Based if true

That is correct. Lemmy.ml is an instance that we’re federated with.

The premise of how Lemmy works is that there are multiple sites and each site has communities on it. Each of those sites is an instance and when an instance federates with another instance, accounts from either instance and interact with each other.

Your home account is on Lemmygrad.ml but we’re federated with Lemmy.ml which allows you to interact with their communities, accounts, etc

When an instance defederates from your home instance (the one you made an account on), you can no longer interact with their instance. An example of this is Lemmy.world

Things can get confusing quick when you talk about defederating because communities on an instance can block interaction from another instance rather than the whole instance defederating.

But I like my hybrid bike 😢

Pretty funny, space race isn’t getting revived it seems

Why stop at only healthcare being exempt from capitalism? You may as well go further into housing, food and water and employment to address the root of many problems, mental and physical.

Seems like there’s a need for systemic change.

The German chancellor argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s truce terms amounted to Ukraine’s surrender

Russia is currently winning in this conflict, seems like they’re in the position to present peace terms that are asking for Ukraine to surrender lmfao

What reality is this statement coming from.

Lol average non critical thinker

Lol what definition of imperialism are you using to make this accusation.

I wouldn’t take anyone who throws tankie or red fash at you seriously. I roll my eyes when I hear those terms, I’d recommend seeking out some comrades through a local org or at least hanging out on here and hexbear.

Bonus points if a ruling majority party has less than 50% of the populations votes and voter participation is super low so you effectively get 30% (if you’re lucky) of the population making decisions for the rest.

I hate liberal democracy. Long live democratic centralism!

I can only really speak from a Canadian perspective and I think it’s important to focus on your local area. I’ve seen in my city and all of the other major cities (I’ve been luck enough to travel to here) that along with urbanism, a heavier emphasis on public transit and active transportation, is present.

While I can only speak to the large cities, a lot of the smaller towns I’ve been to are still somewhat closely knit. It’s the suburbs that are weird and hostile to the above ideas. Not that it’s all that surprising given the predominant political views of there but that’s a long topic that others have made YouTube videos about.

To bring it back around, similar to what some other comrades have said in this thread, local/municipal politics is where you’re most likely to get some change done.

NJB has an interesting view and I can see where he’s coming from as his story and mine aren’t too dissimilar (except the city that I moved to is till within Canada). I don’t agree on the nihilism that he exhibits around Canadian cities as my takeaway is he is still living within fixed boundaries of a political mindset. It’s important to realize that many urban residents support making their city more people oriented but just haven’t had the push to become more politically engaged.

For anyone interested in Canadian urbanism/active transportation/public transit, I can recommend a few channels:

• Oh the Urbanity!
• RMTransit
• Shifter

They also have videos about cities outside of Canada but are nonetheless Canadian creators so they have a bit more of a focus on their home cities.