The only way this post could be more Lemmy is if it mentioned Linux.

Meaning he probably wasn’t homeless and was just a beggar. I’ve seen plenty of those sorts in my hometown.

The “terminally online” aspect is the obsession with pronouns, which doesn’t seem to exist in reality.

I know quite a few LGBT people and even work with someone who is trans. None of them have ever once mentioned anything about pronouns. Because we just conversed like normal people.

Remember when we just conversed like human beings and didn’t have all this convoluted nonsense about worrying over pronouns?

If the person is called John, 99.9% of the time, you know what the pronouns would be, because not everyone is terminally online.

I don’t do this, and growing up was taught that it was rude to refer to someone by anything other than their name in a group conversation.

Don’t use it then.

The only time you would ever need to use someone’s pronouns is when they’re not part of the conversation anyway.

I couldn’t care less what people refer to me as if I’m not there.

Amazon is the online equivalent of the middle aisle at Aldi.

If you’re introducing yourself to me, I only need your name.

The smile looks very similar…

I just got started working in a retro arcade.

It has a PS4 in it. 💀

There’s not really much doubt though, is there?

They were two bonkers choices, but I don’t see what cancelling the election is going to achieve.

It’s going to give people the idea that it’s a stitch-up and make them mistrust elections in future. Why bother voting if they’re just going to cancel the result anyway?

How do I delete someone else’s post?

You’re advocating for a technocracy then, basically.

A system that sounds nice in theory (experts decide everything, surely that’s good, right?) but there would be decision makers with no accountability to the people they’re serving, lies and propaganda would potentially be more common and marginalised groups could end up even more marginalised, because the “experts” think it’s okay and there’s nothing you can do about it.

I don’t care if I’ll get hate for this but I don’t support universal voting, if you don’t know the most basic of facts, you should have no say in national decisions - end of the story.

Not having universal voting may be a bit extreme, but the sort of ignorance on display in the photo is precisely why I don’t support compulsory voting. A lower turnout with a more engaged electorate is preferable to people just putting an X next to something when they don’t really care or have very little information on what they’re doing.

It’s authoritarian to not want people shot in the street because I disagree with the countries healthcare system?

Simone Biles level of mental gymnastics here.

What? You don’t think people should be gunned down in the street?

What are you, some kind of fascist?!

I’m not the one changing the definition of murder to suit my warped world view.

Whatever gives you the false sense of moral superiority. 👍

The irony of using a communist to bring up a spurious argument about mass murder. 🤦

Mass murderer? Get a grip.

The US healthcare system is dire, but a guy who runs an insurance company is not a mass murderer. Ridiculous hyperbole.