It really depends on how tightly or loosely we want civility to be enforced from above. Should we be removing all insults, or is that just too heavy-handed? That’s a big question, not one I have an answer to, but there are some communities that do say yes, using labels as an insult isn’t acceptable. I suspect lemmy.ml doesn’t want to be that strict, but somewhere like gtio.io that attempts serious discussion might see that boundary as constructive.
‘Brigading’ is when someone gets a group of foreign users to mass-downvote or mass comment on a post. You can confirm this definition with a web search (“brigading forum”). What you’re describing is just low effort insulting (which of course is bad and not really acceptable on lemmy.ml in my opinion)
It’s exactly like calling someone a commie. A dumb unconstructive slur. If you’re doing that on a site where liberals are expected to be rejected offensively, like lemmygrad or chapo or leftypol, then sure, but lemmy.ml isn’t one of those places.
@dessalines@lemmy.ml Is this a known issue?
That’s a label that some people used (I think even the Libertarian Party of USA’s socialist caucus is called that…?) but I think the point of that comment is to make ‘socialist libertarian’ redundant! Socialists were called ‘libertarians’ before capitalists were. So why not use ‘libertarians’ vs ‘capitalist liberarians’, so long as you don’t mind clarifying the inevitable ‘what?’ every time ;)
My opinion is that no matter which word you choose, if it becomes well-used it will eventually become negative to opponents. ‘Anti-fascist’ is considered negative to a lot of people. Anti-fascist. Someone else hinted at this, that statists will consider anti-state movements as negative. It doesn’t matter how simple or lovely the word is.
At the same time, I do agree that people should keep the reputation of labels in mind when talking to individuals in the day to day. I can have a productive pro-socialist conversation with most USA Republicans, often we’re both (in intent!!) pro-worker, pro-democracy, and distrust the established government for evident reasons. I can describe socialism and have them nodding, while if I called it socialism they would become combatative and think I’m against them. So I agree for sure, its useful to have these ‘synonyms’. My advice, describe the parts of anarchism. Democratic. Community-centered. Mutual.
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Yeah, I found that one interesting, because my first thought was that it just shifts the pollution to someone else.
Some people have situations where they need a car, they can’t just use a bike or train yet. Our societies are designed that way. So I would agree with them, give the car to someone else to avoid them buying a new car. That hopefully will lower the numbers of new cars produced for those people who practically require cars.
Hmm… I’m assuming that claim is trying to say the petrol emissions of the car (or other polutants) over 1000 miles is as much as it takes to manufacture a bike. (If my guess is wrong, then the rest of this logic will be wrong haha)
If that’s true, then I see us having these choices:
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Use car, drive [x],000 miles until we can’t use it, then manufacture a bicycle and use it.
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Manufacture a bicycle and use it immediately.
Both options require that bicycle be manufactured eventually, so unless:
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The bicycle would need to be replaced/majorly-repaired before the car would drive 1000 miles
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The pollution cost to manufacture a bicycle becomes hugely less by the time we would drive 1000 miles
then the second option is [cost of making a bike] and the first option is [cost of making a bike + cost of driving before the car broke]. The manufacture of the bike is a sunk cost that I assume is inevitable, so you might as well just not use the petrol if it’s just for the sake of using up the car.
note: the whole scenario has simplifications and of course assumes a bike is acceptable to replace the car, like you’re not transporting 5 people and shopping for a week ;)
Covered elevated walkways are a useful tool, like you said it encourages pedestrian activity between buildings without the legitimate issues of weather. I don’t think they’re inherently bad, of course not. I just hope we don’t see spaghetti-junctions of skybridges for competing companies trying to make a tube between all their stores!
I’ve recently found an underground one which is very useful (especially in a skyrise location where using elevator lifts is more appropriate than staircases (making the extra couple of floors down trivial) and buildings aren’t tightly packed enough to make sky-bridges appropriate).
Any thoughts on moving walkways aka. travelators? Like an escalator, but on flat ground to accelerate walking travel. I’ve seen them in airports a lot between terminals but sometimes in city pedestrian tunnels.
I think I misread, do you mean public policy as in legislation? If so, it’s a very weird statistic I don’t see the purpose of: you’ve implied they’re the only racial demographic who had the power to create policy, and they included racist policies. So yes, the only group would be the most racist in that group no matter how racist they are or others are. They’re the only one you’re choosing from. What’s the point of that?
But, really, they’re not the only ones who dictate public policy. Let’s (hypothetically, completely made up and not indicative of real life) assume a parliament of 80% ‘caucasians’, 10% asians, 5% middle easteners and 5% aboriginal australians.
If 45% of the caucasians, 80% of the asians, 60% of the middle easterners and 80% of the aboriginals voted for a racist policy, it has a majority and ‘passes’. In these made-up numbers, the vast majority were by far the least racist (as a whole) and not even majority pro-racist-policy. So no, just because they’re the ones with the power to pass legislation doesn’t logically imply they are the most intense of the group. Of course, these are made up numbers to illustrate the mathematics, not only do I have no idea of real numbers, they would also depend on the policies and on subjective opinions of whether a policy is indirectly racist or not, and so on.
Grouping races by if they are ‘more/less’ racist is arbitrary pointless stereotyping. Being racist isn’t a racial quality (a cultural quality maybe!), and ironically, assuming a race to be more racist is literally racism.
To answer your original concerns, what makes you assume minority groups have implicit solidarity? I think they should and it’s within their best interest, but they often don’t. If you don’t like anglo-saxons and you don’t like chinese, for whatever racist reason, where’s the contradiction? Or if you think [minority] is getting all the attention that YOU want! I see that crabs-in-a-bucket junk all the time.
It sounds like someone inventing conflict, trying to justify their video and get attention, rather than any meaningful social issue.
Additionally, what would be accomplished if two intentionally neutral (at least for now) designs were chosen? Would this help society in any significant way? I’d rather put that effort into something that would actually help counter racism instead of pretending changing colours of a board game is helping the lives of peoples being systematically abused.
It’s incorrect, inflammatory and counter-productive to imply the team colours in chess are racial and not just two arbitrary contrasting colours. The equivocation of skin tones to anything remotely ‘black’ or ‘white’ is a harmful attitude.
Do whatever you feel like. Chess variants exist. Flip a coin to pick who goes first. It’s just silly to try and introduce politics into the artificially symmetrical game.
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I realize this may be a silly question, but are you sure you didn’t mistakenly register a new account on lemmygrad on your phone instead of signing in to lemmy.ml, 3 months ago?
There is nothing about an account that cares if you log in on a PC or a phone. As @sexy_peach said, you should be able to log in to each if you are on the correct server. On the PC, try going to https://lemmygrad.ml/login and entering ‘lxvi’ and your password.
When you say ‘abandon’, what do you mean?
- You can log out of one account and just decide to not log in ever again (abandoning)
- You can delete one of the accounts (I can see [Settings->Delete Account] on PC) but that will delete all the posts you made on it
- There is currently no transfer-ownership feature on Lemmy.
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Absolutely stupid. They should have salted the greens and dug holes in it! Way more effective.