Damn Citizens United and SpeechNow decisons were just happening too back then. “Patriot Act 2” was already being implemented. Big oof.

Anxiety, easily.

People focus their energies on getting through the day for the most part of their lives. It is very hard for people to muster the time and energy to paying attention to politics, let alone ideologically political propaganda.

The vast majority flat ignore it entirely and remain in an apolitical state. This is a primary function of propaganda: insulating people from political action or thought that might alter the status quo.

I think femininity itself is the more fetishized component, so it just means the femboy is successfully femming.

Especially when you consider how right wingers tend to interpret gender roles.

I got married while standing in a river and I incorporated a pagan ritual in front of a select few of unsuspecting parents and their spouses.

Worth.

A month and a half later we held a fancy reception dinner and served pancakes.

Also worth.

Absolutely. For science and curiosity did you try them using a keyboard+mouse or a controller?

Obligatory FromSoft lineup suggestion.

I never really did spend much time on reddit, so Lemmy was never a replacement for me.

Even now Lemmy feels much different than it was a few years ago. It is wild seeing posts with only a few comments and hundreds of up/downvotes.

I redid the baseboards and doorframe in one of the rooms in my house. I call it ‘rustic’ and it looks like ass. The guys replacing the carpets a few years back had a laugh at it.

I realized my cuts were off by the sawblade lengtg and I stacked the gap into the most noticeable spot. And then I installed the vertical boards for the doorframe crooked twice before replacing one board when I realized how warped it was. Then I mismeasured the replacement noticing only after installing once the top board tilted up about 1 cm on one side.

I always assumed the Mommy-Misato hangup thing was just a projected self-report.

Oxygen plays a role in your perception. That’s what’s happening in that scenario.

Also butane.

Basically:

I never really used Reddit, but I read an article during the API debacle in 2023 that mentioned Lemmy so I gave it a shot.

These folks include presenting a false person as being of age, then switching to underage at the time of meetup when the target shows up.

A group descends upon the target who is now told they’re a pedophile.

Then the group tries to kill the person who was trying to meet what they thought was an adult.

And the perpetrators think this is justice.

It isn’t the medical definition at work, here. It’s the legal one.

Ding ding ding.

Yeah I believe the next step in this process is to make the easy jump into hunting all those people expressing ‘Pedo apologia’. Half this thread suddenly is fair game to ‘investigate.’

It’s a bottomless well, really.

Hell, KiwiFarms style tactics is becoming more and more common and mainstream. It’s on Lemmy too.

…what makes the downvotes come from .ml?

Defederated instances aren’t federated to see the content that would be moderated from their instance to make it to a modlog.

Skipping across potholes of a fragmented fediverse will cause all sorts of screwy results, especially when you have communities and users instance banned navigating defederated instances in these topics.

Defederating unravels the Fediverse, which is the point for some demanding it.