Heeey I am also a libertarian, I just tend towards left libertarian. Back to the point of discussion, I find it difficult to ha e a meaningful conversation with the tankies or in general anyone from lemmy.ml . The discussions tend to lack any real data and feel entirely vibe based OR it’s apologist bullshit for Russia.

Like it’s cool if you like communism and have a philosophy based around why you think it’ll help humanity. I can politely disagree but still listen and discuss. It’s quite another to just be a complete dipshit and say “Ukraine had the invasion coming” (actual quote I’ve seen).

It’s what Ive come to expect from the lemmy.ml instance and I finally blocked the entire instance.

Are you developing your opinions based on vibes or have you actually audited their software yourself (you are free to do so both client and federation server code)?

If you audited it, have you produced an actual report with metrics and points of reference for your data points?

The only hipster statement I’ve liked. Good job and great plugin

Oh, we’re splitting hairs. Cool, I’ll cease participating in this pissing contest.

I believe that if America has been more proactive, we could have either limited or delayed the infection. As I remember it, the infection spread from Asia to America and hit Europe after us on the East Coast, at least that what I remember hearing from the reports.

So yes, if we had been more proactive and developed a response much more in line with the Ebola outbreak, i believe it could have been delayed or lessened.

My bad, I didn’t see the joke for what it was. I’m US based and I’m trying to not be stressed given we have a chance of dealing with fucking Donald Trump again. I do wish we’d do more to teach about how bad fascism truly is, but at least I get to understand given my heritage.

While you are correct that he didn’t directly cause it, his actions allowed it to become as bad as it was. Had he been less of a piece of shit about it, it’s quite possible that it could have been limited and had a much smaller impact so I feel fine with my previous statement as is.

For context, consider how the ebola outbreak was handled under Obama. As soon as we became aware of it, we had teams going directly to the outbreak sites and dealing with the problem. There was no “shelter in place” in the states, no global pandemic. Contrast that to covid-19 which people on 4chan were posting about before oompa loompa decided to give a shit.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/10/28/president-obama-provides-update-our-ebola-response-when-disease-or-disaster-strikes-

And that’s for a disease that is very infectious. https://www.paho.org/en/topics/ebola-virus-disease#:~:text=Ebola Virus Disease is a,only when they show symptoms.

So I stand by my statement, Donald Trump is a piece of shit and caused the global plague.

Yeah, no. He caused a plague first time around, dipshit doesn’t deserve a second chance.

She’s not wrong though

Catch me up on the drama please?

Vance has fucked a couch

Wrong. Gimme a black woman to vote for and I’ll do it.

I’m pissed because we pissed away the emcumbant advantage but what’s done is done, here’s hoping we get to celebrate the first female president instead of orange Hitler.

Time cube fuck yeah

Brb getting me one of them there benereal diseases

Wasn’t the failed assassin a registered Republican?

Same, this comment section is an amazing collection of why

+1 to this. I built a few deb packages at a previous company. It was a solid packaging suite but good lord was it a pain to work through

The remains, were blasted out into space.

They are not available, they are irretrievably gone.

They couldn’t be more lost to the annuals of time than things thrown in a volcano.

Ok no. They aren’t human remains, they are incredibly ancient ancestors of humans.

Pick out a hobby of yours for a moment. Something you like. Now let’s say that someone found an artifact related to the early days of that hobby. It’s a very rare one, like maybe the Nintendo PlayStation. Something cool that’s worth studying and learning about what could have been.

Now imagine some rich dickhead fucking blasted it to the edge of the fucking universe. Guess what, we can’t fucking learn about it anymore BECAUSE NOTHING CAN MAKE A FICKING ROUND TRIP TO GET IT BACK WITH CURRENT TECHNOLOGY. Anything we could have possibly learned about it. Gone.

And your response is “so what?”