As soon as you get out of Pennsylvania you see a marijuana store. Regardless of which state you’re going into.

Like, you see the news coming out of the UK right? It’s not as bad as Trump but it’s still awful.

These are “I don’t want to live there” reasons. The hate for California that right-wingers have is “this place shouldn’t exist” type hate.

The suite on Wish You Were Here (album) is called Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

I don’t know any “real” gamers who would answer a Mario game as their favorite game. Hell they likely wouldn’t be naming a platform game period

2008 is over, it’s socially acceptable to like games that aren’t military shooters now

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.