When I find another platform some time in the future and I'm talking about how unfriendly this place is towards feminism and how it allows Christians to criticize other people's beliefs but doesn't allow criticism of Christianity; you can blame the .world moderators that dropped everything and ran to remove my comments for someone that was reporting me while having a 'discussion', while leaving that person's comments up that time not so long ago.

Not impressed with what I've seen there so far. They're the most Reddit-like moderators in this place. Just a bunch of professional basement dwellers that get to feel a little less powerless in life here.

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It also helps nothing and no one to "both sides" this conversation every time it starts. Astrology and homeopathy doesn't even begin to fucking compare with nazism. Also, why do you call out astrology but not christianity? One is a dumb little thing involving sky magic that is mostly harmless and the other is also a dumb thing involving sky magic but the followers of that dumb thing are actually very dangerous and harmful to a lot of people that have to grow up with them. Haven't met too many female priests in my life either.

Fascism relies on traditional gender roles and that has less appeal to women who would lose rights and power compared to men who would theoretically gain power. It’s less “there’s something wrong with the men” and more that fascism itself is designed to appeal to men.

Oh, is it? So what you're telling me is that fascism appeals to men more than women because men don't give as much of a shit about other people's rights? Fascinating. Totally means there's nothing wrong with men that needs addressing or changing. Sure.

Edit: in fact this whole fucking conversation is stupid considering that the stats are there at the top of the post for all to see. There is clearly a fucking problem. And the way to fix that problem is to actually address it instead of comparing it to astrology and calling it a day.

Edit 2: the moderators here in this community are actually fucking pathetic. Actually cannot see a good reason they removed my most recent comment too now. And I'm realising that this place is actually kinda worse than Reddit in this regard because it even removes the comment from your own profile. And these fucking moderators don't notify you or give you an actual concrete reason with whichever word or phrase broke the fucking rules. Dodgy as fuck. They're actually just out to control the conversation.

Which is very Reddit of them. It's easy to forget that a lot of people here are ex Reddit moderators that pissed the users there off so much that no one was willing to join them in solidarity with the API debacle. Guess I've found my first Lemmy community to block.

Lol what the actual fuck. Also, wasn't their president groomed by his teacher when he was a teenager, who he is currently married to?

Even if they don't have registries, I'm sure they could've done better than a four-year suspended prison sentence. I'm sure they could've also achieved not allowing him to work with children ever again. Unless they also don't have things like IDs and telephones and email. I suppose if smoke signals are their only means of communication, then it's understandable how someone caught with CSAM was allowed to keep working with children in "prestigious" hospitals that willingly hired him.

IMO, the judge that sentenced this guy to a four-year suspended prison sentence needs to be investigated and publically disgraced too. Same with the hospitals that hired him.

Any niche communities for TV shows and entertainment. Something nice about Reddit is that you can look up any random TV show, even obscure shit you watched as a kid that no one talks about anywhere else, and you'll probably find a community posting memes and fan theories and reviews about it.

It's probably gonna take a long time though because there's no exodus happening to here because Reddit banned all the TV show subs. It's just gonna probably get more political and angry here every time there's an exodus.

My respect for Chapell Roan's persona/politics and her showmanship caused me to listen to her stuff less judgmentally

This makes me think of another pop star that has crossed this boundary for me before - Pink. I don't think I liked her music as much as I found myself liking this today but she definitely came across more as a rockstar doing pop than a pop star. So I had a respect for her and kinda enjoyed her songs if I ever heard them on the radio or wherever.

The vibes are probably playing a big part for Chappell Roan to as far as I'm concerned but it also helps that she's going for that old school sound, which kinda sets her apart musically too.

Having stomped my feet and stormed off from TNA in protest of Tessa Blanchard, I think that in addition to trying to get into Stardom, I'm gonna start checking out NXT.

For Stardom, I think I'm going to go back in time a year. I found a download on the archive for All Star Grand Queendom 2024 and I'm going to take it from there, slowly making my way through PPVs (or also weekly shows if I really need to). I'm thinking that'll probably be the best way to get you know everyone and how things work, while easier access to translations and / or subtitles without any wait. So this is gonna be a long term thing to get into.

And for my immediate needs and to fill the hole for my weekly soap opera drama, I think I'm gonna start with the closest NXT PPV and catch up from there. I get the impression that they also feature women's wrestling a lot, plus I'd be seeing the Knockouts there. And it seems disconnected enough from the main roster that Raw and SmackDown would be optional, not mandatory. Although, honestly, I might check out how people like MCMG, the Lucha Bros and Jordynne Grace are doing too.

I've definitely not got anything against Japanese wrestling. Watched NJPW for a little while a few years ago. Although one of the main things I watch pro wrestling for is the storylines and larger than life characters, more so than workrate (although there's nothing wrong with technical masterpiece matches either). And I also appreciate women's wrestling.

If I could find both of those aspects, plus I didn't have to watch 5 shows a week and follow social media accounts, I'd be happy to try anything from any country. TNA was basically just the easiest option that offered all of this.

Wondering if I'm even looking forward to TNA at all now. Not to signal that I have virtues or anything but this Tessa business has left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.

If they had done this a year or two ago, I wouldn't have liked it but I would've been more inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt that they knew what they're doing and it's a genuine redemption arc. But the timing of this makes it look more like they're doing this because they just don't have to pretend to care anymore.

Plus, maybe I'm making false connections but with all of the wrestlers, including TNA diehards, that have just left without a word, it really does seem like something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Thinking I might take a break for a couple of weeks and reset, look for something else. Just not sure what yet.

LineageOS 20 on the Nokia 4.2. The only option for this phone besides LineageOS 19 and it's one of these cases where the dev just stopped updating anything and deleted their XDA profile. Might go back to vanilla but the problem is that's a downgrade in Android version too.

This whole phone is a regret. My previous phone had just died unexpectedly and it was a spur of the moment purchase with a low budget, based on nostalgia for a 'Nokia' that doesn't actually exist anymore. Should've just gone for a cheap Samsung and I probably would've at least had more choice in custom firmwares.

Yup, especially when we're all being bombarded by the same propaganda in the places that we meet online and spend a considerable amount of time in, we're all in this together. I've seen the discourse about the USA and the culture wars over the last decade in my own country. And from what I've gathered through my years of lurking is that shit is darkening the skies and affecting everyone from the UK to Sweden to Australia.

And as far as I can tell, all of our governments have been mostly happy to sit back and watch everything slide into enshittification and misinformation and ruin. Like they all thought the fight was won and the job was done and they could just spend the rest of their lives collecting bloated paychecks and sleeping in parliament. Even Australia's recent effort to curb social media for children is too little too late I fear.