But otherwise, no.

Why are there 3 or 4 pictures of Vaush?

Why did you hurt me like this?

Poh-tay-toh tuh-mah-toh

So he’s suicidal?

Yeah. That’s how it works. They get money either from serving you ads or exempting you from the ad service. Either way they get money.

Same, tbh.

Don’t be a doomer.

Well aside from what I already mentioned, it’s possible for the manufacturing of consent against socialized medicine to be halted out of fear leading to M4A finally being adopted. It’s possible that this will lead to non-violent protests that agitate for change. Certain politicians might be able to leverage this in the near future to get a bill passed. It could happen that it’ll lead to a sudden increase in community aid and health facilities accommodating such.

I’m not saying what is and isn’t likely to happen, all I’m saying is that we don’t know. Anyone who thinks they know what will happen is an idiot or a liar, possibly both.

There’s a lot of did ways the situation could develop positively that doesn’t involve more assassinations. Most likely, the industry pushes for legislation that disallows some of the scumier practices while allowing the bleed to continue.

This dude shot and killed a health insurance CEO. After about a day, insurers stopped denying coverage arbitrarily to people. The longer-term effects have not yet been seen, but I expect more to follow.

Edit: bunch of people think it’s wrong for me to say that we can’t perfectly predict the future.

Okay, if you feel embarrassed do something about it. No one’s going to stop arguing just because you feel embarrassed. Furthermore, the reason people are bashing people on ml is because their collective behavior has been atrocious. Here’s some things you could try:

1. Advocate for a culture of better inter-instance conduct between ml and other platforms (this will likely get you ridiculed and if it ever works, it won’t be soon.)
2. Get on an instance that isn’t as hostile (highly recommended)
3. Leave the platform (this will produce the most immediate and thorough results)

Edit: ah, look at that, the Russians woke up and the downvotes are pouring in.

You made a comment that you’re ashamed of the platform. If that’s the case, I encourage you to seek out one more suitable.

👋 Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Didn’t Feanor fend off 3 of them at the same time along with a large number of Orcs while chasing down Morgoth? IIRC, the way he died was he bled out after his fellows caught up to him a long while later at which time he was still fighting.

Spanish Civil War, where the Soviet Union

Purged the Anarchists, yes. That’s actually the biggest example of why MLs should literally never be trusted more than liberals.

Edit: actually, why the fuck am I even continuing this discourse? You’re obviously a lying piece of shit. Blocked.

anyone on the left

Tankies aren’t leftists. Even assuming your statement is true, it doesn’t matter.

liberals will always side with fascists over the left

Spanish Civil War.

thus they are identified as moderate-fascists

That’s not how being a political ally works. That’s just such a stupid take.

Because Hex says they’re the most trans-friendly because “don’t be transphobic” is in the rules so it must be true.

Pretty much anyone on the left.

Note: Tankies aren’t leftists.

Note 2: MLs are tankies.

Something about .ml and MLs in general is that they really just aren’t that large a group. If we want larger communities, Reddit is still much bigger than Lemmy. If we want a flawed ally in politics, progressive liberals outnumber Leninists and are far less likely to deliberately betray us. (That’s why MLs always equate Liberalism with fascism; if people can ally with Liberals MLs have basically nothing they can bring to a coalition, and so they can’t seize power.)