The United States is not a democracy
OK, sure, there is no illuminati or whatever—I'll give you that.
But US democracy is a very troubled one. From local to federal level, it has critical flaws and little to no mechanisms against abuses. Education required for informed consent is tragic, the economy still depends on brain import instead of organic growth. Only far right has high turnout and so gets what they vote for. If I were to guess it's because of religious factions maintaining coherence and motivation, of course aside from active voter suppression. Can't have an effective democracy when half the population doesn't vote. 2020 was historic because "only" a third of the population didn't vote.
Various indices measuring democracy show a gradual decline, too, and they already tend to be slightly biased towards exaggerating US democraticity because of all the propaganda. Speaking of which, decades of Red Scare (and nuclear panic) poisoned free speech against left-wing concepts and yet utterly fail now that Russia is a bigger threat than ever. (Including nuclear—we're mere 90 seconds to midnight.)
Climate crisis needs not worry, car manufacturers will propagandize, bribe, and otherwise pressure cities to ban e-bikes if only to create consumer uncertainty to sell more electric/hybrid cars which have a much higher carbon footprint than e-bikes.
Obsidian. Previously Visual Studio Code (well...), WriteMonkey, Notepad++, but in the end—VSCode has a great idea for the UI, and I already write in Markdown, so Obsidian was a natural choice the moment I learned it exists.
Sync, but I already got rid of it and my Reddit stuff.
The Monkey’s Paw making your dreams come true, but in a way that makes you regret it. Evil Genie following the letter, but not the spirit of your wish. Crossroads Deals granting you wonders… at an equivalent price. Say “I wish” followed by a prompt and watch your life crumble.
![I Wish - The Monkey's Paw, Evil Genie, Crossroads Deals - Lemmy](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/iz3eJFV6b9.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
I’ve registered on Lemmy.ml when it was still possible and created a Wishing community, basically micro writing prompts. It doesn’t seem to be accessible from Beehaw, however, as I’ve been informed by Beehaw users trying to subscribe.
For instance, this yields 404: https://beehaw.org/c/wish@lemmy.ml
Am I doing something wrong? Should I be sending a request for the community to be allowed to share?
Additionally, I tried using said Lemmy account to post to https://lemmy.ml/c/support@beehaw.org about this issue, but I don't think that worked right either. It's there https://lemmy.ml/post/1231900 but doesn't show here. I've decided to resort to posting here directly with here account. Which I understand is not the fediverse way. Might be wrong. It's not very straightforward.
Thanks for help.