<waves hands mystically>

this is the least Pythagorean meme

huh, well thanks for clarifying 😁

how does 19864 differ from 196? how did the subreddit differ from /r/196?

yeah, I thought the whole point of lemmy was not to centralize everything … it’s nice when things are spread across separate instances, as long as the instances federate

Ah, I think you may have missed my point - I am responding to the claim that both parties are equally bad. While I can understand if you are primed to expect my points to be accompanied by a liberal attitude that voting is the main form of political action, let me clarify for you that this is not what I’m saying.

Obviously middle-class Americans have a tendency to think voting is the most significant political action that can be taken, maybe if they are really into politics they might make different consumer choices (avoiding Chick-fil-a, refusing plastic straws, etc.), and even more extreme people might participate in a peaceful protest.

Brick throwing on the other hand is something people who have nothing left to lose do, desperate acts from those who are barely surviving poverty, who are being harassed, jailed, raped, and killed by the police, and so on. Brick throwing isn’t done to carve out civil rights, it is survival.

To that end, Democrats who might advocate for and uphold civil rights have a pacifying and stabilizing effect in so far as some of those pressures that result in marginalized groups throwing bricks are alleviated. The GOP on the other hand seems to care little about stability, they are unskillful tyrants in that sense.

Ultimately all I am saying is that elections do have consequences, which is so obvious it should not have to be said. My statements do not imply elections are the only political events that matter.

For trans people in the U.S., the difference between a GOP win and a Dem win in the house, senate, and presidential elections is the difference between having or not having certain rights.

Federal prisons now will force trans women to be transferred to male prisons and they will be denied gender-affirming care like access to estrogen.

If you are a trans person in the U.S. there is a clear difference between the Dems and the GOP - one is clearly better than the other.

Nothing has responded to this, shown it to be false, etc.

It does not require that we overlook that the Dems have far-right policies, especially on immigration and international affairs. It does not require we defend U.S. imperialism to say the Dems are better than the GOP for trans people in the U.S. Both are true.

I understand the moral disgust and the impulse to see how villainous the Dems are, I feel the same way, but if you care about the political outcomes, you can’t ignore that there remain significant and tangible differences between the parties and their policies.

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my brain wants to interpret this through the conspiracy theory lens, that the pro-police people think the lizard people running the world hate the thin-blue-line or something.

But given the context I think my interpretation is wrong, and I’ve never seen the calvin pissing cartoon used to express victimization, it’s always communicating hatred of something.

I studied German for several years, and it was ironically useful when I was in Guatemala - another traveler sometimes needed help bridging the gap with her spotty English and I was able to help. Though, Spanish would have been much more useful in that country, learning languages can be really useful in unexpected moments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Workshops

refer to areas of work provided for the unemployed by the French Second Republic after the Revolution of 1848. The political crisis which resulted in the abdication of Louis Philippe caused an industrial crisis adding to the general agricultural and commercial distress which had prevailed throughout 1847. It rendered the problem of unemployment in Paris acute.

basically the government trying to solve unemployment by employing people for the sake of employing them

templeOS is cursed 💀

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you think you can trick me that easily? well you did, I had to upload a photo 😠

Not sure I need you to keep copying the comments in both places, but to respond here as well, yes - I agree.

Yes, completely agree.

Right, I am not super familiar but I know LW and Beehaw don’t talk (not sure who defederated from whom or why), but in that case Blahaj and LW are the same in relation to Beehaw.

Sorry, I’m just not sure what you mean by this or what it has to do with my comment.

Sorry can you say more? I am not connecting the dots between my comment and yours. I am only trying to answer blackn1ght’s question about what the ideological differences were between 196 mods and the Blahaj admins.

I don’t think this is about defederation …

But to answer your question, I know Beehaw defederated from Blahaj. I can’t remember all the reasons, I think Blahaj was considering defederating from them, and they defederated from Blahaj first, claiming Blahaj users were disrupting them (similar claims were being made about Beehaw users on Blahaj).

I think Blahaj defederates from other instances, usually because those instances don’t moderate or remove transphobic and queerphobic content. I don’t know of any other cases where an instance defederated from Blahaj other than Beehaw, though.