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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • We’ve been in this world of upside where a lone wolf is on a wilding spree through the federal government, clear not operating at anyone’s direction but his own. And yet the President is at least okaying it all after the fact. And thus our system can’t really makes sense of what’s happening. Yes, it’s almost all illegal even or in a sense especially if the President is authorizing it. And

    I feel like I’m having a stroke.





  • Happy to see etymology discussion. I used to run r/etymology, suspended it during the API debacle as part of the blackout, and got replaced by Reddit and banned by the new mod.

    The “were” in “werewolf” also gives us “world” (originally referring to humanity, as in “the epoch of mankind”) and also came through Latin, giving us, among other things, “virtue” (as in, the measure of a man, I think), and “virile”.





  • I agree with all of this. But “not allies” and “in bed with fascists” are markedly different accusations. I still don’t see it as helpful to paint Democratic representatives as being welcoming of fascism – once you step into the rhetorical window of “they didn’t do enough to halt fascism, so they’re basically fascists too”, you lose the ability to call out actual fascism.


  • The Democrats are a moderate right-wing party

    Indeed, I said that already.

    done more to keep actual left-wingers out of power

    “The two-party system is driven by self-interest and inherently protects capitalism” is substantially more nuanced and accurate than “Democrats want fascism”. The latter is still unhelpful and, in the main, untrue.


  • Calling everyone right of you a fascist dissolves the unity of the left and erases the meaning of “fascist”. Neoliberalism is inherently right-wing and the Democrats have done plenty that deserves criticism, but America has, in the main, become more progressive and egalitarian over the past few decades under Democrat law-making. “Democrats welcome fascism” is an ignorant insinuation and you know it.



  • There’s some discontent around Sync at the moment because of apparent infrequent developer updates that mean it hasn’t kept pace with changes to Lemmy. There’s nothing wrong with financially supporting developers - quite the opposite - and app development isn’t a cakewalk, but it’s worth doing a search to get users’ opinions before spending the money in this instance.