Europe didn’t send their best went they founded America…

There are several examples of brothers and sisters who were adopted to separate families then become couples later in life unknowingly.

Just google it.

Lemmy is actually leftist unlike Reddit.

Telling Nazis they should follow Hitler’s lead and kill themselves is just a Tuesday here.

If Bill Gates was a good person he would already have given away his billions like Chuck Feeney rather than just talk about giving away the money.

You’re not fooling anyone Bill.

You’ll be eaten along with all the other billionaires, including ‘ole Musky.

I’d really be sad if Donald Trump died tomorrow.

Check my post history.

You don’t have to be the person who overthrows the government.

Your vote is for people who incite the overthrowing.

Get rid of guns and you can stop this.

It’s the most basic solution that even conservatives can understand.

They seem to apply the following logic to everything else:

Stop immigrants? Build wall

Stop terrorists? Kill them

Stop homeless? Bus them

Stop poor? Tax cut

Stop mass shootings? Ban guns

I’d recommend posting a tangentially political meme at some point on Lemmy.

The amount of people who will come out of the woodwork to tell you ‘don’t post this’ and ‘don’t make things political’ will really be eye opening.

People don’t want to address systemic issues and think not talking about them is a viable solution.

Yeah. America isn’t the world.

Plenty of countries have functioning public transport.

America is not the exception, you can survive without cars.

My frustration comes from the fact that hybrids exist and are not used nearly as enough as they should (all cars should have been mandated as hybrids a decade ago) and this would reduce the downsides of electric car production.

I’m not defending ICEs here, I just think the overall environmental credentials of electric cars at this point in time isn’t as good as hybrids.

I fully expect this to change in the future but I’ve got entire fleets of vehicles which are less than 5 years old being replaced by electric and that makes no sense.

Also cars generally are just a terrible solution to mass transport. We already have the most environmentally friendly option known to man. Bicycles and trains.

Edit: for further information on hybrid vs electric see this analysis:

https://www.carboncounter.com/#!/explore

It’s not a place for nuanced debate because I have no idea who I’m talking to.

I’d rather devote my time to having those nuanced conversations in real life (which I do) than trying to convince an American online through a meme community that gun bans would reduce school shootings for example.

To be taken seriously offline I necessarily have to make well reasoned and researched arguments.

Lemmy is where I come to blow off steam and just berate my ideological opponents because they genuinely are losers.

It is not a place for nuanced debate.

Oh shit, I’m a ghost‽

You sure showed me the error of my ways!

We’ll show you how much we can take a joke by down voting this comment!

(Yes, this comment will be downvoted too)

Least aggressive response.

Ahhh child abuse. What a great parenting technique.

Very simply: how can it be fair that someone who contributes nothing to the process profits from my labour?

I am the skilled craftsperson who produces furniture. And yet someone takes from me the profit of my work. Beyond the cost of materials, workshop, arranging buyers etc.

After all those costs are accounted for there is still someone else who captures most of the profit instead of me. How is that not absurd?

Just curious why you’d go to such lengths to maintain privacy.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re probably of no interest to any authority. Unless you KNOW you’re doing something illegal.

To be clear I’m not saying that we all shouldn’t value privacy but, for example, could you not just keep an account for 6 months then delete?

Or are you worried that some 3 letter agencies will bust through your door within that time frame?