maniclucky

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[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

In the US, yes. In other countries (also Alaska and Maine somewhat), the voting system (ranked choice voting, proportional representation, etc) allows for many smaller parties to form. Because no one ends up with 50+% of the vote, these groups have to come together to get things done. With first past the post (which is winner take all, which is heinously stupid), small parties cannot meaningfully form because they cannot possibly get enough votes to get into office.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Unless you get the same size voting base as Republicans, it still leads to a corpse.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Different word, same effect

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (7 children)

First past the post ensures that any party that tries to splinter off dooms both themselves and the party from which they splintered.

What needs to happen is the democrats need to get tea partied.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Note: the following vitriol is solely for Musk. I got no issue with you, just feeling spicy.

Yeah I guess you could get benefits when you were being paid to work for him and his PR team wasn't "KETAMINE!". But those people whose lives his family stole can go fuck themselves cause they don't have a PR team to make people care about them.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

His backstory involves being born rich on the backs of his family's emerald mine slaves. Why would you expect better than any other rich asshole?

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Yes. It's probably the friendliest Linux distro. But there's still a learning curve so don't go in thinking it's as plug and play as Windows.

Source: Tech savvy guy that changed over recently

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago

Don't we all really?

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We also have a Scout. We also call him Scoochy, Scoutabout, Scootums, and You-Motherfucker. He's orange and only uses his brief braincell time for evil. He once turned the gas stove on by himself.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never thought you would. The comment wasn't really for you.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Can we get a fast painful decline? Minimize how much harm he does to... everyone?

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It became a slur back when I was a child in the 90s because people used it as a general perjorative. Doesn't help that it once innocently described a vulnerable minority. When cunts like you decided to use it as a slur, they tied said vulnerable minority to the concept of "this thing is bad" and harmed that community.

I'm not policing your speech. I'm calling you a cunt for using a decidedly shitty term that's been shitty for decades.

 

Not a sockpuppet.

I was venting over at !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world about Reddit mods being... Reddit mods. On top of having a good version of offmychest that allows people to be angry at the things that are bugging them, orphiebaby went ahead and made a new community to replace the one I was venting about on behalf of my partner.

Cheers to you orphiebaby! This isn't quite the spirit of the sub as I understand it, but you get praise anyway.

 

So I stopped generally using Reddit after the whole API thing but my husband still does and we talk about stuff since Lemmy gets the job done.

One thing he likes is to hop on r/freecompliments and participate there.

Well, today he got permanently banned. Why? Because a bot dredged his profile and found that he sometimes participates in porn subreddits. Usually to complement people there, never posting himself. He's pretty ace, so it's rarely, if ever, sexual. But that was enough for the bot to ban him.

They sent a message about how they are sfw subreddit and don't allow users to participate in NSFW subreddits.

He's heartbroken about it. He really likes to be nice to people and it makes his day when they respond to him. Now he can't do that in a sub that's meant for it.

I feel like the site rules have opinions about banning like this, but it's not like the admins give a fuck. So fuck those mods and their puritanical bullshit making at least once persons day worse, for the low cost of a user that was participating in good faith.

And since I'm on a roll, fuck spez

I tried posting this to trueoffmychest to dredge some sympathy for him, since that seemed appropriate and he was good with it, but they don't allow 'anger' or 'impersonal' posts and that got quietly removed immediately. So fuck them too. I didn't realize how far down the shitter reddit has gone.

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