Borzoi look so cute I love them so much 🥹

While I understand your argument that their ideology is defined in large parts by other factors than political alignment, I do see them talk about those kinds of things, specially through the lens of demanding communism as a resolution to those problems, or calling for the abolishment of the class that facilitates those problems 😅

I know exactly nothing about the green party but like Jesus fuck you’d think leftists would have learned that’s an important word to stop diluting given many of us are living under a system slipping into actual full blown fascism and it’s an increasingly big problem globally

Its so painfully harmful to leftist causes to go around accusing your fellow leftists of being a nazi for not being your exact flavor of left. We all need to cut that shit out and grow some emotional and interpersonal maturity.

Yeah, while people can have their valid criticisms of the culture of various instances, we need to be extremely wary of the idea that the problem will be solved if we just isolate outselves from the folks we sit furthest from on the political spectrum. I’ve seen toxicity from folks on all sorts of instances, even if some have more (though I’ve honestly seen more from certain instances other than the triad)

Literally every platform has toxicity, regardless of its political makeup. If we want to improve the culture of this space we can’t just scapegoat a couple instances (that to be fair, do seem to have big issues from what I’ve seen from other folks, though my interactions have been mostly cordial)

And leftist spaces seem to chronically struggle a lot with in-group fighting and toxicity because we’re all driven by our care for issues of moral importance- which often lets us justify being shitty to one another if we can frame someone as the villain in the story of an issue we care about.

I think creating a culture that is unwelcoming of anti-social, bad faith behaviour regardless of whether we agree with the stance or not would help massively. But that is a difficult thing to create structure around doing.

Yeah, I can definitely see how that would do a lot less to incentivize actual care being put into the work they do

Thank you for the tip, I have never needed body work but will keep that in mind if I ever do lol

I’m doing alright, same to you my friend 😊

I’m weirdly on a normal people sleep schedule for a while and just had a lovely day out with friends, going to shops in the sunlight, it was lovely :)

I have no experience with the first but I think to me it would be worth it just to get the media that works okay currently covered. To my mind the only thing to loose is time spent on the meds that currently help, and energy evaluating a new thing

That’s an interesting idea. I agree some kind of system could be useful for reflecting whether your behaviour is constantly toxic

Disagreeing with the general sentiment somewhat regularly should be fine, but some people just have a comment history that’s literally just them saying crappy and/or antagonistic every single time they engage 😅

Highlighting to someone that they’re being a bad actors, or making it easier for mods or others to see that might make trolling less effective and make people more conscious of consistently being anti-social

Ahh, thank you

That metaphor was meaningless too me, I just kept thinking they were trying to make a confused statement on difficulty or something

Beautiful!

Aw hell yeah, that’s kick ass!

A good mechanic is a precious thing, but I feel like a good body shop is worth its weight in gold. Which is a lot of worth since it usually involves a large building

Man, that blows :(

I hope all goes as smoothly as possible with getting the damage repaired

Sick!

Thank you for that additional information!

Super cool read, thank you for sharing with us!!

That’s incredibly important too! I think people would be hesitant to work for even decent donations if people are assholes, but you’re 100% right. I guess it really comes down to appreciating the people around you

You should appreciate the humans that create this social space by being here and being social, and appreciate the people who create this social space by building the space itself

Thank you for making that point, people being paid makes a huge difference.

And yet, it was created by communists, and populated with all sorts of people, socialists, anarchists, liberals, communists, libertarians, punks (particularly of the solar variety), ai/crypto bros and more

There are very clearly lots of people here who don’t already share your views, and who are here for different reasons, and the antagonistic, wildly presumptive way you’re voicing your perspective just guarantees that exactly zero people come to see your perspective better.

As someone who at least largely identifies with anarchism, please stop being a dick, you’re doing a disservice to the humans you share this space with, and the causes you care about simultaneously. This platform is not exclusively yours just because you identify with its structure for political reasons.

That’s a real shame, and a huge loss.

Friendly reminder that the only way lemmy can be successful is if we create a culture that is enjoyable to be a part of. It sounds like his time here was not so positive, and that’s deeply saddening.

I wish him the best with his future endeavors

Gorgeous!

Looking more closely now I think I was just confused by the post 😅