I think it’s about as much of a power fantasy as World War 3. There’s been many incidents and events in the past 9 years that all could’ve sparked a WW3 or a Civil War. But none has happened and it hasn’t escalated to that level.

The modern world is more complicated than the 1800s. To have a Civil War now, we’d have to have issues where members of our army, police force .etc enact on political bias moreso than just individual case handlings. We’d have to have politicians from either said outright declaring the other party of being so unamerican that they start drawing lines.

Stuff like that. I almost wish we’d have a Civil War so we can get out all of this dumb, pent up, boiling shit over with. But my hopes aren’t high.

2022 Kia Sportage.

I was forced into leasing it for 4 years so thankfully I don’t own it nor am I financing to own it. The thing is a gas guzzling piece of shit. The parts for it are ridiculously expensive, including getting the tires. There’s not really a thing about it that I like.

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There’s only so many communities you can maintain active with 45k monthly active users

Then you’ve just proved my point then on how little there is to do and see beyond the basics. One would think that with a number such as 45k, there’d be a lot more communities around than just the general stuff.

And I see that you’re running multiple places as is. I’d like to see more contributing users than just one dude.

It is stupid easy to get banned on that platform. There might as well be no rules posted there anymore.

Because all that you have to do is simply express an opinion that’ll hurt someone’s feel-feels and that’s just grounds enough to ban you over.

They’ll only have one rule and it’s “DON’T HURT MUH FEELINGS!”.

I’d like to not to.

I would much prefer seeing other people build as well, see what they bring up and whatnot. I’ve tried before on creating communities to moderate and all I’d feel like is being some of those Reddit moderators who moderate an absurd amount of subreddits.

That’s not what I want.

If the sheer takeover of how he handled X since buying it hasn’t told anyone by now - lost cause.

Harris Wins.

MAGA throws a giant hissy fit, tries about three more coups, goes around intimidating election officials and offices to states that validated the election. Going to spend another 3 years arresting and jailing even more of these idiots until we have an even more prison population problem.

Trump declares once again that he didn’t lose, despite all the lies saying he’ll admit that he lost if it was fair.

Someone attempts to assassinate Harris during Inauguration. Someone attempts to assassinate Biden because they believe that if he doesn’t pass the torch to Harris, then it’ll prevent a Harris presidency.

Harris will presumably do a good job but like with nearly all Democratic presidents since Obama, the best that they’re good at in Modern-Day America is just temporary hold-over solutions but nothing groundbreaking that’ll last long-term.

Harris will probably be fighting with windbags leftover from GOP in Senate, House, Congress and Supreme Court because that’s how they’ve been. No different than Obama’s terms and Biden’s term.

And then we’ll spend 4 years basically just building up until the next shitty election.

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Yes I am racist. I’m racist to stupid fucks who deliberately twist contexts around to fit a projected narrative of theirs, you asshole.

You’re the one bringing the race into this, not me. This is simply a response. Let me remind you, since your braincells are in single digits, that this is a response to something you brought into the discussion that wasn’t otherwise warranted. Get a fucking clue.

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It does. You aren’t looking. I always feel a sense that I am talking to people from other parts of the world. Moreso than anywhere’s else.

I want to say Middle-East, but that’s not fair because it’s a cluster of countries. It’s hard to pick just one though, because a lot of countries in the Middle-East are batshit insane and allow extremism to dictate how they run the country. Extremism of any degree is just a bad thing to have around. It is technically, though scholars may disagree, the birthplace of Terrorism as we know it today.

Man, I’m still listening to an online show that hasn’t released anything new since 2012. But the episodes I’m listening to, since there’s different versions of the show based on different years of release. The episodes are now 20 years old and everytime listening to them back, it’s like opening a time capsule again.

It’s a very niche show called 2 Sense and it’s hosted by a couple furries. It’s a very acquired taste for sure and I won’t argue with anyone that some of it’s content have really aged like milk, but what there is to be found on there can be a bit entertaining.

It’s just a show I visit so frequently, it’s become white noise now because of how much I’ve listened to those episodes.

If you think this question is being asked too much, go and sit at AskReddit sometime. Count the many, many times you will see questions like ‘Why are you single?’ or "What would you do if someone gave you a million dollars?’ or similarly worded questions. They are posted by the hour, almost nonstop.

You get a question like mine like once in a few weeks or a month maybe. But you hadn’t seen anything until you check out AskReddit.

I think the Fediverse is the perfect platform for things like what you run. I also think at times how great the fediverse could be for those who’re mentally struggling. Just imagine, a decentralized platform where not only is it separated from the general network, but it’s an instance/server where people can feel safe and private. Also secure too.

You don’t get that feeling on Reddit. People are telling sensitive stories out there for all to see on Reddit and anywhere else. They’re unfortunately setting themselves up for the chance of anybody stumbling upon those tellings and could give them hell for it. Making them worse off than they already were.

You know, you actually hit the nail on the head in the context I had failed to articulate. Like yes the Fediverse does have some interesting communities, but they’re communities we expect of the fediverse to have that everyone else has. But, it does not have a dedicated Nostalgia community, it does not have AbruptChaos or anything else. Just the basics.

And I think if more people took on tasks like running the communities while educating people the benefits of the fediverse, then we can see a bit more growth. Because the point of the matter is if people are desperate for a Reddit alternative, they’re going to want to feel like they’re home. If there’s nothing here that’s going to help make them feel that, then they’re going to just stick to Reddit for better or worse.

You know a platform is big when like nearly all states of a country have their own subreddit and their own userbase. It’s like, that’s impact there.

It’s the same here, I check the front page and what do I see? Politics, politics, politics, a couple memes and maybe a news report that isn’t politics.

Oh yeah I’ve noticed this tone too with them. Like with one ad, one of the Mountain Dew ones, they tell you to ‘get off your ass’ and stop putting your playlist on repeat with party remixes. Their entire message is your life and lifestyle is nothing unless you drink their shitty product. Like fucking hell I’m going to now that you’re going to assume what my life is about and that I’m not smart enough to do anything else.

It’s that kind of attitude that won’t make me boycott the product, but directly go to any marketer to personally tell them off.

I don’t care what your skin color is and you’re the one bringing it up. Anybody from all walks of an ethnic background can possess the same levels of less intelligence with potential to sound like that.

You know, just because you tried sounding tough at the end, I’m going to be a deliberate ass by saying - fix your dialect. It’s “I am working” not “I be working”.