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Biden's office announced his illness Sunday afternoon.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world -2 points 3 hours ago (8 children)

I always love the cognitive dissonance people have seeing others hope that a man directly responsible for a metric ton of civilian deaths, succumbing to a painful death, is not ethically correct.

I mean people seem to have zero issue with United Healthcare. Exorbitant Healthcare costs is the equivalent of death, but literally bombing hospitals and refugee camps isn't?

Not to mention that he'll be receiving the latest and greatest in medical aid anyway, so there's a fair chance he'll survive. A lot of geriatric asshat world leaders contracted covid and still lived.

I can't even tell if this is DNC shilling because several people have implied they would treat Trump the same. Wth kind of moral compass are yall following lol?

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[–] Susurrus@lemm.ee 18 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

This comment section shows that even on decentralized, less mainstream platforms there's a lot of people behaving similarly to what would be called bots on Reddit. Come on, guys, we can do better than this.

We can acknowledge Joe Biden's crimes and failures without cheering his sickness and wishing him a painful death. Same with Donald Trump and all the other scummy politicians.

We can also disagree about various policies, issues or parties while treating each other with respect and an open mind, instead of degrading all discussion to 'communism vs capitalism' or 'democracy vs fascism' arguments.

I know it can be difficult to remain civil towards government officials who are essentially criminals, and anyone who supports or seems to support them in any capacity. However, I personally think we should try.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Technically the decentralized network is MORE susceptible to bots than a centralized network who can pool resources and maintain a sitewide blacklist.

What it is less susceptible is actions made by asshole owners.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

What it is less susceptible is actions made by asshole owners.

Yet .ml is still a thing.

[–] Susurrus@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

What's the .ml thing about? I've read something, but don't understand the situation completely.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Indeed, and luckily many instances have been boycotting them altogether and until they started panhandling the official channels two weeks ago they almost lost so much funding they were ready to give up.

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago

It's the Wild West. It's okay though.

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[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 50 points 12 hours ago (27 children)

What are these comments? You people are vile.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 46 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (7 children)

Either post on reddit and get a mix of Nazis and Russian bots.

Or post on Lemmy and get dumb fucks that idolize Russia or China and don't even understand what communism is they just know it's "cool" to be against capitalism.

Also never vote, but simultaneously blame the Democrats for everything.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 27 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Tbf it is pretty cool to be against capitalism.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 30 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Even cooler to do it properly though rather than trying to proxy it by loving China or Russia

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 16 points 10 hours ago

Obviously. Even better: there shouldn't be any states nor governments. So simping for imperialist shit holes like China or Russia is just stoopid.

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah what's up with that? We now cool with China? What?

Don't buy Tesla, but buy slave made cars from BYD! WHO LITERALLY RUNS SLAVE CAMPS OUTSIDE OF CHINA.

What. The. Fuck. Internet.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I've seen people saying they don't want to buy a Quest VR headset because Facebook supported the Uyghur genocide (reasonable) and then name PICO as an alternative despite it being owned by ByteDance which is tied to the Chinese government.

Yeah, people don't think. They just repeat the popular thing.

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