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There is no one universally right way to do activism. We need a diversity of tactics.
There is no one universally right way to do activism. We need a diversity of tactics.
I can’t wait until more YouTube creators move to Peertube + donation platforms like Liberapay!
That’s a good question. To be honest with you, I’ve come across critiques of tankies on .ml as well as tankie nonsense. I’ve also come across some progressive discussion as well as USA apologism on .world.
So in my personal experience (may differ from others based on what communities we frequent) I haven’t experienced so much tankie or American apologist content that I’ve felt the need to leave either community.
I agree with your sentiment that .world is left of reddit - as is Lemmy in general.
What I have been seeing is some users on .world coming across any tankies and wanting to defederate while seeing some amounts of pro-US imperialism on .world but ignoring it since (imo) we’re desensitised to it especially coming from reddit.
I do not find that tankies define the communities I frequent on .ml any more than pro-US imperialism defines .world.
You can be left-leaning while also not a fan of neoliberalism. :)
I take issue with both the authoritarian left and authoritarian right: being an apologist for Soviet Russia as well as being an apologist for the USA is not OK in my opinion.
I find it futile to take a position on which is worse because that just gives space to be an apologist for one that’s “less bad”. I see this happening in this thread right now.
Should I defederate from both lemmy.world and lemmy.ml? Of course not. In fact, I find both to be more tolerable and cooperative than reddit today.
That’s why leftists are prone to like it.
This has not been my experience speaking to leftists at all.
Thank goodness nobody is locked into any one instance. The beauty of the fediverse.
Don’t feed the trolls.
We need a diversity of tactics.
Good idea. And sun!
Commenting to bump up the activity stat for you. The OSM forums may be a good place to ask as well.
100% the best thing to do. I’m curious if any of the lovely folks here have some more ideas I’m not considering.
To be fair, a country is a political entity or state. I read it as being targeted towards the state, rather than all people living in the USA.
It gets worse than that unfortunately.
How did the metal ones compare? Mind you, the paper rounds are really small and compossible.
It’s some napkin math but I don’t think it changes the outcome. If we go by 428 hours per year, that’s still 17.8 days which is a lot.
The true cost of car ownership you cited was from 2023 and since then insurance premiums and car costs have continued to increase. AAA which could be considered biased, doesn’t include the medical expenses and legal fees involved in car crashes either.
This a great read on the topic, which I pulled a quote from:
According to a study published last year by the NHTSA, America’s highway-safety regulator, the direct economic costs of car crashes in 2019 was $340bn, or about 1.6% of GDP
The author elaborates on this if you read the full article:
The average modern person, by one calculation, spends more than 1,600 hours a year to pay for their cars, their insurance, fuel and repairs. We go to jobs partly to pay for the cars, and we need the cars mostly to get to jobs. We spend four of our sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering the resources for the car.
Thank you, I never knew.