This type of censorship never stops. There's no doubt in my mind as this trend continues we're going to see other taboo communities like piracy, not mainstream accepted politics, etc. ones being banned and their servers defederated.

We've already seen admins of this server removing comments and banning people for posting stuff they don't agree with. I don't see how Lemmy can succeed when we're not even at like 2.5k users per day on the biggest server and the admins here are already going extreme on the censorship.

Just because you can change the temperature in your car from cold to warmer doesn't mean you should either, but it's a risk we, for some reason, think is reasonable. Not because it's not potentially harmful, but because this one person should get a tiny bit warmer even if that means running over a bunch of school children. Why?

You could make the case that what OP is doing is far more beneficial to society, bringing attention to people not using their headlights in the rain with a very clear example showing its effects. This could be spread to thousands or even millions of people to make them realize how dangerous this is. This could potentially save tons of lives.

Still got nothing. You only have fear. You sound like those parents in the 1980's screaming about the devil when a kid dared to listen to Twisted Sister.

"Immigrants should be forced guided into places that us superior white people, who are above what I deem menial work, are needed born-in-country people struggle to live in."

Adding onto the other poster's comment, another reason is because the US will never pour unlimited money and resources into these people making sure they do.

Europe didn't pull itself up by its own bootstraps after WWII.

How am I being propagandized by TikTok?

Why does China having every single last drop of my information (they don't even, barely a sliver) matter?

You need to back up what you say. Your Western brainwashed idea of common sense and obvious xenophobia/racism ain't an objective truth in the world.

Everyone under 40 can do this with their eyes closed, more so than all the new touch screen bullshit modern cars have these days to put on the heat.

Just because you're physically holding a phone doesn't mean you're even close to being as distracted as texting.

Guess where most people live and want to live?

Can you explain how? All I see are lesbians and black people.

And why does China spying on me matter? It's better than the West, no?

"We're just looking out for the best interest of our children!"

A bunch of 35-45 year old Lemmy users bashing something they don't use but something the kids do. Just like their boomer and silent gen parents.

You guys fucking suck. I'd say I hope you all have sad, pathetic lives, but I know you all already do.

Even excusing the policy, the design is actually pretty shit though. We're all just used to it so it feels default and normal.

Nearly every city on the planet with a subway system disputes your bullshit.

It's like you heard "don't use your phone when driving" on the news one day and thought "okay, that's because the act of physically holding a phone means you're driving unsafely, understood newsperson!"

This is absolutely nothing like texting or fucking around on instagram. Stop trying conflate doing something that takes literally no braincells and is no more distracting than anything else you do in the car to being completely distracted and non-functional while texting, browsing the web, or watching TikTok videos.

It's so funny how you guys operate. Even when confronted, you just cherry-pick what's being said and strip away the context to push the exact same anti-science and anti-truth positions that were just given retorts. I don't know if it's ignorance or wilful deceit, but either way, people like you are a net negative to humanity.

If you knew anything, you'd know this isn't the reason why getting vaccine approval takes so long. It takes so long because there's a mountain of bureaucrats, lawyers, researchers, and money required to get stuff moving along. Vaccines are pretty low the totem pole for companies and the government to give a shit about, since they're usually about prevention and not treatment. Companies and the government can't throw everything at a vaccine to approve. The only reason the covid vaccine was streamlined was because, you guessed it, we were and are in a global pandemic. Nothing about the approval of vaccines was abnormal, it still took nearly 2.5 years.

Whenever someone just straight up lies about vaccines and the responses to vaccines, they always need to bring up how they're all vaccinated and pro-vaccine.

There are mandated back doors in most message apps.

Source?

I don't see this happening. Apple to/from Android are the only texts that the government can easily snoop on.

I think it has more to do with the lack of democracy, especially in the US. I guarantee you could get 100 regular Joes in a room to come up with a high speed rail project. You could never get that to happen with politicians at the mercy of the ruling class.

Antinatalists constantly tell people to kill their offspring.

Some do, sure, but that's what what antinatalism is. This is like saying "vegans constantly tell meat eaters to kill themselves." Yes, some do, but the point of veganism isn't the death of meat eaters.

I argue on the same level as antinatalists.

No, you argue on your deranged level by justifying it with your antinatalist boogey man. You're like those YouTube conservatives who put up a picture of a blue haired teenager on screen and saying "this is who the liberals are."

If the cause is to end the suffering that humankind causes then there is only one solution.

This is like saying the way to end violence done in the name of religion is to kill off all religious people. There's more that goes into getting to an end solution than just immediately jumping to it. And it also seems like you think antinatalists entire existence is about making antinatalism, like there's nothing else besides this.

If my notions of the world are wrong, and humankind really is only a burden, then youre indirectly also calling for genocide.

You seem to not know what the word "natalism" means. It's about bring people into the world. It has nothing to do with people who are already living.

And killing off all living people isn't a genocide. It's "speciocide." Completely different things. Comparing antinatalists with people who commit genocides is unbelievably unhinged, but I should have seen it coming from someone like you.

You think that isn’t fucked up?

The only thing I think is fucked up in this discussion is people who only believe in antinatalism-lite for eugenic reasons and, of course, you.

You straw man the position and say following the conclusion of the straw man, humanity must end based on their logic.

How isn't having kids selfish? You're not having a child for this child's sake. You're having the child for your sake.

Do people think they're funny and/or smart leaving comments like this? Literally anytime someone questions something, there's this comment.

So if you were truly commited to your cause and you wanted your bloodline to die with you, then you could also [i do not condone selfharm, this is purely for argumentation].

I don't have a cause. You're putting words into my mouth because you don't know how to argue in good faith.

You're literally telling me to kill myself because you're personally offended someone dare challenge your preconceived notions of the world. You're a truly fucked up individual. I pray you don't have or ever have any dependents. You're a danger to society.

I think you might be glamorizing it a bit. Talking about politics was until "recently" considered very rude and taboo. There's been a big culture shift in talking about politics in the past maybe 15-20 years or so. I don't have any hard data and this is just my view, but I think a major turning point was when a lot of the country realized how fucked up the wars in the Middle East were. This put people squarely into two pretty emotional camps, pro-war and anti-war. Everyone* had an opinion. Everyone* was open about sharing that opinion. Over those few years 2003-2008 was probably the biggest shift in openly talking about politics among regular people. And since being open about politics was now in, here came the wave of loud and proud racism from "centrists" and conservatives once Obama was elected and it hasn't died down since.

So, yeah, it's real easy for discussions to get "hot" when one side is openly calling for all the -isms in the book and people on the other side finally realizing what's happening.

I said parents are selfish for having kids. You can try to downplay it all you want, but you don't have a kid for this future magical mystical kid. You have a kid for your own wants and needs over everything else. Just because having kids is an accepted action in society doesn't make it not selfish. And since you think of "selfishness" as a bad thing, this makes your brain scramble and your cognitive dissonance go into overdrive causing you to come up with completely inept retorts like I'm "selfish" for simply existing and using resources that the Earth clearly has as I'm using them.

This is such an incredible leap in logic.

You can say that having kids is selfish, which it objectively is (no matter if they're perfectly healthy/wealthy/on top of society or not), but also want to "build a society and world that will accept us, accommodate to us, liberate people and save the planet."

Focusing on just kids with disabilities and not every kid is fucked though, with a lot of these people in these spaces.

There's no other way to put it, having kids is extremely selfish.

It's pretty much the epitome of selfishness.

I want to clarify though, this isn't to say that calling only people who to have kids who happen to have disabilities "selfish." Every single parent is extremely selfish (excluding some outliers, obviously, don't "um actually" me).

Only on Lemmy.ml would they be jerking off cops and cop dogs.

If all you people actually cared about Palestinians and didn't turn a blind eye about all the atrocities committed by Israel the past 70+ years, none of this would be happening now.

You're removing the all context because you don't give a fuck about Palestinians and their treatment by Israel. You're trying to pretend this happened in a vacuum.

Kagi sucks for this reason too. I can't believe people recommend that $200/yr paid search engine garbage.

Want to hear some mind-blowing information? Not everyone likes the stuff you like, you're not the barometer on what is good or what is unhealthy.

There’s a clear distinction between the sort of age of crusades and modern post ww2 geopolitics that generated the current conflict

This is like saying the BLM movement in America has nothing to do with slavery.

but to suggest that there’s not been a near continuous level of conflict in the area between Jews, Muslims, and Christians is disingenuous.

It's not disingenuous. Jewish people literally just weren't there until very recently. You're talking like 1000+ years ago.

You're stripping context away. This is all you anti-Palestinians, pro-Zionists do to push your genocidal views.

Here’s the difference. As fucked as Israel treats many in the strip, you don’t see crowds of civilians joining in to rape women or spit on the corpses of Innocents. You see soldiers do fucked things sure but the average person isn’t involved.

The shit that Hamas just did? Streets filled with people joining in and celebrating women being paraded around. You see civilians jumping into the truck with them to rape them. You see celebrations all around the world about this.

There's no proof or evidence of any rape happening. This is just you making the assumption that since women are taken, they must have been raped by these savage Palestinians. This is pure, unadulterated racism. Sure, it could have happened and it could be happening, but there's literally no proof of it anywhere. You're literally just making shit up because you're racist.

You know what you've never talked about or thought of in your life? The decades long documented torture and raping campaign of Palestinians by Israel never mind all the tens of thousands of dead Palestinians. None of this makes you bat an eye.

On top of this, most countries don’t even want Palestinians because of how fucked they are. Look what happened in Egypt when they accepted them. They don’t anymore for a reason.

What you're saying is just a straight up lie backed up with nothing.

I don't know why you think racism against Palestinians is okay. This is literally identical to every other genocidal campaign throughout history. "These other people are savages and 'fucked' and can't be civil, therefore, it's okay to treat them the way they are treated."

They absolutely deserve what is coming to them. Israel is still doing roof knocks to warn Innocents and they absolutely shouldn’t at this point.

There's no difference between you and the people after 9/11 thinking we should nuke the entire Middle East into oblivion. You're the same person. Very stupid, very emotional. We're all glad the only power you have over anyone is yourself. You're an unhinged nutjob.

Need a modern day crusade to clean that country out of these people who believe that it’s acceptable to rape and kill old people.

So everyone in every Western military and government too? Or that doesn't count because it's acceptable when they do it.

I'm not calling you a boomer, unless you're calling the image you posted tankie material and yourself a tankie.

“OK, boomer” attacks a mindset, not a generation

Another example is a pretty big meme from 5 years ago, the 30 year old boomer.

Why do all the 40 year old boomer Lemmy users call anything to the left of the most moderate Democrat "tankie"?

You're trying to make this seem like a black and white issue, when it's not. Comparable logic is like you saying racism against white people is the same exact thing as racism against black people in the US. No, no it's not. You're trying to dumb this down into the most surface level shit imaginable. You're purposely ripping out context to push your anti-Palestinian bias.

You don't understand Palestine at all. It's not a fundamentalist Islamic territory like some of their neighbors. Of course there are some in there, but it's not anything like you see in other Islamic areas. You're just lumping all Arabs and Muslims in together to fit your ignorant ass Western worldview.

Apple isn't okay. Apple is forced onto developers. The general population using Apple products requires developers to use Macs. And, last time I checked, it's a lot easier carrying around one laptop than two. It also doesn't hurt that Apple products aren't exactly the quality of off-brand Chinese laptops.