I’m saying that competitiveness usually also comes from fear.

My point was that it’s a negative sum game, we are all competing with each other in an unhealthy manner, in which we are all poorer collectively as a result.

100% agree

Isn’t competition in the US just another way of fearing being a less than person? I’ve known healthy competitors that just compete with themselves, but it’s rare.

The key word is avoid, I still go to these places. Also, we don’t know who instances are ultimately ran by. Having said that, still lemmy is way better than reddit which I avoid almost completely. I can only come up with 4:

• LemmyWorld- They curate their front page and at the very least, have rogue admin
• ml - They have a trolling vibe and get angry easily
• hexbear - not federated with my instance
• maga - not federated

It seems more like they’re backing Israel.

And just like we don’t hear about the girls in the catholic church being abused, I’m sure we’re not hearing about the boys in the epstein/trump sex trafficking ring.

If you’ve seen Hegseth give press conferences, Colin does a really good job of it. This is not that far off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7VbvUxj-hw

You are being really dumb about this. MSG comes from beets or seaweed or other shit. A person might be allergic to beets OR seaweed. I know you think you’re being smart about this, but you’re not.

What is MSG made from? Could it be that they’re allergic to the base and that there is a threshold? I hope to fuck you aren’t a scientist and you are an amazingly shitty person.

Who benefits from Trump’s war in Iran? The answer is disturbingly clear.

Who wants Iran bombed off the map, for their own reasons? Who are their rivals and enemies? Perennially, the Gulf Arab states, countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

You know, Qatar. The country that just gave Donald Trump a really, really nice $400 milion-dollar plane, a gilded flying palace for his own use both during his presidency and after?

And you remember the United Arab Emirates, recently structuring a totally pointless crypto financial transaction so that $2 billion of it was stuffed into the Trump family’s otherwise worthless brand-new crypto financial firm?

And you remember the Saudis who stuffed $2 billion into the pockets of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner just as Trump’s first term in office came to a close? Enough people were alarmed about that they actually bothered to come up with an excuse for what made it OK. They said, don’t worry, Jared will never again work for the U.S. government; he’s never coming back to Washington, so we’ll never have to worry about having someone involved in U.S. policy who has also been given billions of dollars by Saudi Arabia.

Well, who was leading the negotiations on behalf of the United States with Iran before we just started this war with them? I mean, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in St. Kitts and Nevis. It wasn’t him. It was Jared Kushner, who was recently paid billions of dollars by Iran’s chief rival, sitting alongside Trump’s tiny real estate friend, Steve Witkoff, whose son recently sought to improve his family fortunes by going to Qatar to seek money from its sovereign wealth fund.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/56168528

Which came first, the “I miss you” missing, or the “They disappeared” missing?

I had a cousin that joined a less popular one and he came out alright. It’s still weird though.

isn’t adp a sorority?

Nope:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Delta_Phi

Are you the creator of Tesseract? I love it except it doesn’t save my settings or my favorites and multi-communities. I’m not sure why and I’ve checked in the last 2 weeks. It’s been doing it a long time.

Well, hating allll Americans, no. Hating our politicians, yes. Of course, my pass means nothing, lol.

Soccer is a weird game anyway. The reason the players fake fall and dramatically hold mystery body parts? Because they get added on time at the end of the game that’s decided by the refs. It’s completely ripe for bribery and abuse.

This is a stupid example, but you get the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgPBeu4hLKw

This is what they’re calling AI btw. We are replacing workers with really bad, text predictors.

just questioning the idea that Americans are being left without a place to enjoy or feel comfortable in.

You’re just questioning the idea, eh? The “American propaganda machine” is the right wing who coincidentally aligns with Russia and the Russian mob for decades.

Okay, that makes sense. lol. If you’re Canada, Mexico, Greenland, or Ukraine, you get a pass.

What country are you from?