Oh… I literally did not notice it, hehe kudos! :-P

Hey, we won’t be fascist for at least another month or two!? 🗓️

Yes

(wait, not enough confidence, how about dialing it up a couple notches…)

There used to be dmv.social, which iirc was in Washington DC? It got shut down due to the CSAM attacks, before the automated software, and iirc just frustration in general with how toxic people were being.

And I see a bunch more actually, at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer. 2 of the top 20 instances even are located in the USA. Lemmy.sdf.org with >500 MAUs, beehaw.org with ~400, StarTrek.website with ~200, lemmy.today, ttrpgnetwork, and discuss.online (where jgrim of SubLinks is an admin) are all recognizable. Ofc, the caveat being if I am reading that page correctly - or like perhaps some proxy was used, even a random one and this data could be all wrong who knows - but it at least looks this way?:-)

So… you DO want to be pedantic then? 😘

Sigh, I just want there to be fewer Nazis.

“Nazi” does not always mean “authoritarian”, e.g. we see how Russia is another form of a totalitarian state without being strictly speaking “Nazis” (though there are some similarities, in conservative thought).

But more to the point, life exists on a spectrum. Those with Nazi proclivities used to feel that they had to “hide” their thoughts, almost like being ashamed of them. Now, they boldly proclaim them in the open - that is, as you say (correctly), not exactly “new”, but in modern times it has not been nearly so accepted by society at large, as much as it is now.

So not “always”, but yeah I agree that it was not “never” either. Still, I hope that this is merely a setback on our way to overall progress - e.g. set aside cops for the moment and look at society, especially younger people: racism isn’t nearly as prevalent as it was among the older generations? Nor sexism either. Not to the same “degree” anyway?

Classism probably always though - yeah that one’s a bitch to try to solve, especially as it ties in with factors making a huge difference such as lack of edumacashun and healthcare and transportation and from now on even access to a literal home to live in (all the more relevant as climate change makes being outside more problematic). e.g. by cutting off access to COVID vaccines, rich people will live longer lives while poorer people won’t, and will also suffer more from long COVID symptoms.

We definitely are not moving in a superb direction right now for sure… except in the long-term measurement in which case it’s still awesome what progress has been made so far.😀 Now the trick: hold onto that as best we can, even if democracy itself dies out around the globe.:-(

Damnit I missed my 2-minute window of opportunity!? /s :-P

No - at least, not anymore. According to Reagan, news organizations are for-profit enterprises that manufacture profit for the stakeholders, by any means necessary, and they can say whatever they want.

If you are from NZ you may have been confused with it being called “news”.

Since this could read as snarky, I want to clarify: I am being 100% genuine. They used to be held to standards in order to be allowed to call themselves that. After that change though, while some organizations held on longer than others to some previous ideals, they were optional conventions at that point rather than mandatory.

A lot of people in the US didn’t really understand what that change meant either.

Anyway, there is no “must” here: a law, or standard, or convention or whatever we want to call it, without a means of enforcement is merely a suggestion.

Tbf, intelligence helps:-).

But yeah, definitely not a guarantee - see e.g. Ivermectin.

It seems more like emotional agility is the more primary key - a willingness to look (inwards, outwards, at others, at the world, and accept what one sees).

Almost nobody likes him these days it seems - only what he can do for people, and in particular more than being “the other side”.

I get more the sense that people don’t care about her so much - or him either for that matter - so much as how things in general just “feel wrong”. I’m no expert but the news media having been bought out seems a likely culprit. Jon Stewart tried to warn us but we would not listen. He did his part, but if people don’t value things, they tend to fall - or in this case be taken - apart.

All of them.

I get it but for real was not always this way. We need to wake up and see what’s actually there not recall what used to be.

Henceforth it shall be admiration.

And… wow they are correct! 😂

That’s kneet.:-)

Unless… maybe… he WASN’T???😅

Yeah some amount of that is inevitable, but see e.g. https://hexbear.net/post/3820065 for an example of the type of content that you are “missing”, being on lemmy.world that has defederated from hexbear. Also note how it’s not just the post itself but how supportive of the position the comments are (overall), with several of them expressing an explicit desire to do such again, and the overall theme being how “funny” it was.

Now mind you, there is still a lot of similar content that you aren’t “missing”, from places such as lemmy.ml, but hexbear.net is most definitely a special place full of toxic trolls (many of whom continue to troll us after the defederation via their lemmy.ml alts, bc consent means little to them). Here is another example, this time from lemmy.ml that almost no instances have defederated from, since the admins are also the developers of the sourcecode for Lemmy: https://lemmy.ml/post/22043103. The cognitive dissonance is in full display on that instance by declaring that what the Western nations do is “genocide” (I mean…), yet somehow what Russia and China are doing is not genocide - either directly (Uyghurs & Ukraine) or indirectly (the USA has sent support to Israel, while Russia has also sent support to the other side of that conflict). Realistically, both the USA and Russia are supporting genocide, but NOT EQUALLY SO, as one of those two nations is also actively engaging in that activity directly.

Because of so very many posts from this, and toxic trolling from many of their users, I have gone to great lengths to find a way to block both hexbear.net and lemmy.ml, even switching instances to piefed.social that allows a normal user, without needing admin support, to block all users from any instance of my choice (https://piefed.social/post/307636 ). There are also some apps that can do that as well, though you won’t find that option provided in basic Lemmy. I’m not necessarily advocating for such a switch, but it’s nice to know that it’s possible, and it is good to be aware of what content is out there and in particular note where it comes from - i.e. you may want to block at the very least communities such as [email protected], if you don’t enjoy having the above-mentioned content finding its way into your feed.:-)

On top of that though, the world is literally different today than it was then. Some things changed EVERYTHING - agriculture, fire, medicine, even just knowing to wash our hands, etc. The advent of vaccines may have arguably altered our world in beautiful, wonderful, and potentially terrible ways - allowing children to have an extremely high chance to reach 80 years of age, as opposed to an enormous chance (way more than half) of dying prior to 5 years old.

And the information era radically altered our world. Except it also birthed the post-information, or perhaps we should call it the disinformation era. When companies such as Google were playing nice, we had free access to ALL of the information in the entire world. Whereas now… we don’t, but as soon as they can figure it out, they’ll have us sign up with a subscription to be able to “know things”. What came before was always temporary, but we lied to ourselves telling one another or at least acting as if it would last forever.

My proof: https://hexbear.net/post/3820065. I know it’s hexbear, but click it anyway. Hint: it’s dis-information - active retelling of the story so as to ignore the facts and substitute their own presentation of their own… “alternative facts”.

And for someone who isn’t smart enough to know the difference, how can they tell the difference? WE heard the horrific screams of the police officer as they were brutally murdered. We know of the other ones who died, including one who later committed suicide. We have empathy for their families. We saw the hearings. We heard the testimony, of the officers. We have seen the people involved admit their actions, and some apologized.

Or, you know, iT wAs PEacEfUlL, “it was hilarious and looked like tailgating gone wrong after too much booze”, or as one commenter said “I hope it happens again” (11 upvotes as of now).

So… WILL we learn the lessons that we would need to in order to survive? I am not so certain myself. But maybe! Either way, we indeed will HAVE to, if there is to be any hope of the survival of our current way of life IMHO.