Crybaby fascist Republicans: “Cake shops shouldn’t have to do business with people they don’t like!!!”
Also crybaby fascist Republicans: “Disney should have to do business with me no matter what I say or do!!!”
I can’t wait to see Disney counter-sue these fuckers for this ridiculousness.
Non-wankers, in fact.
So you decided to make a pro-China anti-US argument by linking to a flat-earther meme?
You alright there?
What infuriates me about articles like this is that it really should just say that the school Satanic Club had its first meeting, the kids had a great time, here’s everything they did and what they plan to do for the year, and here are some kids’ reactions and quotes about the club.
Instead, it says the kids had “a great time” and then moves on to the protesters, offering them several paragraphs to spew their vile hate speech, repeating the garbage that their hate-filled signs say, and then even quoting two people. And then it follows that with basically an advertisement for “the Good News club, a Christian evangelical Bible club that meets before school hours.”
It’s a sign of how biased society is towards religion that an article about a non-theistic after school club gives half of the article to a handful of religious bigots to let them spew their hate speech and then promotes their own Christian school club.
Considering that Taiwan has been de facto an independent country for a long time, its easy to see why “forever maintaining the status quo” is the best choice for most people.
Declaring independence from China when they are already functionally independent from China would just be kicking a hornet’s nest. The outcome of a war with China would end in either a bloody defeat in which their country would be leveled and their freedoms taken away, or a bloody victory resulting in… the current status quo, just with lots of dead people.
So why would your average citizen desire anything but the status quo? They’re already a free country, this question is just asking them if they’d like a war for the fun of it, or their freedoms taken away.
I’m sorry if I read your post the wrong way. Internet tone, and all that.
I agree with you that we need to be the change we want to see. My original post wasn’t meant to be a complaint that it’s so empty here, as in all of kbin. I was just curious about the empty subs that seem to be getting featured for some reason or another.
To be honest I’m not saying I want it to grow like Reddit. I like the feeling here. It’s smaller, like the old internet.
Ahh interesting!
I’ve seen Ernest as the owner of a lot of those magazines, and I figured that they defaulted back to him if the creator had left or something. Claiming them and deleting them is a clever solution!
Yeah I think you’re right. The order seems random, but it’s generally the same magazines for me too. No rhyme or reason to them, and most of them are empty.
I’m with you on this.
I started out at lemmy and moved over to kbin because I liked its versatility. Lemmy just seemed like a left-leaning version of reddit. kbin seemed like a new and interesting to interact over the web.
Of toxicity? Or of the mods being monsters?
I don’t have specific examples, since I stopped using the Japan subreddits several years ago. But they are swamps of toxicity. Everyone is mad at each other and seems to hate their own lives. The new users ask the same 3 basic questions every single day, while the old users seem like new users are the only thing they hate more than Japan. The mods are ban happy and will punish people like tyrants for the slightest mistake, and while I sympathize with them for the crap they have to sift through, they themselves are some of the sub’s most toxic users. It’s just a terrible place.
The main problem is actually with users like you
Really, you meant no offense by that?
Jesus Christ man. I am active in the magazines that I’ve subscribed to. I post. I comment. I read. How the fuck is this my fault?
In fact, looking at your profile, I comment more than you. So don’t blame me just because I asked the question when you actually have no idea what my situation is.
Japanese residency topics
You’re a braver person than I. The Reddit Japan subs are just far too toxic for me, and several of the mods are monsters.
Is that how it works? It doesn’t seem like that… the “Random Magazines” section seems truly random. Sometimes I’ll find something with posts, it’s just that 9 times out of 10 it’s an empty magazine with zero activity. And the top bar is far worse than that. I’d say 19/20 of the magazines up there have absolutely zero content.
Honestly if they got bumped out by magazines with activity that would be awesome.
Are you sure about that? They take up valuable real estate that could be better served promoting active magazines. Having a good portion of the home page filled up with empty links is not helpful at best.
That’s true. It would be cool if we could “subscribe” to a curated block list, sort of like we do with AdBlock plugins.
Liberal use of the block feature has made the Fediverse so much more pleasant. I can’t recommend it enough!
That’s a popular trope that is spouted by anti-rationalists all the time, but it’s a total red herring. It’s one of those rhetorical tactics that is designed to disrupt judgment and put a stop to a conversation before the absurdity of the claim is made obvious. It’s drilled into us as children through tv, movies, even books, but it’s entirely false.
Rationalism has plenty of room for fantasy, emotion, and everything else that humans experience. It’s not a choice between being rational and being a fully developed human. The choice is between being rational and being irrational. Everything else is its own separate thing.
I can’t tell if you’re just expressing extreme disgust, or if you’re actually asking the question…
And Burger King is even cheaper.
It baffles my mind that people would pay $18 USD for that shit. I visited the US last year and while prices in general had definitely gone up since the last time I was there, there is absolutely no justification to pay $18 for McDonald’s. It’s crazy.