Preston Maness ☭

Mostly, yes. I don’t have enough other stuff to warrant storing it separately in a garage.

My garage is huge compared to my house. It has 2 cars, a laundry, and all of the stuff I don’t use every day.

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You get all the stuff into the same size house

Sounds like the problem is all the stuff.

Just to clarify…is /showerthoughts just a place to post an opinion?

Then there is the tankie Left, which also started with good intentions but seem to have confuse the recipe-book of slogans and the Party über alles discipline invented in the late 19th century and early 20th century by middle class intellectuals to inspired the near-illiterate masses of the time to create an utopian leftwing world (which didn’t work) with the actual thinking Principles and Intentions from which the rules were made.

The “tankies” are absolutely not utopian. There was a great big schism about this very question more than a century ago, with Marxists roundly rejecting the utopianism of the libertarian socialists (Anarchists). Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels is a good starting point.

but I hate it when someone behind the scenes decides whether or not I should be able to debate/talk to my political opposites.

Then you’re not gonna be a fan of federated alternatives like Lemmy. At least unless you run your own instance. Because instance admins can defederate from other instances, preventing you from reaching those defederated instances. In my mind, this is a Good Thing. I don’t want to federate with nazis and fascists myself, and I want to minimize my association with anyone who does. If “having a dialogue” with people that want us dead is super important, then they can pick a different instance to call home.

There’s a reason all irl votes are private.

That’s odd. I can see my representatives’ voting records plain as day.

Because in real life, it’s (relatively) easy to have both anonymity and trust.

It’s cute that people still believe this.

Hot take: Public voting records are good actually.

The answer is always “whatever generation came before I started playing.”

I see a lot of posts about how lemmy.ml admins are deleting any posts critical of Russia & China. Are there any receipts for those claims? I haven’t seen any actual proof, just a whole lot of people saying tankie.

The modlogs show that the moderators there are doing their job. If folks wanna continue uncritically regurgitating NATO propaganda and McCarthyism, they can do it elsewhere. Though I will admit, the irony of thousands of people fleeing a capitalist sinking ship, to a ship built and run by communists, only to then complain about all the communists, is funny.