Ask Lemmy

I hate being drunk as well as being around others who are drunk. So yeah, I'm real fun at parties.

Men aren't the enemy of feminism and equality. It doesn't matter what any man has done to you, being a bigot doesn't fix it.

There are real problems in the world that benefit from attention. And most people prefer to waste their energy being mad at made up shit designed to make them hate their neighbors.

In my personal case, especially among the people I hang with here, my positive attitude toward generative AI seems like one of the major ones. Many people really don't seem to like it when someone mentions enjoying using these tools.

"Pro-gun" - am left-of-center, anti-estsblishment, progressive US Democrat, people probably assume I'm far-right if I just say that no context

"反共" ("Anti-CCP") - Amongst Mainland Chinese, they'd probably look at me like the classroom "troublemaker", even my parents don't like me talking shit about CCP at home, we don't even live in China. Someone from a Chinese Lemmy instance probably assumed I was a white dude that hated China and Chinese people and asked why I "hated China". I had to use pinyin to type my response in Chinese, my native language, explaning I'm ethnic Chinese and born in mainland China and I only hate the party/government. Their response afterwards was quite "chill", very understanding. Amongst westerners, if I say I'm anti-CCP, they'd probably assume I'm a conservative lol, nah fam, fuck the rightwing radical lunatics and fuck tankies

Me prefering visual media over books - Lemmy seems to overwhelmingly like books better, for me, nah, partial aphantasia, hard to imagine things like someone elses thoughts, I can picture my memories quite well tho...

At this point I don't really have anyone I identify with.

Liberal here who detests people living off of the government making dependence on benefits permanent and I don't support open borders.

This doesn't mean I support removing food stamps and ICE's attrocities.

I don't believe in the right to private property. This is completely non-discussable with family. I am very lucky to have friends more open to this sort of radicalism.

I also have some strong opinions about colonialism and reparations that don't get most Americans, especially not white suburban Americans that I an surrounded with, very excited.

Isolationism. I completely reject the idea that my country's (the US) military interventionism is in any way driven by benevolence, or makes life better either for Americans (outside of war profiteers) or for the people of the country we're fucking with.

This is really controversial on here, for some reason. The fact that I want to leave other countries alone and focus on investing in schools and hospitals and public transit instead of bombs and tanks (I don't even really care if it's being spent domestically or abroad, so long as it's being spent on good things instead of bad things) causes a bunch of people to call me a "tankie" and say that I'm just as bad as a fascist. All because I say shit like, that I don't want to start shit with North Korea. I don't even give a shit about North Korea. Like, I just watched how Afghanistan played out and went, "You know, we probably shouldn't do shit like that again," and supposedly left-leaning people really, really hate me for it. It's genuinely bizarre. I even got attacked once for defending Biden pulling out of Afghanistan! People just love sticking our nose in other countries' business, for reasons I can't even begin to understand.

On here

• liberalism is a non-economic political & moral philosophy worth defending, it can be leftist & makes more sense that way, socialism can be liberal & should be if it truly aims to be egalitarian
• it's okay to refer to human females as females, and that word should be embraced with pride
• insults are supposed to be abusive
• comedy doesn't need to be politically correct or enlightened, and good comedy challenges us by derisively subverting sacred presumptions & conventions