Well that’s why I said “instead we have, uh…” and a frowny face. It was sarcasm, but I guess it didn’t come through.

I still don’t get it. Who doesn’t have hitler symbols? Why is that relevant?

I don’t know what that slang means.

didn’t realize until just this moment that Rise Against ≠ Rage Against The Machine

Before those, in the 60’s there was CSNY, CCR, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Buffalo Springfield writing protest bangers.

Can’t really think of much for this generation unfortunately. Instead we have, uh… Ye. :(

OP wasn’t asking about classics, was asking about protest music

then they’ll bring along their security escort.

What’s this “14-yo’s are not adults” thing about

they drove emulator developer Near/Byuu to suicide. That’s someone who created BSNES / Higan (the first fully-accurate snes emulator), and helped with the fan translations for many games including mother 3.

If we ban private jets, billionaires will just buy every seat on the commercial jet. This will be even more inefficient fuel wise, and worse for the environment overall.

Don’t ban private jets. Ban billionaires.

If the world goes to shit but Kiwi Farms is destroyed, I will have a moticum of warmth in my blood.

Cough I think you might not have considered things from the bugs’ perspective.

An alien vessel lands with an explosion. Within days, the air is full of pollution, the trees are all dead, and the water has turned a nauseating green. The source? A rapidly expanding Von-Neumann machine, with flying robots carrying materials around to make more flying robots and more factory and more pollution, and is on track to cover the entire surface of the planet, if not more. It will surely destroy life as we know it. It’s a Lovecraftian horror: incomprehensible, casually omnicidal, and it came out of nowhere.

I love Factorio. It gives me real are we the baddies? vibes.

I don’t agree that marriage is strictly a religious thing. It’s for the same reason I also don’t think that Christmas is a strictly religious thing. I’m not religious, and even if I were, my parents’ religion is not christianity. Despite this, I celebrate a secular Christmas. Gifts are given, mirth is enjoyed, and various other traditions observed. Perhaps some day I’ll be secularly gay-married.

Christians rarely complain about non-christians celebrating christmas but wrong, but some christians are quite vocal about gay marriage being an affront to god or whatever. I wonder if it’s because Christians understand that there’s “christmas” (the capitalist funtimes holiday) and then there’s Christmas (the religious holy day). Maybe this understanding can be extended to marriage as well.

Either way, as someone who doesn’t really understand religion and is happy to let other people do their own thing, it doesn’t bother me if there are churches that refuse to perform same-sex marriages. I can understand that perhaps a baker shouldn’t be allowed to reject a making gay wedding cake on homophobic grounds, but I think it’s a tougher sell for me that religious congregations should be forced to do same-sex marriages. But again, I don’t care strongly either way.

I appreciate risking downdoots. I have downdoots disabled in my user settings, so I only see updeets. The lack of downdoot etiquette on lemmy is aggravating sometimes. “Downvotes are not for disagreement” my ass :P

it’s important to understand viewpoints of conservative people, even if we don’t agree with them. I think the community on lemmy really struggles with taking political opposition seriously.

regarding (2) I don’t know about “cannot force religion to recognize gay marriage,” since Canada does indeed force religion to recognize gay marriage. So it’s not a can/can’t thing. Personally, I don’t really have strong feelings one way or the other if religions don’t want to recognize gay marriage; I don’t really understand religion.

This is not the reason why conservatives oppose gay marriage. Here are the reasons I can understand (though not necessarily agree with):

• having 1x mom and 1x dad is important because men and women provide different functions when raising a child, and children deserve to get both of these things.
• “marriage” is a religious thing, not a legal thing; maybe gay-“legally married” is fine, but religious congregations shouldn’t be forced to perform gay marriages as they go against their religion.
• the normalization of homosexuality will spread and convert more people to homosexuals/bisexuals and/or encourage people to come out of the closet. (I’m not exactly sure why this is a problem tbh.)

Are there other reasons that they have?

Yeah. And they probably view guns as a way of protecting children, too.

I see a lot of posts that just completely don’t understand the conservative mindset at all, and imagine that explaining things to them like one would explain things to a leftist is going to work. There’s just too much inferential distance for memes like this. Sigh :/

I thought it was way more

The user content on fandom is generally pretty good, at least for the wikis I frequent. It’s everything else about the site which is awful – the pop-ups, the completely irrelevant auto-playing videos, how it’s constantly trying to shove other fandom wikis into your attention.

I’m sure the site is improved with userscripts and such, and I am already using adblock, but it’s pretty unforgivable IMO.

Important context: he’s not suggesting AIs writing content for Wikipedia. He’s suggesting using AI to provide feedback for new editors. Take that how you will.

(From another discussion on this.)

if girls are afraid of guys, that’s my problem