“Have you considered that it just wasn’t thrilling enough for me to vote against literal fascism?”

Crippling medical debt.

Plenty of democratic mechanisms in the USSR, at any rate much better than anything else we’ve had so far.

Fucking lmao

For a dictatorship, it dissolved itself quite peacefully didn’t it?

I’m sure you’d say the same about Pinochet, wouldn’t you? :)

Sadly, attempts at socialism in which workers didn’t take the power of the state, ended up like Salvador Allende in Chile,

Yes, if only Allende was a dictator, THEN he wouldn’t have trusted Pinochet. That was what planted that seed of trust in Allende’s heart - not being a dictator.

like Mosaddegh in Iran,

Ah, yes, when Social Democrats are overthrown by Western powers, they’re good comrades; any other time, they’re social fascists.

like the Spanish Second Republic

The same Spanish Second Republic which was backstabbed and destroyed by Soviet-bootlicking MLs?

Has there ever been a society worth not being depressed in?

There’s a reasons so much philosophy amounts to “The world is fucked, focus on centering yourself”.

Funny enough, Death Stranding was probably the first game of his I felt could have used MORE cutscenes.

plus roads and ziplines ruin the game

Yeah, I have no problem with Lemmy.world (I mean, my main is on here), but spreading comms amongst at least a few instances is better for the overall health of the Fediverse.

Tap in many places has a distinctive ‘taste’ to it. A cheap filter is WAY more useful (and way cheaper) than bottled water though.

He has to play nice with China because they don’t bend over for him like the US does.

Yes, I’m sure China has been imposing their famously strict safety standards on Tesla operations in China. That’s obviously why Musk chose China, after all. Because they don’t bend the rules for him.

The rules already suit him.

I’m pretty sure it would be illegal for him to have investments in Russia at this time.

As usual, not the first clue what you’re talking about.

sharing a billionaire meme was banned on the bigger lemmy meme community

Musk is one of The People’s Billionaires now

I’ve heard Europeans call Turks ‘filthy’ and ‘roaches’ and Africans ‘monkeys’. And don’t get me started on the things said about the Romani.

I don’t think there’s a difference in how tribalistic or vicious it is.

The things I’ve heard far too many Europeans of various nationalities say about MENA, Desi, Turkish, and Romani folk just… makes my skin crawl.

America has a deep racism problem, and it is both right and necessary to acknowledge it. But those who pretend that Europe doesn’t have a deep racism problem are either not paying attention or in denial - especially considering recent political developments.

Europe is not as different from the US as it likes to pretend, especially politically.

Racism is not a unique or exceptionally American phenomenon, and the things I’ve heard from otherwise progressive Europeans can fucking curdle milk equal or in excess to what people in my ultra-rural ultra-conservative home region of the US can say.

You can look into Mississippi Land Company founded by George Washington for prospecting lands beyond the Appalachian mountains prohibited by the Proclamation.

The company was formed and petitioned the Crown before the proclamation.

nor the worst country.

Sorry, but even anti-America types seem to believe in American exceptionalism anymore. It’s just that instead of believing we’re some shining city on the hill, they believe we’re The Great Satan™.

Yeah. Conspiracies feed a need to believe that there’s some easy reason why things are fucked. In reality… things are fucked for a great many reasons, and ‘evil people in power’ is middle of the pack, at best.

There are no standards for comm mods. Hell, I hear they even let that PugJesus cretin run a few!

More seriously, .world admins probably don’t want to get into fighting over whether people can mod their own comms how they like. .world isn’t intensely ideological, unlike some other instances, so the bar for sufficiently ideologically disgusting moderation to be removed is much higher than on, say, Solarpunk.

Absolutely. We’re pretty sure she was shooting up between waffles, but we all knew when walking out that it could’ve gone MUCH weirder.

Oh, that’s the terrible part about me - I’m horribly lazy. I just share what I find elsewhere, very rarely do I MAKE memes! XD

To be fair, Roman philosophy is… less than robust, lmao. The best two Roman philosophers (Marcus Aurelius and Musonius Rufus) are both very orthodox Stoics in the Greek tradition.

IO! SATVRNALIA!

Found Plato