I mean, isn’t that part of the whole thing? They want to get railed without it being gay?

They’re horny for Roxanne, the wolf animatronic from Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach - the character on the console screen on the right.

I didn’t mean that as my personal mindset, but that of our American culture. When I said “hardened criminals,” I was using the cultural sense of the phrase that refers to those guilty of more serious crimes and repeat offenders, nothing more.

The vast majority of people in prison are there for stupid reasons, and most would never be there in the first place if there were better social safety nets and support programs in the first place. And of those who do end up in prison, everybody would be far better served by rehabilitation programs than punishment for the sake of punishment. That serves no purpose other than to be cruel.

There are, of course, those very few people who are better off locked away from the general populace, like CEOs. But even then, the point is to prevent them from doing harm, not inflicting pain and misery on them.

The American prison system is good at 2 things: creating profit off of slave labor and creating repeat offenders who are likely to turn to things like theft, drugs, or dangerous forms of sex work (prostitution, becoming human trafficking victims, etc.) out of desperation after they get out.

Yeah, why shouldn’t we send all Republicans to another country? Or how about those criminals guilty of being Jewish, or black, or gay? Or how about the crime of “looking too Mexican,” like the US did to US citizens during Operations Wetback 1 & 2.

Also, love how you even say “some of them are criminals,” not all of them. Meaning that you’re okay with gathering up some amount of innocent people and sending them to a different country with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.

Do not cite the deep lore to me. I was there when it was written.

Still thinking about these

This is because of how horrible our living/working conditions in the US are, but also because of what we think of when we think of prison. We think of the place we would send a hardened criminal to, not a place where we send people who get arrested for drug or alcohol use related crimes - a place that is essentially a rehab facility.

People who go to jail in the US are much more likely to commit worse crimes when they get out, for a variety of factors, including how difficult it is to get a job with a criminal record, but also because of the conditions of living in prison. All of those people who get sent to a federal penitentiary for smoking weed, or arrested for being homeless, are likely to have become the hardened criminals we think of while they were in there.

My first thought had been along the same lines. I thought of the word anemoia from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:

anemoia - n. nostalgia for a time you’ve never known

youtube.com/watch?v=wH6ZClRjl14

Imagine stepping through the frame into a sepia-tinted haze, where you could sit on the side of the road and watch the locals passing by. Who lived and died before any of us arrived here, who sleep in some of the same houses we do, who look up at the same moon, who breathe the same air, feel the same blood in their veins - and live in a completely different world.

Vaporwave is inherently about a time that never existed, as it’s a re-interpretation of very specific parts of a time period into an aesthetic. A nostalgia for dial-up modems, corporate ad jingles, and hold music all rolled up in that one pattern every paper cup had in the 90s with classical era statues, southern California palm trees in the sunset, and dolphins. A tourist’s view of the nascent internet and the corporate tech world of the time.

Yeah, it seems more like an analog to having your account hosted locally than anything else. Like running your own empty Lemmy instance just for your account instead of creating one on .world.

Supposedly, they plan to standardize the federation protocol and hand it off to a nonprofit so that anybody can create their own proper instance. Supposedly. The way it sounds like the infrastructure is set up makes it sound feasible, if not plausible, but I’m not gonna hold my breath on whether or not that actually happens.

Stop making centralized websites sound so good… banning known harassers and grifters before they can hurt people.

Also, you’d see the exact same complaining if this had been a lemmy.world account. Nothing stopping her from making her own instance, but she won’t because she doesn’t understand how any of that works and it’s too much effort when she can just complain about being censored for her beliefs (to harass minorities or whatever).

The centralized part of Bluesky is the node infrastructure that connects all the instances together. As I understand it, anybody can start their own instance, but they all run through Bluesky’s lemmy.world equivalent. I’ve seen plenty of people from other instances, but it seems like just a way to host your account off the main platform as far as I can tell from using the official app.

And where might one purchase a flag like this, asking for a friend.

I thought you were OP, so add their line about democracy being driven from the bottom up to your post and tell me if you can see the “If you people had just voted for the Democrats harder” in there.

Because usually when people talk like that, they’re leading up to blaming the Democrats losing on x group (usually either Millennials or a minority) not voting hard enough.

Also because voting is supposed to be the easiest action you can take, but for so many, even that is a risk to the roof over their head and the food in their bellies. The system has been rigged to the point where even the most basic of rights aren’t guaranteed, and we need to provide that for people if they’re ever going to be able to act.

As American as apple pie.

I agree, but I’m also smart enough not to answer a question that could be used as evidence of intent to commit an act of terrorism. Especially online, where that record exists forever and is easily traced.

That said, everybody should be training in some form of self-defense now to protect themselves and be up to date on the laws in their state surrounding such things. Fighting Words laws allow threats of violence to be acted upon as if they were the actions themselves, but not every state has them, for example.

My point is that for many people in this country, that’s practically an impossible task. You can either choose to vote in your gerrymandered district and get fired for taking a day off from work under right to work laws, or you can put food on the table. You can take the time off of work to get a license you may or may not ever use beyond proof under voter ID laws, again at risk of losing your job.

The people who can and don’t because their rights aren’t up for debate every 4 years are one thing. But many of us are already political by necessity, and it means nothing in the end.

Voting harder isn’t going to fix things.

Same as it ever was.

The difference here is that TikTok did not enforce censorship on content related to the genocide in Palestine, nor did it have a right-wing bias in the algorithm like, say, Twitter does.

This shift in censorship puts TikTok in line with Twitter and Facebook/Instagram on the propaganda narrative that they want on their platform. Which is a massive issue for anybody left of white supremacists who cares about free speech and facts.

Fuck that and the fuck the ADL. There is no unity to be had with fascists.

The system was designed from the ground up to make sure only the right kind of people had an actual say in it. The people at the top make damn sure that the people at the bottom have as little freedom to act on their right to vote as possible.