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Syrc ,

The fact that we invented so many voting systems that work better than the current ones, but pretty much every nation with actual elections keeps using the same old flawed methods is really disheartening.

Syrc ,

They said they aren’t voting for Biden, and in a FPTP system that’s what it means.

Syrc ,

14% of liberals aren’t pro-choice

…excuse me?

Syrc ,

In a long term strategy, if leftists refuse to vote for Democratic candidates who are too far right, then the Democrats would have to either try to appeal to the Trump demographic (which they do unfortunately do), or appeal to the leftist demographic until they get the leftist votes back.

You said it yourself. They have two choices and they’re currently doing the worse one. What makes you think they’ll change their mind along the way?

Syrc ,

Yes but… isn’t the whole point of liberalism “personal liberty above everything, keep regulations to the extreme minimum”? To me that feels like a vegan that randomly decides eating one type of meat is ok.

Re-reading the survey, if the options were only Conservative, Moderate and Liberal I can understand why some leftwing religious people would choose that, but it still feels weird to me.

Like, in my mind the opposite of Conservative is Progressive, not Liberal. That’s the opposite of Authoritarian.

Syrc ,

Kinda? The thing is that Christianity is a 2000+ year old “ideology” that isn’t even consistent with itself, so it’s a given that their followers pick and choose which parts they want to adhere to.

I expected more coherence from a philosophy that’s barely 400 years old but apparently that’s still too much I guess.

Syrc ,

A third party will never realistically step in as long as FPTP is in place. Democrats could absolutely go full Trump and get votes because the Republicans somehow managed to go even more off the deep end.

As I see it, the only way out is to keep voting Democrats and try readjusting the Overton Window, so that eventually if Republicans keep losing they’ll be the ones forced to appeal more to leftwing voters. And at that point, when their opponent isn’t a cartoonish ghoul, Democrats will actually have to try as well.

Syrc ,

And because of how FPTP works, they unfortunately translate to “Trump”, “Biden”, “Whatever” and “I don’t care”.

Syrc ,

So you think Kennedy or the other candidates are likely to get more votes than Trump and Biden?

Syrc ,

I’m assuming the average leftwing person is pro-free healthcare. Neither Biden nor Trump are. Did Jill Stein get a huge amount of voters for being the only candidate to support it in 2016? She barely got 1%.

That’s not how it works. It’s just going to shift the Overton Window even more.

Syrc ,

So many of the things people are saying Trump will do is already happening under the Biden administration.

…because of officials elected by Trump.

There’s a crapload of policies others already pointed out that make Biden extremely different from Trump, if you still think they’re “very similar” you’re just being willfully ignorant at this point.

Syrc ,

…and you think in a FPTP system voting for someone who is very unlikely to win isn’t effectively the same as voting “whatever”? What’s the difference?

Syrc ,

So the difference is for one you have to waste your time to achieve the same result?

Syrc ,

That’s undeniably true. But to say they’re very similar is a huge exaggeration.

It’s the difference between drinking expired milk with or without cyanide inside. You’re still getting food poisoning but one is most definitely worse.

Syrc ,

Yes, because voting someone else in the primary doesn’t have the risk of electing a literal dictator.

I’d actually say 20% is quite low for a situation like that, it means 80% of democrats actually like Biden and that’s baffling to me. Compare that to 2020 when he got 51% in primaries and he actually gained consensus.

Syrc ,

So you don’t care who wins but want to increase voter turnout?

Syrc ,

No matter how much you want to make Biden look bad, the end results are not the same (unless you live in Gaza, but even then I highly doubt strategic actions matter unless you mean straight-up overthrowing the government).

Syrc ,

That’s a normal consequence of more tech-savvy people leaving Reddit than others. Just gotta wait for spez to mess it up even more and we’ll get a wider variety of people here.

Syrc ,

It depends, if mods were fully onboard and had a plan it definitely works. Just look at Piracy or Star Trek communities.

Syrc ,

Depends on what your standard is, to me a community on here having 100+ daily users is already a huge success. I don’t think people expect the whole subreddit to migrate, just enough to have roughly the same amount of content/interaction.

Syrc ,

It’s 100 daily interacting, which is much more than 100 subscribers. And Reddit doesn’t have daily users statistics so you can’t really know how many of those 700k are still using the site. Some might have not even logged for the past 14 years. I’d say actual daily users are less than 10k, maybe not even 2/3k looking at upvotes.

The statistics are not comparable, but as long as a community managed to form in here I’d say it’s still a success.

Syrc ,

Less than 100 times. That was a high estimate. Top post in the past 24h has like 900 upvotes, that means 9 times at a bare minimum estimate.

And no one expected the whole community, or even a majority, to move to Lemmy. There was a (partial) migration, and to the end user it doesn’t mean that much if their post is viewed by 100 or 1000 people. A hundred people are plenty to just discuss a tv series.

Syrc ,

I’d say it’s fair to say “there has been a migration” from Lemmy to Facebook, in that case.

It’s not like the definition itself matters though, the important thing is the end user experience and that’s pretty much been replicated with a community of that size.

Syrc ,

I’m not saying you would do this, but ask yourself this: how would most men react if a woman comes up to flirt with them & she changes her mind half way through the conversation & decides to leave? Will most men be okay with it and move on? Or will they take it personally in some way and feel mistreated or get upset with the woman for “leading them on for no reason”?

Though this would probably solve itself if women hit on men as much as the opposite. Men feel mistreated in that situation because they “got their hopes up” and then dipped. If that wasn’t a rare occurrence and they had women hitting on them, say, once a month, one rejection wouldn’t hurt as much.

This is all just theory of course, it’s such a huge societal change that I don’t think anyone can reliably predict the outcomes.

Syrc ,

“Normalize women hitting on men” isn’t putting the responsibility on women. The opposite actually, most of the times it’s men who berate women for being “sluts” and whatnot. Society as a whole needs to normalize that, not just women.

Syrc ,

Women also berate other women for being “sluts”. Men do it more but it’s absolutely not a gendered issue.

Syrc ,

Did I say literally anything that would contradict your last comment? I know that, and I agree. That doesn’t change what I said.

You’re coming off as really aggressive for reasons I don’t understand. If suggesting women aren’t completely guiltless is a “harmful opinion” I don’t know what to tell you.

Syrc ,

I’m not even playing devil’s advocate for anyone, I just wanted to add why, in fact, the normalization of women hitting on men could be a solution to the problem.

I’m not advocating for anything, because if you ask me “ok but how do we do that” I’d have no answer. Societal change is a hard thing to do and you can’t “normalize” something through sheer effort.

It was just a hypothetical for a what-if scenario, you’re the one who interpreted it as me putting the responsibility on women. I know a woman can’t just go “ok I’m gonna start hitting on men” in today’s society and expect things to go well, it was just a theory about what would happen if we lived in a society where that was already the norm.

Syrc ,

That was assuming it was already normalized. I didn’t mean it as “women should start hitting on men in the current society”. I said in that exact comment that it was just a theory.

And if movies worked it would’ve already been normalized. I definitely remember more women than men flirting in movies I’ve seen. But it’s different there because they usually hit on the main character, and most of the times men complaining about that aren’t the ones getting hit on. They’re the jealous ones that wish it happened to them.

(Just to be clear, yes, movies can work in normalizing stuff, just not on this specific topic imo.)

Syrc ,

Every other comment chain in the thread is talking about “the real issue”. This one’s top comment was about normalizing women hitting on men, and I just wanted to chime in about that. It’s not like one chain talking about a different take invalidates every other discussion in here.

Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed (mastodon.social)

For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807

Syrc , (edited )

Well, for non-German speaking europeans it makes sense, last time I checked .world was the only decently-sized English-speaking server in my area.

EDIT: well, apparently that’s no longer the case, good to be wrong I guess

Syrc ,

I pray to God (or whoever I have to) that the .world admins rethink their federation decision.

Syrc ,

Lemmy integrates Activitypub and Threads plans to as well, sooner or later.

Syrc ,

A small instance has a higher probability of the owner stopping maintaining it. Obviously this doesn’t apply if the instance is yours, but I’m not tech-savvy enough to do that.

Syrc ,

Lemm.ee still shows up as “private” in the Observer, but I don’t know how I missed .ml being in France (I really doubt they somehow “ moved” the server). Checking again you’re right though, the situation got a lot better over time.

Syrc ,

a toxic fuck or at least a thoughtless stereotyper

That’s like everyone back when I was in school, me included.

Syrc ,

So the Ukraine invasion and the Uyghur genocide are both just propaganda?

Syrc ,

Uhh… most people I’ve seen on Lemmy are condemning the genocide in Palestine. Same for the war in Iraq. Where are you getting all those “USA Good” comments? I constantly see people complaining about it.

Syrc ,

I’ve been using Safari + AdGuard for a while and I don’t remember seeing any ad.

Syrc ,

On IOS Brave is the only big browser with competent adblock afaik until/unless Firefox gets extensions going.

Safari + AdGuard gave me no issues so far.

Syrc ,

I think more than “fear”, it sounds way less fun than the two before it.

Syrc ,

Finances should absolutely be discussed beforehand. I fully support split finances in every relationship, and making it clear at the beginning is much better than later on where it might look like a signal of losing trust.

Syrc ,

I really don’t understand the point of this whole argument.

You wanted to point out how a woman in a knight’s armor is, historically, statistically improbable. Ok.

What did the other comments want to achieve? No one, at any point, argued that female knights were a common occurrence.

Syrc ,

Then I don’t understand what your point is.

If you were trying to say that women in an armor were extremely uncommon, then comments about some of them existing should just reinforce your claim, they were so rare that you could probably list them all.

If you were arguing in absolutes instead, saying that at no point in history a woman has ever worn an armor, then bringing outliers to the discussion is a legitimate correction, since even a single one existing breaks the absolute.

In both of those cases, you asking for a second woman in armor or ten thousand male knights are non-sequiturs, because them existing or not doesn’t change anything in the previous statements. So one has to guess your point is neither of those, but a third one instead, which I really didn’t understand.

If I have to guess, the “argument” about you is that no one really understood the point of your comments, so they’re arguing with you about what they think you mean. Which is wrong, of course, but you should clarify that if you want to have a meaningful discussion. Making sarcastic comments doesn’t help clear up things.

Syrc ,

>Complains about people not answering his questions and belittling him

>Proceeds to not answer questions and belittle others

I mean, I tried to put good will in it but it seems it was pointless.

Syrc ,

You mean Christopher Dorner? “Michael Dorner” brings no relevant results on google.

Syrc ,

If anything, the experiment would prove that power imbalance needs to be regulated and that people acting as “bastards” aren’t necessarily bastards.

Syrc ,

In present times, of course. Jews have been persecuted a plethora of times throughout history.

If you look at early AD Centuries, when christians were the ones persecuted, their population is estimated to be 2% of the entire Roman Empire in Year 250. That’s not a lot for being just 200 years after God supposedly, unmistakably showed himself to the world.

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