Fredthefishlord
@Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 day ago:
there but those who use “literally” as every second word in their sentences awaken a primal rage inside of me that is yearning for rock to split skull.
I hard agree. Misuse of literal is a problem many decades old and it hurts still
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 2 days ago:
It’s interesting to me. I got out and made more friends after covid. Didn’t stop me…
- Comment on How do I stop having expectations at the workplace? 3 days ago:
Can’t get erections if you lose ur dick
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 4 days ago:
…no, I’m not. They’re very serious, and should be taken as such. But that doesn’t make them an accurate risk assessment in it of an individual incident, you need to look at numbers, for a real risk assessment
- Comment on Anon learns the truth about "The Art of the Deal" 5 days ago:
No rich person ever writes their own books. It was always obvious
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 5 days ago:
Social media requires free users to function on to fundamental of a level for that to really work tbh
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 5 days ago:
Honestly I think they already hit critical mass.
- Comment on Anon is staying at a hotel 5 days ago:
Depends on what country you’re in.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 5 days ago:
Not notifications, but I have to leave my volume on in case there’s an emergency call from work or a friend
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 5 days ago:
That was someone else who said that buddy
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 5 days ago:
We all know exactly what you’re really saying here and you’ll deny and make excuses about it.
Just because you read into it wrong doesn’t make your bullshit interpretation correct.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 5 days ago:
An actual risk assessment would look at % not single incidents
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 6 days ago:
It’s disingenuous because they’re not everywhere. They’re in a specific subset of high crime areas.
It’s a very own problem in its own right, but when including in a statistic used to represent all of America as shooting people up is what makes it a poor and often intentionally misleading statistic as compared to how safe you actually are in the average area
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 6 days ago:
I mean, most of those are gang shootings, no? Those are always a bit disingenuous to call mass shootings.
- Comment on 你好! 1 week ago:
nobody with half a brain would want to come here.
That is highly dependent on country of origin
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 1 week ago:
Say this and then when evil parents bring in their kids give them gender affirmation and gay affirmation
- Comment on Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government? 1 week ago:
Green card holders are permanent. They’re not any form of temporary and are absolutely not guests.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 week ago:
This comes a bit down to utilitarianism vs ethics based on principles
No, it doesn’t. Either one, democracy is still better… Science does best with freedom from suppression.
I’m not making the point that democracy is bad
You are, in fact, making that point
which goes to my previous point, that the propaganda is so internalized and polarized now that you don’t need threats of state violence to keep the population in check
Social suppression is a world apart from state suppression, and downvotes on reddit are not an example of keeping people in check. that’s a terminally online viewpoint.
Of course China has massive problems and corruption and abuses
They are literally a dictatorship. That’s an incredible understatement.
How do YOU know that life in China isn’t actually better and people more happy than in the USA?
They are actively commiting genocide.
Sure you have freedom of speech with the means of communication owned and controlled by the oligarchs
There’s plenty of options for uncontrolled communication. Corp suppression is still wholly different from gov suppression;they can’t toss you in jail.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer is an aphorism that is leading the west inevitably towards fascism.
That’s your opinion, and does not reflect reality.
Your response to a trend toward fascism(which is happening, but not inevitable), is to say we should embrace it like china does?
They are stealing your future right now and there is nothing you can do because they control the media.
Are you intentionally being obtuse about the fact that china has massive censorship. I’m not here to say the usa is good. You’re ignoring European reality, favoring the usa in your arguments because it’s closer to supporting them.
So all the “posturing” about how superior our principles and freedums are is just… well it’s a delusion
We objectively speaking have more freedom of speech than china does at the present moment.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 week ago:
It doesn’t work.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 week ago:
…saying china is a democracy, or good, the kind of thing I hear these types saying is just as propagandized a take. That’s the issue…
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 week ago:
You can be “left wing” without being a “leftist”. I wouldn’t classify them as the same, personally. Left wing really includes anyone left of center
- Comment on Anon knows an artist 1 week ago:
Lying about who you are to silicate money under a fall pretense is absolutely fraud.
- Comment on Anon knows an artist 1 week ago:
Call their local police office. For something like this, literally nothing will happen. Ever. No matter what. Online fraud is damn near unenforced.
- Comment on How does one snap their fingers? 1 week ago:
My pet peeve is when people post this for things that are not even close to common knowledge, like this
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 week ago:
They don’t care about making money, they care about gambling and having a gambling addiction and trying to justify it
- Comment on PirateSoftware's Take On $80 Games 1 week ago:
You just "there are starving children in Africa"ed the conversation
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
Which is also why anyone who says consoles are better is straight clowning tbh
- Comment on The Trouble With TikTok Is Getting Old 1 week ago:
… that’s not what I said at all. I specifically said, “hostile foreign power” for a reason.
How is there less risk to Americans on a platform like X(itter) instead of TikTok?
See my statement on how all should be regulated. But the difference is that country can enforce the regulations.
I don’t believe any media should be banned. But algorithms should be subject to regulation and worry, in my opinion.
- Comment on The Trouble With TikTok Is Getting Old 1 week ago:
“it’s just a game” is a common phrase used to justify cheating, and insult people who call it out. I’m pointing to the usage of “it’s just an app” here as similar to that, meaning it’s used to downplay how much actual impact an app can have, and to insult those who call it out, by making it out to be a lesser thing than it actually is.
- Comment on The Trouble With TikTok Is Getting Old 1 week ago:
Tiktok has a fuck ton of problems. Letting in run free is ridiculous. But all of the major social medias need the hammer brought down on them, they should not be solely targeting tiktok.
Letting a hostile foreign power control a social media site is dangerous. Same reason Europe should ban the American ones, we should ban tiktok