And enjoy Lemmy’s further decline into Reddit 2.0.

Or is that going to get me banned too?

I reported things that belong to the .world instance, and therefore fall under the .world rules under the .world Terms of Service we all agreed to.

I have nothing against you or your community, and hope you’re doing well healthwise.

But I’ve also seen you rail against “not all cops are bad” as the lie you know it is in various comment sections, and now you’re using the same excuse as to why your forum shouldn’t be criticized. “We’re not part of that, bring it up with them, even though we belong to the same org.”

The rules apply to all of the forums on the instance, or it should apply to none of them. And if such radical thinking, the notion rules should be applied evenly and not be so broad to allow anything to meet the definition, results in me being banned from .world, then I welcome it.

Ok, challenge accepted: every instance I come across from .world that has any indication of violence against anything living, well, I’ll be reporting that, and I expect the mods to follow up on it quickly.

I’ll start with the gardening instances, since plants do feel pain, and thus any pruning/harvesting/etc is an act of violence, and I’m surprised the .world mods haven’t shut down such a violent instance.

Wait, they need to be banned outright, actually, because in order to garden, users are going to have to suggest that people dig into the dirt, and that’s a pretty blatant call of violence against all organisms, including those at the microscopic level.

Better delete the woodworking instance too, since the only way to work with wood is to kill a tree and dismember its body, often skinning it immediately after it’s been sawed off at the knees, juuuuuuust fresh enough to feel all the pain but not enough to fight back.

What an absolute joke.

Would you call a Nazi good just because they try to marginally make a system they can’t change but willingly continue to participate in?

It’s the same thing, stop defending class traitors. If cops were so good and necessary, why does crime not change when police departments go on strike?

Y’know, like the entire Buffalo PD resigning because all the good cops faced slight public scrutiny for, I think that one was pushing an old man over and then all the good cops walking by while he bleeds from his skull? Those good cops?

Or did you mean all the good NYPD cops who threaten to stop doing their jobs any time the public asks for accountability?

I don’t understand, someone joins a shitty, abusive system, and they still want to be considered good people! It’s so unfair of them! Won’t anyone think of the poor poor police officers and their poor guns and poor badges and poor qualified immunity, they’re just good people perpetuating a broken system, what else should they do? Try to change things for the better?

They willfully joined a system that was started as a means to arrest and return runaway slaves… Are cops the baddies? No no, it’s just a few bad apples, they’re just following orders, etc. Right?

Edit: What have I done? I joined the military, learned what actual responsibility was, and stopped giving wannabe soldiers who need military grade gear to feel safe against peaceful protestors a pass because “iT’s JuSt A fEw BaD aPpLeS”. I don’t remember the National Guard attacking rioters during the Baltimore Riots, or during the BLM protests. That was only cops, y’know, the same ones you’re saying are “good people” because they have good intentions.

What intentions did the federal law enforcement officers have when they were throwing people into unmarked vans in Portland? Or randomly opening fire on peaceful protestors “out past curfew.”

I’m sure they were nothing but trying to fix the broken system they are a willing part of, they clearly weren’t just class traitors.

Oh, and you’re asking why I haven’t given any examples of good cop behavior? Two reasons: One, that’s your job, I’m not defending cops, you are, so go ahead. And two, because there are no good cops, even the feel good stories are usually propaganda.

But keep defending the institution that kills, again, 1,000 Americans per year and 10,000 dogs because your fragile ego can’t handle the fact that shit people are shit. Welcome to the real world?

Do they hate themselves?

I’m a somewhat adventurous eater, but the green chunks in that mould look like actual mold…

I don’t read it as anon joining a game, I read it as he sat down with the group, and before they started, the girls said they would only hug anon.

Agree it’s not true and made up, but I didn’t get the impression that anon was intruding on the game.

Nah, there’s no mention of 7 silver coins and the death of the business entity created by the government in their name.

The alternative is do nothing and then act surprised when the GOP do whatever the fuck they want anyway, regardless of Democrat high-road stances.

I wouldn’t go that far…

I thought it was “nip it in the butt” as well. Listening to Les Mis 10th Anniversary Edition, the way the gentleman who plays Javert always sounded like “butt” to me as well.

To answer the other commenters question of what would that mean: for years, I thought it meant “nip” like a dog will nip your finger, and “in the butt” was like, “you’d pinch em in the butt” to get them to stop whatever they were doing.

Also thought the line “Burnin’ up his fuel, out there, alone” in Rocket Man was “Burnin’ up the atmos-PHERE, he’s gone” for years before a friend corrected me.

Get used to hearing the “pull funding” threat, it’s how they’re going to start chipping away at minority rights (LGBTQ+, women, Latino, Black, etc).

Have your three branches of government pass an act tying a state-decision to federal funding ala the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, and we’re going to see state’s comply.

I believe ACAB, and my cousin is actively trying to become a state trooper.

Doesn’t mean I walk up and spit in his face at every family gathering. We talk, we grew up together, we shoot the shit and have a good time.

But if he asked me to condone or celebrate his job? Nah, he knows how I feel about the police and their profession, as long as he’s safe and not drinking the Kool aid (he will) that’s all I can hope. And that maybe he’ll open his eyes someday. 🤷‍♀️

As a hard rule, though, I won’t date cops or mess around with them. One reached out on a dating app recently and I just politely responded with “I’m not interested in law enforcement, sorry” to which I got “Uh, I’m actually a correctional officer.”

Cool, so you abuse people after the police have finished abusing them, that’s not the brag you think it is.

He will.

Unless you’re providing statistical evidence to back up your claims, I’m not interested in discussing further.

You can continue making whatever excuses you want to justify your mild transphobia, but I’m done debating with you, and haven’t even read this response because it’s nonsense.

Whatever excuse you need to justify how an individual’s request for you to respect their pronouns, their identity as a human being, is up for debate because it somehow inconveniences you.

Except for the most extreme cases you can come up with, nothing is black and white, everything is grey, and your insistence that i must be a bad guy because i challenge anything makes you not terribly worth engaging.

I’m still waiting for evidence of all of these numerous cases of people using pronouns for attention, and all these people making up sexual assault claims. You got any?

Since I’ve clearly lost the argument entirely (sure, bud, sure), you clearly must have a plethora of evidence and examples that actually support your claim.

This entire comment is attacking me, and nothing that I actually said, while using generalizations to paint this picture that I don’t understand unless I can use extremely specific examples.

What part of “This entire debate is a debate about respect” do you not understand, and what argument is there to be had about that? I’d love to hear it, I’d love for you to actually engage with anything I’ve said beyond “yOu HaVe To UnDeRsTaNd ThEiR pOiNt Of ViEw.”

I already covered the grey areas, if you actually what I wrote, you’re just being willfully ignorant about it. “No one should be yelled at for a genuine mistake, but eventually it’s not a mistake and you need to grow.” Wow, yeah, whole lot of grey area in that one too, PHEW, we’re demanding the world.

but you are not a good champion of the cause of all you can come up with is mocking straw men arguments and feigning indignance.

I asked you for statistical evidence to back up your claims and you’ve provided none, so I’ve had to argue your own ridiculous arguments that fell apart under the most basic scrutiny. Sorry you have a terrible take on this? That’s my fault too, that’s me mocking straw men arguments (so you’re admitting that your arguments are all bad faith, straw men arguments, glad to hear it) and feigning indignance?

I’m not feigning anything, once again, using preferred pronouns is basic respect to another human being, and while no one should be offended by genuine mistakes, your continued defense of not showing trans people respect if their pronouns aren’t up to your standard, is transphobic.

So, I apologize if someone who refuses to provide any evidence to back up their claims that there are so very many instances of people making up pronouns, or any instance of how someone requesting certain pronouns creates such an undo burden on the rest of society, isn’t worth me engaging with further.

Keep making excuses for why you have it so much worse than the marginalized group who’s request for respect is apparently a fucking debate.

Absolute clown.

American’s inability to responsibly inform and engage themselves in our political affairs.

I don’t agree, I still put the majority of the blame at the feet of the DNC. They wouldn’t run on progressive policies, but also refused to compromise with the electorate on anything.

Almost 66 million people voted for Hillary in 2016. Over 81 million voted for Biden in 2020, the campaign where Biden’s team worked with Bernie’s team to bring some progressive-policy to his platform. Yes, four years of Trump and the pandemic helped that voter turnout, but I’d argue it was more the progressive platform.

And in 2024, just under 75 million voted for Harris, who ran a centrist, status quo campaign, and thought “We’re not Trump” was enough to engage voters. Bernie was right, Americans want change, and being promised nothing more than a continuation of the status quo, people stayed home.

And before anyone says “The voters knew the price and their hubris cost all of us, I hope they’re happy!” Why couldn’t the DNC compromise? Harris lost Michigan by less numbers than protest voted in the primaries, so why couldn’t the DNC change course on Gaza? They were the ones telling us the threat that Trump is, they were the ones urging us to give them money to fight (and as soon as they lost, stopped fighting), they were the ones telling us they know best and that they’re going to shift right when we were asking them to move left.

I get it, 77 million people voted for Trump, and that is a problem. But, roughly 90 million Americans didn’t vote, so instead of pushing the party right and parading around with Cheney in an attempt to win over Republicans, then demanding our vote anyway (I voted Harris, fyi) because “Trump fascist, Harris not fascist”, maybe they could try… Popular, progressive policies that will resonate with all Americans? Policies that may actually make those in the “both sides are the same” camp to say, “Y’know what, they’re actually not the same!”

It’s a crazy thought, but it could work.

It’s the color of the gelatin… It almost looks like congealed fat…

This… This is an abomination… We have looked God in the eye and spit in his face, and this is the monument of our hubris…

Far worse than the video a friend showed me of the woman who seasons her hotdogs in Italian dressing before cooking them 🤢

Damn, you’re right, I misremembered!

Welp, I still think it deserved one more, haha.

Galavant, it was a show that only lasted a season, two seasons, but was just kind of a medieval-era musical drama/comedy that didn’t take itself too seriously.

The songs were catchy, the characters were a little corny but grew on you, and the actors could sing fairly well. But, it only got one season and ended on a cliffhanger, so we’ll never know what could have been I think it deserved one more season to bring some closure to some things. :/

🎶Way back in days of old, there was a legend told, about a hero known as Galavant🎶

Edit: another user pointed out a few things I was wrong about, edited to correct.

Yes, it is not a huge burden to remember someone’s pronoun,

Then stop arguing otherwise. Stop making excuses. We get it, no one is going to get it the first time, no one is going to remember everything.

By your logic, fascists deserve a seat at the table because otherwise we can’t have a discussion about fascism. Racists deserve a seat at the table because otherwise we can’t see their point of view. White supremacists need a seat at the table because otherwise we’d only hear from those they hate.

But those things come from a real place too, and trying to bully or shame people for it is the same thing you accuse others of.

So you’re just, again, victim blaming and refusing to show any examples of this supposed attention seeking. You got anything beyond a handful of cases over the decades?

You’re right, the amount of respect a person receives should be based on the gender pronouns they use and the overwhelming inconvenience they apparently place on the general population. Yep, respect for a human being should be a debate.

When are you going to blame trans people for Harris losing like the rest of the liberal base seems ready to? I mean, we have to engage with that point of you, right, we have to tolerate the intolerant, right?

Right.