Absolutely. It’s just a way to demotivate the left and trick people with the best intentions into shooting themselves in the foot. These people are out en masse here literally because we’re such a leftist space.
If you see someone posing zero solutions but shooting down any possible way of moving any cause that might oppose authoritarianism forward? They’re a fucking MAGA cuckoo.
You believe words have power or you wouldn’t be out here trying to sabotage us with them.
These people who spend their days trying to prove how “leftist” they are by destroying every tool we have are literally right-wingers.
The Overton window is anchored by a series of landmarks. The most effective way to lose one of them, like the Constitution, is to start discussing whether it has merit.
Yeah. Why do you think that Lemmy, a markedly leftist platform, is so inundated with people talking about how useless all our imperfect tools for making the world slightly less authoritarian are? Why do you think they’re trying to get us to abandon them rather than bolstering their support?
I’ve been saying this for months. The people who are trying to get the left to abandon the effective means we have for shifting the overton window to the left are right-wingers or being manipulated by right-wingers.
The people who spend their days banging away about how we don’t have democracy, we’ve never had democracy, the constitution is useless, the democrats never accomplish anything, etc, are literally agents of the right whether they know it or not. But many of them probably literally do know it.
Why do we see this more on Lemmy than in real life or on other platforms? Because we’re being targeted.
Element really needs to get push to talk. It’s an incredibly basic feature to be missing, and for me personally and I’m sure others the lack of it is a deal breaker.
GIMP is honestly fantastic. My workflow goes draw in GIMP, import to Inkscape to convert pieces to vector, then bring them into Godot where shaders get applied. I would rather draw in GIMP than any other program. I find drawing in Inkscape super awkward in comparison. GIMP is pretty no-frills, but it does the job. I prefer it over Photoshop. With Darktsble I’ve found it useful for importing high res raw images for textures too.
I don’t know why people hate on it so much. It’s all about using the tools you’re comfortable with.
Apart from these issues, though, there’s just a huge degree of arrogance and cruelty involved in proposing mass killing as a solution for any ecological issue.
As much as I feel the distaste for killing any living beings, this seems like a naive position to take. Should this be applied to lionfish? Spotted lanternflies? Water chestnuts? Kudzu? Culling invasive species is part of minimizing the destructive impact of human ecological interference, and is generally a pretty soundly established protective practice. I can’t claim to know how appropriate it is for this particular owl population, but this is a pretty sweeping statement to make that seems to fly in the face of reality.
Lot of spam about a browser developed by someone who sees using anything other than masculine pronouns in documentation as excessively political.
Definitely won’t be using ladybird then. If someone hates trans folks and just women in general enough that they literally see using inclusive language to refer to theoretical users as politics I don’t see any reason to do anything to elevate their work.
Can you elaborate on that?
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I appreciate the sideways wordplay. Also it’s nice to see some good news.
I live on this wet little ball of rock that not only gets its heat directly from a sun, but like half of my food harvests the radiation for its energy!And the other half gets its energy from that stuff!
This does seem like more of a climate change related article. That said, access to cooling shelters could also be construed as an issue of social safety nets.
I do kind of feel like the moderation in this particular community or subcommunity or whatever we’re calling it is a little bit subject to unilateral judgement calls that reflect personal preference more than particularly justifiable positions. Oh well. Can’t win them all.
This doesn’t surprise me. The CVS we have downtown seems to always have only one person working and they’re constantly bogged down with inventory stuff. I think there’s actually someone at the counter ringing out customers like one out of six trips that I make over there, if even that much.
It seems like a lot of people who do that don’t understand that there’s an inverse relationship between devs soaking up all the emotional labor that comes with being the target of end users’ ire and having the energy to get the actual work done. Especially when it comes to open source stuff, they could literally be spending the time they’re spending shouting at a dev to do more dev things like… learning to fix it themselves and submitting a commit.
I hadn’t realized that Noam Chomsky was a shit-heel. Bummer.
In a sense this was a failure of voters to identify the greater threat and act to prevent it. But that’s not really the business of the Democratic party. They should be trying to garner votes and provide representation, not point fingers when the electorate fails to do what they anticipated.
Strategically, this is a failure that rests on the shoulders of the Democrats. They utterly miscalculated the relative value of appeasing their rich donors over fighting tooth and nail for the actual coalitions that give them enough clout to win. Ultimately, all donors can do is help get their message out. But in order for that to matter, they have to have an effective message that will draw votes.
They’re never going to have that again by simply clinging to the center and fearing change. They need to speak up and do what’s right. Pass actual economic reform. Speak out against genocide and use their power to stop it instead of fueling it and pretending it isn’t happening. Empower the people instead of ignoring them and talking down to them. Win votes with a compelling platform instead of just pointing across the aisle and saying “at least we’re not them”. It’s clear at this point that that shit does not work.
I’m not saying those who pushed to throw the election rather than picking the lesser of two evils had the right idea, they clearly didn’t and are part of the reason we are where we are. But you know what would have prevented that? Not simply being the lesser of two evils.
Democrats need to do better, or else they need to make way for someone who can.
If they’d given Bernie a real shot in 2016, none of this would be happening. When the next Bernie shows up, they’d better fucking take notice if they ever want a sliver of power again
It wouldn’t be an effective strategy if it didn’t sucker some people into playing along. At this point, though, I think it’s more important to point out that this is happening than to make sure we tiptoe around the few people stupid enough to actually buy into it.