• @[email protected]
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    728 days ago

    Most of Lemmy: EAT THE RICH!!!

    Me: Idk, liberal democracy with reasonable social safety nets, some wealth anti-accumulation, and a robust education system? We should get there by showing up to city council meetings.

    Most of Lemmy: LINUX!!!

    Me: but I want a computer where I don’t have to troubleshoot the wifi driver every 3 months…

    • @[email protected]
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      428 days ago

      I think you’re reading the room accurately. Nothing flops here like exposing childish extreme views to reality. If you’re not an extremist for their side, you’re worse than a monster.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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        828 days ago

        I don’t think anyone here is an extremist I think they’re all so pigeonholed in their respective flavors of progressiveness that they forget other people have slightly different views.

        • @[email protected]
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          327 days ago

          Anyone who supports communism is an extremist relative to the rest of society. At least this is the case in the whole of USA and Europe.

        • @[email protected]
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          528 days ago

          Maybe so. Views tend to become simpler out at the extremes, and I think we have a lot of young people here who are drawn to simple, direct views. I mean shit I’m drawn to simplicity as well, but once you’ve had to manage things out in the real world, the first thing you realize is how complicated they are.

        • @[email protected]
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          428 days ago

          Thats my biggest gripe with leftists.

          We could agree on 80% of things, but that 20% that we don’t is the thing they’ll obsess over.

            • @[email protected]
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              428 days ago

              Precisely. But the biggest defining trait of ‘online leftists’ is they’re much more concerned about fighting amongst themselves, than fighting republicans.

                • @[email protected]
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                  328 days ago

                  Yep. Literally without fail.

                  The party that would absolutely welcome their views into the party they refuse to participate, while also complaining that said party doesn’t try and court them.

                  Like, you don’t get courted with policy and with seats in congress if you don’t show up. It’s the height of delusion and entitlement.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    228 days ago

                    The democrats would never welcome communism into their party

                    Because fully embracing communism would mean disbanding the party

                  • Psychadelligoat
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                    328 days ago

                    The party that would absolutely welcome their views

                    So you’re delusional for real, then, eh? Like, did you seriously not pay attention last election or what?

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                    228 days ago

                    The party that would absolutely welcome their views into the party they refuse to participate, while also complaining that said party doesn’t try and court them.

                    They welcome our views just not our voices, most especially our tone when we desperately plea for help to be able to keep on living.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    227 days ago

                    American Democrats aren’t a good example here as they aren’t a leftist party, they are centrist. Generally though I get what you are saying.

    • @[email protected]
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      1628 days ago

      I don’t have to troubleshoot the wifi driver every 3 months…

      Seriously I haven’t seen an actual WiFi issue on Linux for years.

      • Psychadelligoat
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        228 days ago

        Oh fuck this reminder me

        Like a week ago my wife’s PC starts getting absolutely terrible wifi speed, like 1mbps when she normally gets 50 (terrible walls for wifi and the router cannot get closer sadly) so I go to investigate it

        Turns out a recent update broke the drivers for her wifi adapter, of all things, resulting in some wacky ass behavior. This was not on a Linux installation, though…

    • @[email protected]
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      1828 days ago

      Me: but I want a computer where I don’t have to troubleshoot the wifi driver every 3 months…

      That’s what we said, “Linux.” I haven’t had to troubleshoot a driver in like seven years.

    • @[email protected]
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      1128 days ago

      Me: but I want a computer where I don’t have to troubleshoot the wifi driver every 3 months…

      So, you have no control over your own decisions?