It’s something that is sporadically done, by some people based on the phase of the moon or what they feel like; but it’s tolerated by the other mods.
One does not see it much unless it happens to oneself or it’s read about elsewhere. However it certainly has an effect and perhaps is one of the reasons there are cycles of low engagement ( or at least lower than normal). Often people like me who have issues with it just quietly go elsewhere, which I more or less done.
But once I moved away, choosing a non political server as my new home, I was exposed to all the communities world blocks, and it was then I realized I had been censored
If you call out genocide denialism you get banned.
Which is the reason I stopped participating in some of world’s news and political communities, but because of a different genocide.
But I certainly did not go running to a community that promoted denial of other crimes. Instead I use the power of lemmy to pick and chose healthy communities.
Each instance has communities which are toxic.
I think any large collection of people online are going to have issues similar to here; and while the distributed social networks have a distressing tendency to bunch up and get tribal, it’s better than only one instance, such as Reddit.
That said, I think these can be improved later
It’s not wall to wall tankees , this is only a minority. Which for the non tanker, can be avoided and ignored.
I was talking more of a general problem by deciding what I wanted to censor myself rather than letting others do it for me. Baby and bath water analogy and all that.
And this extends way beyond tankees and piracy.
And since people are talking about hexbear, it does have the best Syrian news coverage
I’m sort of new to Lemmy, having only been here a few months, and I started my first account here in world, the one I am commenting with.
What I found is that world has many cool and fun and interesting communities, but for news ( world or USA centered) is really centralist USA based. World has cut off access to many other cool and interesting communities that may have different viewpoints here and there.
I think the few experiences by trolls here from other communities is more of a walled garden thing, and if world has a more inclusive mix this would solve a lot of issues .
Me migrating to another instance still allows me to participate here in world, and I simply ignore what I don’t like here and elsewhere.
Honestly, world has as many issues with gatekeeping and power hungry mods as instances and the only way to get the full lemmy experience is to pick and chose what fits best with oneself
That and labor organizing, environmental awareness, and many other things where the absence helps the rich get wealthier .
It’s also just a blatant theft; there is a lot of money to be made here however it goes down , and that money goes to connected arseholes
From what I read, those river valleys were very productive hunting areas, filled with rich ecosystems
New quest started
Passed on to the insurance premiums
They really need a SD who will not say no
Very unpopular opinion: it’s good that mainstream media is self censoring because this undermines their usefulness and authority, eventually allowing better media to gain more followers.
Flow chart plans!
A good way to tell the long term future of a state is to see how ballots are counted, and if the published stats pass United Nations tests for fair elections.
Most states flunk, some pass, it’s been a few years since I last checked, so I’m not going to give potentially bad info. But it falls down to what one might suspect, more blue states pass than red states
I think that band of red around the Gulf of Mexico is long lasting effects of increased hurricanes.
There is increased awareness of how the background death rate massively increases for decades after each major storm
So more long term care, more hospice and more benefits being paid out
It’s still much much much better to be in some states than others. It’s also far easier to move now while there is still freedom of interstate movement. It may not get so bad, but why make any assumptions?
Even if that is true, if this is going to happen, the number of people victimized will be far more than the capacity of this new detention.
I think this currently is more about standard government corruption than anything else, it’s not liberal or conservative: just money changing hands.
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Improving health coverage is theoretically possible, and later on they may get better, but the only things that will improve are a few blue states and even then it’s just small changes.
So dreams of large non violent change are as futile as the murderous rage. Best one can do is make more money or move to a better area or immigrate.
Yea but this is a one off thing, nobody is going to keep shooting people like him because otherwise it would have already happened many times.
This murder was probably another asshole, he knew, putting a hit on him
Most probably it was internal, for money only?
Some thoughts of mine about politics
Very long post, sorry. The short version of it is that there is a social taboo among progressives to call out cheating by Republicans, and how this is probably impossible to change. I am new to this community, please let me know if this post is inappropriate and I will post it elsewhere. Thanks
Now that the elections in the usa are over, I would like to share how I perceive politics, the American left, and the possible political future of the USA. These personal views may not find traction here.
First, about myself. I have participated in Texas politics for a couple of decades, and I have a four decades of programming networked systems under my belt. I have been involved in some of the county level Democratic party before (East Texas)
I will just come out and say it. Anyone who thinks the Texas election results are accurate is a fool, uneducated, a grifter, is scared to talk about it, or is hopelessly in denial. And many other states follow suit. I feel t