I engaged with you in good faith, and you were merely a troll. Got it.

Marxist Leninist Socialists primarily, if you read my comment. I’m a Social Democrat, and I’ve received enough disrespect from ML Socialists, that I’m done trying to interact with them entirely. I get that your trying to minimize my argument, by acting like I’m attacking socialism entirely and act like I’m some sort of government plant…hence, again, why I’m stating quite plainly that I’m a Social Democrat.

The otherside of the coin is that I want to reform our system by trying to fix the problems of capitalism, and they want a revolution to completely dismantle it. I believe that the reality of implementing a socialist economy is completely unrealistic in a country as big as ours within the next 25-50 years, and that a revolution (which they are essentially advocating for) would introduce chaos and uncertainty into our country, and inherently the world. There’s no reality in which the movement gains widespread popular support in the short time frame that ML Socialists want. I firmly believe that the transition to a social democracy is a safer, more logical transition, and that as we adopt socialized programs, provide a better landscape for unions, and start reigning in inequality, we will naturally have more widespread support for a transition to a more socialist economy.

Metaphorically speaking, I want to slowly fix the problems that have cropped up around my house and upgrade things over time…they want to burn it down and build something that they believe is better. And they don’t like me because of that, that I’m essentially impeding their progress.

Still “irony” at it’s finest?

My experience with ML Socialists has been nothing but hostile. Anytime I’ve had questions or tried to have a discussion with a socialist about socialism, the response has been nothing but pure acid from them. Change is slow, and we’re slowly becoming more liberal as a people. They view socialized democracy as cowtowing to imperialism, and they seem to advocate for violent revolution to enact they’re goals. I literally can’t support that.

I would love for the US to become more socialized, for the workers to be more empowered, for people to live with better healthcare, less stress, and better safety nets…but as a social democrat, I’m the fucking enemy to them. As they described me, I’m imperialist scum.

I considered myself pretty far left…but those people? They fucking scare me…

… But if it’s more convenient for you to believe that I’m a paid government shill, then so be it.

I just blocked the whole of lemmyml and lemmy.blahaj or whatever it is, and my experience has been 100% better.

Actively? No. But the war has never technically ended. It was sort of put on pause. With both sides on either side of a line drawn at the 38th parallel with 1.2 metric fuckloads of troops on either side.

You sure? There’s videos all over the combat footage subreddit showcasing numerous missiles/rockets making contact with the ground.

Bet your the kinda guy to show up and yell “White Lives Matter” at a BLM protest.

These are terrorist attacks.

The Russian Government is essentially a terrorist organization.

The attack does nothing to make progress on the war. Its only intent is to strike fear into the enemy. What a bunch of weak, depraved, cowards.

Add it to the list of war crimes.

Just a little friendly murder. Uwu

What’s a little murder amongst friends?

Sure, but like the concept of it. I just don’t like that it takes up 1/2 the space on my screen. I’m hoping that it’ll get improved at some point.

I believe that it’s quite okay to make comments about the bot.

It most definitely does not, it just puts a big bunch of white bars across the screen that hides the text.

Waaay to much text. It just spams every article. Needs to be kept concise.

The Opinion section of a newspaper should not be accounted in how “Factual” the reporting of a news agency is. I’m not sure why that would even be relevant…

5-1-0

Plan something 5-days in advance to do something.

Reach out 1-day ahead and ask if they are still up for doing it. It provides them with an out, and opens up your day tomorrow in the off chance that they have to cancel.

On the day of the planned activity, let them know you’ll be heading out shortly to meet them at x place at y time.

For extra soft plans (i.e. do you want to get together and study later this evening?), still text before hand about an hour or so as it gives them a quick reminder, and allows you to alter plans.

Communication works both ways, and sometimes people need reminders. If they don’t respond, just let them know you didn’t hear from them and you’re going to do something else. Don’t freak out about it. People waffle on things all the time.

Israel knew what they were doing. Fucking monsters.

I 100% agree. But which party is more likely to actually work towards a goal like that? Would Conservatives ever allow for ranked choice voting? People have every right to complain about Biden, but all it really does is make things easier for an orange fascist toget elected

It still comes down to voting for either a guy who mumbled and stumbled on some words or a convicted felon, pedophile, con man, hedonistic fascist.

Gonna be really difficult to figure out who to vote for…a real fucking challenge.

Do I wish there was a better candidate running? Sure. But I’ll still be voting Biden no matter what. I’m also not going to spend my energy talking about how shit he is because all that does is help an actual fucking fascist pedophile into office. So not really sure what else your aim could be, cause if your a Democrat it’s a fucking stupid one.

One thing that I love from this thread…the number of conservative trolls. They are fucking terrified that Biden is going to win. So bad that they are pushing this absolute bullshit of doubt and worry about Biden.

Anyone that’s actually paying attention to Biden knows that the dude has been getting shit done even with a stalled congress. Any one that’s even remotely paying attention to the election is literally not going to elect a fascist, and people are absolutely starting to pay attention. Look at the Project 2025 bullshit. Look at how much people are starting to realize how fucking serious this is. Even Trump has desperately tried to distance himself from it, and can’t seem to keep dodging now that speeches and videos of him talking about it starting to surface.

Bidens okay. Democrats have backed him. He’s not dropping out.

Not only do they wholeheartedly support it, but they emphatically push it. The irony of pushing for something that you don’t have to actually fight for, like they are “better” than other Israelis.

They are also the ones that are rabid supporters of Netanyahu as well, apparently because he tried to give them preferential treatment.