brave_lemmywinks

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As a not American, this a completely different spin from what I was expecting.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm not into US politics other than the basics, but let me tell every American that the consequences of something like this happening will be catastrophic, and then you'll "fight" China alone, if not with more opponents.

Trump was already a huge liability to European foreign policy, if it happens again, the EU will dissociate from the US, weaponize and go nuclear. The eastern countries will enter direct conflict with Russia eventually (sooner than later), and the whole continent will get dragged into the war. At the end who ever is left will not support the US, actively be against it, and have nuclear weapons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

He was confrontational, aggressive and was hitting the cops. He should have been arrested.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There might be a problem with the suspension.

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

This showed up while I was listening Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Probably much older than your son, but I do the same. I don't view an instant message as a call to action, if it's indeed urgent, just call me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I feel like old people take most offense to being ignored in that case.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm a lot more optimistic (aka naive) than most it seems.

I'm really new to all this fediverse stuff, but I believe we can't lose what we already have, people that are here before Threads, will probably be here after Threads, since we already made that decision to leave reddit or twitter, to leave all that behind is a big social sacrifice.

My red line for Threads will be if they start to mess with the standards and the ActivityPub protocol, acting in bad faith.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

So we're all pro federation and decentralization, until we aren't... I think this is a very preemptive and paranoid measure, but thankfully it will work out just as the technology was built for, some will block, some wont, everyone will make their choice, and be happy in their corner of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (11 children)

There's a reason nobody has to publicly announce who their voting for in democratic countries, and that there's no mechanism to check that. People can be grouped, ostracized, persecuted, canceled, or worse.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (39 children)

I'mma be honest, this might be the worst part of lemmy. NSFW, gray area topics, sports discussion, all that becomes completely radioactive.

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