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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 day ago (6 children)
  • About half are Americans, about half are in non-US Western countries, 5% other
  • everyone here hates the current US admin
  • everyone uses adblockers
  • everyone is anti-surveillance (except like 1 or 2 users you find occasionally defending mass surveillance that get downvoted into oblivion)
  • everyone is either a Marxist Leninist, Left Anarchist, Social Democrat, or Democratic Socialist, except like a handful of liberals and like 2 conservatives
  • almost everyone here supports vigilantism
  • Germans... Germans Memes Everywhere
  • BEANS
  • Frequently, you get extreme CCP shills falsely accusing you of Sinophobia, and simultaneously some are actually some closeted Sinophobes.
[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You’re going to write beans in caps, not even mentioning corn in passing? This one right here officer!

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry my Internet Explorer is lagging

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

What’s your ICQ? I’ll send you the 32bit version, feels snappier.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago
  • ~~BEANS~~, ~~CORN~~, ONION

Our memes feel very old internet and I miss those times.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

liberals

Ugh I hate how this word is now more associated with economic ideology than social ideology.

Most of us can be described as liberals. We don't want any discrimination based on gender, race, sexual orientation etc.

Can we please go back to using liberals in that sense?

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Liberalism was originally about economics.

[–] Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago

Liberal and Liberalist are two different terms, though. Very few liberalists are liberal.

If you support basic human rights, liberalism is diametrically opposed to your thinking. You can't have human rights if Nestlé is allowed to own all the ground water underneath your village.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah proper term for people that don't want to discriminate based on gender, race, or sexual preference should be "normal" anyways.

[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Germans… Germans Memes Everywhere

Dieser Kommentar ist Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago
  • Frequently, you get extreme CCP shills falsely accusing you of Sinophobia, and simultaneously some are actually some closeted Sinophobes.

Let me guess. You went to one of the .ml instances and got accused of being "Orientalist" after saying something that someone politically disagreed with?

Yeah, I still don't completely understand that crowd. I don't think that they're actually shilling, because then they wouldn't be advocating for North Korea. But there are a lot of people there who are clearly not interested in good-faith discussion. I just decided that it's not worth dealing with them very early on.

The !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works crowd is determined to keep plunging in, though.

[–] Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 day ago

Germans

Mehr als ein Fünftel der Einwohnern in der EU sprechen Deutsch als Muttersprache. Durchwegs zu erwarten also!

Jedoch sind gar nicht alle deutschsprachige Deutscher! Calling all German-speakers German is like calling all English-speakers American.