Rarely. The memes tend to be insular. Go outside and do shit instead.

I’m just having a hard time understanding why someone would think that this instance likes trump. There aren’t even many sarcastic shitposts that would give that impression.

@mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml what gives you or other Lemmy users this impression?

Consider your rhetoric, and the reactions caused:

I don’t want to say all programmers or tech workers are like that

I don’t think you intend it, but this otherizes a group of us workers. It’s not just “wtf is up with programming.dev,” but instead this now plants the idea that maybe there’s something wrong with this group, specifically. Not just that there’s an issue with some random Lemmy instance.

Look at the reactions, the culture this kind of post creates:

Engineers are vastly over-represented among extremists

Also on the business side of things it’s filled with the worst people imaginable and if you survive your first year or 2 you select for the people that are willing to put up with the worst people imaginable.

It is common for STEM folks to have a reductive world view

As a programmer, I’m here to say that my people are not alright.

The ugly truth is that IT has always been an industry that caters towards the worst of the bourgeoisie

And so on, and so forth. At the core, otherization and division. And I don’t think a majority of the assertions in this thread are even remotely true.

To be clear, I don’t think you or anyone in this thread means ill by it. But this thread, and threads like it, frustrate me.

@UlyssesT@hexbear.net what are your intentions when making posts like this?

I took a programming job because it is my primary skill, and I needed insulin so I wouldn’t die. I was 40k in medical debt and couldn’t even get a goddamn apartment.

My fellow workers, programmers and engineers, labor to survive. They’re not likely to warm to Socialism when they see terminally online takes like this. Why would they?

Thanks, I’ll check it out

Dam I started Michigan-dering n 1992 so it may be before my time

There was a weather underground? I lived here for about three years before going to Arizona for six years because I guess I like cacti

Edit: lived most of my life in Kzoo and Adrian before that, mind you

I mean it took me 33 years to finally start considering that maybe the USSR wasn’t so bad

The honeymoon.