Eh, I know about the alternatives and they’re all clunky messes that will probably never have anywhere near the same userbase as reddit. Even if they do, they won’t function the same way.

I don’t mind Lemmy, and if Reddit continues to shit the bed I’ll probably switch over fully, but I would much much prefer that Spez backtrack on all the recent garbage and just have stuff go back to business as usual.

I like having all my content aggregated to one space. A big selling point of lemmy and other federated systems is that they’re “more free”, but until a month ago everything was fine. I don’t need or want to shake the foundations of how people consume media, I just need one guy to stop being a dickhead for 30 seconds.

I’m not one of these guys masturbating over my dream revolution or anything, but armed minorities are harder to oppress, and are less tempting targets for individual or group violence.

I’m a queer guy in Portland. There are violent extremists in my town who want to kill me, and are organizing and rallying. I’ve seen them in the streets, and they’ve attacked people and places I care about because they know that the left wing is broadly non-violent, and that cops are on their side.

Looking at the political climate in the US, I don’t think it’s too unreasonable of a reaction to buy a gun and learn to defend yourself, just in case.

I’m not one of these guys masturbating over my dream revolution or anything, but armed minorities are harder to oppress, and are more tempting targets for individual or group violence.

I’m a queer guy in Portland. There are violent extremists in my town who want to kill me, and are organizing and rallying. I’ve seen them in the streets, and they’ve attacked people and places I care about because they know that the left wing is broadly non-violent, and that cops are on their side.

Looking at the political climate in the US, I don’t think it’s too unreasonable of a reaction to buy a gun and learn to defend yourself, just in case.

I’m not one of these guys masturbating over my dream revolution or anything, but armed minorities are harder to oppress, and are less tempting targets for individual or group violence.

I’m a queer guy in Portland. There are violent extremists in my town who want to kill me, and are organizing and rallying. I’ve seen them in the streets, and they’ve attacked people and places I care about because they know that the left wing is broadly non-violent, and that cops are on their side.

Looking at the political climate in the US, I don’t think it’s too unreasonable of a reaction to buy a gun and learn to defend yourself, just in case.

Amen. I don’t like guns, I don’t feel comfortable around them, but if those fucking lunatics get them I guess I have to have them too.