If you don’t think some Lemmy instances are being run from Fort Meade and Quantico, you’re not paranoid enough.

As long as we all agree you don’t actually care about rule violations, you’re just mad they think differently than you.

Me: How’s that AI search algorithm going, Google?

Google: “Did you mean ‘Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds Dune?’”

I guess they don’t realize GOG is DRM free as part of their business model?

Probably because they think DRM=anti pirate and not “You don’t actually own this”

The leadership explicitly refuses to repudiate the old charter that called for genocide, and has directly said they can’t do that politically, or even call it a replacement.

It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out why, you sure as hell wouldn’t be pretending you don’t understand why MAGA leaders won’t criticize the Confederacy or the KKK.

Yeah, it’d be real fucked up if Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, all allied and interconnected Iran-backed terrorist groups, had direct calls for jihad and genocide in their charters and mottos, or founder and leader quotes saying they are glad Israel exists because it saves them the trouble of hunting the Jewish diaspora

OH WAIT

THEY DO

If you want to talk about violence, any level of violence, as a legitimate response to colonialism, especially when it enters the ethnic cleansing stage, fair enough, but don’t pretend they’re not genocidal fuckwits themselves with plenty of proof for their intentions.

If you want to know why Lemmy is full of pissed off people fighting in the comments it’s because half the people who comment on Lemmy have the fact checking ability of a mentally incapable squirrel and they’ll repeat any damn thing they hear.

Big Landscaping finally tracked him down and bushed him

You deserve the pain.

As they should. That said, other than some presumably rare scripters Riot really did make an incredibly well balanced (don’t @ me salt lords) and easy player experience free of any obvious cheaters.

I wasted far too much of life on that game, and let it frustrate me way too much, but that doesn’t mean I won’t still log in every season and crush some noobs (and get crushed right back) until I hit Gold and can go back to ignoring it for another year, and I’ve never been able to say that about another game for ten years in a row.

But this…

This might finally set me free.

No one who goes to 4chan in the 2020s has a viewpoint worth listening to. At best they just like trolling idiots.

JRR wrote four LotR stories.

Everything else is a fanfiction. Even the Silmarillion. By far the most obnoxious reaction to the show is from “Tolkien purists” who got their entire Tolkien knowledge base from Peter Jackson.

The show is a perfectly Tolkienish story, despite the gratuitous lack of random singing, it’s just not a good one. Like, okay, you need to compress the timeline for the show, fair enough, just do a good job of that.

Wrong Durins to fight both the War of the Rings and the Balrog?

Then don’t tease the fucking Moria Balrog. If you want to use a Balrog, because Balrogs are fucking sweet, there was more than one…

Honestly, the weirdest part of the show is that they’ll follow a lore deep cut with something that could only possibly fool someone that missed the deep cut, but also doesn’t know or care who Gandalf or Isildur is, so what’s the payoff for the reveal?

Hexbear and Lemmygrad are different instances, but tbh at this point I’m just happy with people that can at least vaguely define liberalism and socialism, and I don’t have to see the great minds upvote “communism is right wing, AKSHUALLY, because right wing means authoritarian.”

Edit: ah wait, your comment was under one about both, I conflated it with the other chain about Lemmygrad specifically.

I guess it’s slightly better that they’re mostly honest deniers instead of “they had it coming” types.

I think. I personally find it refreshing in small doses to deal with people that actually know what the fuck they’re talking about in terms of political theory, some of the shit .world users will say is…

Upsetting, intellectually.

Of course, so is talking to a genuine Stalinist.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/6294910

It’s dishonest, playing “only” with your feet and then using everything but your hands, except when you can use your hands.

Historically, Nazis weren’t actually picky about their rape victims.

It was a bad time to be a woman in a Nazi ghetto.

You’d think, but eleven people didn’t immediately recognize that.

Apparently it is rather easy to gather personal data as an instance owner, so it really makes you wonder.

Sees a bunch of “freeze speech” including “freespeechextremist”- lol the classic

Sees “freecumextremist”- oh no, the classic!

I don’t think there’s a reliable source for that claim, but it’s mean to two groups I don’t like and is therefore true