Ironically the fact that Star Trek is the one of the only specific media franchises that can maintain an active community on Lemmy explains it.

From my perspective, zoomers are most of the people talking about it. We remember the '00s.

My dad’s advice was that the cops are a gang.

some European right wingers already believe this

A bottle of diet soda and a guitar that I can’t play

It’s usually a Bible but you’re allowed to swear on anything.

I honestly feel like Lemmy got considerably less vitriolic toward Americans after the election.

I used to think Lemmy was too insignificant for Russian influents, but I’m not sure anymore.

It really does feel like online communities get more relentlessly xenophobic when they have more Europeans. It just seems like a lot of you can’t get by without mentioning where someone’s from. Like, no, someone not seeing the value in retro computing doesn’t say anything about “the intelligence of the average Scot.” And if you can’t tell where they’re from, American by default.

CSAM is the reason I wouldn’t consider self hosting tbh. I fear it could result in me having hundreds of GBs worth of the stuff without me even noticing.

In the context of Lemmy, my best explanation is that tankies hate Orwell.

Yes, but that’s keeping in mind that, contrary to popular belief among the types that go on Lemmy, most people aren’t ideological. They don’t care that Democrat A is this and Democrat B is that, they care about who they think will help their lives, ideology be damned. So, a lot of the people that socialists would call “libs” would vote for Bernie, BUT, most of those people think of Sanders primarily as “more liberal.”

People who are actively aware of the difference between neoliberalism and social democracy, I’m not sure. But I honestly think they’re a rounding error in US politics.

It’s not the only one (there’s also Crwth and Pwn)

Yeah the PBS hack was LulzSec

“Cwm”

One of a few words that use W as a vowel. (This is how the word “Pwn” works too)

Fascists provide easy (but often fake) answers to hard problems. Loneliness, the fear of replacement, that kind of thing.

And to what would not having life accomplish? What is the point of not having life? How is there beauty in the lack of life when only things that have life even have a concept of beauty? Your viewpoint requires you to believe in some type of inherent value that doesn’t exist.

He strikes me as more a rube that occasionally picks up alt-right talking points than a dedicated follower. At least on one occasion he called out Moon, a shitty right wing video essayist, for lying, but he went really hard on anti-Sweet Baby Inc. content.

So I guess he could unintentionally? But intention doesn’t really matter here. His fanbase probably leans right too.

I cannot exaggerate to you that this 100% fulfils the negative perceptions of European governments that American isolationists have. The article says they cut Ukraine funding to fund social programs. The right-wing narrative in America is that needing to have the huge military is why we have a weak social safety net (not true btw, med4all for example would save Uncle Sam money) which is framed as “we pay for European social programs.” But here’s a government… literally cutting military spending in the middle of aiding a real war that could be highly consequential to the country in question to fund social programs.

How is an American supposed to argue in favor of funding the defense of Europe when the richest country in Europe doesn’t want to fund the defense of Europe? If Germany gets to decide to go for “Germany first,” how long until “Britain first?” “France first?” “Italy first?” Will Ukraine funding just be a hot potato that everyone will claim is important but nobody actually wants to do?

When European countries started raising military spending in response to a threat, it weakened American isolationist arguments. But this strengthens them. I hope no other European countries pull this shit.

No body hair, straight hair, no scalp issues, and more feminine face.

If I can extend it to the brain, no family history of schizophrenia (I don’t have it myself but it’s the reason I intend to abstain from psychedelic drugs.)

France really is just America in a different language and on a time delay.

Nobody in America believes “art will change the world” shit anymore. For good reason.