The entire US government is the image of war crimes they egged on, regardless of party. Don't act like you're not immediately a war criminal by becoming president. Trump is a war criminal. So is Biden, and Obama, and every president before then with precious few exceptions.

Cool, so you would rather moralize about what will happen regardless of who wins this election than try to prevent America from becoming a theocracy. Cool cool. Enjoy the indiscriminate slaughter of all those groups you say you support. I hope you live comfortably through all the death. Have a good one.

Nice slippery slope fallacy you got there. Do you care so little about women and lgbtqia+ people that you'd willingly sacrifice their rights? Do you care so little for kids that you'd allow the department of education to be dismantled and replaced with privatized school? Do you care so little for the shred of democracy left in America that you'd willingly let us become a christofascist theocracy? Republicans and project 2025 are a threat to the very foundation of this country, and you won't vote to stop that? They'll also let Israel continue their bullshit and spread it to other countries like Iran. You're cool with that? Just so you can feel morally superior while allowing all of this other stuff to happen?

If you're not voting Democrat right now, you're an accelerationist.

I think you're correct. We were taught about manifest destiny but not the genocide of Native Americans, and that's just one instance of the institutionalized racism we were taught was good. SO MANY PEOPLE never grew out of that or tried to be better.

I was also gifted firearms as a child. They were kept inside a locked safe that I didn't have the combination for when not being used for hunting or target shooting. As much as I enjoy guns, hunting, and shooting, I can also see that responsibility goes beyond "it's guaranteed in the constitution" or equivalent bullshit.

Except responsible gun owners wouldn't buy their child a gun and give them access to it whenever they please. Any firearms I may or may not possess would be locked in a safe which no one but any spouse I may hypothetically have had access to. Unfortunately I lost all my firearms in a tragic boating accident a few years back.

What I'm trying to say is that, while the government shouldn't be allowed to come check that people have their guns locked up when not in use, there should absolutely be repercussions for anyone found to not be doing so.

manchmal

Strong Poe's Law energy with this comment.

I haven't tried that one yet. Heard of it, but Mastodon has kinda stuck with me so I haven't really moved on to something else.

Sorry for the late response, I don't check my notifications very often.

To answer your question: I like that you can follow specific hashtags instead of people. For example, my feed is a combination of #nature, #astrophotography, #hiking, and #catsofmastodon. There are hashtags for just about any interest, and that's all you have to follow if you want.

Like many commenters here, I am glad that I left Reddit because of the enshittification, but I do miss some of the communities that were there that didn't want to move. I don't think Lemmy has completely filled that void, but it's done a good enough job that I'm here to stay.

I've basically stopped using all other social media except for Mastodon (which I actually like way more than Twitter, even if there aren't as many users) and I feel like my life is better for it. I spend less time mindlessly doom-scrolling and more time doing things I actually enjoy. Since the Reddit blackout I've read 60 books, played more videogames, and spent more time outside.

TL:DR touch grass sometimes, it can help