I have a normies sentiment like your dad. I’ve seen a few posts on Lemmy about covid cases in the US but haven’t heard about the cases in Europe. I’m sure they exist though, just not talked about

Thank you so much!

I’m out of touch with hexbearian stickers

Is paper tiger a reference to Trump or the US? I may not understand this haha

There is a way to make a lot of things better quickly, but it is quite violent

What do you want more? This is pretty specific, what was taught to them about gender and sexuality, in particular that gender only exists in two forms, and no mention outside of heterosexuality. Pretty sure most of us had a similar experience in school about these subjects

Edit: downvoting until you reply. It’s not intellectually honest to ask such a question and kite off

Why do you put Russia and China together in the first place? There is nothing in common. Do you think the USSR is still there and communists support the government? We only have critical support for Russia in its counter imperialism. There may be an end to it soon though, I don’t know

Again, thank you for trying to explain.

I consider I understand enough to answer then. Please don’t take my judgements personally or as an insult.

I think this is biased view of the socialists of Lemmy. They have a critical support (mostly positive and negative on the negative parts) of the people revolution of 1917 in Russia and the Soviet union. They also have a critical support of China and encroyages it’s socialist ways, they are the biggest communist lead country today and a wonderful counter power to the US and EU imperialism (the enabler of capitalism, don’t mix up other weird definitions). They have a small critical support of Russia, because even though they can’t support it’s government for its ideology, it also participates in anti-US imperialism. Socialists don’t praise authoritarian “regimes” (yep, that’s a clue of propaganda regurgitation). Socialists do support something also called dictatorship, but it’s the dictatorship of proletariat, to reverse the current dictatorship of the bourgeoisie

What leads liberal (which is the idealogy of capitalism, not any another weird definition) instances of Lemmy to defedarate is because… they are liberal. It is difficult for people evolving in a liberal society, drenched in daily capitalist propaganda to accept challenging views

If the steam deck charger has a voltage output option that matches your phone (5V) then there is no issue. Current is set by the load in this case since the power convertor in the charger is a voltage generator, not a current generator. So the phone won’t get too much current

Not entirely true. Batteries are still made up of rare and polluting materials. And mining is not exactly ethical either

Thank you for clarifying but I think you go over the main topic a bit quickly. What does it mean “because of the tankies”? Who are the tankies and what have they done that is to be avoided by going to another instance?

Queer people suggesting not to join instances fighting for their rights, with 0 given reason is kind of wild not gonna lie

Many of us here are queer as well and I don’t think I’ll ever understand right-wing LGBT