Do you need politicians to tell you to he a decent person? It didn’t happen, we’re in the middle of it.

This kind of selfish attitude is why humans are causing the fifth mass extinction of life in the history of the planet.

She was an amazing huntress

Cats kill billions of animals every year on just the US, many more worldwide. They’ve wiped many species off the face of the Earth, and more are on the way. Please keep your cats inside.

If you take the time to make food, especially smelling it as it cooks, it gives your body time to get excited about it and improves digestion.

Get these fancy bricks out of here, this building will be made only with concrete and the crushed dreams of Soviet workers.

Jesus, Lemmy, this should be a positive thread not just an opportunity to complain

What if we just accidentally (completely by accident OK??) shoved him off a building instead?

Yes, but some of us do, so give us the goods already

The shills and bots from Hexbear love using it as a wedge to divide people, so I’d say it’s very important to them

As with many things, its complex. A couple reasons:

• Propaganda on social media uses immigration as a wedge issue to divide people. For example, the Kremlin wants to get people angry about immigration AND angry about people trying to stop immigration. “They’re coming to eat your pets” and “anti-immigrant peoppe are all hateful racists”
• The planet is overpopulated. We’re running out of land and resources, and that makes people worried and protective of their territory.

More like Definiteline

You gotta really lower your expectations for lemmy.ml

they love defending authoritarianism more than they like leftist economics.

They’re not paid to like leftist economics.

Of course, and neither Russia nor China are communist.

A lot of it isn’t actually communists, but a facade for spreading authoritarian propaganda.

I don’t want governments controlling what we see, hear, and say.

Might want to find a new instance

Because the Fediverse is a great target for propaganda, which is invaluable for some authoritarian countries.

Lemmy is an echochamber with relatively limited, uncoordinated moderation. 1,000,000+ monthly active users, and lemmy.ml is a flagship instance.

It’s a bummer. I love the idea of the Fediverse but it’s having some propaganda growing pains.

Hard disagree, they’re here and able to operate relatively freely with no central admin fighting disinformation.

They’re not delusional, they’re paid.