To be fair I’ve seen the exact same treatment in mods and admins from other places. Just changing the subjects.

Just recently in a community I would not mention a mod started to straight up insulting me while pointing out how I was breaking the rules by not providing source for every word I wrote and the rules said that I must source my arguments. (Spoilers they didn’t back up their claims either, and went into a breakruling name-calling streak just to top it). And it was not on .ml or anything related.

Power tripping mods be power tripping mods.

It fits if you know that what orangutans are doing is beyond sin. The don’t partake in sin because they are the sin.

I haven’t used photoshop or any other “industry standard” in more than a decade.

Still, everytime I open Gimp I have to look up for the “increase/decrease brush size” shortcut, because it’s so dawn counter intuitive.

Here goes gossip from my job.

• There was this janitor guy that used to be around and we haven’t seen him in a while turns out he was stealing from people’s desks.

• You know our ex boss, who was suddenly degraded? Turns out he committed a crime, and he is going to jail in a few months, if you see him happy lately it’s because he is full of drugs to cope with the anxiety.

• This woman who just came out from her wedding, all the office know she hooked up with the guy from accounting a few months ago.

• These two guys who used to be friends and don’t talk anymore? You know the reason, this pretty new girl both of them fall for her. She had nothing with either of them, but they stopped talking regardless because both think the other one is the reason she don’t hook up with them.

But you are not part of their movement, at most are a supporter. You get excluded from being part of it if you try. You need labels to be included. No labels no representation. That’s why we see people collecting more and more labels each day, because without a label you are nothing in the movement.

And you may support, but you are not part of the decision making, you are not considered when decisions are being made. Solidarity is expected from you, but you should not expect nothing in return.

This may suffice for you. You may need nothing for your selfless support. But most people are not like that. More people when they feel that kind of exclusion just move out ot the movement and do their own thing. Because everyone wants their voice to be heard. This explain a lot on what has happened with politics in the later years. Thus why I advocate for the end of identity politics, and return to class politics, include everyone as equals, without some being “more equals than others” if you catch my drift.

Majorities might or might not make better or worse decisions that minorities. But democracy is the best system we know for a reason, and without including everyone, truly including them, minorities could not rule for long, and then other minority would take place and undo all that the previous minority did (as shown by recent events).

I do think progress slow down because identity politics indeed. And progress became more fragile, being easily erased by all the people who got pissed off by identity politics.

Each year I see less and less people willing to support minority issues because identity politics let them out. Without that supposed the minority, by definition, is left in a minority position. And the only way it can change things is from a minority rule, which is not the best as it pisses off a lot of people this way.

The thing about identity politics is that it’s useful for majorities. I don’t see the point in using identity politics for minorities, by definition they are doomed to lose. Wider interclass politics are needed for minorities to get rights in a sustainable way.

I do think that identity politics got dominant not because of their usefulness to minorities. But because their usefulness to a few politicians (politicians as a wider term not only elected officials), which allowed them to gain short term power and privileged using them. But they doesn’t seem to do much to help the minorities. Isolating them from wider support to get a short lived iron claw over them feels not right to me.

I might be wrong here. Once again, this is just my particular perception, and I do not have strong evidences for this claims, just feelings and personal experiences.

I don’t see it that way. Speaking as non conforming gender bisexual.

I think I can properly defend my rights without making groups that exclude others from it.

Again, just my opinion, and something that I do not agree not in the final goal (everyone being happy and free) but in the how to achieve it.

Also as an European I think identity politics (in this context) were mostly born in USA and imported here later. But we had achieved way more liberties before identity politics than after. We were one of the first countries in the world that legalized gay marriage for instance, and we didn’t need the kind of identity politics that exist today to achieve it. And since identity politics took over I feel like we haven’t be able to achieve much more, because we take a conflicting approach that meets much more resistance from excluded identities than the previous approach.

At least that’s my humble opinion and perception of reality.

Who said the cable was put there by a company or is used by a company.

It could be put there by people and used by the people.

That works for that example.

What if it’s an internet cable and playing around it could harm others and not you? Up to people to take other people’s chances?

When the pipe suddenly burst into fecal matter coveting everyone in other people’s feces democracy would be seen as a great thing.

No, we do not exist. Don’t let anyone know we exist. 😶

I like to consider myself leftist. But it’s true that I don’t agree in all that most current left wing political parties stand for.

I think all human are born equal, and should have a good life. That politics should be used to improve everyone’s life.

But in the what does this mean or how to do it I feel more and more differences lately.

To give an example, I cannot really stand identity politics. I think that the best course of action is to dissolve identitarian (is that word real?) groups instead of exacerbating their differences. I feel like people should be getting rid of labels instead of having more and more labels every day.

That’s just a personal opinion, based on the idea that if you define different groups the chance of conflict between groups is bigger than if you define only one group. And I do get the idea behind identity politics within the left wing spectrum. I just don’t agree that’s the best course of action.

I do think that we could give information without propaganda if we really mean it.

Or at least there are levels of propaganda.

My personal take is that propaganda is not true, like actual lies.

I know that “the best propaganda is true” and just excluding other information. But purposely giving just a small part of the information is a lie regardless, to me at least.

But if we were to give all the possible information on any matter I don’t think it could count as propaganda.

And, this is the funny part, this is my own propaganda, because one of my political beliefs is that we could make politics in a healthier way without using the “evil” tactics for a “good” outcome.

Your dog bites someone and it becomes a big YOU problem.

Using transportation is not actual movement. Because movement is only made by humans.

It’s interesting to see that the dog situation is getting out of control in other places. I thought it was only my country where people have been becoming crazier and crazier about dogs.

I am very proficient with the terminal. But there are many use cases when I want a OS that does not need the terminal at all. For instances media dedicated pcs.

I have a pc that I only use from the couch, for playing games a viewing media, and using the terminal from my remote size keyboard is a bore, I would prefer a 100% gui solution for that usage.

I was a simpler kid. I just thought that the sun was going to just disappear and we wouldn’t notice for 8 minutes.

I was literally looking at the sky thinking the sun has already be gone.

There are people who hate anything new.

Call it flatpak, call it wayland, call it systemd. There’s always haters.

Build it from source them.