Every big web site in 2024 looks like the sites people warned you not to visit in the 90s

To have a solution, you first must have a problem. This isn’t one. It’s only a problem for racists.

Treating people’s lives like political pawns in a campaign is NOT okay. Stop trying to normalize this shit.

Don’t ever speak to me again. Enabling this shit is a horrible thing to do to people. Let’s put you in a camp or send you into a violent situation and see how much you like it. “BuT iT’s ElEcTiOn YeAr” I don’t care

“Just a few hundreds more people in concentration camps and thousands more deported, and we can finally stop the Republicans from imprisoning and deporting immigrants and refugees!”

Democrats having a normal one about human rights, eh?

Edit: This may be a good place to remind everyone that the people we’re de facto targeting with these policies are people with indigenous roots. This can and should be interpreted through the lens of colonialism and our ongoing genocide against Native groups.

Edit 2: Oh boy I cannot believe I have to say this, but these people with indigenous roots are not limited to Mexico and Central America. Does anyone know anything about history here?? My God, I’d assume if one is going to comment that one would at least have the slightest idea what they’re talking about.

Edit 3: And to the people who think it’s some kinda “gotcha” to point out that I’m disengaging from people who are shit-deep in the anti-immigrant hysteria, you got me. Nearly half my family are immigrants, some of whom have been detained and/or deported by our racist border policy, and I live surrounded by batshit conservatives. So yes, this is a sensitive and personal issue to me. If I wanted to talk to people like that, I’d go to the gas station or bar. Lemmy is my opportunity to talk to people who at the bare minimum agree on certain fundamental ideals, an opportunity I don’t have much in real life. I will block and report you for name calling or other uncivilized attacks on my character.

Sure thing, Steve-O

Man, these TERF book fans make it easy!

Use the Force, Harry!

Blockus accountus!

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll block you to improve my experience

1. Your “separate the author from the works” is your opinion

2. Even if we do separate them, the works themselves are brimful of problematic tropes and stereotypes

3. I don’t want Harry Potter fans coming here, good god. I’d rather sound with a habanero-infused DS stylus than hang out with Harry Potter fans.

The most expensive phone call I ever made was to a crisis line. When they asked if I had a plan, I said “yes” because I thought “a plan” meant “a way to do the act, should I ever decide to do so,” and not “actually going through with it right now.” So they put me in police custody and drove me many miles away, wouldn’t accept my explanation. I lived in a tiny town at the time, so it was a loooong ride in an ambulance.

While they were admitting me, I had to pee so bad, but I have bashful bladder, and the police had to be watching me at all times. So I just had to hold it until I was able to use the toilet in the room, which was still hard to use, but at least there were no cameras directly pointed at the toilet (that I know of).

I was in for a couple of days, and I’d say the actual patients in the psych ward were some of the most level-headed people I had encountered so far during this whole experience, in spite of their various mental illnesses.

After a couple nights and like 20 minutes with a psychiatrist, my insurance wanted me out, so out I went. I was in an entirely different city with no way home to my little town. I figured out a way home, but it would involve nearly doxxing myself to reveal that part of the experience. Let’s just say I was in a worse place going out than I had been when I went in.

And then they slapped me with an $8000 bill, which got added on to my piles of debt.

I’ve never called one of those numbers again, although I suspect I just happened to get a bad attendant on the line, because I’d called it before without problem. I have a list of people to call when I’m in crisis. I don’t really talk about the crisis when I call, but it does help me personally to hear someone’s voice and help me redirect my thoughts. One of these people is the discord server owner who I used to mod for, because my life is just that pathetic.

No, they’re just validating the post

The people who think Trump should be allowed to run in spite of being an insurrectionist are the same people who support barring other justice-involved people from merely voting in an election

Companies issuing refunds in the form of gift cards is just straight-up insulting

You’re right, but this is the sort of thing that gets blown up by the media and used to shut down privacy-friendly platforms.

Maybe it’s a slippery slope fallacy on my part, but it’s not unimaginable to consider the idea that legislators could try to take down an enitre platform based on something like this. Just look at some of the proposed privacy-antagonistic legislation that’s been introduced recently to see what I mean.