TheAlbatross

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not so sure. I think there are conservatives who truly believe themselves to be intolerant of fascists and bigots but, first and foremost, they are not representative of conservatives as a whole and therefore may not be best suited to represent and moderate a community of conservatives, and secondly, I'm reminded of the German saying about Nazis at the table. If there is a table of ten people and a Nazi sits down with them and no one leaves, there are 11 Nazis at the table.

I'll admit that this is a fairly American-centric view of conservatives and while it may be as you say, similar in other parts of the world, I honestly don't know enough to agree with any certainty.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I spoke about this in another thread, but it seems like a very delicate balancing act to find the right moderator for that kind of community. To be a conservative is to be tolerant of fascists and Neo-Nazis to some degree. In the current political climate, it is inevitable that any right-leaning community will have elements of these abhorrent ideologies. I don't think fascists and Neo-Nazis should be tolerated to exist in any space. No community as a whole is made safer by their presence, quite the opposite. So any moderator of a conservative community either must not be a conservative themselves or be one of the seemingly minority of conservatives that utterly disavow nationalists and bigotry, but this would put them in a position of poorly representing the community they moderate.

It's a tricky situation. And I'm not sure if there's a solution that both makes sense and permits a conservative community to exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Shame to see it go away, even if the plan was somewhat flawed. Here's hoping they can salvage it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Seems like splitting hairs, I get it.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (6 children)

This is Miller's go-to when he doesn't want to talk about what's being discussed. He goes on a hyperbolic rant tangential to the topic to get the other party to ask him to calm down then address his rant.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Hey, if OP wants social media without politics, that's where you'll find it. I get it. It can be tiresome to see every single media source just chockablock with political horrors. Sometimes you want a break.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've been posting and chatting with people on RedNote or Xiaohongshu for about a month or so and there's very little politics content there, which is refreshing! There's a few Americans who can't kick the habit, but I usually either block em or tell the app not to show me content like that and it's pretty good about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Have you heard the Cantonese cover? Very strange sensation to hear this come over the speakers at a restaurant and think you know the song by heart but you know none of the words. https://youtu.be/5V6vvm0WIHI

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

You're going to run into this with almost any "conservative" community. To be a conservative, you have to be somewhat tolerant of Neo-Nazis to some degree, with the current way the world is. So you either need a non-conservative moderator or you'll have a situation where the conservative moderator will perpetually be stepping in to say "now cmon guys, we all wanna have fun but the site admins are really specific about not saying the quiet part out loud, so keep thinking it but not saying it"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (8 children)

People gotta stop buying expensive cards.

The pricing is ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There's a product called Ener-G Egg Replacer and works perfectly for baking and baking only. Obviously it doesn't work for making things tasty "eggy" like in an egg bagel or challah, but it'll work for any other baked good without issue.

I use it in my vegan baking all the time. With the price of eggs, I've been using it in lieu of eggs in my non vegan baked goods too.

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