I think I made a mistake by bringing in the concept of power tripping mods.

you're right to: a huge majority of the lemmyverse's current userbase has self sorted themselves into a few instances that makes power tripping mods a real problem.

if they had embraced the lemmyverse in it's original tankie spirit this would not be is a problem at all because the fediverse is designed to keep the discourse going despite any block/ban/defederation; taking those actions only serves to remove yourself from the main group chat that everyone else can see. a power tripping mod has no power when you can easily side step them to continue participating in the discourse.

i sort by new and on all instances and it's clear that the people on .ml and lemmygrad are getting the full group chat while people on instances like .world are only getting a smaller subset; which is why i asked the question.

the people in that demographic seek fiscal policies that protect their wealth and they're not voting liberal to get it.

the fediverse already handles power tripping mods & admins well by keeping the discourse alive no matter what they do and it's all by design

when a power tripper tries to ban/block/defederate the nature of the fediverse makes it so that the power tripper is only removing themselves from the main group chat that everyone else can see.

it's also helps frustrate self selecting users with moderate views. when you fully embrace the lemmyverse in its intended tankie spirit; you end up with an entire spectrum of activity levels with tons of nice content that can rival reddit and power tripping moderators/admins don't matter at all since you can simply go onto any other instance to keep participating in the discourse; but when your world views are so rigid that it forces you to self sort into into echo chamber instances; then power tripping mods are a big problem and a sea of endless inactive duplicates is all you get.

this looks like the trex skeleton they have on google's campus and it makes me wonder if this is some kind of psyop. lol

headlines are expensive and they took effort to ensure that we understood that they were black and hispanic in a story where hispanic rags don't bother with that distinction; but english speaking ones do. i didn't realize that the french were so much more closely aligned with the anglosphere than the spanish world.

i can understand posting to lemmygrad and .world because of the defederation; but i don't understand why .ml? those guys don't defederated with anybody.

i needed this; thank you.

i don't have a holy book to fall back upon to comfort me and i ascribe the leftist ideal that religion is an opiate for the masses; but i do recognize the need to acknowledge that your batteries as a ordinary human will wear out when you're able to see how thoroughly fucked up we are as a society and a species and the incessantly increasing lengths they go through to perpetuate it.

reminding ourselves that to keep our eyes on the long game is probably the only way to convince yourself to keep going because their efforts have an expiration date and no amount of money can keep this late stage capitalist rat race going forever.

protected by rain ponchos and plastic sheets like expectant audience members at a gallagher show

For instance, one of her policies is an anti-genocide policy. This might seem a bit radical and extreme but it’s apparently very popular.

it saddens me greatly that the question of genocide in this overton window is not whether or not genocide should exist; but instead the question is how much genocide is acceptable and the only incorrect answer is "zero".

it makes me sadder still that social media is dominated by manufactured consent so thoroughly that pointing something like "genocide is bad" only brands you a radical; a malcontent; too idealistically optimistic; or simply ignored.

the people who pour their heart and soul are the people they want. i'm the kind that they don't want: software engineers that have been doing IT/operations for so long that we understand & accept "good enough" and don't give a rat's ass if they don't implement something we've been working on; so long as we continue to get paid.

they search for people like you in the hopes of avoiding people like me because mind sets like mine are both more common and more difficult to manipulate.

to be clear: they'll still shit on you like they do to anyone else, but know that you're the kind of people that they want and, if you can figure out how to leverage that for yourself, you'll be doing very well.

watching all the manufactured attention go to ukraine & all the efforts to swat away attention from gaza while very little of anything goes to cuba makes me wonder about the future of cuba and whether or not it's people will be able to survive the cruelty inspired policies that are doing their job right now.

the fact that it's been over a half century by this point and still no where near on the lips of voters lays bare the effectiveness of manufactured consent and i wish that people could nudge their heads 1/10th of a degree so that this was in their field of vision so that maybe we would do something about it. however that half century is a testament to how well our handlers have become adept at their jobs and the surest sign that this mountain to climb requires a multi-generational hike with no rests for the weary or desperate and at the derision of the mainstream.

in the mirror universe: the dominion sends their shock troops to bombard local populations with love bombs and flash mobs. the mirror universe's civilizations love them too much share them with anyone else; that's why the dominion is unknown outside the mirror universe gamma quadrant.

i want a world with himbos as far as the eye can see!

the gazans will be reduced to native america reservations in isreal with populations too small to ever resist the collective boot on their necks in the future; as they are in the united states right now.

additionally, all the wanton destruction levied by the idf over wealth building assets like real estate and the local economy imposes both a new generational impoverishment and maximizes the reduction of any previous generational wealth to guarantee that the future gazans will be dependent on governmental purse strings as the native americans are today and will be controlled by those purse strings into the future.

in the fediverse; blocklists only serves to remove you from the group chat that everyone else can see.

then i hope that americans can rediscover religion quickly if kamala loses; amen. lol

being alive to see the controversy first hand when they first redid the klingons after the first movie and again after discovery has taught me to smile at fan controversies. lol