TheTechnician27

"A solarpunk polity would replace centralised forms of state government with decentralised confederations of self-governing communities [...]"

Stalin notoriously loved checks notes heavily decentralizing government power akin to anarcho-communism.

"This politician writing against fascism is too fascist. This decentralized political system is too tankie. This politician ousting competent government officials he perceives as disloyal to his coup is juuuuust right."

It's good to see a politician who actually stays informed about these kinds of issues.

Jesus christ, chill the hell out. 💀

1. Who still writes letters anymore? Uh... A lot of people? Especially sitting senators to massive, multi-billion-dollar corporations? Would you have preferred they go on some shitty social media platform to write "ayo get your shit together fr fr"? Fellas, is it ~~gay~~ pretentious to use your position in government to bring attention to an issue? Have you never written a letter?

2. One of the reasons a neo-Nazi fuck just won the election is because these online spaces allow fascist rhetoric to run rampant. (Edit: probably also the general attitude that shuns literacy and intellectualism, like "writing a letter? how pretentious lmaooo") You're bringing up a nonsensical, extreme edge case to justify why action shouldn't be taken in 99.999% of cases. I also as a Hindu (a religion I'm sure you actually understand or care about) get a facial swastika tattoo and then post that as my pfp to Steam. Definitely how that really works in the actual real world.

3. Writing coherently about an actual issue facing a platform like Steam actually shows that he's more in-touch than most politicians. You sound deeply insecure.

This entire comment oozes intellectual dishonesty.

I don't think you can block yourself. Maybe ask the Lemmy devs to implement it? Seriously, all I'm asking you to do is read to understand where your rights as an American citizen start and end; it's for your own good.

A US senator can absolutely, unambiguously write to a private corporation asking them to more strictly moderate their platform. You're just parroting "muh freeze peach" having zero idea where that starts and ends.

I highly recommend informing yourself where this boundary is; even if you particularly disagree with this senator, citing the First Amendment is the weakest possible argument here except among people who also don't understand where the line is.

In the future, I highly recommend sourcing to Wikiquote instead. It's a sister project of Wikipedia which sources its quotes so they can be independently verified, whereas Goodreads just operates on an ad populum approach of upvotes. It also for this reason tends to be more robust to error, and many more prominent figures have specific sections both for popular quotes that are known to be misattributed and for ones that are dubious but not currently falsifiable.

Fuck McKinsey.

The ultimatum is to finally ban Newsweek for the complete gutter trash it is.

Yup! And "injected intravenously" could actually be done one of two ways: with commas (incorrectly done here) or with en- or em-dashes. For example, "the substance that – injected intravenously – turns women into cats!" (en-dashes) or "the substance that—injected intravenously—turns women into cats!" (em-dashes) are both valid. I often tend to prefer en-dashes because I think they're easier to read than em-dashes and put more emphasis than commas on the idea that this is a bit of an aside. I think commas are just a bit too overloaded and that en-dashes add more flexibility to grammar.

You're correct; "my friends" should be bookended by commas.

Just going to leave this here.

Found a real source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1