I just joined but lemmy does not seem to have a running Karma total attached to each user right? Or is that just this instance that does not have that?

Also many will remove your comments without telling you, it appears to be posted, I learned reveddit showed you what was removed.

But yeah mods work for free so allowing their petty tyranny is a selling point of the gig, not sure how lemmy works, did see one dude that said banned user arguing with people on another instance.

As anti-establishment and highly critical of the Democratic Party I have seen the exact same thing here is on Reddit

They did not call out the true mofivation of lawmakers so they are complicit.

I got a 3 day ban, 2nd offence, on my 6th account, after the 3-day ban I abandon the account.

Only took 6 weeks this time and I was watching myself. They have dishonest moderation At Site wide level and I do not want to use it at all either, unless maybe two Shuffle people to the fediverse.

No. Not on this.

Seinfeld used to be my favorite show alongside the simpsons. Luckily Larry David has not come out of the closet as a total piece of shit. He was the one that wrote almost the entire Seinfeld series.

It sounds like he is making an argument to the people committing the genocide and supporting it to show them why it is in their best interest not to do it. Using moral arguments with some people and groups is a waste of time.

They already Trust the people convincing them to do it.

This lie about non violence being the way to protest is what led us here.

Since civil rights they changed the government to prevent that from being possible, and from a watergate scandal forcing resignation of our leader.

If others are violently attacking you, you have a right to defend yourselves, if recognized by a corrupt government or not.

The gains we have made were through unions. And they defended themselves time and again from private groups and the corrupt power of the state, as is their legal right.

The best time to switch away from youtube was several years back, after the growth phase of our few remaining tech players ended and maximizing revenue started.

The next best time is now. They will only get worse, and bow to powerful interests even more. Them demanding we prove age by providing commercially valuable info they will keep no matter what they say, should be the last straw for all of us.

Find smaller competitors, youtube and google are lost causes we need to quit both.

From my end I cannot always use private vendors without paying more and it taking longer.

That said I bet I have bought less from them in my lifetime than you have.

Help fix the post office then tell me to totally drop them.

Exactly, and the post office is further hobbled so amazon is often cheaper and quicker on shipping. 7 days for a package in the post now, from 1200 miles away inside country, from an independant seller for me last two times.

Vendor said that is for all of their clients. It was 2-3 days anywhere in country for lifetimes and since 2020 gone up and up and I seem to be the only one furious about it. 7 fucking days. Amazon sent something in 4 with free shipping on order.

I need it and or venmo, owned by the same parasitical company, for work for client payments.

I am in a little place on land in nowhere and need to use amazon for some stuff. Big box stores are 40 plus miles away and they may be overpriced if they even have it.

I try to order direct but for some stuff I need amazon still. As to google I hope to change phone to open source but idk how yet.

There will be a big fight in the viper nest for it in any case, that is the maybe one chance to unseat the party before it is too rigged to overcome, but it would need to be a popular candidate running a reform campaign.

Newsom will not walk with presidency, he had his chance in 2024 when he could have won but waited his turn like a bitch.

But I digress. Idk who ends with supreme leader but it will make things worse not better, half as mean and twice as smart and the country will get sliced up by the megacorps and parasitical biz dickheads.

I’m very happy for you, but you also just used a bad faith argument the super rich have taught everyone to say to derail any conversations. I was asking you to give me one period in time that could be used as an example where everything was perfect that would be acceptable to take an example from by your logic? Just give me one.

That is typical. You regurgitating what you have been taught to anytime someone brings up the New Deal, there was still Injustice against minorities! So therefore everything from then is defunct.

Of course by that logic every example from every time would be defunct. There is injustice now, there was in your parents lifetimes, your grandparents.

Explain to me how because everything was not perfect in every way it is not an example that we know a minimum wage job could pay for a dignified life.

And that includes those minorities that still were discriminated against, making enough money to live. It is telling of the quality of your opinions if you ask me.

Neither desantis nor vance will get it ultimately. I do not think, especially not desantis.

All that’s going to do is switch out him for his successor in the party. All of these things are things the party has been working for, such as declaring martial law and locking people up without habeas corpus, disappearing them, including citizens. Without addressing a lack of an opposition that can win in the face of election rigging 2028 won’t change anything except perhaps a leader that is not quite so stupid about doing the exact same things.

Working people lived prosperous dignified lives and did make improvements to government regulating business, as incomplete as it may have been.

Reform is not mutually exclusive to our constitution, and indeed our current plutocracy and rising fascism is. The constitution is dishonored systematically by our system.

In fact with our existing laws we could break up all of these mega corps, and prosecute the worst like health insurance execs for one thing and another. Drug co execs need to be put in line.

We would need to reinstate and update some laws, and get a national healthcare program with new laws.

But we need a restoration to the laws we had, and addition to them, and most of all, enforcement of existing laws. Judiciary being bought and owned by plutocracy notwithstanding but a strong real populist could fix even that.

We just need leadership, someone that knows how to build and run a political machine. A thing antithetical to our corporate opposition party playing good cop to ruling party’s bad cop like it is 1990 still even as the ruling party is not playing bad cop so much as hitler. Achieving more of a mussolini but that is another story.

I know the system works because it used to work.