CancerMancer

Getting older and having kids made me think about the community they're growing up in (or lack thereof...) and the future they can expect to have (or not have).

The neoliberal policy boomers are defending as the status quo has made us poorer for decades. It's clear it isn't working. The past they talk about needing to go back to predates their own political awareness so they don't even have the language to describe it. In lieu of attempting any reform they just shit on us instead.

I had an apple cider hit like that this fall and I can still remember the taste. Damn what a drink

This after the EU has had to deal with Trump sanctioning individual judges and staffers

That really is not ok, sorry bro. This happened to a friend of mine too, and I saw what that did to him. It's so much worse than people realize. He nearly got kicked out of school over it even.

What saved him was the same thing that saved you: she was stupid enough to make a pattern out of the behaviour. That said it didn't make it all better, because he no longer trusted the people who abandoned him. The social dynamics of that group never recovered.

Reading the comments above, I wasn't even done before I was imagined how to write this exact response lol. Guess I'll contribute this instead:

Roads are for local human freedom, rails are for proper logistics, which is where you want your computers integrated as much as possible. People don't realize that in WW2, most of the distance travelled by tanks was on trains, not by their own power which is very resource intensive.

One rejection in college had me pegged as a creep to the point many of my own friends stopped talking to me. All I did was ask someone to get some tea once but I guess I didn't do the mating dance right or something idk.

Was a pretty powerful lesson in seeing how people will believe what they want to believe. I guess it's the same for many of the "creeps" and "sluts" out there.

I don't understand what you're failing to grasp. You see what you're allowed to see. They are signal boosting shit heads while suppressing everyone else. If your message begins to spread, they will just pull the platform out from under your feet.

How do you propose to win on billionaire-owned social media when they can just kick your legs out at will the moment you stand too tall for their good? Look at all the Reddit protests that amounted to nothing besides getting moderators booted from their subs, they're a perfect example of this.

"Social media" is not society; it's a series of platforms built by billionaires for the purpose of control.

To be honest one of my biggest takeaways from this round of Trump is that the Democrats had this much power the whole time Obama and Biden were in, but elected to just sit around. What was their excuse?

There's some truth to that but the lack of algorithmic manipulation will make it easier to deal with. Plus you just have more options here on Lemmy to deal with it. Most instance operators have shown a willingness to restrict or even defederate from other instances when they are consistently shit to deal with.

Way I see it there are two productive paths to take here:

1. Start trying to convince women that privacy does in fact matter. Use examples like the menstruation tracking apps potentially being used to identify abortions to illustrate this point.
2. Try to relate to the men here on Lemmy and find a way to cooperate. You've got a largely fresh population of men here who don't actually hate women, but have spent years in education being told they are dangerous rapists waiting to happen, or were treated as defective women by their teachers. They need good male role models and women who will treat them with respect, so that they can climb out of the pit without leaving the better parts of themselves behind.

An utterly unproductive use of your time would be trying to fight misogyny on oligarch-owned platforms. You will never win because they find this content useful, as it divides workers and wastes their time and social energy. Just get out, and help others do it too.

Well someone has to be first to switch platforms.