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In my experience most people on the left want to help people living in red states, not condemn them to live under oppression.

That being said, I cant imagine what youre having to put up with, and I hope things turn around and start improving for you and your community soon.

Also Im sorry you had to encounter these divisive tumblr dicks, but please don’t think everyone on the left feels this way about what’s happening. Though of course there are real assholes who feel this way, bad actors are trying to turn this crisis into divisive conspiracy shitstorm on social media instead boosting ways to help people. I would avoid social media right now for this reason, especially twitter and tumblr where negativity gets hyper boosted.

Yes, no kidding people are more afraid of Trump. He wants to dismantle democracy and install himself and Christian facists. He wants to arrest and deport “dissidents”, citizens and non-citizens, millions of people.

Are you implying Americans are complicit in genocide if they vote against their country becoming a violent facist state? (especially when when Trump, would also 100% make things worse in Gaza. He is a known islamaphobe, and has called for Netanyahu to “finish the job” etc). This is why people are getting pissy.

There is absolutely a better chance of a new approach with Harris than with Trump, and to say otherwise is not based in reality.

I think people do care a lot, but this is the worst election to protest or shut down because of it. I know people always say that but in this case its true.

Either way the people of Gaza have a much better chance if Trump is decisively defeated. Again, Trump is closely aligned with Netanyahu, and has said the IDF needs to “finish the job”. I would think people would be motivated to vote against him.

right, but she is still the better choice in this matter by a wide, wide margin.

Not voting or voting for Trump because of this one issue , important though it is, and allowing a christo-facist authoritarian to assume power as a result seems like a horrible irresponsible take. (Not to mention Trump would only embolden Netanyahu and his cabinet.)

How would abstaining or voting for Trump help the situation in Gaza at all?

Well true, but I meant more like a forum with limited access (no images or links) until you meet certain requirements etc. So not totally safe, but a bit safer than the current setup

As others have suggested, I think temporarily suspending images until you guys can settle on a safe alternative to lemmy is a good idea.

Im sorry you had to see something like this, i hope you are able to seek out some counceling asap, talk to someone about it. Even something like https://www.7cups.com/ might be helpful.

I second everything you said here

I dont know, you cant really go shopping for cults. Cults go shopping for you.

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In my experience this has happened most strongly with topics relating to LLMs. Ive had good discussions on the topic too, but ive also seen lots of “BOOM I just shut down your argument!!” at any mention of negative impacts LLMs may have on society.

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Well, streaming has become such a pain and ordering physical media online has its own downsides thanks to inflated shipping fees. This seems like it might do okay if you had the right location. (Aka your rent isnt too high).

If you operated in an area with a lot of niche movie fans (maybe older customers or younger collectors) - if you can provided you can offer a selection of harder to find stuff, foreign and niche films, horror, any “boutique” physical media etc.

Collectable games also, being able to buy verified copies is a huge selling feature, the internet is swamped with fakes.

Grilled pizza sounds pretty good too

Yeah what is happening here lol

Im glad youre earning a decent amount thanks to tips, but holy shit. I worked in retail (cashiering, sales clerk) for years, but I can only imagine how much worse things are now given how entitled and fired up assholes seem to be. And you have to deal with them when they’re hungry!! Anyone serving food or customers face to face should be receiving hazard pay at the moment, honestly. Please keep venting here, I think it helps.

Oh ok! Well if they ever look for a new beehaw logo for some reason, I vote for this guy.

Is this for a new beehaw logo?

I also vote for these rules!

Oh right! Haha, sorry I thought it was the Titan that ran the stripped down version of android. :) my mistake

Thanks for the response and recommendations. Does the Titan offer any music streaming options? (Or music players, failing that)