Are you surprised the genocidal regime that has been slowly eradicating a whole people for the past 70+ years could go this far?

I have watched the video and if you think he wasn’t being honest, you probably are one of those people you mentioned that fall on the spectrum.

He might’ve used the tone of a joke, but he’s been saying for a while now how he plans to “get back at those who wronged him”. Hell, he even said that the GOP is impeaching Biden only because “they did it to him first”.

I am shocked people like you think he’s not being serious: he’s literally telling you.

This goes to show how hard it is to put a rich white^orange? man in prison. The whole system failed at every turn and there’s STILL the chance he might become president again…ain’t that something?

That is indeed a very sexy and interesting piece of Data (wink wink, nudge nudge)

Y’all still trust your brains? Lol

Because our society says that if you have money, you must have earned it by being smart and savy…and some people still believe that

I’ll give you my own personal reason. I’ve had to literally change instance because I had the misfortune to disagree with some of them. It was a political conversation and the level of hate and trolling was the most toxic I’ve seen on Lemmy. The amount of messages and replies that attacked me and/or mocked me was enough for me to made me painfully aware overnight of what hexbear is simply because all the attacks/trolling was obviously from the same instance.

There was (and in my opinion still is) no point in seeing their answers since a great amount of their replies were just pictures or gifs of things like the butthole of a pig, literal shit and things of that caliber. Additionally, every posts or discussion that talks about them, inevitably draws their attention and they start to spam the same kind of stuff, relishing in the idea that they are hated, simply replying with things like “cope, seethe, rent free etc”.

I’ve also personally blocked all the instances from hexbear I could and a lot of users from there because I don’t come to Lemmy to be called names, harassed or to try to have conversations with trolls.

Personally, I can’t see anything that could help in change the culture when the people at the top AND the people at the bottom don’t seem to have any interest in changing. I definetly give props to people like you for trying to change it and I’m sorry you get bunched up with less pleasant users, but I’m here to look at photos of pets, talking about plants and books and other silly things that don’t deserve that level of hate. I certainly want nothing to do with it.

That was my personal view and experience. Hope it helped with your questions

I never said people disagreeing with me is trolling. I’m quite aware of what trolling actually is. And I find interesting how that “people disagreeing with you is not trolling” line gets said so often by people of that instance. Trolling is trolling.

I’m on the same boat. But my “what the actual fuck?” moment came when (for those unfamiliar with it) YouTuber Idubbbz came out with a sincere apology for many of his videos that used extremely racist or ableist terms. While aware that his apologies did not automatically translated into being forgiven by the memebers of the groups he insulted, Idubbbz still felt it was important for him to apologize.

And in this situation, Penguinz0 just said that “Idubbbz shouldn’t have apologized and it felt like he was exaggerating the whole thing”. Way to inject yourself in something that did not involve him at all. Also, that really told me the kind of person Penguinz0 is: someone who dismisses others suffering when it’s not his place to do so and someone who just goes off his own gut feelings alone.

They are allowed to be president and run for re-election too so I wouldn’t hold my breath