you name a way to divide a people in a harmful way, they’re doing it

• racism
• Islamophobia
• homophobia
• sexism
• transphobia
• ablism
• shit you ain’t never even thought of hating on

they’re hating on it

the biggest hurdle i see right now to expanding the threadiverse is how often people here are just absolute assholes to each other.

i beg of everyone to keep an open mind and to try to remember that while this might seem like racist bullshit upon first glance, that upon further inspection you will find that the reasons for these things are also racist bullshit

i think bicameralism has a place IF we actually learn from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy instead of just half ass copy their homework like we did last time. we gotta do it right and actually build anti-authoritarian systems into our ways of being. our founding fathers were a bunch of oligarchs who were still pretty sure an enlightened autocrat might be the way

i am Appalachian. when i moved to DC for work people asked in full earnesty if i had to buy shoes before taking the train

he’s changed his act pretty drastically

glad people are learning! the most densely populated city in the entire world is in africa

appeasement has never, and will never, work(ed)

that’s… what? other than like… tigers most animals have highly complicated social structures

even bees and ants have complicated social structures that “they’re enslaving eachother” is an incredibly reductive human-centric view of how a eusocial colony works.

presumably the local government at somepoint was like “we gotta hire a hunter to kill these beavers, their activity will delay our ecological restoration project, which is already behind, further”

didn’t know that, but hell yeah

the american wolfman constant is very high

i can’t help but be pleased that you associate 3 of my favorite instances with eachother! it makes me feel like i’m acting in a group who’s putting good things into the world

in addition to those, and anarchist.nexus (which @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com mentioned), i think quokk.au also belongs (i think they even had a vote to join the flotilla db0 was mentioning, but that they voted no). while these instances are not formally allied via the governance pact of said flotilla, i do find them, and the users on them, to generally have complementary views and stances on the world, how it works, and how it should work.

it’s less like a flotilla and more like ships at sea who all hate the royal french armada together. we party at the same ports together, but we’re all on different adventures

it’s not even about “worse” it’s that we’ve always been more impressed by stylish graphics than high fidelity graphics. probably the most frustrating franchise to have forgotten this lessons is borderlands

“You been whippin’ them bankers like how I said to do? I best not be finding out you let Caesar co-opt my message in order to continue on the imperial project that killed me”

most chicago deep dish i’ve had is in layers for this very reason:

• crust basin
• cheese
• sauce
• cheese again

those recipes are by people who don’t know fuck all about chicago pizza, ignore them

the key is, from microsoft’s perspective, you don’t own your computer

From a classical economics (1700s) perspective, yes. However in the 1800s economists, political scientists, and philosophers started seeing the division in how we as a society study economics and politics as separate entities as a mistake and started analyzing groups of people through the lens of how their economy and politics effected eachother. It is to the benefit, however, to the capital holding class to sustain the divide and to never engage with the idea that the structure of civilization as we know it fundamentally exists to create a tier-based class system in which a small number of people own everything and produce nothing, and a large class of people own nothing and produce everything

what do you mean?