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They gained seats, yes, but 4 seats isn’t exactly a landslide. They’re a force in local politics, but at the national level, they’re just really not a major player - at least not yet

I don’t think there’s a valid moral argument for burning anybody alive

Holy shit, you hear someone is so lonely that their only friend is a computer system, and your takeaway is that they deserve to be alone? Have some fucking empathy

Figured what out?

The VAST majority of Muslims are just regular, kind people who don’t murder their families.

There may have been a small uptick overall, but that one is disproportionately insane, I think

I mean, they’re right that it’s not FOSS - the F is free as in available to anybody who may wish to use it, which is incompatible with defining who is allowed

Isn’t near transit stations exactly where you’d want to put high density housing?

I broadly agree, but I think there’s a bit of a “correlation is not causation” effect at play, too

I would expect people who are very career-focused would prioritise socialising less, and also be more willing to do a long commute for a job they are highly invested in. But the reduced socialising wouldn’t necessarily be caused by the commuting (not entirely, at least).

Depends who’s cooking, could just be a great insult

This is a very intense, and worryingly doomer response to someone vaguely mentioning the concept of short selling

Are you saying that because you genuinely believe your statement isn’t an instance of the slippery slope fallacy, or because you want to insult me?

slippery slope fallacy

They’re validating the policy of the instance on the basis of the police tactics potentially being used against them, not the tactics themselves

What point are you trying to make?

That there’s better FOSS software (just generally)?

That there’s better FOSS document editing software?

That you don’t like Libreoffice dark mode?

It looks pretty good to me

Technically, Gilead is a breakaway state from the US ☝️🤓

Presumably because they’re just people, and don’t deserve death wished upon them?

Hitler used the burning of the Reichstag as an excuse to clamp down on political dissidence and consolidate his power. It’s still not clear whether it was intentionally caused by the Nazis or just a convenient opportunity for them.

As a more serious aside to the above, it is generally worth paying a bit of attention to which instance other users you interact with. There’s obviously no blanket statement you can make about the users of particular instances, but there are definitely certain instances that are more appealing to… certain groups of users.

lemmy.ml in particular has a bit of a reputation for having tankies on it, but there’s lots of very interesting and reasonable people there (or here, I suppose, given this is an ml community), also.

They’re both the respective heads of state, and they’re both not members of the legislative branches.

So yeah, in this context they are effectively the same.