alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]

Which is a shame, because if I could create tangible loss for Ubisoft by downloading their games, I would do nothing else until they went under.

IDK what Demetrious means, but polychronic means multiple fatal diagnoses, like when you have multiple stage 4 cancers.

The idea that something that affects society can be nonpolitical is just your bias towards the status quo.

Everything was always political, and the status quo has always depended on hordes of lumpen trained to identify with their own oppressors over their own interests.

Before there were networks of right-wing radio and websites distributing right-wing talking points, they just used TV, newspapers, mailing lists, posters, etc. The effect was still 100 million Americans cheering when the national guard shot students protesting against the state sending their friends to die while participating in atrocities in Vietnam.

Even gardening is political; the notion that you should only plant grass and ornamental plants, mow your lawn once a week, and any deviation was a flaw was popularized and enforced by William Levitt to keep people from having too much time to read and become communists.

Similar sentiments spring up after the civil war regarding edible gardening and use of fruiting trees in urban planning, for fear that black people will live off foraging instead of working.

I use all 3.

If it’s very short and there’s 2 or more in a row, I’ll put it all in one line.

If there’s a bunch of nested if statements, I’ll use the second.

If neither of those conditons, I’ll use the first.

No idea. I can see why they’d do it if someone was giving out invites to tons of people who literally do not seed, but you can’t expect everyone to have a good ratio since they must all average out to 1.

I think most of the talk is just to encourage seeding.

It’s fundamentally impossible for everyone to have a positive ratio.

Oh, sorry then, I must have misunderstood.

Since federation, a lot of libs who've never encountered a leftist opinion have been calling us russian or chinese bots for not supporting the latest imperialist adventures.

Hexbear is one of the oldest lemmy instances, but only recently started federating.

Are you suggesting that for the last 3+ years, someone was running a troll farm where the trolls could only talk to each other?

Why are you trying to make them defend Khrushchev? It’s hard to find someone who agrees with anything else the guy did, but sending in the tanks to put down an uprising co-opted by nazis is pretty unambiguously good, though history tells us he didn’t do enough to purge the Hungarian right.