That's a very alarming sign. Polarization of that caliber means we're on a hard Stage 6 on the Ten Stages of Genocide, and everything that follows it is... bad. Very, very bad. You do not want to see what happens at Stage 7 and beyond.

As Lemmy picks up steam, more and more people will migrate over and leave Reddit in the dust. It'll take a while, but it's already starting to happen, and Reddit's already starting to suffer negative repercussions as we saw with ad partners leaving them.

See, this actually is something I've been worrying about for a long time, but no one really takes me seriously when I bring it up:

The U.S. is in a perfect storm of massive debt, failing infrastructure, a collapsing economy, and disaster after disaster because of climate change. This is what's been driving the rise of fascism in this country -- and that's functionally what this shit is, no swastikas required -- and it's apparent to anybody with any insight that the Supreme Court doing this is driving the final nail in the coffin of a once-great people.

And by that I mean it's going to cause civil war, and a genocide attempt. This is the kind of shit that happens in countries whose people turn against each other -- go read about the collapse of Yugoslavia in the late 20th century, and the Rwandan genocide, and the path the U.S. has been following is very, very similar to the one those countries went down.

I am gravely, gravely worried that because of this ruling, and the one banning abortion, and especially the other one banning forgiveness of student loan debt, that that's going to put Americans in a position so catastrophic they'll have no choice but to fight each other not just to survive, but to be allowed to exist on the soil they were born on. It's like watching the Serbs pick on the Bosnians all over again, the Hutus getting riled up by their radio media to annihilate the Tutsis.

Many red states are passing constitutional carry laws and I beg everyone of the LGBTQ+ affiliation, and everyone else on the left really, to avail yourselves of that. Forget about stupid fucking gun control, this is not the time or the place for that; those motherfuckers WILL come for you and if you care about yourself and your families, then you'll heed my warning and prepare now.

If your beliefs include denying service to people based on stupid reasons like sexual orientation or race, then you best believe other people's rights supercede yours. You can't have a country of rights without mutual respect, and that means everyone gets equal access to businesses and society.

If any devs ever implement karma into Lemmy, I will shut down my subs and leave.

I mean that with 100% seriousness. Karma is one of the most evil concepts ever conceived in the history of the internet. It brings out the darkness in a motherfucker.

I will leave and block any instance that federates with Meta, including this one, and go start my own instance, and only federate with others that also block it if I have to. Don't you dare allow their corporate garbage into our space 😠

1. Discourage people from using karma. You actually can turn off scores in your settings.

2. If any instance decides to put advertising on itself, leave immediately and get everyone else to do the same.

Karma is an inherently destructive thing for many reasons. For people, it is a representation of other people's approval of you, so they'll do anything to boost that number as highly as possible, even going so far as to make fake karma farming accounts, create botnets to upvote themselves and downvote opponents in arguments, and post garbage content instead of engaging in meaningful conversation with other people. For corporations, it's a marketing tool they can exploit to manipulate public opinion, by creating or buying high-karma accounts to convince people to buy shit, or to mass downvote people who point out flaws in their arguments or products, or figure out what they're planning and try to call them on it. They can use karma to discredit opponents, astroturf, and even sway elections indirectly. It's one of the reasons why civil and political discourse have completely collapsed in the USA.

That list is not exhaustive

Soda companies could literally just switch to stevia or monk fruit tomorrow and it wouldn't be a problem. The only issue is their refusal to change.

My cooking is a creative process you filthy [insert pejorative here] do not deserve and are not entitled to. You don't like it? Go hit up the place down the street

Who will then ban and ban and ban.

But keep justifying discrimination and oppression, I'm sure your kids and grandkids are going to be real proud of finding out they're related to a modern-day fascist when they find this one day

That wasn't the only burger joint available. That wasn't the only hotel available. That wasn't the only apartment complex they could've rented from. That wasn't the only place they could've worked at. That wasn't the only grocery store they could've bought food at.

If they refused them use of the back dumpster to dig food out of, the local park to sleep in, and the pond to bathe in, that would be illegal, as only then would denial of services by businesses that make up the system of access to resources our society depends on to survive illegal.

And if all of that sounds absurd to you, remember that ruling enables all of it.

Reddit was a fucking garbage dump and I am glad it's finally going to be dead. Long live literally any new social media platform so long as it doesn't engender a culture of nastiness, vitriol and hate.

That's probably a good reason not to use Wefwef 🤦

Here, your comments can be upvoted and downvoted, but it's purposefully not totaled and kept separate from your profile. I don't know why the devs of that app decided to total them all together -- that total is your karma and people did tie their self-worth and their social standing to their karma. It's what made Reddit so toxic

We all better go say something to the Wefwef devs and make them take that shit off

Because they want to commit genocide.

That's the reason why. They actually and unironically want genocide.

They actually ruled in favor of the couple who wanted the cake. Link to the wiki here

Only in your fantasy world where you need to use sophistry to justify hate.

You see, by your logic, the Jewish web designer would never have to make the Nazi website, because the Nazis were clearly gay and this law protects his right to refuse service to gays, hence, problem solved. What, they claim they're not gay? Well, it's obvious they are. They're goose-stepping in ornate Nazi uniforms that are tight in all of the right places. They had to have done that for each other's pleasure. The plaintiff rests.

See how dumb discrimination is?

Honestly, the more moderate Republicans that turn away from the extremists and condemn them, the better off the U.S. will be. They're the only ones that can challenge the extremists' hold on power, being on the inside, and unless they're encouraged to and supported when they do, the extremists will fester unchecked and we face the very real possibility of a genocide attempt in this country if they're allowed to just do that.

But yeah, it really is foolish for any minority to think the right wing has anything to offer them at this point, whether they be LGBTQ+, a marginalized ethnic group, or what-have-you.

That's what Nazis do and why everyone else is trying to ban them.

We need a new system of government and this Supreme Court stacking bullshit is why.

The ruling actually has international import because it's taking the U.S. closer to civil war and destabilization, which will negatively affect everyone else, so the complaint's really moot anyway