Even in European countries there are two dominant parties that work with others on their side of the aisle. In fact the concept of a left and right comes from France.

Polarization is universal in politics at the scales or democracy.

I feel many people are so privileged on both sides of politics that they have nothing better to do than to create their own problems.

Yes. Politically militant people are becoming more common. This time last month people seemed to have been much more agreeable even if they didn’t agree with you.

You can’t regulate automation to stop it. You need to learn to adapt just like everyone else who has been automated out of a job.

Everything you post online is public, even if services claim its private. Just remember that and try to be anonymous so you blend in with the background noise.

Many people, including myself personally, have been telling people how much of a liar he is for at least 6 or 7 years at this point. Ever since the “hyperloop” nonsense got big.

Pleasantly surprised with SpaceX and Starlink delivering, but even those are plagued by Musk over promising in what is actually doable.

You missed the part of my comment where I pointed out you must have done something to be charged with a crime. The Government did not stop you, they are punishing you for something you did.

Your right to say and do whatever you want is immutable and cannot be taken away from you. As long as you have a mind, you have the ability to think and do what you want.

All that anyone can do to stop you is to threaten you with punishment of some kind, hoping it’ll deter you from doing that thing in the first place.

You can, you’ll just face legal consequences for disturbing the peace or threatening others.

Notice how you get in trouble after you say something. The idea that a government can stop you from saying or thinking something is silly. How would you even enforce such a thing?

That’s why the rights in the American’s constitution are considered “inalienable”, because even if there were (illegal) laws made to stop you from saying or thinking something, your right to do so is innate and can never truly be taken from you.

Yes, what is anyone going to do to stop you? That’s why America has free speech at the very first right defined in the bill of rights.

The fediverse allows anyone to set up their own instances with their own rules and beliefs. It’s simply the consequence of freedom of speech.

Those people and ideas you want to ban will always be there. If you make it so people have to hide them, it just makes it easier for the ideas to spread. It’s better if they are openly criticized and refuted rather than swept under the rug.

They do, they just have to deal with people who think their ideas are worthless. You can even make laws against ideas you don’t like, but they’ll be even less effective than drug prohibition. Just look at China for a great example of that.

That’s the beauty of the fediverse, a true diversity of opinion.

Reddit and other sites are wary about fringe communities and ideologies, and will ban them if they feel threatened. Just look at /r/ChapoTrapHouse or /r/The_Donald. Regardless of what you think of those groups of people, they have a right to spread their views.

No matter how much you wish to stop the spread of harmful information, it will spread as long as there are people who want it to.

If they said that then it changes things. I’m going off this tracker

https://the-federation.info/platform/73

It could just be lagging behind whatever lemmy.world mentioned, things are moving so fast that a few hours can make a world of difference.

You’re giving me some more hope.

Hate to be that person, but the lemmyverse has about 160k people as of this morning. If you include Mastodon it’s millions, but they aren’t likely to interact as much with lemmy users.