Why is the gas bill so high?
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    Is that a fucking T-55

    "Kursk gas pump #1"

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    A new country in the world!
  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 66%

    Welp, pack it up boys, all of our buddhist neighbours are Nazis

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearPO
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    It was always terrible
  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 100%

    It didn't have to be this way

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  • An honest mistake
  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 100%

    Ok, that's more than twice the population of Wyoming's capital. If I don't ignore that Wyomingites exists then there's no reason to ignore that North Koreans exist outside of North Korea

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  • Protestation
  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 100%

    TIL the merit of a broad socioeconomic system is dependent upon if nations that adopt it can militarily defeat the 3rd largest country and government that has hundreds of years of industry and exploitating various groups of people beforehand

    And those like you wonder why the surviving socialist countries were authoritarian and highly militarized...

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  • Which is your favorite Firefox fork?
  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 100%

    Floorp

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  • Harris to propose up to $25K in down-payment support for 1st-time homebuyers
  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 66%

    Yeah, that money should be going to oil, automotive, and banking/finance oligopolies like the rest of the trillions are!

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    Invasive Species
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    There's Discord clients that uses Firefox instead of Chromium, fun fact. The one I know is Datcord

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    Invasive Species
  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 100%

    Floorp, Waterfox, Mercury, Librewolf, Tor (if that even counts)

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    Dunkin Donut's website just doesn't work. The app is mandatory. Noped out of there real quick lol

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  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 100%

    Don't get rid of ordering online, I have bad vision and like sitting for 30 minutes deciding what to buy and how much is way too much to spend on the food I'm getting

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  • totally equal
  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 88%

    Fascism specifically centers around a hierarchy based on race, ethnicity, place of origin, sex, gender, sexuality, or some other (for the most part immutable) characteristic of a person. It also may specify heavy corporatism (as what governments like Mussolini's Italy structured their economy around).

    Leftism centers around abolishing all unjust hierarchies, including those that fascism relies upon. It is also anti-capitalist and, obviously, anti-corporate.

    "Fascism" doesn't just mean "authoritarianism". Fascism doesn't even strictly need a state – it's mostly social and economic in its nature, and doesn't say anything about the structure (or existence) of government. Anarcho-capitalism, for instance, starts to decay into fascism, where there may be no "government", but rather private entities (like corporations and individuals) restricting or blocking the social and economic participation of certain groups based on a social gradient, or in general depriving people in those groups of rights (like enslaving, harming, or killing them, denying them food or healthcare, etc.). There are always enforcers of fascism, as it's an inherently unequal and oppressive ideology, but whether the oppressors' power ultimately comes from governmental organizations or non-governmental organizations doesn't matter. You could argue this does constitute authoritarianism, and I wouldn't disagree, but my point is that "big government" and fascism are entirely different concepts.

    For the most part, fascism can be considered an ideology of emphasizing a supposed "former glory" of a nation or peoples, which co-opts socialist critiques of capitalism and twists them to emphasize immutable characteristics like ethnicity or masculinity as being the cause of economic woes, rather than class; Fascism, while taking significant influence from leftist ideology in its rhetoric, turns it on its head and repurposes it for the "Volk" (some population/identity based on generally immutable characteristics) rather than the worker. It ends in the dismantling of trade unions and other leftist structures, and an economy comprised of corporatoid organizations which is kept afloat by the constant drive for "purification" (the enforcement of a bigoted hierarchy) which never concludes, resulting in the gradual narrowing of who is included in the "in-group" (cannibalizing itself) after a certain point.

    Leftism puts class warfare above all else, and while some leftists could incorporate fascist elements into their beliefs – that being, social conservativism, as elements like misogyny and homophobia aren't impossible to find in the belief systems of self-identified communists (mostly apologia for the errors of authoritarian communist governments) – the socioeconomic structure of socialism compared to fascism is so radically different that it's impossible to fit full-on fascism into a socialist structure. Fascism praxis perhaps may be observed as "welfare for a very specific class of peoples, reliant on the oppression of lower classes of peoples", where the "out-groups" are forced into to the lowest classes, and the "in-groups" who are of lower classes may see a limited amount of welfare. Fascism combines class-based hierarchies with "they're different than me"-based hierarchies; this very stark class division and exploitation of lower classes completely conflicts with core leftist ideology.

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  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 90%

    The "far left" to the person in the post is most probably just anyone left of American corporate democrats. If you think we should have public healthcare, you're ""far left""

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    Idaho's anti-trans law makes it illegal to medically examine child rape victims
  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 100%

    Pretty much the opposite extreme from what I've seen. Many of the users from there are about what you would expect from an internet weeb community – transphobic (including using slurs for trans people), misogynist, genocide denying, in general just being really edgy/bigoted... I don't know if this is something the admins condone, but I pretty much always see heinous shit from the users.

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    Once again, I am asking for advice
  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 100%

    Arc as in like... electrical arc? electricity/plasma that jumps to a surface through air? substation casts lightning spell on redneck

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  • Well that was predictable
  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 97%

    The US can survive without exports, they have a shit ton of natural resources and industry... but Israel, oh they're definitely gone. Israel will be Isfaek in no time

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  • Concerning behaviour on r/lemmy, by reddit "supermoderator" u/LeninMeowMeow
  • sparkle sparkle 2mo ago 95%

    The words themselves make sense but... not for lemmy.world lmao

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    Idaho's anti-trans law makes it illegal to medically examine child rape victims
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    @ani.social

    Why am I not surprised

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  • EDIT: Solved this by adding "English" to my languages in account settings. Solution from a comment by [@mp3@lemmy.ca](https://lemmy.ca/u/mp3) For some reason I can't see any posts/comments on hexbear or by users from hexbear. I don't have the instance blocked or muted or anything. I can click the communities and bring them up, but they don't show user content. This is specifically only on my account too. It doesn't matter if I'm on an app or on the website. There isn't anything I can find that causes this. I would like to see posts by hexbear users so this is pretty annoying.

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