“they are houseless, not homeless, a house is a building, a home is a community and ur close social connections” -actual thing i hear

We don’t live in a nomadic society, so a houseless person is going to be a homeless person anyways even by this pedantic distinction. Houseless but not homeless would largely be limited to people who just got evicted and have to stay at a motel.

I guess it would be a form of objective idealism. The materialism-idealism axis is over whether matter or mind shapes reality while the objective-subjective axis is over whether something exists outside an observer or whether something exists entirely within an observer.

Objective materialism: The sun is a star that exists in material reality independent of any observer.

Subjective idealism: The sun exists within a dream that only you are privy to and cease to exist when you wake up.

Objective idealism: The sun rises and falls everyday at a predictable pattern because that’s what everyone believes to be true.

Subjective materialism: The sun as a bright orb is a personal sensual experience that other people might not share.

You could create a world that operates on objective idealism-subjective materialism and it would be an extremely trippy world. So the sun would rise everyday because that’s what everyone believes, but each person’s subjective sensual experience of the sun would be radically different. One person could perceive the sun as an ice orb while another person could perceive the sun as the letters S U N flying in the sky while another person as a massive loaf of bread that rises. But no matter the radically perceived difference in senses, everyone agrees the sun has to rise everyday.

I think the novelty of dunking on those losers will wear out around the same time they begin defedding from us. The lib instances are already complaining about us, and barring a firm stance from their admins which will also lead to its own drama, they’ll will eventually defed from us. I don’t see the current vibe lasting for very long.

Coping that your instance isn’t as active as ours lol

lemm dot ee user posting in the midwest dot social instance

When will Eastern Europeans learn that the only definitional Westerners are Anglos and everyone else, even the French and the Dutch, can have their Westerner status revoked at the Anglos’ digression? There’s a reason why Anglos were able to call Germans marauding Asiatic Huns during WWI. That’s because Anglos are definitionally white while Germans are not. In many ways, how Western you are is just a measure of your proximity to Anglo culture and Anglo society. The French are more Western than the Polish because French culture is closer to Anglo culture than Polish culture, mostly by virtue of geographic location. Westernization and Anglicization are largely the same thing. The only difference between 19th century Anglicization and 21st century Anglicization is 21st century Anglicization means being Anglicized to the Anglo subculture that’s based in the US. But the UK, the US, Australia, and so on are all Anglo societies in the end with far more in common with each other than with other European societies, so they are also definitionally Western as well no matter how much continental fascists seethe about the nonwhite immigrant population. In fact, that’s the driving force of their fascist cope. A French fascist would never live in a definitionally Western society because they are stuck in France while the US will always be definitionally Western even with a soon white minority population.

Booooo, LiberalSocialist was never this cringe.

I know I’ve been spamming this image, but like if you’re just going to have a snoo pfp, what’s the point of even being here lol

China has gained an arrogance in thinking that it is too big to fail. It is a form of Trumpism on a national scale. One where it thinks it can just ignore normal restraints due to the influence it has on the world. Russia has woken the west up to this reliance on rogue states. There will be a slow move away from relying on China as a manufacturing base for cheaper goods. The EU and the US have already stated this publicly. If China continues on the path it is choosing then the west will close ranks. This is not in the interests of anyone globally.

Nobody is going to replace China as the manufacturing base. “B-b-b-but Vietnam” There’s like two Chinese provinces with a larger population than Vietnam. Vietnam can’t even replace two provinces individually, let along the entire country. “B-b-b-but India” India is the world’s provider of IT services, not a manufacturing juggernaut by any means. This manufacturing base is not going to poof into existence. And as for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all it showed is that the West is far more vulnerable and the “rogue states” (ie the rest of the world) don’t need to concern themselves with the West for long. Why do you think so many Nigeriens are waving around Russian flags and why so many countries are tripping over themselves to join BRICS? Do you think it’s a coincidence that the Nigerien coup was launched while France is still recovering from domestic riots?

I remember Westerners malding African countries did better with Covid than them even though they have a lot of things going for them (young population, less densely populated, experience with handling pandemics).

They’re a NAFO Canadian who probably has a OUN great-grandfather lmao. They know exactly what fascism means.

snoo pfp

Imagine being an unironic NAFO loser.

I found a website that doesn’t have those loser Hexbears. Here let me show you.

Still seething the Soviets beat the US to space.

A lot of them probably aren’t even Black. White people love their digital Black face. They do it for other races as well, and many of them purposely do it to incite racial division. Recently, I’ve seen some purported Chinese national on Twitter spewing a lot of anti-Black crap except it was really obvious the person behind the account is a mayo from the obviously AI-generated Asian face to getting basic Chinese history wrong.

Imagine if we enabled downvotes but only for people outside of Hexbear.

I get why they do that, but I don’t like the [letter]ubuntus because it gives users the wrong idea of what entails a distro. It leads to them confusing distros with DEs. To me, distos are more about the community and release cycle with some major technical differences like package managers. Yes, having different default settings and programs play a role in this as well, so you could be justified in saying MX Linux isn’t the same as Debian Stable, but I don’t think the [letter]ubuntus deviate that much from just installing the corresponding DE on Ubuntu.

It’s just a lot of thoughts going through my head since federation. I feel like there’s going to be one Reddit clone that will absorb members from all the other would-be clones. Most people will choose the largest Reddit clone by default, which will snowball until there’s only one clone left. Right now, the favored Reddit clone is lemmy.world, but the admins are apparently paranoid about us creating wrecker alts to ruin their shitty instance, so that could be a source of instability. I agree about lemmy.ml. For lemm.me, I’ve noticed a lot of banned users come from that instance and it feels like we get the most pushback from them. I wouldn’t be surprised if they eventually defederate from us, at which point lemmy.world would just completely absorb lemm.me’s users. From the perspective of an incredulous lib who doesn’t understand fascism even when it’s biting them in the ass, the only difference between lemm.me and lemmy.world is one instance federates with Hexbear while the other one doesn’t and once the instance that federates with Hexbear no longer does so, lemm.me just becomes a smaller lemmy.world. I dunno, it’s just a thought I have.

As an aside, here’s an interesting thread in beehaw about whether they should just defederate. I think most people have predicted beehaw would eventually wither away, but I didn’t expect the process to happen this fast. It’s also very interesting how even the libs at beehaw recognize some of the flaws of Reddit (they’ve taken out downvotes like us for largely the same reasons). They at least understand that trying to recreate Reddit when Reddit already exists is a terrible idea. However, being libs, they are hampered by having a terrible intellectual framework. They also have a huge civility fetish such as some loser in that same thread shamelessly admitting they would deal with a transphobe than some angry person.

Let’s all point and laugh at the lemmy.world version of this thread.