Chuds: “people are exaggerating when they compare Trump to Hitler.”

ICE:

Bless.

The extreme left wants state managed fascism to the benefit of in groups, and the extreme right wants wealth managed fascism to the benefit of in groups. We’re just so used to choosing between the mild right and the extreme right that we’ve begun to confuse the mild left - the political group who wants to meet everyone’s basic needs - for the extreme.

I’m tired of seeing run-of-the-mill social democracy paraded around as “the far left.”

This is literally my “message received” emote.

If people thought it was rude, I’d be fired by now.

Remember, he loves the poorly educated.

As happy as I am to see the liberals overtake the cons, I am not sure I want to see a Liberal majority. I like the checks and balances of having to agree with at least one other party.

But I will gladly take this over Pierre dismantling free speech and selling us out to Trump.

he said from the comfort of his cell phone screen.

Hey man, we’re all there right now. It’s one thing to recognize what needs to be done, and another to risk relationships, livelyhood, and bodily harm to yourself and those you care about in persuing it. I’m a coward too, so I take to education as my method of fighting back. No disrespect for recognizing what needs to happen and not being in the position to do it.

Let’s be honest: the goal is to find violent resistance so they can justify “emergency powers.” From that point, it’s just American imperialism led by Fuhrer President Trump.

Based list. Outer Wilds in particular chef’s kiss.

I’m a teacher, and as soon as students figure out I play games, they inevitably ask me this question, but I largely think it’s an unfair question to ask someone who games as a genuine hobby rather than just a kill time.

I like to tell them that’s a really impossible question to answer and instead offer them my favorite franchise of games: Monster Hunter. I feel like I can more reliably say that I am a massive fan of the franchise, with it reliably being my favorite videogame franchise, without that seeming weirdly inaccurate considering the wide variety of genres and sub-genres that make up video game interests.

To say that Monster Hunter Rise is my favorite game would be a massive disservice to the captivating, genre-breaking storytelling power of Hades, my deeply rooted love of the flight mechanics in Elite Dangerous, my history as a brief world record holder for a Mario title, the thousands of hours of Team Fortress 2 I’ve shared with friends, or my experiences grinding World of Warcraft arenas to the top 0.5% of players. And I’ve somehow listed 5 formative titles from the top of my head without even representing my deep passion for rhythm games, with Hi-Fi Rush being a genuine contender for that “favorite game” slot that I am arguing doesn’t exist. So I don’t answer with any of these games, because not only would my answer be fundamentally untrue, but it’s not really the question my student means to ask, either. They want to know what I am into, and giving them a standout franchise that automatically gets my money when a title is released gives them a much better answer than any one title could ever do.

Amazing.

Yes, ignore the stark reality of the Chinese government painted by the facts presented and instead focus on the hyperbole used to relate the digusting discontempt displayed by said facts. Surely this is a great way to engage with the truth of the matter.

I hope you’re just painfully socially inept, and if that’s the case I sincerely apologize for this. But I suspect the hyperfocus on linguistic flair instead of the message is to intentionally mislead, so fuck off, tankie.

I love the energy, but the reality is that minorities do not have the power of the oppressors. Allowing that kind of back and fourth will be met with larger consequences for one group than the other. But again, conceptually, I’m with you.

They never believed in the constitution or in free speech. They just didn’t like it when people disagreed with them.

The evidence has always been in their actions. Hate speech hampers freedom of speech, and they wanted to protect hate speech. This puts them in direct conflict with a genuinely free society.

Preserving the greatest amount of freedom for the greatest amount of people usually means giving up some smaller specific freedoms, like, you know, the freedom to threaten the lives of minorities.

“Let them eat ca-”

Wait.

You’re correct. But the carbon tax is so widely misunderstood and hated that continuing to push it is political suicide.

I begrudgingly respect the Liberals decision here, even though I strictly disagree with the outcome.

But the CPC ads with red glows and ominous music keep telling me he’s “Carbon Tax Carney”!

A lot of their memes are real stretches unless you’re already down their uniquely hypocritical rabbit hole.

Trump is desperate to be a part of Canada, huh?

Yes? Should I not? “insta” as in instanteous, and “gram” as in a telegram. This is a name rooted in already understood language to give me an understanding of what it is at first encounter. Bard, same, something that tells a story, I’d assume. But I’ve never seen it before so /shrug.

“Lemmy” means nothing to me.

Fediverse is good. “Verse” to the end of anything suggests it’s own ecosystem, or “universe,” and Fedi for federation. Makes sense.

There are a lot of genuine answers to this, but the simplest one is perhaps the best: because who decides which authority is correct?

Authoritarianism is bad because it gives justification to our bias’.

The “good” authorities you think of when you ask this question are authorities not because they are authorities, but because they have the knowledge/training/practice/experiences that give them a greater expertise on a given subject. Authoritarianism supposes that, those things aside, there’s something inherently good about someone in a position of authority. This is factually incorrect.

We (are supposed to) grant authority to those that earn it, and use it responsibility. Likewise we (are supposed to) strip it away from those that abuse it, or fail to maintain strong standards of ethics and practice. Authoritarianism, as a school of thought, discards that process, instead suggesting that the authority is the authority because people need that in their lives. Fuck that.