pinkdrunkenelephants

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pinkdrunkenelephants,

They need to make graphs of the social relationships of every major social group. For science

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Because religion fulfills people’s emotional needs.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Why in the world do people do that? Are they that damn afraid of each other?

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Honestly, even if we replaced current employment with a 10-year indentured servitude contract with a guaranteed 1000 sq. ft. home and free utilities and maintenance for the rest of your life, that’d still be better than what we have now in a lot of ways.

People only like the system we’re in because it provides the illusion of choice, not actual choices.

pinkdrunkenelephants, (edited )

Or just build a neoagrarian economic system that doesn’t require people to be coerced into doing shit jobs, as they now have high technology to help them build their own shit.

Even septic tanks could be dug, installed and pumped through automation if we all branded together and invested the time and effort into building it instead of being discouraged by people like you.

But you know, why try? After all, someone has to be a slave so let’s keep enslaving each other so you can be comfortable, right? Fuck everyone else. Only you matter

pinkdrunkenelephants,

So move off of the planet. Got it

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Are you okay?

pinkdrunkenelephants,

There is a set of grievances and motivations the bigots have that are not being addressed.

And no one has come up with an effective counter strategy to the fascist manipulation playbook yet.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

🤔🤔🤔

Having hung around them before, I think it’s because what tyrants actually promise them is the right to be openly hateful without consequence. See, they believe drivel about how people different from them are the cause of their problems long before fascism shows up; they were always bigots and likely always will be. The fascists simply mirror their thoughts, speech and behaviors openly, making the followers feel safe to express shit they already believed.

It’s not the fascist leaders that are responsible, it’s the people for thinking the way that they do.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

I hate how this society has turned something as deeply emotional as cooking and turned it into a factory farm where people think burgers and hot dogs just magically appear with fairy magic.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

If Lemmy ever does have ads, I will tell everyone to avoid the platform like the plague. No ads. Ever. If your instance is too big to run on donations alone, it’s too big to exist and its members need to branch out.

Future platforms need to be programmed with a max number of users.

pinkdrunkenelephants, (edited )

Literally everything. All science and engineering is based on physics

pinkdrunkenelephants, (edited )

More like Earth’s gravity prevents living creatures of their size without serious changes to their skeletal structure.

Also, how the fuck do they eat enough to live?

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Revolt and overthrow your shitty government.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

It happens on Lemmy all the time. I’ve been shadowbanned at least three times, all on the bigger instances.

I really, really suspect that the big Lemmy instances are being run by Reddit admins or spooks or some-such. They’re moderating their instances in the exact same way Reddit did minus the profiteering. The censorship is the exact same.

Also, the fact that it’s possible to shadowban people and the software itself doesn’t circumvent that by auto-messaging you or putting a banner on the top of your screen when you are banned from an instance or community is reason why Lemmy fucking sucks ass.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

In principle, in a free country, you should be able to. But you can’t, so it’s not actually free.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Do they ever explain where they get the gas for those things?

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Then start building community ISPs that allow for individuals to have their own IPs again.

If you want to solve the problem, you have work to do.

Or you can sit around and complain like you’re trying to justify and defend doing, and live without access to ad free quality videos. Your choice.

pinkdrunkenelephants, (edited )

Thinking anyone who has ever seen violence on a bus or a train gives a shit

Thinking women in third world countries who are sexually harassed on public transport should just put up with it to make you happy

Thinking “enlightened, developed” aka white countries are free of violence simply because they are in line with what you want

You’re not going to sway anyone into giving up their autonomy just because you don’t like the way they live. If you’re so butthurt about it, why wouldn’t you just band together with the other NPCs, put a pot of money together, buy a shitload of land out in the boonies, incorporate it into a separate county and just build a walkable city of your own?

But you won’t, because you’re too lazy, selfish, and lack initiative, and that’s why you’ll never get the world you want.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Because China doesn’t exist or anything. Or Russia, or Australia.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Most major cities with extensive public transport have these problems. You’re the one living in denial. And denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

It’s not that way in most other cities on the planet and you and I both know this.

And it doesn’t address one of the many serious problems with car bans – denying the disabled the right to travel on their own terms and not the bus services.

What happens when they cut routes or service?

Or refuse service for political reasons like during the lockdowns?

Or otherwise dictate when and where you get rides, or who can go with you, or how you travel, or how much stuff you can bring with you?

Or if the service becomes overwhelmed and they simply can’t provide rides to everybody?

It’s terrible and fucked up to expect the disabled to put up with it just so the c/FuckCars chucklefucks can get rid of what they deem as eyesores.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

No, they do, you just didn’t read the article and you don’t care to because the only one getting emotional about this – and trying once again to derail the conversation because you think this about winning – is you.

You are never going to solve sexism and you certainly can’t do it overnight, and if I can’t convince you to put your feelings to the side and stick only to facts in a simple forum conversation, how the hell do you think people are going to undo millennia of toxic sexist ideas in time to implement car bans and avoid needlessly jeopardizing other people?

That’s right, you won’t, because ultimately, you don’t care about the safety or well-being of others. You just want to get rid of eyesores.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

By having specially designed cars that enable them to drive.

Even the ones who by the nature of their disability can’t do anything mentally or visually taxing, like drive, don’t disprove or negate the need for cars because everyone else with disabilities need them to get around. Public transport simply isn’t suitable enough for them.

Even old blind people who can’t pass driving tests use Uber or Lyft, because public transport simply isn’t safe or suitable enough for them, especially during grocery runs.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Lol sure you were, and that’s why you were talking to me and not OP 😆

I know you think asking people if they want a Royale with Cheese on a shitty burning microphone is a decent career, but it’s not. Now get me my McFlurry and don’t you dare try to pull that “the machine’s broken” crap on me. You just don’t want to clean it.

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