Ah! I see now. When you said “it’s telling that while you can’t think of something cartoonishly evil he did off of the top of your head,” I thought you were saying I was ignorant for not being able to think of something cartoonishly evil. My bad, I’m just primed to read hostility on Lemmy I guess.

we won’t bring this back until society heals.

I don’t mean to imply you are racist at all. Whatever it turns out the provenance of those teeth are has no bearing on whether or not you are racist.

I’m not American, so I don’t really know that part of your history.

Edit: he was assassinated for wanting to give black people citizenship is what I’m reading…?

So what’s the real dirt on Lincoln? Did he snore or something? :P

I was at the museum at his estate on the potomac; the dentures were there. The plaque underneath claimed it was slaves.

To be honest I thought tech bros are what you get when you fit into all of the boxes on both sides.

Regardless of whether you’re politically left or right, I feel like the hexbear crowd is just tremendously unfriendly. Even when I agree with them, I usually feel bad reading what they have to say. Being unwelcoming is not a good strategy for proliferating one’s politics.

My absolute favourite thing is women doing things that “only men do.”

(P.S. am a woman)

Disclaimer: I don’t really believe this – but the counter-argument would be to the one on the left: “why does it matter if the man is trans?” (which is a numbskull counterargument, but it fits in the context of the question on the right.) It’s just dumb to put those two boxes next to each other IMO because it draws a very stupid venn diagram.

okay I do agree that calling people eggs is problematic, but this argument sucks. You can’t both ask me to treat FtM people differently from men and ask me to treat them the same as men. The reason you don’t call someone an egg is because their gender is none of your business.

To me, the Victorian era doesn’t feel that long ago. It had gothic horror novels, root beer, telephones, and cameras. I was recently talking with somebody who personally knew somebody who was a pioneer in the 1860s. In comparison, Ancient Rome or Mesopotamia feels really freaking long ago.

Apparently, yes.

I suppose OP is proposing a wealth tax.

Exactly. Talking. Violence isn’t going to make more leftists.

That said, call me paranoid but I think three-letter organizations are the main obstacle to organizing. I don’t know what to do about that.

agreed – how do we make more leftists though?

There aren’t enough leftists to win with violence, so our only hope is to win with dialogue. What’s your plan?

I feel like this is most lemmy communities? What pro-billionaire lemmy communities are there?

so does this mean y’all guys are finally coming around on utilitarianism?

there’s no “but” – this is exactly the point the author is making.