Also true

Grow the fuck up.

Medical debt will ruin a person's credit record, denying them access to housing and even some employment. It absolutely does matter and is not trivial.

And this is why you don't allow societies to have police

Every day I thank the stars I never got involved with any of that shit back in 2020

That's what's gonna end up happening anyway whether it's Trump or DeSantis, or anyone sufficiently power hungry. The idea that any system we build can protect us from people like that is a fucking joke and needs to be abandoned.

Yet mysteriously, the All feed is inundated with lemmy.world crap such that it's impossible to see other instances

The admins need to either defederate from them for a while or make the Lemmy devs enable a filter by instance feature, or both

🤔 Who runs ProtonMail?

Ugh, I did not need that mental image at 7 in the morning X_x;;;

Or more accurately, the rest of us will simply fork the Internet itself.

Questions for everybody else:

1. Who actually thinks like this?

2. Why are big Lemmy instances allowing obvious shills to concern troll and forum slide on their servers?

Okay, let me tell you a little story then.

I've actually done a lot more traveling than most humans anywhere will in a lifetime. On foot. Across half a continent. I rebuilt my life from literally nothing and now have some measure of wealth.

I am your walking, talking, right-wing American dream and I am telling you your defense of this evil system and this evil society is immoral and you're not going to convince anyone to adopt your beliefs, or convince people to withdraw, or stop consensus against it from forming, or convince anyone to just accept it.

No one here is going to accept it. We are going to change it. We are going to take back control of our legal system from you and pass laws banning stuff you want, like prison labor, child abuse, slavery of any kind for any reason including wage slavery, restructure the economy to actually take care of the American people without them having to pay much if anything for it. All of those things and more, because we accept that that's fair and just.

I've seen cities completely destroyed by homelessness, drugs, rampant income inequality, and kept down by governments in collision with big businesses and the cults they formed to justify and defend their behavior -- of which you are a part. I scraped my way out of destitution myself and I know no one else should ever have to go through that. So I know the others are right, and you are wrong.

And you're really powerless to stop us.

Do you understand how art works at all?