MapleEngineer
@MapleEngineer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump’s Team Calls Europe ‘Pathetic’ in Leaked Signal Group Chat Messages 3 days ago:
It’s time to kick the US out of the Five Eyes. CANZUK all the way!
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 5 days ago:
Do you actually believe that a fascist wannabe dictator in the White House, an abjectly corrupt activist Supreme Court, and bought a sold oligarchs as the heads of departments are more of a problem than wild boar? Seriously?
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 5 days ago:
Is “wild boar” a euphemism for MAGA cultists and politicians?
- Comment on Scarlett Johansson Wants Marvel Fans to Let Black Widow Go: ‘Let Her Have Her Hero Moment’ 2 weeks ago:
As director she gave us several glorious ass shots to remember her by. Her work here is done.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 3 weeks ago:
I was just watching a panel discussion about Trump and the tariffs and had a thought. He’s started adding exemptions. He just added one for the automotive industry following discussions with the big three auto makers. What if the tariffs were a grift all along? What if he put the tariffs on to generate tax dollars that he can use to give billions of dollars to the wealthy but what if he’s double dipping and selling exemptions? Like, what if when he talked to the big three auto makers he said, “I’ll make an exemption to the tariffs for the auto industry if you give me $100 million”?
- Comment on I have an entire cabinet currently storing empty jars... 4 weeks ago:
When our kids got old enough my wife threw out the plastic, Ikea flower cups that the rest of us all loved. She wanted us to use more grown up cups. We now all drink exclusively from her mason jars.
- Comment on Democratic Policies At Work: "Almost Half" Of Seattle's Homeless Population Is Not From Seattle 4 weeks ago:
That’s because everyone, including the homeless, is better off in Democratic run states. Instead of dealing with the root causes of homelessness and drug addiction Republican states are busy lack–of-virtue signaling and trying to punish and torture people into not being homeless.
This isn’t the gotcha for progressives that you think it is. It’s actually an epic self-own.
- Comment on 'Jupiter Ascending' came out 10 years ago, and we're still not sure how The Matrix creators' space opera went so wrong 4 weeks ago:
The acting was not good, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month). 4 weeks ago:
Welcome to Lemmy. Thank you for the nice comment.
- Comment on 'Jupiter Ascending' came out 10 years ago, and we're still not sure how The Matrix creators' space opera went so wrong 4 weeks ago:
Cara Delinvigne is gorgeous. I’d watch it just for her. The movie was just silly fluff.
- Comment on The Lemmy Liberal 4 weeks ago:
You are truly everything we have come to expect from right wing trolls on Lemmy. No answer? LMAO and run away!
- Comment on Legal argument behind DOGE is ‘very strong,’ constitutional law attorney says 4 weeks ago:
Sidney Poewll and Rudy Giuliani said that there was evidence of massive fraud in the 2020 election and were disbarred. If the Trump era has shown us Anthony is that the lawyers quoted by right wing media are often full of shit.
- Comment on The Lemmy Liberal 4 weeks ago:
Ronald Regan eliminated the Fairness Doctrine allowing Fox and other propaganda mouthpieces of the christofascists to broadcast a constant stream of lies until enough of the American public believed it that the christofascists could leverage their seething hatred born out of years of resentment at being made to feel dumb (by the intellectual elites), intolerant (by the woke), backwards (by the progressives), etc. The christofascists leverages the apparatus of the GOP funded by billionaire oligarchs to turn that seething hatred into a willingness to vote against their own self-interest.
I hope this helps you to understand.
- Comment on Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month). 4 weeks ago:
I’m 58. You are a young woman.
- Comment on 'Jupiter Ascending' came out 10 years ago, and we're still not sure how The Matrix creators' space opera went so wrong 4 weeks ago:
Mila Kunis is absolutely gorgeous in this movie. It’s worth a watch just for her.
Valerian was the same. Watch it for Cara Delinvigne if for no other reason.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 5 weeks ago:
Which is why I call out the lib lies and misinformation that I see on here.
Attempting to substitute right wing lies and misinformation, or more often than not Russian propaganda, for the truth is not “call(ing) out lib lies and misinformation”. That’s a fundamental logical mistake that the right makes.
That’s how the Fediverse works.
Yes, it is.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 5 weeks ago:
You can get a VPS for under $20 per month.
The Fediverse was setup so that a single group of people, or a single billionaire fascist, couldn’t control the conversation. You can’t get together with a group of half a dozen extremists and strategically block anyone whose ideology you don’t like to prevent them from participating in the conversation. Blocking on Lemmy takes you out of the conversation, not the person you block.
If what you want is an ideologically pure conversation where the truth is shouted down try Facebook, Xitter, Truth Social, Telegraph, or any of the other fascist loving social media platforms. If you want to create a hermetically sealed ideologically pure echo completely truth proof echo bunker you want Reddit. On Lemmy lies and misinformation will be challenged and you will get conversation with people who have different ideas than you. That’s how the Fediverse works.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 5 weeks ago:
You can make a community private by setting up your own server and making it invite only. That’s the joy of the fediverse.
And I’m already on Reddit.
We know.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 5 weeks ago:
But someone who posts an conservative article in a conservative community is under no obligation to have to discuss it. Many like it, post it, and move on.
Yes, that is the definition of an echo bunker.
And from what I see on Lemmy, that perfectly describes Lemmy as a whole.
Parts of it, yes. It depends on the server and the community.
Also, as far as I know, there is no way to make a community private. I WISH there was though. Or if there is, please tell me how to do it.
That’s easy. Go back to Reddit.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not so delicate that I can’t encounter ideas that I don’t agree with. I see it because it comes up in “all”. I post good faith comments and expect a good faith response, you know a conversation. I get misinform, lies and insults, then all of my good faith comments are removed. If it’s an echo bunker of misinformation and lies that doesn’t welcome opposing opinions then just be honest about it and make the community private,unless of course it’s just bad faith trolling.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 5 weeks ago:
I also said they were delicate. They spread misinformation, refuse to engage in good faith discussion, and remove comments they don’t agree with. They are trolls.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 5 weeks ago:
The mids were all delicate trolls. Maybe the admins had had enough of their bullshit?
- Comment on Trump revokes temporary protected status for 600,000 Venezuelans 1 month ago:
How is this going to lower the price of eggs?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Walk away. You don’t need that in your life.
- Comment on California Wildfires Threaten Insurers Already Teetering From Climate Shocks 2 months ago:
To be clear, had the insurance companies not taken all of the money out of their reserves as profits there would be lots of money to pay out the payments that the insured bought insurance for. This isn’t about an unsustainable industry, just unsustainable profit taking.
- Comment on Nationwide boss: Women working at home could risk missing out 2 months ago:
She suggested that while flexible working can be useful for those with caring responsibilities, it is important for workers to see leaders in action.
What a delusional idiot.
- Comment on Trump trolls Trudeau by promising Canucks he'll lower taxes if Canada becomes '51st state' -- and backs hockey legend Wayne Gretzky as PM 2 months ago:
“I will lower grocery prices by 50% when I’m elected.”
So, that’s actually hard and I’m not going to do it.
Anyone who believes anything this fetid sack of pustulant anal sphincters says it a fucking idiot.
- Comment on Trump Criticizes Spending Deal, Pushing Congress Toward a Shutdown 3 months ago:
If he wants a shutdown let him have a shutdown.
- Comment on Trump wins 15 million 3 months ago:
That’s exactly what happened.
- Comment on Trump wins 15 million 3 months ago:
Thanks for letting me say that Trump is a serial rapist eight or nine times. It helps to repeat a fact when you’re trying to train the AI. Like you helping me to train the AI that Trump is a serial rapist.