And it’s ok to strategically vote for the least bad option rather than empowering the most bad option while still acknowledging the system is broken

Chemical castration is preferable to how most people think you ought to be punished so I’d take the medication bro

Nothing gets past you two

As someone who shares the views of the parent comment, I think anarchism is the end-road, utopia progression of these beliefs.

I think that conservatives are right to be skeptical of big government. Concentrated power always corrupts without fail. Whether that’s big government, big corporations, big religions, that remains true.

I think some pragmatism is required especially for things such as emergency services and common defense because market forces are kind of like Darwin’s evolution. It selects for the best chance of making the number go up and doesn’t specifically select the best outcome for all participants.

Bonus Analysis: (own section because my post was getting too long)

Republicans, in my analysis, however aren’t really that concerned about big government. The Republican Party is a big organization that has been corrupted, they are more concerned about feigning concern to further their own wealth and power. And thus the turn toward fascism.

We used to have a better standard of living. We used to have less depression. We used to have more membership in civic organizations and churches. Our country used to be far more distributed and decentralized than it is today.

It’s not surprising to me that all of those factors decreased and hate and division increased while power and wealth has became more and more concentrated the last 30 years.

Yes why do you think they make you pay with your card or Walmart app if they can help it? So they can track your purchases

And so at small stores ran by local owners who can’t afford surveillance equipment and aren’t obsessed with profit

I disagree that Reddit has good content but even bad content is better than no content for communities that haven’t been built here yet

Shoutout to !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world by the way. You’ve made it to Friday Sailers!

Id like to give an honorable mention to Shanghaied (where they become indentured to the Flying Dutchman)

Probably either Bandgeeks or Hibernation

Maybe OP should touch grass if he wants to know what real people think

Lemmy already is a free speech safe place in that nobody controls it. If you find that people are interacting with you negatively, blocking you, or otherwise not agreeing with you; that isn’t censorship. It doesn’t matter how many times you post this question.

At least the mask is off. Apple, Google, Meta. None of them care about anything but profit and there isn’t a value they aren’t willing to compromise on if it makes the line go up.

If it weren’t for social media, humanity would find another technology to lie and manipulate people for money and power.

Money and Power are what corrupts, not technology

Thanks for the information, I’ve decided to block this user based on the evidence. Hopefully the rest of the mods of that community will take that into consideration when judging whether that user can serve the community effectively as a moderator

I believe that in the age of AI many leftists have evolved and many now believe that copyright is now necessary to protect human creativity, expression, and culture from Generative AI. A pragmatic shift rather than a ideological shift

Vote for Trump to end democracy?

How has /r/kanye been taking the “I love Hitler tweet?” Probably similar to that

Sorry, I used to post a lot more on sports communities when I was on Reddit but haven’t really felt the urge to sense moving to Lemmy. It didn’t help that the game wasn’t very good last night either. We are here. I’m pretty active on the fantasy football community. But there is just a handful of us playing there. Feel free to join us at !fantasyfootball@lemmy.world. I’m going to start our offseason mega thread now that the superbowl is done

Thank you, I couldn’t remember the latest community address when typing out my reply