Yeah all in good fun, I didn’t mean anything bad with my post.

Barely fend off?

They wouldn’t have a snowballs chance in hell against California.

Concerning the current dictator “president”, less alive would work for me as well.

Not one more € from EU funds should go to Hungary.

It is completely obvious that Orban is not an ally.

If meta joined, the users that make most fediverse content now will see their engagement drop.

That’s where you lose me again.
Why would the engagement drop if a ton more users could consume your content.

It’s not like the ratio of content creators to lurkers is any better on meta apps than here.

Btw thank you for the good faith discussion, I don’t think that would have happened at the old place.

I know that you have put more thought into this topic than I did and you just might be right.

But dude that wallmart analogy misses the point by a mile.
Wallmart kills the small stores by simply undercutting them, this has nothing to do with what meta might do.

And you didn’t really argue my point that people like you and I could and probably would consume meta content if it was federated.
But why would anyone that is part of the fediverse right now jump ship if meta came and went away again?

I damn sure will never create another meta account or use any meta app. Would you?

I understand all those points.

I just don’t quite see how that would kill the fediverse.
After all wouldn’t we be exactly where we are now if meta disconnected again?

It’s not like you and I would suddenly start using threads if it started federating.

Overcook undercook.

Hot take, EU should just swap Hungary for Ukraine at this point.

Both have problems with corruption and democratic standards, but one sees that as a good thing and one at least tries to be better.

You’re the reason people like geert are winning.

No I am not and right wing nuts blaming the left for even more extreme right wing nuts is just an obvious lie.

The empirically proven truth is though, that people like Wilders, LePen, Farage, Trump, Höcke etc. are successful because their inflammatory racist rhetoric gets echoed by stupid “centrists” that care more about fighting the left than the right.

People like you.

But I understand that it feels much better for you to blame lefty people that you don’t like anyway.

Bullshit Apples and bullshit Oranges.

Mild pressure is put on the catholic church as an organization (!) to stop actively aiding the still ongoing mass rape of children over multiple continents through their clergy.

That is not even close to the same as expecting all people of Muslim believe to denounce things that completely independent people do that just so happen to also be Muslim.

And don’t get me wrong, Islam might be even more stupid and archaic than Christianity, but your argument just doesn’t hold water at all.
I would go so far as to say that it is likely that this very argument was conceived as a racist fig leaf to have some reasonable sounding argument to not like brown people.
Not that this is necessarily your motivation, but you just publicly repeated it.

So I have no idea about guns but would you say there is no legislative way to end the fact that the USA is the only first world country with a mass shooting like every other day?

Again I am not arguing for or against any one particular measure or ban.
I don’t know anything about high cap mags or whatever.
But I do know that other countries seem to show a correlation between stricter gun laws and less fatalities by gun.

Or is it your 2nd amendment that stands in the way of effective legislative measures?

It just seems like a problem that should be so easy to solve and as a European it just seems strange that you guys seem to be completely unable to even make improvements.

Isn’t Colorado pretty blue anyway?

Getting tossed in a state like Florida would absolutely kill his chances though.

the same way we know that ‘T’ is for ‘Tuesday’ and ‘Th’ is for ‘Thursday.’

As a non native speaker I have to admit I actually didn’t know that.
But in German you also use two letters for all the weekdays.
Mo, Di, Mi, Do, Fr, Sa, So.

But it is a popular riddle for children to ask M, D, M, D, what comes next?

Just because I wanted to be sure I am not being mistaken for some reason I just googled a couple different search terms for motivations to buy a new car.

None of the results is even close to confirming your ludicrous quote from above.
So again I am baffled by how confidently wrong you keep on posting here.

More often than not people buy a new car […] trying to lessen their carbon footprint.

This seems very hard to believe.

Oh Gymmie, do you really want more national attention?

Who am I kidding, off course he does.

I call you an asshole.

And to answer the stupid question of the panel, it is educational reading.
It is young people that are most open to education and humanity has to bet on its young generations for progress.
There is truth to the saying that humanitys progress advances one funeral at the time.

Oh and there are progressive for adults as well, they just don’t make it to the media. So the “meme” is not only stupid but also built on lies.
The right just can’t meme.

How I miss the days when I disliked Republicans just for being slimey shitweasles and not literal fascists.

Shia very unsurprising.