Lincoln tricked racist northerners into dying in a war against the most heinous form of slavery the world has ever seen

... to save a slave nation built on white supremacy and settler colonialism, which still enslaves Black people within its borders thanks to the 13th Amendment passed during his administration, because the slave nation was so fucking vile and unstable that even white supremacists had to fight against chattel slavery to keep their settler colonial empire from detonating itself.

Like this is literally how deep racism goes, that even the "white moderates" are all racist bastards. This is what happens when one makes white supremacy the foundation of an entire society: to the surprise of no one but you and every other settler apparently, you end up with a nation of white supremacists. Rejecting in all its hideous permutations (applies to too) is step zero in any serious solution for ending white supremacy. Otherwise, it's a continuation of white supremacy under different management.

and he still doesn't pass your purity test.

Yeah actually, the only purity test an President can ever pass is that he purely deserves to burn in Hell.

Yes.

My suggestion is that it would be easier for you to reject religion and any other beliefs without evidence to back it up, but I support religious freedom and diversity of thought in general. And if you reject my suggestion, that's the end of the discussion, no big deal, won't bring it up again.

As long as there's no oppression and it's being done in a way that does not create hierarchies, I got no beef with people doing religious stuff (or any other stuff).

do you think I went to his place at 3am to discuss the economical and political state of the world?

If it was my place then the answer would at least partially be yes.

Yeah it's pretty deranged that he chose to do that, and it's pretty deranged that you pretend like hasn't always been a slave nation.

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Broken clock is right twice a day, but there's a reason we don't use them to tell time

It doesn't actually represent anything. It's a public pool.

What the fuck are you smoking and can I have some?

It's literally called the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. It obviously is a memorial to Lincoln. The National Mall is filled with monuments which are explicitly dedicated to memorializing various figures from history. We're not debating this!

And what you really want, is to convince others your imagining is real.

Wow golly gee I must be a real fucking psycho to want to ... convince people to think like I do. Goddamn, that's some crazy shit.

Only a shit would be up their own ass enough to have a problem with trying to convince people to think differently.

Power-Tripping Mods, Gaslighting Users, Immature Moderators, 100 Rules to follow but contradicts itself

The point of the Fediverse is not that we individually have better characters than the people on Reddit. The point is that if you don't like what an instance is doing, you can join an instance you do like, or make your own.

I came because of the Reddit API closure. I stayed because of the huge anarchist and communist communities.

The problem with 'making your own instance' is, how little of active people there are to sustain such instances.

You literally only need one person to make an instance: you.

You make it sound like we're flourishing with millions of active users when we're realistically seeing only five digit thousands and that's being generous.

And that's a problem? Personally, I want to see the Fediverse grow sustainably.

It's not that simple.

No it actually is that simple to make an instance just for yourself. Actually, the challenge comes about when you grow, because then you have to moderate other users.

Mehhh...fuck Trump, but I got no issues with people who use diapers. Like I don't hate Trump for being old and senile, I hate him for being a fucking monster. Veering a little too close to Resistance™ liberalism for me.

The problem is your unrealistic expectations by how you're making it sound like just making an instance means automatic success of a community by denying the reality of just how active the general community as a whole is.

Sounds like you need to either find or make the community you want to see. Which in general, you can do (but some instances don't let you make new communities I think), although it's important to make the community on an instance whose policies are amenable to you.

And then if your community is worth going to, people will come.

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The sign in the meme says "Change my diaper." It's making fun of Trump by implying he is incontinent.

Yeah I figured, I've been there 😄

Pray tell, what would you actually blackmail him for? Combining his crimes as a private citizen with his crimes committed as the President of (e.g. enabling the Gaza genocide), he's basically done at least a little bit of every crime. Like there is literally nothing his followers won't look past, and there is literally nothing the Demonrats in power are willing to hold him accountable for because if he went to prison, every other POTUS would have to go to prison too.

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No such thing as a beautiful rich person. You're either {insert positive quality} or rich. Being rich cancels out any good in a person. But fuck for sure.