberals.

Sometimes facts hurt our feelings and that makes them bad and wrong!

I’ve seen you urging US voters to back third parties despite the mathematical realities of FPTP voting. Of course you prefer discussion on .ml.

I do kinda prefer that idea, or rather, I’ve considered something similar from the perspective of positive ratings. I’d like a way to prioritize content by heavily weighting upvotes from people who I’ve liked interacting with.

Thank you, that makes so much more sense.

How is repeating that “il y a 23 heures” supposed to be insulting? Are they trying to say the post should have been taken down by now?

There are plenty of comments on Hexbear and .ml from some of the very users in the screenshots that should have been taken down yet remain up to this day. They should go back and comment that on their own works of hatred.

I had the same feeling when I saw that, it’s good to have it available. One caveat is I think the instance admins can mess with the database to hide things, but my understanding is a typical mod cannot.

I would be shocked to discover they’re not already doing this.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

Even if you don’t take their bait, someone else will. It makes a toxic forum if writing the wrong thing summons multiple bad faith ahistorical takes. It’s not worth preserving federation for the few who aren’t behaving like that, they can join other instances.

Tired: I can speak directly to god and will be taken to paradise.

Wired: the god we will create will run a simulation that is indistinguishable from what I am currently (therefore it is literally me) so my thoughts right now are being read directly.

A lot of the removed content appears on instances’ mod logs, is that not meeting what you want?

Federating with Hexbear is the more contentious position. Knowing what I know now, I would not consider using an instance that is federated with Hexbear.

He wants a marketplace of ideas? Not a centrally planned economy of ideas? And Hexbear isn’t calling him a far-right radical?

I approve of that but I don’t know how it is a change? I have already been refusing to consider games because they have Denuvo listed.

Sometimes it is pleasant to defederate from an instance, especially if nothing of value is lost.

Yes. Depending on a person’s other comments, a statement like this is either advocacy to do more or an attempt at demotivation to do nothing. Unfortunately many groups attempting the former are infected with bad faith actors trying to cause the latter.

Elsewhere today I saw a “both sides” ratchet meme. “Dems are blocking progress to the left,” is the premise, and then the conclusions are either; “therefore primary them with progressives so we are able to move left,” or “throw your hands in the air and let the ratchet spin freely to the right.”