pretty bad

It’s great in theory, but they need to give people a way to self-censor shit they don’t want to see. I don’t need to see any videos with blatant racism and weird ass conspiracy crap. If it could tag things that would be great.

I’d rather you just keep this on 4chan or whatever pedo site you come from tbh.

Ask chatGPT… it will help you figure that out and install it

i used to use Reddit Is Fun which had to change its name to RIF Is Fun because Reddit threatened to get the app kicked off all the app stores for having the Reddit name in the app

so petty

like all popular things it always panders to the lowest common denominator

that and the abject lawlessness of it all… some of the biggest losers hold power over much of Reddit and they indiscriminately shadow ban and outright ban people on a whim

they also selectively enforce rules as they continually make them up

and Conde Nast undoubtedly sells every bit of data people provide

i don’t go to reddit since i found lemmy… at least not to browse… for some reason it comes up in searches for things a lot these days, but most often i see reddit on here

i come to lemmy in spurts like i did with reddit… sometimes multiple times a day sometimes once every other day or so

Indeed. Come to think of it, what other country sanctions anyone that the US isn’t sanctioning? The effect would be so miniscule as to be laughable. But when the US rallies the minions it’s a devastating weapon against civilian populations.

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The US is literally murdering Syrians right now with unending sanctions that have completely crippled them. Sanctions only hurt civilians. Also the US is occupying large swaths of Syria and stealing the oil from the oil fields.

What other country does shit like this?

A “useful idiot” is the term the US propaganda machine uses I believe

unprovoked invasion of ukraine… sigh i guess raising an extreme right-wing ultra-nationalist (read: nazi) army that slaughtered thousands of Ukrainians in regions where they didn’t accept the coming nazification of the country, and who were running referendums to join Russia, and then being prepped for application to NATO is not provocation at all.

I think it’s mainly reactionary. I think people feel the “western” world is so beyond corrupt that any leader that isn’t part of it can’t be all that bad.

They have to vilify the countries they haven’t dominated yet, or are about to dominate again. It’s part of how war works. Also the US wants the world’s resources on a silver platter and Russia has a LOT of resources.

both

drugs… i would have been an insufferable lib if i’d never tried a drug in my life

Not typically, but I did in New York City with one old guy in particular. He was always sitting on the sidewalk a few blocks from my apartment on my path to the gas station to get beer. I’d usually stop by and sit down with him and talk. Sometimes we’d talk for just a couple minutes, and other times it might be an hour or longer.

He was a nice old guy but he wouldn’t talk a whole lot about the circumstances that led him to his situation. He was a veteran and he had suffered from PTSD from back in Vietnam, but he didn’t like to talk about it much. Mostly we just talked about whatever was going on in the world and how fucked up the US is.