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  • You are not.

    To me this sounds like one of these things where some of us lefties can get into the weeds of “perfect” language.

    Sure, if you are talking to someone like that and using the wrong words, then that could be kind of shitty but even then if people care about you they will give you grace and just hope you will get it right at some point.

    You don’t have to say the right words every time, but when it’s important, you should make an effort to try.

    It feels a bit over the top of you’re not directly talking to someone affected. But maybe that’s a me thing.

    TL;DR no. You’re good. Don’t take these comments personally but also don’t completely ignore them.






  • Against voting:

    • feels like it doesn’t matter
    • the choices often suck

    For voting:

    • it evidently does matter
    • it’s the most efficient way to give your political opinion some weight

    Also I assume the down votes are for the following reasons:

    • not voting only serves unpopular politicians and parties
    • not voting being promoted through a post like this one would exacerbate this issue
    • the science is pretty settled that voting matters, even if it feels like it doesn’t, so making this topic debatable seems disingenuous

    I assume you are being honest, so let me make this clear once again: a voting populus is what stands between a democracy and a dictatorship. Not only do dictators dismantle voting rights wherever they can, but it’s also the best tool to keep them away.

    “You are but a cog in the machine yet it is your decision to turn.” - me, high off my ass


  • My first thought is contact police because only they have the resources to start an investigation, looking into phone data and thoroughly searching.

    My second thought is if you know someone with knowledge or if you have time to read up on OSINT skills, these could help if you need to do your own search.

    Maybe someone has better ideas though.













  • Hateful is always a weird word imo because it describes that the Internet is full of hate, and I’m sure there’s lots of it. However, the Internet is vast and you will find too much of everything everywhere. So theres platforms with abnormal amounts of positivity and hate, but there’s also platforms for weird niches, platforms for scientific discourse and everything.

    So generally I would say no to both. Lemmy tends to skew a bit towards Europe and towards elitist but that’s a very light skew and I’m still trying to assess tropes you find lots of on here. Well except for reddit hate. But that’s historical.