Laughs hysterically in South African… where we now have no choice but to use gas for almost everything because our electrical grid is collapsing due to IMF-approved neoliberal shitfuckery.

Regulated capitalism. Prosecuting corruption.

Right, regulate capitalism… by regulating the capitalists that have all the money and can buy the regulators any time they feel like it.

Sounds legit.

but we do owe them an apology once all the information is out.

No - we don't owe a serial killer an apology if turns out they murdered ninety-nine people instead of a hundred.

the polite thing to do is apologize for thinking badly of them

No, there is nothing "polite" about "apologizing" to a genocidal settler-colonialist state.

They don't bat an eyelid when you accuse Israel of being an Apartheid-state - it's like water flowing off a duck's back. Call Israel a kapo state, however, and they lose their shit. That they can't ignore.

I have zero sympathy for anyone that bought anything connected to Phony Stark. Zilch.

You knew what you were buying into - you live with it.

A way to rapidly exit a game a la The Binding Of Isaac: Afterbirth. It has saved that game from being rage-deleted off my machine plenty of times.

I recently came back to Lemmy from reddit to escape the batshit pro-Israel censorship happening on there right now and I have to say that the quality of the content and discussion has just gone up.

Laughs in 1.6…

In other words, these laws are not “fighting pedophilia”. They are enabling child abuse.

So no different than all these laws that (supposedly) "stop sex trafficking" which only exist to clamp down on sex work while… drumroll… making absolutely no dent in actual sex trafficking?

Yeah… that tracks.

Not socialism.

There is such a thing as a “non-extremist” right-winger?

There’s only one kind of democratic economy and we already have a word for it - it’s socialism. If the means of production isn’t owned by the workers it’s not democratic. It’s not socialist.

Just checked again, today, and… it’s fixed! Working perfectly!

Good job!

Oh look… an “enlightened centrist” has shown up to run interference for the right-wingers.

There is such a thing as a “non-extremist” right-winger?

lemmy.world doesn’t even allow me to sign in these days - so I’ve just been using lemmy.ml.

Thanks for the reply… and the effort.

Thank you!

Tell me you’re attracted to men without telling me you’re attracted to men.

It’s an uncharted path

No, it’s not. This is thoroughly charted territory. It just inevitably leads to more capitalism.