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Hexbear is leftist and lemmy.world defederated from the instance so you're speaking of phantoms

The conditions that allow someone like Trump to come to power are manifested by the neoliberal policies extolled by the Democrat and Republican establishment, alike. Your party leaders are Reaganites/Thatcherites. The biggest policy win for Democrats in recent history was a Heritage Foundation plan that acts as a de facto subsidy to private health insurance.

And most people do not live in swing states so most "protest votes" do nothing to tip the scales.

creating more division within the left

Liberalism isn't the left.

create more Republicans in the process

Create more leftists, actually.

ivory tower orthodoxy

It's the Democratic establishment that abhors populism and typically walks in ivory tower circles. Liberalism and neoliberalism are the dominant ideologies in the Ivy League schools, not socialism.

This is literally just bait and has no place in this community. Moderators should delete this on that grounds alone.

If it's allowed, then I wouldn't begrudge any Hexbear user(s) from spamming the comm with random political theory posts, especially those of the communist variety

Fair enough.

It will be interesting to see how this holds up in the courts, whether they can argue it's in fact a BFOQ, or whether that actually applies here.

The customer is making the choice not the business. When you search for primary care physicians in most networks, you can search and filter by gender. Again, is this illegal by your insurance/network to allow this filter?

Is it illegal to choose your primary care physician based on gender? Maybe I'm not reading this entirely correctly, but why would it be illegal to similarly choose your ride driver by gender?

Wouldn't discrimination be more if Lyft refused to hire male drivers or something to that effect according to the civil rights act?

Stop using the word "proletariat" when you clearly do not understand what it means and clearly have not read any of the theory from which the word was popularized

"Proletariat" != "impoverished"

Ultimately Lemmy may not be the software now to do what you want for your community. Federation may also not be the right thing for a community of your ethos. Maybe the simplest solution is complete defederation and build the community in an environment you can completely control, even with the limits Lemmy current provides with it's software. Come back to the fediverse when you feel the software matches the ambitions, but in the meantime build the community you want.

This is it and what they've always really wanted in my eyes, but the userbase here and in their communities still values federation so they don't want to actually make that jump.

The rules and culture of this instance demands centralization, not federation. They might as well just make their own site.

I don't love the drama and FUD about the platform and devs.

Yeah the suggestion was "organize for better bus routes and in the meantime don't go to work". Exactly what was said. Word for word.

Except you're the two being childish.

If you don't have a bus route, no one is here telling you to hitch hike or cycle in heat stroke weather for long commute or not go to work. Can you please point out where I or anyone here said so?

But "what can I do" was the question.

You can recognize the benefits of a good urban infrastructure and public transportation, highlight the lacking infrastructure in your areas, and support the goals of building that up by contacting your local officials or participating with groups who do organize.

This "child" lives within walking distance of his work office (for the few times I even have to to in) and on a bus route that can get me there as well (a bus system that is highly lacking in its own ways, to which I make note of to my local council).

I guess I should act like an "adult" and go "oh your work isn't near a bus route. What can I do? Guess nothing."

That is how we solve problems.

This post isn't attacking you for your area's lack of infrastructure.

Campaign for better bus routes?

Then I guess they shouldn't be opening living spaces to other people for commercial purposes. Almost like doing that implies you have a responsibility to your guests

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

Now, it's kind of the point. But I don't know if it was my mouse or what but I found the controls to be too poorly implemented with how difficult of a game it already is. Sometimes, the hammer would basically glitch out or would apply way more pressure relative to my movements and fling me back down to the button. It served as an element of frustration that I think goes against the design goals. I've seen speed runs that make me think it could have been my hardware, but I'll never know. Actually, remembering, I think I switched to a different mouse eventually that was better but still not great.

I also just didn't really ever buy into the premise. I know it's an ode to B games, but the piling of random assets is not what I would consider good design even if they serve the purpose of what the game is going for. There are plenty of difficult video games that are about perseverance but still put in the effort in level design, mechanics, controls, etc.

Tbh, I found it an interesting enough experiment with failed execution. I don't understand people who hold it up as one of the better "art" games in the medium.

I typically patient game nowadays. I still have games from two years ago to get to and I'm currently slowly playing through Baldur's Gate 1 so I probably wasn't going to Day 1 this anyway.

But I thought about it.

Tbh, while I don't really care for the big name review sites, there's enough mixed reviews on the storytelling, procedural generation, and RPG systems, that I think I'm going to keep this in my wishlist for a while.

Might look at it closer later in the year and when I have more free time or just wait for the inevitable GOTY edition

"can't trust the intelligence agencies, only Noam Chomsky"

The model isn't a personal opinion. It was created by Chomsky, yes, and Edward Herman, but it's just a framework for analyzing media and appeared first in a published work alongside numerous "case studies" featuring a litany of citations detailing not only the stark difference between how our media covers our own actions vs "enemy states" but also how those very own intelligence agencies meddled in multiple other countries, including Vietnam, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and more.

But I guess when we do it, it's good and cool.

I'm not even saying this is necessarily untrue, but the irony in this article is palpable.

If commenting on bias in reporting then I can't help but recall the seminal work on the topic in the West in Manufacturing Consent. , particularly the section of the model on sourcing.

I mean, how can you read this article about FSB influence and just ignore the sourcing sentence stating:

US intelligence agencies believe

Agencies we also know have deceived the public.

Again, this isn't unnecessarily untrue, but don't be blind to the other side of it either.

Not everyone you disagree with online is a witting/unwitting Russian agent, especially tiny Lemmy communities.

It is incredibly typical.

My reaction to the sponsor list would be the shocked Pikachu meme.

Lemmygrad is explicitly sectarian. Hexbear is not, even if it has a majority of ML users.

There is an anarchism community in Hexbear.