And Americans tell me where I live is so dangerous. Shithole fascist country.

Islamic fundamentalists only exist because of the US and are paid actors by the US. The US funded the Muslim brotherhood. The US funded the Taliban as the Mujahadeen.

Because rogue AI is fake lol, it is a marketing trick to pump their IPOs.

All the rogue AI thing is telling me as a network engineer is none of these people, or you, have heard of Layer 7 firewalls.

Quick, someone find me the worlds smallest violin

ok person in the imperial core who live on top of the bones of the people they genocided

So what? It is open source and you can self host it. I don’t think open source software developed by Russian people is worse than open source software developed by Americans.

I don’t believe in your mythology about the USA or its institutions. To me the American people are settler colonists, like Israelis, who have always been some of the worst people on earth. Their “civic duty” has always been part of a civic religion with no basis in reality. The reality of the US is that it is a slave society that industrialized then used that industrial might to subjugate the world, overthrow sovereign nations, and practice unlimited violence at home and abroad. It is a society that calls itself free with the largest prisoner population in the world, by numbers and by capita even comparing with nations with billions of people. It is a nation that talks about democracy but installed a literal king in my country so they can steal oil. It is a nation that genocided a population of millions to build parking lots over their holy sites then tells the rest of us they’re the good guys. The American people are the most evil and insipid people in the world and that is why their government is corrupt. Donald Trump truly is the best and most accurate representation of them.

The US is not a democracy for the masses. The only people who get say are the people who pay money in bribes.

https://pnhp.org/news/gilens-and-page-average-citizens-have-little-impact-on-public-policy/

I smoked every day from when I was around 16 until I was 43, usually multiple times a day, most mornings. I smoked all the way thru law school. I smoked weed thru my career. I noticed my blood pressure was going up even though I eat a healthy diet and exercise and figured it has to be smoking so I stopped one day 2 years ago and never touched it again. I didn’t experience weed withdrawal or feel any dependency, I felt like stopping and I just did. I suspect the people who have these experiences have deeper underlying issues that they would experience dependency and withdrawal from any of their maladaptive habits be it extreme sports, shopping or even jerkin it.

it has gotten to the point for me people complaining about AI is more annoying than the AI slop itself and I just use lemmy less lol. That and I hate like half the user base

It is butt for me

oooh that makes more sense lol

Is LMBO laughing your balls off?

The problem is that Lemmy is trying to be Reddit instead of being something better. Reddit’s model was always flawed: a central feed of endless content where the community is secondary to the algorithm and the upvote chase. That model rewards outrage, spam, and bot farms because those things generate engagement.

The old forums worked differently. A forum was a place you went to for a specific topic or community. The content and the discussion lived together. You knew the regulars. Moderation was local and accountable. There was no algorithm shoving rage bait into your feed because there was no feed in the modern sense.

Lemmy instances should be built like those old forums. Each instance should feel like a real site with its own culture and purpose, not just a node in a Reddit clone. The posts and the community should be the reason people stay, not a firehose of engagement bait.

Splitting the forums away from the content sites was the mistake. We need to put them back together.

https://readsettlers.org/

I want someone to break your fucking empire of oppression

White Americans do have class consciousness.

It is just that their class is that of white settler colonial petite bourgeoisie. The immigrated to the US to steal land from indigenous people and resist the proletarianization of the Europeans.

The reason that there won’t ever be a leftist revolution in the US is that white Americans are not part of the proletariat class and will break their solidarity with the proletariat as soon as their empire dangles status or welfare to pacify them like medicare. White Americans are more than happy to maintain the empire, they are not upset about empire, they are upset at their reducing spoils.

I am so glad I am checked out enough to not know who these clowns are

They should have Iranian election auditors

oh yeah it was tiny and blurry on my screen