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“there’s not much misogyny on Lemmy” - kinda comments I got on a post expressing concern about Ariana Grande’s health

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Real talk, let's say you did have metrics that rated users on a scale of not misogynist, semi-misogynist, and misogynist. What would you do with that information? Never mind how the rankings themselves are even captured, let's say a feminist psychic was able to scan the whole world. What now?

The way I see it, things like misogyny and racism require more than knowing. They require understanding on the part of the perpetrator. If they dont understand the transgression, they can simply claim that you're unreasonable for granting them the title.

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lemmy is SUCH a relief from reddit

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I like to think I was banned for similar reasons, but I'm pretty sure it was because I was commenting in a gatcha subreddit that was really circling the drain regarding taste. Folk were putting up questionable images of questionable body types and I was getting annoyed that the game was falling so far. Got banned for calling a spade a spade. Ironically, the sub was banned shortly after.

Thankfully I cant have the same issue here because all the niche interest communities are dead, lmao!

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There's a lot here to unpack, and it conflates things that don't really make sense to conflate. Like, Americans using too many resources being a wealth issue is circular because wealth means resources. Maybe to make the perspective of others more clear, we're saying that this zero-sum understanding of resource managment fails to account that resources can be recycled, and that their recycling is economically stimulating because it's a form of resource capture. Manage the resources as necessary for the global population (with slack of course for emergencies) and keeping them on a closed loop. It's possible, but is not an exploitive practice so its mechanisms arent easily exploitable. That's the real issue. Humans only seem to gather and work together when there's a possibility that any one of them can become a god king and get visits to whatever the modern Epstein Island is.

You're arguing that progress requires death. We're arguing that it requires effort and intentionality.

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Controversial, but I dont think overpopulation is the problem folks think it is. More hands can mean more trees planted and more wind turbines built as much as it means oil refineries. Overpopulation is only an issue if you're coasting off shared resources.

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AOC’s path to the White House could soon become clearer

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Not to defend this too much (misogyny and racism are popular pastimes in the states and I do think Kamala being a black woman was a factor in her losing), but Biden would have lost her race too. People that say Kamala's bad stance on Isreal and dearth of big ticket items cost her the election might be pushing it a little, because it wasnt just one thing, but she was weak in those areas and it definitely cost her votes. Could a different strategy have flipped the states she needed? Who knows. It's just not a wise strategy to blame everything on prejudice because doing so completely erases your ability to ever get someone other than a white male elected.

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