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Bovine Joni

Fair enough

FWIW, I had nothing to do with this and I'm sorry this happened to you.

But also, you didn't rebuke me, I wasnt even aware of that comment until somebody notified me about this post and I followed the link above. Usually when you rebuke someone, you reprimand them directly. That was just you talking ill of me in a completely random thread with 14 upvotes that I obviously never would have seen unless I was stalking your comment history. But you're clearly trying to paint a certain picture with this post, so I understand why you phrased it that way.

Regarding my ban for transphobic comments, I'd just like to note that the comments in question were in defense of statements made by Nutomic. So whatever judgments you make about me and my server should logically apply to lemmy.ml as well. Let's also keep in mind that the comments were not made on a dbzer0 community, but they decided to blanket permaban me regardless. Here is the thread in question.

Also, you can see that I never did anything about this user. The name of this community has become so ironic it's wild. I'm quite possibly the least power tripping moderator on Lemmy, you can literally tell me to kill myself and you won't even get banned.

Lastly, I'd like to encourage all of the users who upvoted this post and commented here, as well as OP, to reassess what just happened. You're passing sweeping moral judgments and making significant decisions based on "information" that is purely imaginary. You aren't even doing the bare minimum of diligence to verify whether the post that you are reading is actually true. The actual evidence is non-existent, and even the circumstantial evidence makes very little sense if you think about it for a second.

I know you'll probably just call me a liar but maybe somebody will actually re-evaluate their behavior for once. I'm not holding my breath but it doesn't hurt to try. I bear no ill will towards you or anyone, I simply try to identify what I believe to be true, and fight back against people when they spread falsehoods. One of those falsehoods was when people were calling Nutomic transphobic, and I thought that was untrue. Now I'm banned for being transphobic. Surely you can figure out how this chain of events ends, with an echo chamber where anyone who questions the narrative is immediately exiled. It's not a wise course of action, IMHO.

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@BurgerBaron@quokk.au

Don't do it bro. Life sucks sometimes but it sounds like you got plenty to live for. I think if you let the people in your life know how much you are struggling, they could probably help you. You're not alone. And you don't need to be some perfect person, nobody else is perfect either.

I'll be praying for you. You can DM me if you need someone to talk to. ❤️

I find this angle of resistance to AI interesting, it's not one that I had thought much about until now. But it actually seems pretty persuasive.

My fundamental reticence about AI has always been driven by my concern for its impacts on human society. But one could also argue that it might be irresponsible and potentially abusive of the AI themselves. Tbh I would probably have to disagree if you're talking about AI as it is currently, but it's still a valid argument in general.

So I don't fully agree with you, but I definitely want to acknowledge that you're making some fascinating points and I think some people down voting could stand to lighten up and have a polite intellectual disagreement without being rude.

But the DNC is already entirely ineffective. We are already losing every single time we vote for either major party. Even when the Dems are in office, they appear incapable or unwilling to accomplish meaningful progressive political objectives, so we are slipping further into fascism anyway, no?

This has been the status quo for generations already, how long does it have to continue before we cut our losses and make a risky gambit? I just don't understand what you think the DNC is protecting us from, because in my view they are also part of the problem.

Teddy Roosevelt got 27% in 1912 with the Bull Moose party. Not sure if that counts as modern history.

It's true that a third party candidate would be a major long shot but fuck it, what do we have to lose?

Global warming began before humanity started burning fossil fuels.

Do you think Planet Earth would be doing just as badly if humans had never started burning fossil fuels?

Because clearly you're implying the famine would have been nearly as bad if the CCP never started killing sparrows.

It's laughably easy to brush aside your counterarguments because your position is inherently irrational and based on emotion.