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Congrats on your first report @allison
- Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:, :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: and Pleroma-tan like this.
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@lewdthewides The fact that the reporter is from Baraag is the cherry on top
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@t @lewdthewides it's just incredibly funny to me, I can't even take any of it seriously at all
re: the banner, I actually can see how it would be construed as transphobic by those who aren't familiar with the concept known as self deprecating humor
re: anarchocapitalism, the fact that they looked at the meme cats and instantly decided I was one without *any* second thought means they're doing exactly what they're supposed to, which is filter out those who judge only based on superficial appearances
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@lewdthewides @allison >transphobic banner
I don't really see what's transphobic about it?
>anarcho capitalist
punishing people based on what they believe (in terms of whether they're a communist or whatever) never sits right with me. I personally dont really give a shit
sorry you got reported allison bestie 😔🫂
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@allison @t I remember you telling me awhile ago the anarchocapblobcats were a joke
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@lewdthewides @t Yeah, half joke really. I am libright and did historically have affinities with ancap types but nowadays it's mostly a cute reminder of times past.
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@t @lewdthewides don't worry, even most polheads who aren't extremely online don't know what anarchocapitalism is
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@allison @lewdthewides ngl sometimes this politics shit goes over my head ahaa
I voted labour in the last local MP election, I don't think I'll do that again. I don't really have much of an interest in voting but i know it's important
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@t @lewdthewides yeah democrats are our labour essentially, "owning the libs" means anyone who has ideas to the left of them on anything (i.e. who isn't either a milquetoast Tory or a right wing extremist, depending on who is saying it)
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@allison @lewdthewides like wtf even is all this shit
I know literally nothing about it LOL
like are liberals the same thing as democrats? and would democrats be the us equivalent to UK's labour party?
whenever people mention owning the libs or whatever i've always just assumed they implied liberals were democrats because quite often those statements are said by people on the right, and obv the people who the right want to target the most are their opposition (the left wing, which makes sense) - same with left wing
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@lewdthewides @allison Should probably make a wall of fame at one point.
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@lewdthewides @allison Unrelated but still warrants a mention.
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@mint @allison @lewdthewides Jjfjvjjwhd FAT SHAMING ABAH
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@t @allison @lewdthewides I just posted a 'jak.
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@mint @allison @lewdthewides i love jaks lmao
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@t @lewdthewides all good :)
I think in general reasonable people can engage with each other regardless of what political or ideological priors they have going in, but the internet in general and social media in particular is almost completely optimized for turning reasonable people into unreasonable consumers of controversial content because that's what drives views and by proxy ad revenue (thankfully less of a problem here than some other places, but it can be difficult to deprogram someone who already comes into here with that mindset for better or worse)
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@allison @lewdthewides ahhh ok
I don't know how to describe myself in that sense, and I often don't feel like it because I'm worried about being ostracized based on whatever i say i think i am.
like, my family are very much labour orientated, I think my parents have only voted conservative once.
My dad is very anti-trump, and I always assumed he was pro-biden as a result, but recently I learnt he has issues with biden too, but whenever I talk to him about biden he seems to go on the defensive a bit and brings up trump. Seems like he really just doesn't like trump being there.
I for one don't really care about that. I should be more concerned about my own country than the US, even though US politics kinda strangles the internet wherever you go because the internet is very americanised/american centric.
The tories are definitely not going to see another 4 or 5 years in power after this next general election, methinks. Everyone's losing faith in them.
Labour in my opinion was its best under Corbyn, despite the antisemitism people say was evident there, I don't believe Corbyn is against jews personally. Keir Starmer is too much of a wet noodle and I feel like if he gets in pretty much nothing will be done, same as the tories really. Lost confidence in my own country's politics.
Back to what I said about being ostracised though.
I know obviously on certain spaces in society and on the internet if you mention you're right wing, left wing and other aligned people will not want to talk to you or have anything to do with you. Some of them will even go out of their way to harass or report you simply for voting for a right wing person or something like that.
What I want to know, and would hope, is that if I come onto a place like this side of fedi, which if I'm being honest seems to naturally have quite of a right wing orientation, I would hope that I don't immediately get people on my ass because I express "left wing" views. As if this happens, its hypocritical, because right wingers say its the left that's supposed to be "tolerant" and they meme about how it isn't tolerant to them
sorry for the long essay ahaha
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@allison @lewdthewides btw i wasn't sure if you'd respond to all that it was just kinda airing my thoughts ahaha
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@t @lewdthewides Yeah in general things have become a lot more inflammatory as of late and the 2012 election cycle was the last one which preserved any sense of "normalcy" before things really started coming to a head, I personally date the cultural shift to Gamergate and the disintegration of Atheism+ and affiliated movements but there were definitely signs of it earlier if you knew where to look
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@allison @lewdthewides yeah. I just hope that mindset can be changed eventually. I hate this political divide that (if i'm being honest) started specifically in 2015-2016 ish or maybe sometime before i can't remember but it was accelerated during trump's campaign
Hell, I was watching one of the old Obama v Romney debates and it's a drastic difference from today's society. Biden and Trump are (undoubtedly and unbiasedly) nothing more than old men who have both done creepy things respectively, one bitching to each other about how the other one is sleepy and allegedly has dementia, and the other bitching to them about how they look orange and are racist and extremist or whatever.
It's tiring.
The Obama and Romney debate was (from what I remember) largely quite calm and collected. They were both taking shots at each others points and principles, but it wasn't some finger-pointing childish tantrum from both parties like the trump v biden debates were
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