I audibly laughed.

In the context of Lemmy, my best explanation is that tankies hate Orwell.

I’m young enough to tell you that it’s not just nostalgia. Most new tech now is like “cool but impractical” at best and “I’m worrying about how this will be used to make the world worse” at worst. Nothing to make me think it’s the future.

Every other time I’ve encountered this argument, it’s been an argument in favor of racism and xenophobia, often a Nazbol argument like “socialism only works if no diversity.” It’s my instinct to refuse it.

But I couldn’t deny that, American conservatives and liberals + leftists, on the mental level, live in different realities, with not only different core values and worries, but different ideas of what is actually happening (and no, I actively believe American leftists do not live in a fundamentally different reality from American liberals the way conservatives do from liberals + leftists.)

Yes, but that’s keeping in mind that, contrary to popular belief among the types that go on Lemmy, most people aren’t ideological. They don’t care that Democrat A is this and Democrat B is that, they care about who they think will help their lives, ideology be damned. So, a lot of the people that socialists would call “libs” would vote for Bernie, BUT, most of those people think of Sanders primarily as “more liberal.”

People who are actively aware of the difference between neoliberalism and social democracy, I’m not sure. But I honestly think they’re a rounding error in US politics.

More likely, daisugi/copsing just doesn’t yield enough to meet demand.

They lost the war, then Lincoln got shot.

My hand might be forced someday.

Otherwise, I’d need a specific destination and reason to want to live there instead of “I don’t want to live here.” I make a point to not have “grass is greener” syndrome, sometimes to a fault.

No body hair, straight hair, no scalp issues, and more feminine face.

If I can extend it to the brain, no family history of schizophrenia (I don’t have it myself but it’s the reason I intend to abstain from psychedelic drugs.)

Living in a state with universal mail-in voting, I honestly think I just don’t understand how hard it is in states without that.

please tell me this is a joke

Star Wars belongs firmly in the “science fantasy” category; it’s a work that draws on both sci-fi and fantasy tropes.

When I got into Tsukihime I realized it was just Twilight for male 20 somethings, and that’s when I finally understood

It’s the lesser of two evils vs. for-profit dating apps.

Pretty much, the Republican party all the way up to Trump doesn’t even hide that they’re anti-Democracy, and attempts to break democratic systems that underpin our entire government nay our way of life are basically out in the open.

Hope it’s not as bad as I think (“as bad as I think” means “mass killings;”) What else can I do? Everyone else here seems to be privileged enough to have the skills or plain cash to say “I’ll go somewhere else,” isn’t as worried as they should be, or think they’re Apocalypse Badass Man (see: accelerationists.) That’s not me. I’m unskilled, poor, I have the self-introspection to know I don’t have what it takes to be a revolutionary.

FOSS is strongly supported by communists, but there’s also strong support for it from right-libertarians (when I was younger I remember the stereotype being that Linux users believed taxation was theft)

(I agree that the way FOSS operates is anarcho-communist in nature; I just think people with fringe politics are more likely to support FOSS in general)

Just Linux usually.

GNU/Linux if I need to differentiate most Linux distros from non-GNU OSes using the Linux kernel such as Android, Chrome OS, and Alpine.

I’m no combat expert, but I’ve heard some people say numbers don’t win modern wars so a draft isn’t necessary.

With China in particular it would be poking the bear; recruitment is on the decline in both China and USA.

A while back I remember hearing “dying” was only accurate in the West, but that was a matter of years ago so it may or may not still be true.