https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYfQT35_38 (just listen to the first two minutes if you’re lazy)

Damn

Lemmy is inherently democratic. If you don’t like a muni, or an instance, you go to another one. Without centralization dictatorship is impossible.

That’s more like voluntarism than democracy.

Online? Dictatorship. Let the guidelines be clear and the conversations civil and on topic. If my speech isn’t wanted in a particular community I can find another, or make another where I’m the dictator.

I like StackOverflow’s democratic moderation. It also scales better than centralised moderation.

The squabbling process moves the law toward meeting the needs of more people.

Are there data on this?

You’re making a causal claim (if squabbling, then more needs met) and that’s either empirically true or not.

Misinformed.

The founding fathers of the USA never mentioned democracy in the constitution nor declaration of independence.

In their writings, they only ever used the word as a pejorative: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=democracy&s=1111211111&sa=&r=1&sr=

“we are not so absurd as to “design a Democracy,” of which the Governor is pleased to accuse us”

“You would have torn up the Foundations and demolished the whole Fabrick of the Government, and have suffered Democracy… to have arisen in its Place.”

Are those the founding fathers you’re talking about?

‘Stenopterygius’ is an anagram of ‘I get stone syrup’ or ‘Gutsy Stone pier’

Cringe title

No.

Book-learning is realllllly overrated in our world, especially in a forum like this.

Less than 1% of knowledge is expressible in words.

That leaves four

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

Lemmings

Is there a film called Lemmings? Seems a safe bet there is one.

Looks like Inuit words to me

…a war broke out…

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/05/israel-and-the-passive-voice

I didn’t post that meme

Ok.

And for what it’s worth, I believe Israel is currently perpetrating a genocide. That doesn’t mean everything they’ve ever done was always 100% evil.

That’s besides the point. The meme is lying about who attacked whom in 1967. Israel destroyed the Egyptian air force on the ground in a surprise attack. The USA has done evil things, but I’m not gonna lie and say they launched a surprise attack against Japan in WW2. Facts are facts.

I’m against re-writing history

So am I. That’s why we can’t accept a meme that says the Arab countries jumped Israel with a knife and it then defended itself with superior firepower. Total contradiction of the facts.

Your meme says that the Arab countries (the guy with the knife) attacked Israel (the assaulted guy who has a gun). That’s objectively false, all opinions aside.

You’re making out that Israel was attacked, which is misinformation.

Lies and misinformation.

the Six Day War was a surprise attack launched by Israel.

Here is a different photo of the Korean peninsula from space: https://imgur.com/a/PSIKyuK - imgur.artemislena.eu/a/PSIKyuK - rimgo.projectsegfau.lt/a/PSIKyuK - imgur.artemislena.eu/a/PSIKyuK - imgin.voidnet.tech/a/PSIKyuK

Here is Spain in darkness seen from space: https://universemagazine.com/en/blackout-in-spain-a-view-from-space/

Mod there is notoriously bad. Banned a bunch of us for calling out this obviously fake story: https://lemmy.ml/post/24524505