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  • Do you think that Trump would be considered as the most hated U.S. president?

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  • In a contemporary sense or in a historical sense?

    Obviously the latter is virtually impossible to determine but I suspect he'll be somewhere in the top 5.

    Just as obviously he's #1 in a contemporary sense. There is a lot of hate for Obama from people who swear they aren't racist, but moderates and Democrats like/love him. I feel like Biden is universally slightly disliked. I think Bush Jr. is similar. Clinton's probably between slightly disliked and slightly liked.

    Trump, on the other hand, is between vilified and slightly disliked recently (thanks to the Iran War and the Epstein Files). Sure, lots of people pretend to like or love him in public, but I think that's usually performative to align with political allies as you're virtually obligated to do under authoritarian rule. Just look at how few MAGAs turned out for America's 250th. They just aren't enthusiastic about him any more.

  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • Clock out time is clock out time, especially if you get in trouble for overtime.

    - Me, fired over an overtime dispute

  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • You're probably being dogpiled for perceived Ameri-centrism.

    The irony, in my mind, is that while you were kinda veering the discussion in a different direction, per your edit you explicitly did so because you have no knowledge of mental healthcare in Argentina which is very much not Ameri-centrism.

    If I had to put words to most of the downvotes, they would probably say "fuck you, this is a discussion about Argentina's mental healthcare, not mental healthcare more broadly," which again in a bit of irony, detracts from the discussion of how to address mental health crises.

  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • Incredibly cruel. What a monster.

  • Just Curious - What's Everyone's Profession Here???

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  • But then VC started throwing money at it

    I had no idea the Viet Cong was still active in 2026.

  • Daily reminder that ALL atrocities are bad. Yes, even of your favorite polity

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  • I was accused of "Orientalism" last week and banned for three days from the community (Memes@lemmy.ml) with all of my comments nuked because I said Xi Jinping and the CCP are bad (largely due to what they're doing to the Uighurs) and that the Xinnie the Pooh meme isn't inherently racist (though as I said in the nuked thread, it definitely could be used for racist purposes that I hadn't even realized a connection for initially because anti-Asian racism orientalism is simply a blind spot for me).

    This week I had a comment removed for "Electoralism" from LeftyMemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com because I said Kamala Harris turning towards supporting the DSA is a good thing that we shouldn't drag her for.

    Obviously the first accusation is pretty transparent as far as guessing what orientalism is (as well as the real reason for the ban), but I had to look up what electoralism even is. After reading the Wikipedia article I'm 99% sure it doesn't fit what I said in the slightest, and I'm 100% sure I don't know what rule I violated over there.

    So anecdotally in my brief time here, Lemmy moderators do seem to be much more removal/ban-happy than the Reddit moderators I'm used to, but at least it's way easier for competing communities to out-compete the crummy ones. If your city's subreddit (i.e. /r/tampa) goes to shit because one moderator power-trips and the others could not give a flying fuck if they had a gun to their heads, you're just out of luck. There is no such thing as tampa@differentredditdomain.whatever. You have to pick from some off-brand /r/tampa2, /r/realtampa, /r/bettertampa, etc. Then the /r/tampa moderators report you for "brigading" and you're on the admin shit-list.

    Anyway, I guess the lesson I learned about Lemmy is that Memes@lemmy.ml and LeftyMemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com have one or more overzealous tankie moderators. Very well, that's what the block feature is for, especially if they don't answer my appeals like I expect will happen. There are other meme communities.

  • Daily reminder that ALL atrocities are bad. Yes, even of your favorite polity

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  • Saying the first one is how you get banned from tankie communities.

  • "This bandwagon is going where I wanna go!"

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  • I really don't think that's her thoughts on the matter, but okay.

  • Just Curious - What's Everyone's Profession Here???

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  • No worries. Where I posted it on Reddit, I had it where the more granular detailed sections were blacked out spoiler-style so people could read less of it if they wanted to, but I don't think Lemmy supports that function (yet).

  • Proud Boy [PizzaCake]

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  • Then that's the comparison we/she should be using, because it's far better.

  • DM Sadism 101 rule

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  • I suspect it's that meta/power-gamers dislike taking away a meta tool to Win the Game.

  • Is there any way to set my default submission language to English?

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  • Fair enough. Thank you.

    I would also politely suggest that there be some other feature request pipeline that doesn't require a Microsoft-tied account; I doubt I'm the only one out there who is Microsoft-averse. There's also the technical skills necessary to navigate GitHub, which not everyone has; GitHub is by-and-for coders, and most non-coders have never even heard of it, let alone know how to properly submit an Issue.

  • Just Curious - What's Everyone's Profession Here???

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  • One of the biggest deflating sentiments that ruins the ACAB meme is the one-two question:

    "Do you think you are a good person?"+"Do you want to be a cop?"

    If they're answering truthfully, most ACABers would answer: "Yes."+"Of course I don't."

    The reasoning behind the latter varies, in my experience with them, from "Because there are too many bad cops (therefore I am afraid for my personal safety)." to "Because I qualify for better jobs."

    The former is, frankly, an argument from a place of cowardice. Imagine a world where nobody put out fires because fires are dangerous. Sure, it's totally rational for one person to avoid danger, but if everyone avoids danger we are all screwed. Further, though no group is a monolith, you also see "Cops always protect their own no matter what," come from ACABers, at which point wouldn't that person trying to be good be one of those cops that is above any adverse action?

    The latter is an argument for incentivizing good people to join law enforcement, most directly with better pay, and indirectly with not shitting on every cop just because one/some/most/etc. of them are shit.

  • Just Curious - What's Everyone's Profession Here???

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  • I don't strongly disagree with that notion, but I strongly believe that spreading the idea leads to making cops worse as a whole.

    Say your message reached the eyes/ears of every single (prospective) cop, whether they (think they) (will) contribute to that problem or not.

    The ones that want to contribute to that don't care what you have to say about it; they might even get a kick out of it.

    The ones that don't want to will either be motivated towards mental gymnastics into ignoring criticism of law enforcement ("they obviously have no idea what they're talking about" and other similar cop-outs) or look for a way out of that line of work. In other words, making people think "it doesn't matter what I do, I will still be considered evil," will push a lot of otherwise good people to either ignore criticism, deviate to the worse, or get out entirely. The former two are basically the logic behind Labeling Theory. Do you know who invites them with open arms? Bad Cops.

    So by subtracting (potential) Good Cops and not affecting (or bolstering) Bad Cops, you make the ratio worse.

  • Just Curious - What's Everyone's Profession Here???

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  • Statistically speaking it's likely that I was somewhere close to a 5/10. If you consider that "good" so be it, but I reject the notion that just because a(n ex-)cop goes on Lemmy they must be or have been good.

    I've tried to address the issue across many spaces, but there's never anywhere near a consensus on what makes a cop a Good Cop, so I don't think I or anyone else will be able to truthfully answer that question about me (or any other cop) in a way that suits most/all people.

  • If you can't explain why the rule matters, then I won't follow it.

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  • somewhere down the line someone implemented it for a good reason thats not immediately obvious or easy to explain.

  • If you can't explain why the rule matters, then I won't follow it.

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  • Literally how the military (and government) works, in a nutshell.

  • DM Sadism 101 rule

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  • I don't even think that should be limited to horror; I think that should be boilerplate standard across all tables.

    Nobody knows when they missed something important or they wouldn't have missed it, by definition.

  • Proud Boy [PizzaCake]

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  • Yeah as someone who hates Proud Boys, this is obviously a bad faith attack on them which has the exact blowback you say.

    People doing (or threatening to do) political violence are usually going to want to hide their identities from law enforcement and employers, and virtually everyone is afraid of getting arrested and/or fired.